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Peter Weibel in "tx-mirror", real-time installation by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich, ZKM-Karlsruhe, 2018
Peter Weibel in "tx-mirror", real-time installation by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich, ZKM-Karlsruhe, 2018
"tx-mirror", real-time installation by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich, ZKM-Karlsruhe, 2018. Photo: Virgil Widrich
"tx-mirror", real-time installation by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich, ZKM-Karlsruhe, 2018. Photo: Martin Reinhart
"tx-mirror", real-time installation by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich, ZKM-Karlsruhe, 2018. Photo: Virgil Widrich
tx-mirror at PostCity, Ars Electronica, September 2019
"tx-mirror", real-time installation by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich, ZKM-Karlsruhe, 2018. Photo: Virgil Widrich
"tx-mirror", real-time installation by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich, ZKM-Karlsruhe, 2018. Photo: Virgil Widrich
"tx-mirror" in the exhibition "Data Loam" at the AIL - Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, February 2019
"tx-mirror" in the exhibition "Data Loam" at the AIL - Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, February 2019
"tx-mirror", real-time installation by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich, ZKM-Karlsruhe, 2018. Photo: Virgil Widrich
"tx-mirror", real-time installation by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich, ZKM-Karlsruhe, 2018. Photo: Virgil Widrich
"tx-mirror", real-time installation by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich, ZKM-Karlsruhe, 2018. Photo: Virgil Widrich
"tx-mirror", real-time installation by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich, ZKM-Karlsruhe, 2018. photo: Virgil Widrich
"tx-mirror", real-time installation by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich, ZKM-Karlsruhe, 2018. Photo: Martin Reinhart

tx-mirror

Interactive installation, 2018

The installation "tx-mirror" was created for the exhibition "Art in Motion. 100 masterpieces with and through media – An Operative Canon" at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and is a further development of the film technology "tx-transform" invented by Martin Reinhart in 1992. As in earlier works by the duo Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich, the familiar perception is questioned and expanded through intuitive interaction. In a magical mirror one can look at oneself and explore the laws of a universe in which time and space have been reversed. The installation also pays homage to the Polish video artist Zbigniew Rybczynski, whose film "The Fourth Dimension" has inspired an entire generation of artists.

Link to the documentation on YouTube.
Concept: Martin Reinhart, Virgil Widrich
Programming: Matthias Strohmaier
Sound design of the film documentation: Siegfried Friedrich
Thanks to Peter Weibel and Leo Coster
Produced on behalf of ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe

Events, film screenings: 16

20. May 2022
Lange Nacht der Forschung – Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna – Austria
24. February 2022 – 09. April 2022
tx-mirror in the exhibition "Understanding Art & Research" – UM Gallery. Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design – Prag – Czech Republic
26. November 2021 – 08. December 2021
tx-mirror in the exhibition "Transformations – Abstract art in motion" – Künstlerhaus – Wien
29. September 2021 – 20. October 2021
Galerija na katu – Kulturno informativni centar – Zagreb – Croatia
30. April 2021 – 31. December 2021
Art Vault Santa Fe – The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation – Santa Fe – USA
21. July 2020
Purchase of the "tx-mirror" by the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation in Chicago.
15. January 2020 – 17. January 2020
AIL x Sound:frame Conference: Navigating the postdigital – Angewandte Innovation Lab Vienna – Austria
25. October 2019 – 27. October 2019
CODAME Art + Tech Festival 2019 – San Francisco
05. September 2019 – 09. September 2019
Ars Electronica 2019 – European Platform for Digital Humanism – Postcity – Linz – Austria
19. July 2019 – 28. March 2021
"Writing the History of the Future" – The ZKM Collection – Karlsruhe
27. June 2019 – 28. July 2019
Vienna Biennale for Change 2019 – Understanding Art & Research – MAK Museum für angewandte Kunst – Wien
28. May 2019
UNDER_the_RADAR_2019 – Vienna
18. April 2019 – 13. May 2019
The "tx-mirror" by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich is shown at "The Triennial of Expanded Media, Multimedia Art, and New Media Art" in Belgrade:

"Cvijeta Zuzoric" Pavilion, Mali Kalemegdan 1, Belgrade
18.4.2019, 19:00 until 13.05.2019
Opening hours: Monday to Saturday, from 11:00 to 19:00 hrs.
21. March 2019 – 22. March 2019
The "tx-mirror" is exhibited as part of the VR focus of sound:frame and Diagonale 2019. Curated by Eva Fischer
21. and 22.3.2019, 10.00 to 19.00 o'clock
Designforum Styria, Andreas-Hofer-Platz 17, 8010 Graz, Austria
25. February 2019 – 08. March 2019
The "tx-mirror" by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich is shown in the exhibition "Data Loam": Opening: 25.2.2019, 7 p.m. Exhibition duration: 26.2. to 8.3.2019, Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, Franz-Josefs-Kai 3, 1010 Vienna, Austria
14. December 2018
Purchase of the "tx-mirrors" for the collection of ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe.
12. July 2018 – 20. January 2019
The real-time installation "tx-mirror" by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich is part of the exhibition "Art in Motion. 100 masterpieces with and through media – An Operative Canon" presented at the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe.
23. April 2018
tx-transform filming with Martin Putz and Martin Reinhart in Vienna. The material will be used for tests of the new media installation "tx-mirror", which will be presented at the ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medien in Karlsruhe from June 2018.