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" 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: 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: 17

	22. April 2023 – 31. August 2023 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 Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning in China.
	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.