(AU)	Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber have been developing a plural artistic praxis since 1993. Their projects question urban geographies, representational systems (be they photographic or architectural), cultural changes, and the visual strategies connected with them. After studying at Linz University, in particular with the architect Laurids Ortner (Haus-Rucker-Co.), their approach combines, all at once, urban developments, communication systems, artistic and cultural production methods, and new media. Their recent project "CITYalias", in collaboration with the Canadian writer Jeff Derksen, deals with the cultural ideology of globalization, as embodied in architecture. Through a process of typifying and repeating architectural forms, they raise questions about the normative systems of social structures. Form and norm, iteration and creation are polarities whose interfaces they examine. In this inquiry into architecture as a standardized system of spatial meaning, they produce the at once semantic and architectural map of a city, in which a foreshortened view reveals the almost pointillist division of the buildings into so many letters and words.
Bitter/Weber Bitter (Sabine) (1960), Weber (Helmut) (1957)
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