MARKUS WINTERSBERGER · 1991 / 1994 / 1998 / 2025 / 2026 · VERSION D
Gehäuse
PATHFINDER ⇄ THE BODYBOX
Body as toolbox · body as architecture
The starting point is a full-body scan from 1991: some 350 black-and-white photographs. Since then the bodily unwrappings and surfaces have served as a toolbox – an artistic repertoire of forms from which houses, cities and containers are built.
Version D is the fourth re-translation. After measurement (A), wayfinding (B) and archive (C) the body is built: as parts list, floor plan, housing, site plan and tower. The images, scans, drawings and video stills from 1991 to 1998 were translated into dynamic forms as “time particles” with video AI in 2025 – THE BODYBOX. SCULPTURE IN MOTION I, the contribution to Videocity St. Pölten 2026/27.
Keyword archive
PATHBODY · 1991–2026 · MOBILE VIA QR17,111artefacts · 1991–2026
Every trace of PATHFINDER and THE BODYBOX in one place: photographs, scans, montages, films, websites, 3D models with AR view and the source code of the five 2026 versions – each artefact with archive ID, checksum, keywords and locations. Search, timeline and full screen.
AV 2026
4K · 16:9 · MP4Translation
1991 / 1994 / 1998 → 2025 / 2026| 1991 / 1994 / 1998 | 2025 / 2026 · VERSION D | ||
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| Part | segment photography of the 1991 full-body scan (~350 b/w images) | → | parts list · toolbox · repertoire of forms |
| Surface | unwrappings and flattenings of the body surface (1994) | → | floor plan · contour lines become walls · section A–A |
| Skin | digital plots on the industrial container (1998) | → | building skin · façade · housing 720 × 265 × 250 cm |
| Space | projection in the container: virtual and real space | → | interior as stage · BODYBOX 1:1 in AR |
| Time | video stills, animation »pathfinder« | → | time particles · video AI 2025 · conventional editing |
| City | journey Vienna → Krems → Linz · accelerated sculpture | → | site plan · body city · body tower |
Toolbox. The 1991 full-body scan broke the body into stripes and segments. What was recording technique then is a parts store today: head, chin, torso, back, knee, foot – every part a position in the parts list, every unwrapping a semi-finished product. Version D reaches into this box and builds.
Architecture. The head unwrapping becomes a floor plan, its brightness height, its contour lines walls. In 1998 THE BODYBOX was already a house: an industrial container with body skin, inside a projection room, on the move through the city. “The body as house, as construction or even as a walk-in sarcophagus with an inner life” (Sabine Winkler).
Time particles. In 2025 images, scans, drawings and video stills were transformed with video AI and edited in a conventional video production. Version D shows both side by side: the source and its translation, the still and the dynamic form – and places both in the plan.
Visual language. The blueprint: Prussian blue, line white and one signal – red lead, the primer on steel. Every chapter is a sheet with frame, axis grid and title block; chapter changes are sheet changes, a hatching runs across the sheet. The header of this page is a dimension chain across the length of the container: 7,200 mm.
Sheets
LONG 5:36 · TRAILER 3:44
00Opening
LONG 0:00 · TRAILER 0:00A sheet frame with axis grid. THE BODYBOX is drawn isometrically, dimensioned (720 × 265 × 250 cm) and clad in the body skin – the title stands beside the housing: “GEHÄUSE · Body as toolbox · Body as architecture”.
01I · Toolbox
LONG 0:20 · TRAILER 0:14From the stack of some 350 black-and-white photographs of the 1991 full-body scan, sixteen parts fly into a parts list – scans, montages, sketches, simulations. Then the body rebuilds itself: eight parts become eight storeys of a building section, from foot to head.
02II · Time particles
LONG 1:08 · TRAILER 0:45Five sources from 1991 to 1998 – striped light, simulation, body layers, interior, head as sphere – and beside them their translation by video AI in 2025. Below runs the timeline of the conventional edit; at the end an AI sequence fills the sheet, with the original 2025 sound.
03III · Floor plan
LONG 2:00 · TRAILER 1:16The 1994 head unwrapping becomes a floor plan: contour lines become walls, eyes, nose and mouth become rooms – hall, staircase, courtyard, annex. A section A–A through the eyes lifts the face out of the plan as a building.
04IV · Housing
LONG 2:52 · TRAILER 1:47THE BODYBOX in elevation and plan, scale 1 : 25: outside the digital plots of the body surface, inside the projection. The 1998 interior simulation meets the 2025 AI cube – “the body as house, as construction or even as a walk-in sarcophagus”.
05V · Urban space
LONG 3:48 · TRAILER 2:18A site plan from Vienna via Krems to Linz: seven locations of the container in 1998, from the Aspang industrial station to the O.K Centre. On the A1 the sculpture is accelerated – motion blur instead of slit –, beside it the 2025 AI façades.
06VI · Monument
LONG 4:40 · TRAILER 2:49The eight storeys grow into the body tower, beside them the scale figure and the container at the same scale. “The birth of a new monumental self” (Sabine Winkler 1998) – and a 2025 AI figure that recognises itself as an other.
07Credits
LONG 5:14 · TRAILER 3:20Credits, foundation, cycle, texts and references, links – as the title block of a plan.
Videocity
ST. PÖLTEN 2026/27 · TIME PARTICLESTHE BODYBOX. SCULPTURE IN MOTION I (1998–2025). Images, scans, drawings and video stills of THE BODYBOX were transformed in 2025 as “time particles” with video AI (Kling AI), translated into dynamic forms and then edited in a conventional video production. The film (3:33, 4K) is Markus Wintersberger’s contribution to Videocity “Morphing Realities” in St. Pölten (13 Nov 2026 – 14 Feb 2027, USTP Foyer B).
BODYBOX 1998. A container is positioned in public space, transported by truck, presented like an exhibition object and at the same time serves as a carrier surface for images. Through projections inside, virtual and real space penetrate each other. The body surface becomes the building skin, the container a housing, the journey through urban space an accelerated sculpture.
Scale
1 : N · A4 LANDSCAPE- LENGTH ON THE PLAN
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- FITS ON A4 LANDSCAPE
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- LARGEST SCALE FOR A4
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A scale of 1 : n reduces every distance by the factor n. Body and housing share one sheet only from 1 : 25; the route fits an A4 sheet only at 1 : 676,000.
Archive
PBX-000001 FF. · SHA-256The keyword archive PATHBODY grows with every version: 16,583 artefacts in 19,552 locations from 1991 to 2026. New in Version D are chapter K9 “Videocity STP 26 · THE BODYBOX 2025” – film in 4K and 1K, stills, portrAIt, texts (including .docx in full text) – the film’s 213 time particles (one frame per second) and all results of Versions C and D. Every format in its own way, data as JSON, JSON-LD, CSV, Excel and SQLite, as web page and desktop app.
3D · AR · Experience · Game
PAGES
Methods
PYTHON · NUMBA · THREE.JS · GLTF · SQLITE- Image
- Own image engine (Python · NumPy · Numba · OpenCV): sheet frames, axis grids, dimension chains, hatchings and title blocks following the conventions of technical drawing; isometric projection of the container; contour lines from the head unwrapping (Gaussian smoothing, thresholds); sheet changes as running hatching. 3840 × 2160 · 25 fps · H.264 High 5.1.
- Time particles
- The AI sequences come from THE BODYBOX. SCULPTURE IN MOTION I (2025, Kling AI) and are shown time-accurately beside their sources; no new images were generated for Version D.
- Sound
- Synthesised numerically: pen plotter, T-square, strikes on steel (inharmonic partials), truck and passing cars with Doppler; in sheet II the original 2025 sound. −16 LUFS.
- 3D · AR
- glTF 2.0 from own Python writer (morph “build-up”, doors, tool wall, body tower, transport, film camera) · Khronos validator 0 errors · Blender exports (glTF, OBJ, FBX with rig) · USDZ for iOS Quick Look · model-viewer with WebXR and Scene Viewer.
- Archive
- Indexer v9: recursive scan, SHA-256, ffprobe, previews per format (filmstrip, waveform, PDF page), keywords, .docx full text, stable PBX IDs; JSON, CSV, XLSX, SQLite FTS5.
- Web
- three.js · WebXR immersive-ar with hit test, otherwise camera window · desktop apps with Electron (macOS Apple Silicon/Intel, Windows x64).
Cycle
1991 → 2026Version D builds on A, B and C: the same archives, the same route (200.8 km), the same container (720 × 265 × 250 cm) – now read as a building plan. The keyword archive connects all four versions with the works of 1991–1998 and the 2025 film.
References
WORKS · METHODS · TEXTS- PATHFINDER. Digitale Bildmontage 1994Photography · animation · video · full-body scan in striped light 1991 · medienwerkstatt006.at/pathf.htm
- THE BODYBOX. Skulptur in Bewegung 1998Truck · container · animation · video · performance · O.K Centre for Contemporary Art Linz, “Natürlich Künstlich” 1998
- THE BODYBOX. SCULPTURE IN MOTION I · 1998–2025Video 3:33 · 4K · time particles with Kling AI · Videocity “Morphing Realities”, St. Pölten, USTP Foyer B, 13 Nov 2026 – 14 Feb 2027
- Sabine WinklerNatürlich Künstlich. Besichtigung eines hybriden Gebildes · O.K Centre for Contemporary Art Linz 1998
- ENTFLACHUNG · Version A 2026Measuring light – the 1991 scan read as striped-light measurement
- WEGFINDUNG · Version B 2026The body as terrain – the route as self-portrait
- NAHT · Version C 2026The body as archive – the seam through the face · keyword archive PATHBODY
- Standards and methodsTechnical drawing: line types, dimension chains, title block (ISO 128, ISO 7200) · contour lines · motion blur s = v · t · f / d · glTF 2.0 · USDZ · WebXR
- ProductionConcept · image · sound · code: Markus Wintersberger · medienwerkstatt006 · Vienna 2026 – in dialogue with Claude (Anthropic) · no newly generated images in this version: archive 1991–1998 and the artist’s 2025 AI sequences