Max Grünauer
Max Grünauer

Expanded Cinema and

Mixedmedia Fine Art

as we looked outside, 2024

Installation, 4/2 chanel video and audio, 19.45 minutes loop

A film studio like environment encloses a screening booth with different channels. The film oscillates between different forms of perception and temporality. It examines the characters‘ relationship to their environment and describes the viewers as observers of observation. The film refers to various art-historical and art-theoretical references and questions the reality of the viewers‘ lives. In addition to the superficial negotiation of the relationship to nature and self-efficacy in a society of dependencies, the temporal dissolution of the diegesis also opens up conflicts of subject relationality.

Max Grünauer

contained - with Victoria König, 2023

Installation, 1 chanel video and audio, 2.16 minutes loop

The collage consists of microphonings of the stone slabs on the stage of the „Reichsparteitag“ grounds. The dull thumping of the steps on the building is transformed by the stone bodies into an unpleasant droning that immediately creates images in the mind. In addition, a DV video is played in half-images. The stone colorations, reminiscent of flesh, veins and bruises, were recorded inside the stage in the „Golden Hall“ and edited into a searching, roving gaze.

Max Grünauer

future memories, 2022

Installation, 4 Chanel, 1 minute loop

Artificial intelligence-generated images of landscapes threatened by climate change are shown on three or more screens. Countless network cables stretch through the exhibition space, connecting the monitors. Sometimes ending randomly or interweaving the different rooms. The basis for the work is the reflection that only the spoken word outlasts time. Thus, there will be generations that will have no visual memory of these landscapes. So all that remains is the generation of a new supposed memory through the set pieces of digital consciousness.

Max Grünauer

looking at clouds, 2021

Installation, 3 Chanel, still image

As part of the exhibition „What cannot be seen“ 2021 at the Akademie Galerie Nuremberg with the class for photography, a three-part media installation was created. In the work, the reality relationship between digital and analog space is negotiated. In the spirit of the epistemology of system and environment, it can be seen that the computer - like the human being - is subject to the same complex of fact formation and observation. The installation consists of three DeepDream-generated images based on photographs of the cloudy sky. Displayed on three iPads, the images take on a space of their own and detach themselves from our perception of reality.

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Expanded Cinema and

Mixedmedia Fine Art

as we looked outside, 2024

Installation, 4/2 chanel video and audio, 19.45 minutes loop

A film studio like environment encloses a screening booth with different channels. The film oscillates between different forms of perception and temporality. It examines the characters‘ relationship to their environment and describes the viewers as observers of observation. The film refers to various art-historical and art-theoretical references and questions the reality of the viewers‘ lives. In addition to the superficial negotiation of the relationship to nature and self-efficacy in a society of dependencies, the temporal dissolution of the diegesis also opens up conflicts of subject relationality.

Max Grünauer

contained - with Victoria König, 2023

Installation, 1 chanel video and audio, 2.16 minutes loop

The collage consists of microphonings of the stone slabs on the stage of the „Reichsparteitag“ grounds. The dull thumping of the steps on the building is transformed by the stone bodies into an unpleasant droning that immediately creates images in the mind. In addition, a DV video is played in half-images. The stone colorations, reminiscent of flesh, veins and bruises, were recorded inside the stage in the „Golden Hall“ and edited into a searching, roving gaze.

Max Grünauer

future memories, 2022

Installation, 4 Chanel, 1 minute loop

Artificial intelligence-generated images of landscapes threatened by climate change are shown on three or more screens. Countless network cables stretch through the exhibition space, connecting the monitors. Sometimes ending randomly or interweaving the different rooms. The basis for the work is the reflection that only the spoken word outlasts time. Thus, there will be generations that will have no visual memory of these landscapes. So all that remains is the generation of a new supposed memory through the set pieces of digital consciousness.

Max Grünauer

looking at clouds, 2021

Installation, 3 Chanel, still image

As part of the exhibition „What cannot be seen“ 2021 at the Akademie Galerie Nuremberg with the class for photography, a three-part media installation was created. In the work, the reality relationship between digital and analog space is negotiated. In the spirit of the epistemology of system and environment, it can be seen that the computer - like the human being - is subject to the same complex of fact formation and observation. The installation consists of three DeepDream-generated images based on photographs of the cloudy sky. Displayed on three iPads, the images take on a space of their own and detach themselves from our perception of reality.

download my fine art portfolio for more