NFT Art Event at Shopping Village Ingolstadt

The shopping destinations Wertheim Village and Ingolstadt Village organized a press event to celebrate the new exterior designs by Australian artist Karan Singh on 7 Apr. During this press event Dr. Anette Doms hosted a discussion panel about the NFT and the future of digital art with gallerist Benjamin Eck, fashion influencer Fiona Dinkelbach and Užupis ambassador H.E. Max Haarich.

Here is the full press release (in German): https://www.lifepr.de/inaktiv/value-retail-management-germany-gmbh/ingolstadt-village-und-wertheim-village-begruessen-karan-singh-ein-gespraech-ueber-die-verschmelzung-von-digitaler-und-analoger-kunst/boxid/894865

Grover x NFT Airdrop succesfully launched

The technology rental company Grover just received a 1 billion dollar valuation. In order to celebrate the new unicorn status, Grover decided to reward their employees and stakeholders with a commemorative NFT. H.E. Max Haarich selected the Croation game designer Rebecca Merlic ( to design a purely digital 3D unicorn sculpture for Grover. The digital artwork has been minted as an NFT on the eco-friendly Tezos blockchain and has been airdropped to all colleagues and supporters.

More info on the airdrop can be found here and here is Rebecca Merlic’s artwork for Grover on objkt.com.

Užupis National Day 22

For this year’s Užupis national day, the Munich embassy joined forces with Punch Agathe, the tallest string puppet in the world. Together they visited the republic and exchanged sun flowers for carrots. Long story.

Art&Science Panel on AI and NFT @ Deutsches Museum

How are digital works of art actually created? Can artificial intelligence be creative? And how can art help bring people into contact with science and technology and fuel social debates? The panel at the Hi!A Festival with Wolfgang M. Heckl, Director General of the Deutsches Museum, digital artist Betty Mü and Užupis Ambassador Max Haarich was streamed live on December 2.

Here you can watch the discussion again.

SAAI Award for AI project Smart Hans

The team Smart Hans lead by H.E. Max Haarich won Super Artistic AI Factory‘s award in the category “interaction” for their mind-reading horse installation. The award comes with a 2,000 USD production budget to make the installation exhibition ready.

Here is the full story behind the project.

15K € Funding for Artistic Research on Ethical AI

The German Berufsverband Bildender KünstlerInnen awarded Munich ambassador H.E. Max Haarich a grant of 15.000 EUR for an artistic research project in the area of ethical Artificial Intelligence. The grant is financed by the program Neustart Kultur and includes budget for an art installation, which will be exhibited in 2022.

5K € Grant for Artistic Research on the Metaverse

Munich ambassador H.E. Max Haarich was granted 5,000 € by the Bavarian State Ministry for Culture and Science. This grant allows him to further investigate pixels as the substance of the metaverse based on his previous research about single pixels and NFTs.

Munich Embassy @Galerie der Künslter*innen

The Munich embassy will be temporarily installed at Galerie der Künstler*innen as part of Bavarian’s newcomer exhibition TACKER. The annual TACKER exhibition series is a pre-selection for the DEBUTANT*INNEN and DIE ERSTEN JAHRE DER PROFESSIONALITÄT programs in the Galerie der Künstler*innen.

The exhibition commission of the BBK selected 21 artistic positions from all submitted applications. From the selected artists* who will exhibit original works in the Galerie der Künstler*innen from 29 JUN – 11 JUL 2021, a jury will select 10 artists* as award winners as follows:

• 3 artists* will receive DEBUTANT*INNEN funding from the Free State of Bavaria;
• 7 other artists will be invited to show their work in the exhibition DIE ERSTEN JAHRE DER PROFESSIONALITÄT.

Ambassador H.E. Max Haarich will be present starting from 5 Jul and will offer Užupis citizenships, cherry brandy, and π-nuts if the Corona situation allows.

https://www.bbk-muc-obb.de/galerie-der-kuenstler/vorschau

Munich Embassy @Pixelache Festival (FI)

Soon 20-year-old Pixelache Festival, a transdisciplinary platform for emerging art, design, research and activism, explores this summer collapse from psychological, social and environmental perspective as well as developing resilience. Week-long festival consists of localised FM radio, online streams, media art, lectures,
haircuts, experimental home cooking, among many others.

From 6 – 13 JUN 2021 the Munich embassy will be temporarily installed at the Finnish state library Oodi as part of the Pixelache Festival. Ambassador H.E. Max Haarich will talk offer visitors the Užupis citizenship including cherry brandy and peanuts.

https://festival.pixelache.ac/

It is our pleasure and honor to invite you to the first Užupis University Unconference. This is a unique chance to instantly become wiser and more foolish than you were before. This is your opportunity to explore the campus of Užupis University, enter the doors to it’s faculties, and sneak into the snooky minds of our deans and lecturers. The UžUni staff will be awaiting you to be your teacher as well as your student.

On 31 Mar 2021 at 7 PM Užupis local time you can attend the conference cia this link www.topia.io/uzuni. For updates on the conference please visit the facebook event. For further info about our faculties and lectures, please have a look at www.uzupisuniversity.com.