Max Haarich is a Munich-based artistic researcher and conceptual artist working across digital art, GIFs, installation, performance and glass mosaic, with a focus on artificial intelligence and web3. He founded the Munich Embassy of the Lithuanian artist republic Užupis after leaving a communications career, and later directed its Institute for Applied Paradox. His work aims to reveal and challenge predominant paradigms in order to explore otherwise unthinkable ideas.
He studied communication science at RWTH Aachen and critical thinking at the University of the Underground, then researched artificial superintelligence at RWTH Aachen before working as communications manager for Europe's leading startup center. He is a reviewer for the MIT Press journal Leonardo and lectures at the University of the Underground, TH Augsburg and the University of Basel.
