MAX HATTLER: audiovisual artist




THROUGHOUT 2015 a very large increase + stop the show are screening worldwide as part of dotmov 2014 (1 nov - thru 2015).
THROUGHOUT 2015 heaven and hell are screening at stadthaus in ulm, germany (25 jan - 31 dec 2015).
THROUGHOUT 2015 shift is screening at the mid-america science museum in hot springs, arkansas, usa (from march 2015).
THU 6 MARCH 2015 model starship, unclear proof and x are screening at byron bay film festival in australia.
8 TO 12 MARCH 2015 max is on the jury and presenting a screening of his work at tehran international animation festival in iran.
12 MARCH TO 19 APRIL 2015 a very large increase and unclear proof are screening at mecal in barcelona, spain.
12 MARCH TO 22 APRIL 2015 the age of experience, an exhibition curated by harald kraemer at run run shaw creative media centre in hong kong, features heaven and hell.
16 TO 22 MARCH 2015 max is on the jury, and represented with a retrospective, a new video installation and a masterclass at monstra animated film festival in lisbon, portugal.
19 TO 21 MARCH 2015 a very large increase and unclear proof are screening at videoformes festival in clermont-ferrand, france.
20 TO 25 MARCH 2015 spin is screening at ficam in meknes, morocco.
23 TO 29 MARCH 2015 stop the show is screening at clujshorts in cluj, romania.
26 TO 29 MARCH 2015 a very large increase, stop the show and unclear proof are screening at international motion festival in nicosia, cyprus.
16 TO 18 APRIL 2015 max is a speaker at resonate conference in belgrade, serbia.
APRIL 2015 x is screening at art yourself gallery in bucharest.
14 TO 22 MAY 2015 sync is part of the lumen prize exhibition in london, uk.
15 MAY 2015 striper v0.1 is screening as part of one minute vol. 8 at light night liverpool.
9 TO 14 JUNE 2015 max is on the jury at animafest zagreb in croatia.
21 TO 24 JUNE 2015 max is attending melbourne international animation festival with a screening on 24 june and a presentation at the render animation conference on 23 june.
JULY 2015 max is on the jury of the visual music award in germany.

for recent screenings and exhibitions please see individual films' sections.
2015 SELECTED in february, max made prismatic, a 5-sec bumper for the relaunch of short of the week. and unclear proof received a special mention at jaipur international film festival in india. since january, max is permanently based in hong kong where he's a visiting assistant professor at the school of creative media at city university of hong kong.
2014 SELECTED in december, max held a week-long masterclass at sint lucas antwerpen in belgium, lectured in germany at institut für musik und medien düsseldorf and cologne game lab, and in the uk at university of the west of england, goldsmiths, university of london and middlesex university. your highness screened as part of off the air: sports on adult swim. in november, stop the show won best commissioned film at bradford animation festival. max held a workshop at california institute of the arts, a lecture at university of southern california, and a retrospective screening at echo park film center in los angeles; he also taught in the uk at the royal college of art and at norwich university of the arts. in october, max was interviewed for the barbican film podcast. he presented a masterclass and was a judge at london international animation festival. he also spoke at london college of communication, london animation club and aalborg university copenhagen. in september, —O\| premiered at museo de bellas artes in caracas, venezuela. max played at trendelenburg festival in spain, lectured in london at london met + national film and television school, and did a q&a at last friday shorts in southend on sea. in august, unclear proof received a diploma at golden diana film festival in austria. in july, a very large increase + unclear proof won awards at marin county festival of short film + video in san rafael, ca, usa! in june, max successfully completed his professional doctorate in fine art at the university of east london with the viva exhibition audiovisual abstractions. max was also on the jury + had a profile screening at fest anca in slovakia (interview). stop the show received a special mention at one shot international short film festival in armenia, and max was on the art of noise panel at festival 214 at topman in london. in may, max was in caracas, venezuela, where he led an animation workshop at the british council + presented a lecture at museo de arte contemporaneo. in april, max lectured at the school of creative media, city university of hong kong + performed hattler vs. hattler at itfs in germany. in march, a very large increase won first prize + stop the show received a special mention at the visual music award in germany. max did a q&a at tate britain in london. spin was featured on zeit online. in february, max performed at reykjavík visual music · punto y raya festival in iceland, where shift scooped third prize in the short film competition. max lectured at middlesbrough institute of modern art as part of animex festival + in belgium at kask, kaskcinema + sint-lucas in ghent + at sint lucas antwerpen in antwerp. the wrong - new digital art biennale came to an end - it had featured as one of its pavilions wilderness of mirrors, curated by max + featuring work by sebastian buerkner, ian gouldstone, noriko okaku, memo akten, robert seidel, matt abbiss, papaya gonzales, sune petersen, marcus wendt + motomichi nakamura (1 nov 2013 - 2 feb 2014). in january, max was on the jury + played live at filmwinter in stuttgart, germany.
some random bits of press: illumni (oct 2014), correo del orinoco (sep 2014, venezuela), revista ojo (jun 14, venezuela), panorama, (jun 14, venezuela), impact (jun 14, france), kortfilm.be (feb 2014, belgium) cinema sperimentale (nov 2013, italian), rbc daily (nov 13, russian), mima artblog (oct 13) the tripatorium (oct 13), pages of magazine (wrongness feature, sep 13), 25fps (czech, 12 jun 13), art wednesday (23 mar 13), page online (12 mar 13), stash magazine (7 mar 13), animation world network (6 mar 13), hunger magazine (14 feb 13), rooms magazine (12 feb 13), date*hub (8 feb 13), creative bloq (23 jan 13), the creators project (21 jan 13), computer arts (2 jan 2013), nida art colony log (issue 03). animation world network (dec 2012), what's in your bedroom (nov 2012), reutlinger general-anzeiger (17 nov 12), the creators project (15 nov 12), ag kurzfilm short report 2012 (1 nov 12), dot that spot (20 sep 12), the creators project (12 sep 12), computer arts (11 sep 12), huffington post uk (10 sep 12), central station (28 aug 12), style sight (japan, issue 05), the journal (uk, 21 aug 12), metro (uk, 23 aug 12), rooms magazine (uk, issue 09).
2013 SELECTED in december, max spoke at middlesex university in london + x won the zbigniew rybczynski special prize at anilogue in budapest. in november, constant sky (Бесконечность горизонта) premiered at the international festival of fulldome arts 'dimension' in kaluga, russia. max also did an artist talk at the festival. max performed live at re-new festival in copenhagen, at playgrounds festival in holland + at the seeing sound symposium at bath spa university. max set a brief for visual communication students at the royal college of art, presented his work to animation students at the university of east london + was on the jury (in absentia) at cutout fest in mexico. stop the show screened on canal+ in france. in october, max was on the juries and presented masterclasses at animatou festival in geneva + tofuzi festival in batumi, georgia. he also lectured at lucerne university of applied sciences and arts. in september, max was interviewed by dacs. he showed work at the onedotzero exhibition at bl-nk in london and did a q&a at animate experiment at brighton digital festival at the de la warr pavilion in bexhill, uk. in august, max travelled to kaluga (russia) to research for constant sky (Бесконечность горизонта) + to varna (bulgaria) where he was on the jury, presented an a/v performance and a talk at videoholica. in july, max spoke at east end film festival + performed at making tracks in london. he also played and presented a retrospective at nozstock festival in herefordshire, uk. in june, stop the show (aka war) won a bronze design lion at cannes lions festival. max presented a selected works exhibition, artist talk + hattlerizer 2.0 performance at schaustelle, pinakothek der moderne, munich. he played in london with my panda shall fly at whirlygig cinema. for all of may, max was artist in residence at the animation workshop's open workshop in viborg, denmark. he also held several events in denmark: a live a/v performance and a talk at the animation workshop (viborg), hattlerized motorsaw live a/v performance at science friction and an artist talk at nikolaj kunsthal (both in copenhagen), 10-projector installation moiréize with sune petersen at click festival (elsinore) + live generative visual instruments with 3d animation workshop, also with sune, at videomappinglab at platform4 (aalborg). stop the show (aka war) won two design merit awards at one show + two awards at fiap. andrew selby's new book animation came out, featuring spin + collision. in april, max was on the jury at anifest in teplice, czech republic, where he also presented a screening of his films. max lectured at london college of communication + presented a screening of his work at frenz at strongroom in london. in march, amnesty international-commissioned stop the show (aka war) came out (read more in stash + awn). max did a short artist residency at artoll kunstlabor in bedburg-hau, germany; performed live with mikhail karikis at electrovision in london (see art wednesday); presented at 6 million ways of getting into the arts: animation at university of salford, mediacityuk + gave a lecture + vj and projection workshop at plymouth college of art. in february, max lectured at university for the creative arts, farnham, spoke at plymouth university + gave a workshop for m.a. students at the royal college of art in london. in january, two new works came out: unclear proof (see features on computer arts and rooms magazine) + a very large increase in the size, amount, or importance of something over a very short period of time (see the creators project). nidden partikel was featured in nida art colony log issue 3 + russian cinemire blog published an extensive video interview with max.
2012 SELECTED in december 2012, max completed his 2nd experimental animation class for ba students at chelsea college of art & design - here is the winning film as selected by animator + cartoonist matt abbiss. also, logan & sons started representing max is the usa. in november, max attended l'alternativa in barcelona. hattler vs. hattler premiered at sonic visions at franz.k in reutlingen, germany. max had a solo exhibition at playgrounds digital arts festival in tilburg, holland. he gave a workshop at freie kunstakademie baden-württemberg in fellbach, germany + a workshop at head: geneva university of art and design in geneva, switzerland. he lectured about his work at pro arte foundation + petersburg computer animation studio in st. petersburg, russia, as part of multivision festival, where he also gave a workshop + exhibited at erarta museum. max was also on the jury at tenderflix experimental film and video festival in london. in october, shift won the premio simona gesmundo in cetraro, italy + the award for best experimental film at tofuzi in batumi, georgia. shift also started screening on canal plus in spain. max played live with mikhail karikis at a/vant-garde at kings place in london. max did a skype q&a for visual music students at the university of southern california. in september, max's water screen installation x premiered at kxfs in london to critical acclaim. it was featured in computer arts, the creators project, huffington post + others. nidden partikel premiered at brick wall, waterfall at hackney downs studios in london. your highness was voted top 10 of the festival at facade video festival in plovdiv, bulgaria. in august, max played live at abandon normal devices festival in manchester, uk. he was pixel palace artist in residence at tyneside cinema in newcastle, uk (july + august; see metro + the journal ), engaging in several events: retrospective screening max hattler presents..., presentations at datarama 19, pixel palace breakfast, meet the artists sessions + a lecture at the factory. in july, max joined tokyo-based audio+visual artist collective jkd for representation in asia. max spoke at bafta / rushes soho shorts filmmakers' market in london. he attended lago film fest in italy, where he was on the jury and presented a retrospective (see vive tv, il titolo). 1925 aka hell won best experimental film at animation block party in brooklyn, ny. re:ax won a prize at socan foundation awards for young audio-visual composers in canada + a mention at marin county festival of short film + video. max was also featured in turbulences video + uce magazine. in june, max played live and presented a retrospective at international short film festival detmold in germany. he held a short workshop for visual communication m.a. students + gave 'industry feedback' to graduating m.a. animation students at the royal college of art in london. max also held a masterclass at golden kuker animation festival in sofia, bulgaria (see inews.bg). kaleidobooth was featured on blend magazine + mentioned in the guardian. max created a limited edition print to support the animate projects collection (see a-n article). max was also interviewed in londawn zine (japan). in may, max's work featured in stash (issue 93), måg (issue 8, p 62-74) and art monthly (issue 356, p 34), and he wrote an article for cent magazine (issue 20, p 21-24). max spoke in germany at backup festival in weimar (video: mdr tv report) + at fmx in stuttgart. spin came out on the best of british animation awards vol. 9 dvd. 1923 and 1925 started screening on visual music programme phase 3 (vol. x) on german tv br-alpha. in april, max was artist in residence at nida art colony in lithuania. the kaleidobooth smartphone app came out for windows phone (try it for free or read the review on noknok or uel's press release). in the uk, max's film shift - produced by animate projects - premiered on channel 4 to 180,000 viewers and featured in max's first london solo exhibition at tenderpixel (see dazed digital, imperica + because magazine). max played live at the european media art festival in osnabrück, germany (article: neue osnabrücker zeitung). re:ax won best sound at derapage in canada. aanaatt came out on the animation avantgarde 01 dvd published by asifa austria. in march, max lectured at vilnius art academy in lithuania. he was in full effect at go short festival in holland: on the jury (video: jury report), presenting a retrospective of his work, and playing at the festival closing party (video: go short interviews max hattler, animatie article: een interview met animatiemaker max hattler). in spain, max attended animac with a performance and a screening. he gave tutorials to animation students at the university of portsmouth. videoformes festival premiered the hattler-initiated cadavre exquis. in february, max held a short workshop at the royal college of art + was on the music, video, art? panel at exposures in manchester (see interview). spin toured the uk with the british animation awards where it was one of 3 finalists in the best short film category (check out praise for spin from the double negative).
2011 SELECTED in december 2011, max was on a panel with emma geliot, james lowne + gary thomas at the animate digitalis commissions launch at bfi southbank, london. max also wrote digitalis ubiquitous? ramblings of a self-confessed digital native for the digitalis catalogue. max completed a 4-week experimental animation class for ba students at chelsea college of art & design, which resulted in shape rainbow, a collaborative 15-minute film. in november, max + indieskies presented a preview of their kaleidobooth phone app at the launch of the alphalabs.cc art/tech platform by nokia + onedotzero. max played live at club westgermany in berlin, as part of the let the rhythm hit 'em exhibition at kunstraum kreuzberg / bethanien which also featured some of max's films (see zdf.kultur documentary). off and free film festival in seoul, korea, presented a hattler retrospective. basement jaxx: where's your head at won best animated music film at animafrik in accra, ghana. sync won best video installation at multivision festival (russia), the visual music award special prize (germany), and a special mention at premio simona gesmundo (italy). a.n.d / worldwide interactive design guide featured max. in october, max took part in nova: contemporary culture at cinemateca brasileira in sao paulo, brazil. hex pixel gallery in kansas city, usa, showed max's work. max was featured in the article vj to visual artist on mb! an interview with max by london school kids appeared on culture street. in september, max took part in camp: festival for visual music 2011, part 2 in karlsruhe, germany (lecture + a/v performances). he also attended two events in switzerland, fantoche festival (with sync) + one young world (with new film re:ax). max also performed /\/\/\ with noriko okaku at hackney film festival in london. aanaatt received a special mention at abstracta festival in rome. in august, aanaatt won best experimental film at open cinema festival in saint petersburg. spin won awards at lago film fest + san gio video festival, both in italy. heaven + hell won the audience award at animate open: digitalis, and where's your head at received a diploma at golden diana film festival in austria. in july max took part in open research panel: audiovisual performances at chelsea college of art & design with mike faulkner, matthias kispert, ben sheppee, blanca regina + noriko okaku. max also gave tutorials at chelsea. onedotzero published a video interview with max. drift was included on the selected shorts 12: labo works dvd + sync started showing on the center for visual music channel on instant cinema. in june, max took part in camp: festival for visual music 2011, part 1 in zagreb, croatia (performance). in may + june, max was artist in residence at quartier21, museumsquartier, vienna, with noriko okaku. they showed their exhibition transform there at asifakeil. they appeared on orf tv+ denkfabrikat interviewed them (in german). they performed /\/\/\ at vienna independent shorts, max was also on the festival jury. max lectured at the academy of fine arts (as part of the animation avantgarde academy) + at wiener kunstschule. the book the end: an electric sheep anthology came out, including max's essay sync - circular adventures in animation. spin won the grand prize at moves festival in liverpool in may, heaven + hell showed as an installation at plastic paper in winnipeg, canada. max made a poster for japan. in april, he created concert visuals for jovanotti + the vienna independent shorts 2011 festival trailer. max joined ryoichi kurokawa, quayola, mattia casalegno + telcosystems on cimatics agency's exclusive roster of audiovisual artists. max was interviewed for mtv brasil + tracey chan's blog. he attended skepto film festival in sardinia, picking up the supershort award for spin. as part of nova: contemporary culture, max gave a talk at escola de artes visuais do parque lage + performed live at casa franca-brasil in rio de janeiro, brazil - see here. at donaufestival in krems, austria, max + noriko played live visuals for diplo + presented their live performance + film screening, film networks: max hattler & noriko okaku: /\/\/\. in march, max lectured about his work at chelsea college of art & design, the aa school of architecture + middlesex university (all in london) + at university of portsmouth (portsmouth, uk) + anima festival (brussels). max also played audiovisual concerts with mehmet can özer at anima festival + at exposition of new music in brno, czech republic. taiwanese magazine dfun featured max in their spring issue (no. 36). in february, max was featured on hilda magazine, on cobra tv in belgium + on french canal plus, in mensomadaire: l'internationale numérique, a 1-hour programme on ten moving image makers including chris cairns, telegraphics, david russo, thorsten fleisch, keiichi matsuda, rosto, nomint + reuben sutherland. in january, max held a workshop + lecture at calarts, usa. in switzerland, max attended solothurn film festival where he was on the jury for swiss music videos, gave a masterclass + was featured in a 2-person screening with jonas odell. in berlin, max vj'ed at shade inc + directors lounge presented max's solo-screening relations & abstractions. in london, max was featured artist at video is the only constant + design week introduced max's work as its cover story - read it here!
2010 SELECTED 2010 was busy. in december, max was on the jury at videomedeja in novi sad, serbia. he also presented a 10-film screening of his work, a live a/v performance with ocusonic, and a heaven + hell double-projection installation at videomedeja. a heaven + hell installation was also shown in saint petersburg at yota space, where max spoke at the onedotzero_new creators conference, together with joanie lemercier (anti vj), carri munden (cassette playa), quayola, matt wade (kin design) and field. in the uk, the animation is twenty five dvd came out. it includes max's collision alongside work by suzie templeton, gaelle denis, ian gouldstone, johnny kelly + other rca animation alumni. in november, 1925 aka hell won the award for best short short at st. louis international film festival (usa). max + noriko okaku ran a 3-day workshop + performed /\/\/\ at anilogue festival in budapest (and were featured in unit magazine + on d1 tv). max also designed anilogue's posters. spanish canal plus tv featured max's work in el tamaño no importa. in japan, shift magazine published an interview with max [english \| japanese], and art re-public tokyo + taicoclub film project started showing 1923 aka heaven every night across 7 public screens in shibuya, tokyo. in london, max spoke at met film school + attended onedotzero 2010 with heaven + hell. max also played the last in a series of asure a/v concerts with turkish composer mehmet can özer at the goethe-institut in ankara, turkey. in october, max + mehmet played asure twice in ankara, and in denmark at musikhuset (aarhus), apparat lab (aalborg) + the animation workshop (viborg). max also gave talks at musikhuset aarhus + goethe institut ankara, and was interviewed on trt radyo ankara. spin won third prize at giguk: gießen videoart festival in germany + max was featured in schön! (issue 8). from july to september, max was artist in residence at the animation workshop (viborg, denmark), creating the hattlerizer (a visual instrument developed with sune petersen) + video installation sync. in september, max spoke + performed at the animation workshop. spin won the political animation award at klik! amsterdam animation festival + aanaatt won the first prize visual music award. mumia festival in brazil presented a 12-film max hattler screening. max was on the jury at circuito off (venice, italy) where he also presented a screening with ace norton (check the interview) and performed (O) with noriko okaku. in august, max premiered sync as part of time, what makes us tick? (noorderzon festival, groningen, holland), a collaborative installation by artists max hattler + nelleke koop with scientists prof. martha merrow + prof. eric bergshoeff, produced by pavlov e-lab + supported by open workshop. max also took part in nova at the museum of image and sound in sao paulo, brazil, performing /\/\/\ + holding a workshop with noriko okaku. italian magazine pig interviewed max (pdf \| online). in july, max's your highness premiered on zeit online + was featured by deutsche welle,weekend argus, arte tv, video static + others. collision won a jury award at marin county festival of short film + video. heaven + hell screened in max's solo exhibition at broadway in nottingham, uk, + in the darkroom, an exhibition at ccc, shizuoka, japan. in june, max hattler, robert seidel + daniel burkhardt were in taiwan for their 3-person show tripolar at moca taipei. robert + max also did a talk at moca and were interviewed by radio taiwan int'l. also in june, spin screened on austrian tv orf 2. max initiated the 2011 hd edition of videoformes exquisite corpse. max + noriko performed (O) at animafest zagreb + vis - vienna independent shorts. max also premiered rescore 192010 at vis, and they awarded aanaatt a special mention. /\/\/\ (by max + noriko) won the contest for audiovisual performances at videofestival in bochum, germany (/\/\/\ was performed by noriko with diane karner of decollage.tv covering for max who was away in taiwan). varoom (issue 12) came out, including darryl clifton's article animation's brave new worlds, discussing the work of max, quayola + richard fenwick. film & festivals magazine (issue 22) included pooja pottenkulam's article the short of it featuring max hattler + other animation filmmakers. in may, austrian tv okto screened a max hattler portrait. franziska bruckner of vienna university hosted 'max hattler: director's talk' at ursula blickle videolounge at kunsthalle wien, and franziska's students wrote reviews of spin and of aanaatt. max was q+a'd by adam buxton at bug 19 at the nft in london, and by claire spencer cook at cryptic nights - onedotzero craftwork screening at cca glasgow. oh yes featured on court-circuit / kurzschluss on franco-german tv channel arte. max held a workshop at école régionale des beaux-arts in valence, france. a max hattler solo exhibition opened at lumen eclipse in cambridge, ma, usa, and ran til june. thanks to goethe-institut mexiko and in collaboration with circuito electrovisiones, max presented his work in mexico city: a lecture at habitacion del ruido; live a/v set remixing the past at centro cultural de españa; and one-off live set inchoate m3x/c(-) with pablo gav at jornada de comunicacion at universidad marista. max also acted as jury for the universidad del claustro de sor juana audiovisual competition. in germany, max ran an animation workshop at ferienakademie roggenburg (read about it in südwest presse), where he also took part in 3-person show kunst ist versuchung (with martin durham + eva-maria kollischan); max vj'ed to lexy's dj set at sucasa in ulm; he presented work in progress of his defa-award funded, japan-inspired, ongoing film project bipolar (with robert seidel) at the animation exchange forum at filmfest dresden; and aanaatt started screening on visual music programme phase 3 (volume VII) on german tv br-alpha. in london, max introduced collision + aanaatt at the animation film season at ciné lumière, and onedotzero acquired 1923 aka heaven, 1925 aka hell, drift + striper v0.1 for non-exclusive distribution. /\/\/\ featured in blanca regina's article in mcd – musiques et cultures digitales special edition 04. 1923 aka heaven + 1925 aka hell were featured in stash issue 67, in televisual (and on their blog) on apengine, motionographer, promo news + countless blogs. in march, aanaatt received a special mention at regensburg short film week + max presented a screening of avant garde animation at animated worlds at cinephilia west in london. max also gave a lecture + mini-workshop at university of westminster. in february, max directed two animation loops inspired by french outsider artist augustin lesage - 1923 aka heaven + 1925 aka hell - during a 5-day film jam with students at the animation workshop in viborg, denmark. the other directors who ran film jams were alexei alexeev, amy winfrey, jamie caliri, tod polson and priit tender. max also presented audiovisual abstractions at the 6th berlin int'l directors lounge, and he lectured at ravensbourne college in london. lrv_magazine came out, feat. max hattler, light surgeons, d-fuse, ne1co, shantell martin, actop, raquel meyers + others. aanaatt was selected for spain-wide touring programme animac mobile. aanaatt also toured the uk with the british animation awards. in january, spin premiered on canal+ in france, while max + noriko performed (O) at the 7th london short film festival, and /\/\/\ at electrovision, london. they also played oh yes at vis: kurzfilm(z)immer in vienna, austria. drift was shown in a videoformes special on souvenirs from earth tv, repeating monthly thru 2010.
2009 SELECTED in december 2009, max lectured at southampton solent university. he vj'ed at ex mercedes benz in neu-ulm and at jackbox nye at sucasa in ulm, germany. kate taylor wrote about max and his upcoming film spin on electric sheep. the book artist in residencies around the world came out, with two pages about max. in november, aanaatt received a special mention 'for the art form' at no-festival in chelyabinsk, russia. max was interviewed for apengine. max + noriko performed oh yes in belgium at int'l short film festival leuven and at cimatics festival in brussels. max was on the jury at fredrikstad animation festival in norway. the festival also presented a max hattler & noriko okaku retrospective, and the premiere of max + noriko's live animation performance /\/\/\. also in nov, max attended exground filmfest with aanaatt; he lectured at ravensbourne college; and he presented his work at pecha kucha night london. the book limited language: rewriting design - responding to a feedback culture by colin davies + monika parrinder came out, featuring collision. in oct, andrew selby's book animation in process came out, featuring max in-depth with striper v0.1. max started teaching animation at goldsmiths and the university of east london again. max attended dok leipzig with aanaatt; he presented a screening of his films, followed by live a/v set remixing the past at optica festival in madrid; and he had a retrospective with q+a at branchage film festival. branchage also presented a 'max hattler case study' as part of the short sighted panel discussion by bafta + shooting people. in september, aanaatt won the award for best design at eksjö animation festival in eksjö, sweden. max was at discovery 09 in amsterdam, where he played an experimental [3D camera + 3D laser scanner data] headline VJ set with help from enist + alex bucksch of TU delft. max also attended square eyes: hertz & lux / made in arnhem in arnhem, holland, presenting films and performing oh yes with noriko okaku. in august, max was on the jury at muuuvi festival in transylvania, also playing oh yes with noriko. in july, max + noriko performed oh yes at curtas vila do conde in portugal. in june, max attended annecy animation festival thanks to support from the british council. he also did a screening + talk at wellington college. and glastonbury festival showed a full-length recording of oh yes. max's where's your head at concert visuals for basement jaxx were featured on promo news, animation show, 'boards, creative review, netribution, videostatic, directors notes, page, and more. max was interviewed for jotta magazine, film london and videopark. aanaatt won the host award at videofestival bochum and it was featured in inmotion. in may, max gave a lecture on abstract animation at volda university college in norway. he presented a programme of german experimental films at image forum festival in tokyo with robert seidel. nano universe released max's limited edition collision t-shirts in japan - you can read about it in the may 2009 paper issue of someone's garden (in japanese). max also played oh yes live with noriko okaku at birobox workshops in nottingham, uk. in april, max + noriko premiered oh yes at moves09 in manchester. max also held a 5-day filmmaking masterclass at ferienakademie roggenburg in germany, and the accompanying exhibition kunst (er)schöpft showed four of his films. revija amaterskog filma in zagreb presented a screening of six of max's works, and max lectured at southampton solent university. aanaatt was featured in repérages magazine. since april 2009, drift is screening on german-french video art tv channel souvenirs from earth. in march, max made concert visuals for the egg. in feb, max was one of five featured artists at tratado de integracion: legion.02: refresco! in neuquen, argentina. he did a talk at southampton solent university and started teaching on the moving image + animation degrees at the university of east london. in january, max did talks at khm / academy of media arts in cologne and at ravensbourne college of design in london. he also attended int'l film festival rotterdam with aanaatt thanks to a film london film-makers festival fund travel award. ian lumsden featured drift on his animation blog and directors notes published an interview with max about aanaatt.
2008 SELECTED in december 2008, the max hattler vs. robert seidel dvd was released in japan by uplink. in november, jemapur's evacuation cd+dvd was released by w+k tokyo lab, it includes aanaatt. max spent oct+nov in paris, working on spin with autour de minuit. also in nov, max lectured and performed with noriko okaku at animated dreams festival in estonia; presented his work in tokyo; did a talk the royal college of art; and performed remixing the past at exground filmfest in germany. in october, max was on the jury at curtocircuito festival in spain, and also performed remixing the past there. the book re-imagining animation - the changing face of the moving image by pauls wells + johnny hardstaff came out, featuring max's film drift. aanaatt was featured on countless blogs including motionographer, boards, sprayblog and stash feed, with a nice interview on white-screen. and webdice.jp published an interview with max + robert seidel. japanese cg world, someone's garden magazine and quotation magazine all included sizeable articles about max's work. drift was featured in issue 22 of specialten dvd magazine, and it won awards for best digital film at london international animation festival and best experimental film at muuuvi festival in romania. in september 2008, max was a guest at animae caribe in trinidad and animationvolda in norway, screening films and performing live. in august and july, max played live visuals for the egg at camp bisco in new york state, usa, and at haselstock festival in england. finally, please click here for details of max hattler and robert seidel's 23-event 5-week japan tour in april-may 2008.
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