Medienkunstausstellung "SiebterJanuar33"

In the organizer's words:

December 5-9, 2024
SeventhJanuary33
Media art installation with interactive hologram avatars who share with the audience how they themselves voted in 1932 and how they now look to their future / Before and during the event, everyone can use a digital "voting machine" to test how they themselves might have voted in 1932 / www.siebterjanuar33.com

Exhibition as part of the "Media Art Scholarship of the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) made possible by the Kirch Foundation with the support of Ms. Regina Hesselberger"; developed by HFF directing student Marc Philip Ginolas and historian Judith Anouschka Grosch.

Exhibition SeventhJanuary33 Opening hours:
December 5: 6 - 8 p.m. VIEWING SESSION
December 6: 5 - 8 p.m.
December 7 & 8: 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
December 9: 5 - 7 p.m.
Free admission | Atelier für Medienkunst | Bavariastraße 6a | 80336 Munich
Appointments for advance visits by members of the press can be arranged for Wednesday, December 4 between 12 & 4 pm by sending an email to: j.beyer@hff-muc.de

SiebterJanuar33 is a tangible media art installation. At the center are two 3D avatars in a hologram box - past versions of the two artists Marc Philip Ginolas and Judith Anouschka Grosch. These avatars were created after Ginolas and Grosch asked an AI the following questions: "What would have become of me in a different time? And what if that time had been 1933?".
The avatars act as if it were January 7, 1933 - and on precisely this date, visitors to the exhibition can interact with them via tablet and ask them about their voting behavior, their view of their still uncertain future and the scope for action that they may not have used or, in retrospect, used incorrectly.
At the same time, visitors can use their own smartphones with the voting machine programmed with the election programs from 1932 to test how they themselves might have voted back then.
The exhibition SiebterJanuar33 aims to both educate visitors about historical events and encourage them to reflect - about their own scope for action and personal responsibility in situations of political upheaval against the backdrop of a (still) functioning democracy. And about the question of whether the private sphere is also political.

SiebterJanuar33 was created as part of the "Media Art Scholarship of the University of Television and Film Munich, made possible by the Kirch Foundation and Regina Hesselberger". For the realization of their projects, the prizewinners are provided with a studio and living space in Munich rent-free for a year; in addition, they receive monthly financial support of €800 and a one-off grant of €5,000 towards the cost of materials.

The election apparatus and accompanying information on the exhibition will be available immediately and beyond December 9, 2024 at www.siebterjanuar33.com.

Judith Anouschka Grosch
Born in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1994, Judith Anouschka Grosch studied history and German language and literature after graduating from high school. After completing her bachelor's degree with distinction in 2018, she moved to Munich, where she completed her master's degree in history with a specialization certificate in contemporary history at the beginning of 2021.
Since April 2021, she has been working on her dissertation project, which is currently in its final phase. Enrolled as a doctoral student at LMU, she works as a research assistant in a research project of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Here she is researching the influence of emotions and moralization on political decisions in the late 20th century under the current working title "Sick Morality". She also develops many formats for science communication, for example in the production of podcast episodes, the writing of journalistic articles or the organization of workshops and panel discussions.

Marc Philip Ginolas
Marc Philip Ginolas was born in Osterode am Harz in 1997. After leaving school, he completed an apprenticeship as a media designer for image and sound at ZDF in Mainz, which he completed with the best result in Germany and for which he received an award from the Chamber of Industry and Commerce. After a brief permanent position as a production technician at ZDF, he moved to Munich in 2019 to study feature film directing at the HFF.
His short films have been shown at numerous German and international film festivals and have won awards. His second feature film TILL with Ulrich Matthes and Juliane Köhler celebrated its German premiere at the 56th Hof International Film Festival in 2022. The film deals with the question of what distinguishes humans from an AI and posits the thesis that it is our incorrigible defectiveness. In the summer of 2024, he shot the eight-part television series TSCHAPPEL for ZDFneo, which he co-wrote and directed with Marius Beck.