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Max Neupert 
Break/Up
PV 27/11 6-8pm
 
28/11 - 20/12/2009

artist website
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Each moment in time occurs to us as a unique and unmissable algorithm: 
our moments in real life are never repeatable, even if our own human 
nature turns in attempts to produce a replicate.  
Therefore each moment in whatever position we are in at this time is 
sacred. Break Up exasperates this idea with its unique and individual 
moments seemingly repetitive, becoming a sounding heartbeat or a 
reminder of a train carriage arriving and departing – scheduled and 
repetitive in action but unrepeatable in moment. 
 
Break Up generates three and a half minute Cut-Up audio and moving 
image without any user interaction. By remixing four channels of high 
definition video and audio in real time according to a random but 
not arbitrary progression, since the software parameters follow a 
predefined suspense curve.  
In watching Break Up we are allowed an opportunity to interpret a 
language of another kind. The language of an artificial intelligence 
speaking and droning through equipment like a siren of deep water: 
waiting for a listener; yearning for some understanding. 

The symphonic sensibilities of a man made sound are restructured and 
reborn through software created by Max Neupert in a program lasting 
6 hours – designed for the hours in the typical gallery day. Break 
Up becomes a trilogy that can never repeat: like a live band these 
sequences will never be heard or seen again. As we watch and listen 
we search for stable and repetitive ground, a point in which we can 
access a time create stronghold. Similarities may arise, such as the 
consequence of genetic make up in human kind, yet the program is a 
live composition in a mind and voice of its own. These often abstract 
soundings and images eventually reveal themselves and can be as familiar 
as two hands clapping or a drum beat.

Max Neupert is a software artist and lecturer at the Bauhaus
University in Weimar, Germany. His media and installation works 
are in collections of the Museum of Civilisation, Quebec and the 
international airport Pierre-Elliot Trudeau, Montreal, Canada. The 
Municipal Museum in Halle and the Federal Ministery for Environment 
and Nuclear Security, Bonn, Germany.

More recently Neupert has participated in the 3rd Pure Data 
International Convention, at the Museum of Image & Sound (MIS) Sao 
Paulo, Brazil and at the Neue Museum in Weimar,Germany. 2007 Neupert 
was an assistant for artists Ingo Günther, NYC and Lincoln Schatz, 
Chicago USA. Neupert has been the invited artist in residency at SAT, 
Society of Art and Technology in Montreal, Canada and the Centre of 
Contemporary Art, Sofia, Bulgaria, supported by Goethe Institute, 
Sofia. 
 
We are pleased to announce that Break Up is the artists first solo 
presentation for general store and in Sydney, Australia. Break Up is
a custom software available for purchase as a unique collectors 
console edition. All other works on display are for sale.






Break Up 2009, 3.5 min loop. moving image, hardware, software and audio 
Below/Above: Stills of Break Up from group show 'Mark 6' at Neue Museum, 
Weimar, Germany