Martin Reinhart
born 1967 in Vienna,
Teaching activity (selection)
> 2018 Royal College of Art (UK): lectures for MA and PhD seminars
2017–19 University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT): Data Loam (Artistic Research Program)
2012–19 University of Art Linz: Department of Experimental Art (Lectureship)
> 2012 University of Art Linz: Institute for Time-Based Media (Lectureship)
> 2012 School Friedl Kubelka for Independent Film (Lecture)
2006–07 University of Vienna: History of Cinema Technology (Lecture)
2000–01 University of Art Linz: Introduction Laboratory Film (Exercise)
1995–01 Vienna School of Art: Morphology of Fine Arts (Lecture)
1993–01 Vienna School of Art: Foundation and conduct of the Interdisciplinary Class
Public and Academic Lectures (selection)
2020 ZKM (Karlsruhe, DE): Konkrete Musik und Musik der Maschinen (Expert Discussion)
2019 Diagonale (Graz, AT): Time Bending Media (Lecture together with Virgil Widrich)
2019 Göteborgs universitet (SE): Interwar Lens Culture (Keynote, Panel Discussion)
2019 Royal College of Art (London, UK): The Mesh as a Structure of Knowledge (Lecture)
2018 Filmuniversität Babelsberg (DE): From »Revolution in Sound« to »Dreams Rewired« (Lecture)
2017 University of Art (Linz, AT): Philm – International Conference on Photo-Film (Lecture)
2017 UdK Berlin (DE): The Intervening Substance (Keynote, Panel Discussion)
2017 University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT): Advanced Knowledge Systems (Lecture)
2017 Ars Electronica (Linz, AT): Crypto-Economics and Artistic Technology (Lecture)
2016 Photoinstitut Bonartes (Vienna, AT): Unleashed Views (Lecture)
2016 Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies (Vienna, AT): A History of Media Utopia (Lecture)
2016 Stanley Kubrick Retrospective (Vienna, AT): 2001 - Topography of the Void (Public Lecture)
2015 Blimp 30 Symposium (Graz, AT): Filmische Praxis. Arbeitsteilig oder solitär (Keynote)
2014 Austrian Film Museum (Vienna, AT): The Sound Version of Battleship Potemkin (Lecture)
2014 CFAR Birmingham (UK): Spirited Away (Keynote)
2013 Cinegraph Hamburg: The Sound Version of Battleship Potemkin (Lecture)
2013 CFAR Birmingham (UK): On the Verge of Photography (Keynote)
2010 University of Applied Arts (Vienna, AT), Department of Digital Art (Keynote)
2010 University Trier (DE): Mediality and Space in Modernity (Lecture)
2009 University Jena (DE): Moving stills – Photography in Motion (Lecture)
2008 Nordico Museum (Linz, AT): Zauberkünste / On Stage Magic (Lecture)
2008 Austrian Film Museum (Vienna, AT): Digital Formalism (Keynote)
Publications (selection)
2021 A Window of Opportunities. A Brief History of the German Technical Journal Die Filmtechnik between 1925 and 1932
2021 Data Loam. Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft. The Future of Knowledge Systems (Co-Editor and Author)
2021 Know your Name. A short history of occidental knowledge systems since the Renaissance. In: Data Loam - Sometimes Hard, Usually Soft. On the Future of Knowledge Systems. Edition Angewandte at De Gruyter
2020 A brief history of stargazing in the 18th Century. An Essay on Étienne-Louis Boullée’s Cenotaph for Isaac Newton. Selfpublished
2019 Strip Film in Cinematography. In: Greenfield, Phillips, Schroedinger, Speidel, Widmann (Ed). Film in the Present Tense. Why can’t we stop talking about analogue film? Archive Books.
2018 Photography and Film. ESHPh Photoresearcher No29/2018 (Editor and Author)
2015 Potemkin-Meisel. Edmund Meisel und die "Wiener Tonfassung" des Panzerkreuzer Potemkin von Sergej M. Eisenstein. Special issue of Maske und Kothurn (Co-Editor and Author)
2015 Spirited Away. In: Zetesis – Intern. Journal for Fine Art, Philosophy and the Wild Sciences, Vol 2, no. 3 (Author)
2014 Photo-Sculpture. In: Streulicht – Magazin für Fotografie & Artverwandtes No4 (Author)
2014 Schritt für Schritt und Zwei »Z« Im Land Der Erfinder. In: The Austrian Film Museum at Fifty. Filmmuseum Synema Publ. Vol. 20-22
2002 Stummfilm gestern und heute – eine Diskussion. In: medien&zeit, issue 5/2002 – Stummfilm
1999–02 Monthly essay in the trade journal »Media BIZ«, Vienna
1994–96 Film critic for the daily newspaper »Die Presse«, Vienna
Work as media planner for exhibitions and museums (selection)
2019 Sconarium – Welcome Centre Bad Schönau (Media Planning)
2013 Vorarlberg Museum: Sein & Mein. A country as acoustic passage (Video Installation)
2008 Künstlerhaus Vienna: Herzrasen (Video Installation)
2007 WestLicht Gallery: Roland Pleterski - Drawn by the Light (Co-Conception, Catalogue)
2005 Technisches Museum Wien: permanent exhibition Everyday Life (Interactive Installations)
2005 Mozarthaus Vienna: permanent exhibition (Interactive Installations)
2002 Technisches Museum Wien: EU-Project Scalex (Management and Implementation)
2003 Technisches Museum Wien: Permanent exhibition on Energy (Media Planning)
2001 Technisches Museum Wien: Permanent exhibition medien.welten (Exhibition Planning)
2001 Ladin Museum St. Martin: permanent exhibition (Media Planning and Conception)
1998 Technisches Museum Wien: creation of approx. 40 media stations (Media Planning and Conception)
1998 Austrian Academy of Sciences: schafft:wissen (Media Planning)
Activity as curator and consultant (selection)
2019 Research for the Austrian feature film »Hinterland« directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky
2017 Research for the Film & Sound Installation »Icon Island« directed by Virgil Widrich
2014 Vienna International Shorts Festival: Juror for the Animation Avant-Garde section
2014 Cataloguing and evaluating of the camera collection at the Salzburg Provincial Museum
2013 Consultant for the Austrian feature film »Das finstere Tal« directed by Andreas Prochaska
2013 Research for the experimental film »back track« directed by Virgil Widrich
2012 Curating the Camera Museum Bad Ischl, Upper Austrian
2012 Cataloguing of the camera collection at the Upper Austrian Provincial Museum
2004 Cataloguing and evaluating of the camera collection of the Austrian Film Museum
2004–10 Establishment of the WestLicht Library and Photo Collection
2004–10 Curator of the WestLicht Photo and Camera Museum
2001–04 Curator for film and photography at the Technisches Museum Wien
Film and Artwork (selection)
2021 Glücksfall 76 (Documentary in preparation)
2020 Teleplasmatic Views of Vienna (Video Installation) together with Virgil Widrich
2020 Constant Ride (2K-DCP, 8 min)
2019 tx-reverse (2K-DCP, 5 min) together with Virgil Widrich
2019 tx-reverse 360 (10K-DCP, 5 min) together with Virgil Widrich
2018 tx-mirror (Interactive Installation) together with Virgil Widrich
2015 Dreams Rewired (2K-DCP, 90 min)
2015 Battleship Potemkin (2K-DCP, 44 min)
2012 Revolution in Sound (Unfinished Documentation) together with Thomas Tode
2003 tx-dance. motion studies in space and time (DV, 5 min) together with Michael Loebenstein
2000 Pinocchio (DV, 1 min)
1998 tx-transform (35 mm, 5 min) by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich
1993 Der helle Kader (16 mm) by Martin Reinhart and Katarina Matiasek
Further artistic works and cooperation (selection)
2021 Johann Lurf: VistaRama (working title), in progress
2015 Sebastian Brameshuber: In, Over & Out (DV, 12 min)
2012 Johann Lurf: Reconnaissance (35 mm, 5 min)
2011 Albert Sackl: In the Open (16mm, 23 min)
2009 Johann Lurf: The Quick Brown Fox… (35 mm, 3 min)
2008 Elke Groen: Nightstill (16 mm, 9 min)
2007 Johann Lurf: Vertigo Rush (35mm, 19min)
2006 Christoph Brunner: 3 Minutes (35mm, 3 min)
2005 Tim Sharp: The Trapdoor (Betacam SP, 26 min)
2003 Enigma: Voyageur (Music Video, 35 mm, 3 min)
2003 Bady Minck: look the lakes! (35 mm, 5/45 min)
2003 Tim Sharp: Traveller´s Tales (Betacam, 13 min)
2001 Günther Selichar: GT Granturismo (DV, 5 min)
2000 Katarina Matiasek: The Collector (Film Installation)
1999 Davide Grassi: Nuclear Body (DV, 7 min)
1998 Martin Arnold: Alone. (35 mm, 15 min)
1995 Linda Christanell: Moving Picture (16 mm, 11 min)
Awards and nominations tx-reverse (selection)
2019 UNDO Divergent Film Awards (Arlington, US): Best Visual effects
2019 Austrian Film Festival 2019: Best Experimental Film 2019
2019 FIVARS (Toronto, CN): Technical Achievement Award
2019 Silent Film Festival (Zagreb, HR): Grand Prix »Veliki Brcko«
2019 Mediterranean Film Festival (Cannes, FR): Best experimental
2019 Open Window International Film Challenge (Kokata, IN): Best experimental
Awards and nominations Dreams Rewired (selection)
2017 Austrian Critics Award: Best Documentary
2017 Austrian Film Award: Nomination Best Music
2016 Moscow International Film Festival: Best Documentary
2016 DOK.fest Munich: Best documentary film music
2016 FILMPLUS Bild-Kunst Award: Nomination Best Editing
2015 This Human World: Nomination Austrian Jury Prize
2015 Jihlava Documentary Festival: Nomination Silver Eye Award
2015 Jury Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival
Festival and exhibition participations (selection)
2020 Oxford Film Fest (Oxford MS, USA)
2020 Videoforms Digital Arts (Clermont Ferrand, FR)
2020 23rd International Encounters Traverse (Toulouse, FR)
2020 Manchester International Film & Animation Festival (Manchester, UK)
2020 Sundance Film Festival 2020 (Park City, US)
2020 Minimalen 32 Short Film Festival (Trondheim, NO)
2020 Shortz 2017 (Novi Sad, YU)
2020 Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media (Stuttgart, DE)
2020 AIL x Sound:frame Conference: Navigating the postdigital (Vienna, AT)
2020 17th London Short Film Festival (London, UK)
2019 Vienna Biennale for Change – Understanding Art & Research (Vienna, AT)
2019 Triennial of Expanded Media, Multimedia Art, and New Media Art (Belgrad, YU)
2019 Diagonale 2019 (Graz, AT)
2019 Ars Electronica 2019 (Linz, AT)
2019 Foto Wien (Vienna, AT)
2019 Festival ECRÃ (Rio de Janeiro, BR)
2019 UNDER_the_RADAR_2019 (Vienna, AT)
2019 Karlovy Vary 19 – International Film Festival (Karlovy Vary, CZ)
2019 Festival International du Cinema d'Animation (Annecy, FR)
2019 ix Symposium Société des arts technologiques (Montreal, CN)
2019 VIS 2019 – Vienna Independent Shorts (Wien)
2019 15th Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground (Tigre City, AR)
2019 31st Aguilar Film Festival (Aguilar de Campoo, ES)
2019 International Short Film Festival (Victoria, AU)
2019 Mediterranean Film Festival (Cannes, FR)
2019 Torino Short Film Market (Turin, IT)
2019 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Tallinn, EE)
2019 KFFK/Kurzfilmfestival Köln N°13 (Cologne, DE)
2019 12th CYFEST (St. Petersburg, RU)
2019 estival internacional de cine de autor (Guadalajara, MX)
2019 Kassel 19 – 36. Dokumentarfilm- & Videofest (Kassel , DE)
2019 9th Annual St Cloud Film Festival (Minnesota, US)
2019 CODAME Art + Tech Festival 2019 (San Francisco, US)
2019 Slamdance DIG Showcase (Los Angeles, US)
2019 Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival (Lausanne, CH)
2019 Festival International Nouveau Cinema (Montreal, CA)
2019 3rd Barcelona 360 VR and AR Market (Barcelona, ES)
2019 Nashville Film Festival (Nashville, US)
2019 Queen Palm International Film Festival (Palm Springs, US)
2019 Festival of Int Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories (Toronto, CN)
2018 Kunst in Bewegung. 100 Meisterwerke mit und durch Medien. ZKM (Karlsruhe)
2017 Ästhetik der Veränderung – 150 Jahre Universität f. angewandte Kunst (Vienna, AT)
2017 Mami 19th Mumbai Film Festival (Mumbai, IN)
2017 Vilnius Documentary Film Festival (Vilnius, LT)
2017 Ultracinema: Cine Experimental Y De Found Footage (Mexico City, MX)
2017 Yebisu International Festival for Arts and Alternative Visions 2017 (Tokio, JP)
2017 cpdp Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (Brussels, BE)
2016 Cinnamon Colomboscope (Colombo, LK)
2016 George Eastman Museum of Art (Rochester, US)
2016 Art Meets Radical Openness (Linz, AT)
2016 Moscow International Documentary Film Festival (Moscow, RU)
2016 DOK.fest München (Munich, DE)
2016 Secca Contemporary Art Center (Philadelphia, US)
2016 10th Orphan Film Symposium at the Library of Congress (Culpeper, US)
2016 Docs Against Gravity Film Festival (Warschau, PL)
2016 Sofia International Film Festival (Sofia, BG)
2016 National Gallery of Art (Washington DC, US)
2016 Whitechapel Gallery (London,UK)
2016 Göteborg Film Festival (Goteborg, SE)
2015 Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (Jihlava, CZ)
2015 Cph:Dox Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Copenhagen, DK)
2015 Filmfest Hamburg (Hamburg, DE)
2015 Message to Man International Film Festival (St Petersburg, RU)
2015 Milano Film Festival (Milano, IT)
2015 Jerusalem Film Festival (Jerusalem, IL)
2015 Seattle International Film Festival (Seattle, US)
2015 Diagonale 2015 (Graz, AT)
2015 Berlinale 2015 - European Film Market (Berlin, DE)
2015 International Film Festival Rotterdam (Rotterdam, NL)
2014 Giornate del cinema muto (Pordenone, IT)
2011 Technik & Methode – Künstlerische Prozesse der Bildfindung (Vienna, AT)
2009 Diagonale 2009: A History of Austrian Animated Films (Graz, AT)
2008 Diagonale 2008 (Graz, AT)
2007 ZKM: Future Cinema (Karlsruhe, DE)
2003 Streaming Cinema (Philadelphia, US)
2003 Warsaw International Film Festival Warsaw, PL)
2002 Tampere Film Festival (Tampere, FI)
2001 Diagonale 2001 (Graz, AT)
2001 Festival du nouveau cinéma nouveaux médias (Montreal, CN)
2000 Viper 2000 (Basel, CH)
2000 DEAF 00 (Rotterdam, NL)
1999 Diagonale (Graz, AT)
1999 European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück, DE)
1998 Ars Electronica (Linz, AT)