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title: Matthias Grund
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related: [generative-ai-as-artistic-medium, media-lab-lectures]
created: 2026-07-13
updated: 2026-07-13
sources: ["output_cdfi/cdfi_uni_greifswald_de_bildende_kunst_aktivitaeten_medialab_lectures.md"]
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# Matthias Grund

**Matthias Grund** is an artist, designer, and researcher based in Cologne. He is a PhD student at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and a scientific staff member at the Köln International School of Design (TH Köln).

## Research Focus
Grund focuses on the structural and aesthetic conditions of **synthetic images** and the visual cultures associated with them. He argues that generative AI should be understood as an independent image practice, moving beyond the perception of AI results as "arbitrary" or "random" to instead analyze the underlying technological structures and standardization tendencies of machine learning models.

His work has been exhibited in venues such as the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln (MAKK) and the Deichtorhallen Hamburg.
