MOME to feature at the Campus exhibition of the Ars Electronica 2024 festival

Date: 2024.07.19
Our University has been invited to exhibit at one of the world's most prestigious digital art festivals, the Ars Electronica 2024. Each year, the Campus series of the long-standing festival presents an art university. This year's exhibition is organised in collaboration with the University of Linz, and will feature outstanding student diploma works from recent years in Linz's main square selected by curators Judit Eszter Kárpáti, Esteban de la Torre, and Ágoston Nagy.

Held between 4 and 8 September, the FUTURESENSE exhibition aims to reflect on current anomalies and challenges, often looking towards the future and presenting possible solutions. The collection includes installations, animations, soundscapes, graphics, and hybrid works, encompassing a wide range of mediums. 

Each piece offers a unique perspective, offering viewers an immersive journey through the complexities of our time within the surroundings of its socio-cultural environment. Petra Pilbák's Graphic Design masterwork, an experimental, reinvented edition of Don DeLillo's novel White Noise aims to redefine the reading experience. Melinda Doktor's Ceramic Design masterwork focuses on algae as a superfood and features a compact growing unit for future dining. Rita Madarász's Fashion and Textile Design masterwork explores new ways of connecting with textiles through a handwoven installation that interacts with its environment without touch. Viktor Varga's Media Design masterwork is a kinetic installation designed to maximise audience attention during an online video chat, using 100 hours of prior machine learning. László András Halák's Media Design masterwork is an installation with three stops that places artificial intelligence under the control of the Greek Fates, the Moirai. Dávid Salamon's Design masterwork is a 3D printed collectible design lamp modelled after the forces of nature, inspired specifically by the interaction between wind, gravity, and material molecules. Interaction Design MA student Polina Velyka’s project explores how to retain control over our lives by creating a digital legacy at the end of life, as seen through the diary of an unknown individual receiving palliative care. Meanwhile fellow Interaction Design student Viktória Biki’s work questions the legitimacy of current data collection practices that normalise the excessive sharing of personal information, and investigates the possibility of erasing one’s online identity from cyberspace, in line with the “right to be forgotten” principle. 

In addition to diploma projects, the exhibition will feature works showcasing research processes, including Sári Zagyva's experimental photo series Sketches of an excursion related to her DLA research, transforming highly focused details of landscapes and botanical images into abstract compositions, and the Dung-Dkar Cloak tapestry, created by researchers at MOME's Innovation Center Judit Eszter Kárpáti DLA and Esteban de la Torre as a result of a multisensory textile innovation study. The soft surface of the tapestry provides an intuitive, novel musical experience shaped by the movement of fingers across the textile. It was first showcased at the Sound Scene festival at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington in June 2023. 

→ More information: https://ars.electronica.art/hope/en/highlights/#exhibitions 

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