Inter / media /art

Nice weat­her - sign­casting - in­ter­me­dia model - media (vil­lage) mus­e­um - coll­ec­ting the fu­tu­re

Cura­ted by Mik­lós Pe­ter­nák, Zsu­zsa Me­gye­si The In­ter­me­dia De­part­ment of the Hun­ga­ri­an Aca­demy of Fine Art has exis­ted since 1990/91. This year marks the gra­du­a­ti­on of its first ge­ne­ra­ti­on of stu­dents ac­cep­ted in 1993/94. The con­cept "in­ter­me­dia" may seem obs­cu­re and not exc­lu­si­vely for the lay­man. For this rea­son it seems app­rop­ria­te to both pre­sent the de­part­ment as a five-year art scho­ol that fo­cus­es on the va­ri­o­us ar­tis­tic app­li­ca­tions of new media, as well as an at­ti­tu­de, whose am­bit­ion is to crea­te a ho­mo­ge­no­us view of the­ory/prac­ti­ce, sci­en­ce, tech­no­logy and art. The de­part­ment´s pur­po­se is to ex­pand ar­tis­tic edu­ca­ti­on to­wards both me­di­ums and met­hods that have ap­peared for the first time in this cent­ury (e.g. photo-ki­ne­tics, el­ectro­nic arts, mul­ti­me­dia, ins­tal­la­ti­on, en­vi­ron­ment and ac­ti­on art, new com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on the­ory, in­ter­dis­cip­li­nary forms, ar­tis­tic bor­ders). Bes­ides ra­ising an aware­ness about a func­ti­o­nal shift wit­hin art, it aims at pre­pa­ring ar­tists for an ac­tive and cre­a­tive pre­sen­ce in the cul­t­u­ral sphe­res of in­for­ma­ti­on so­ci­ety, and mo­re­o­ver to re­se­arch and sup­port a cog­ni­tive ar­tis­tic at­ti­tu­de. In­ter­me­dia as con­cept is the exp­lo­ra­ti­on and re­se­ar­ch­ing of bor­ders and the con­ti­nu­o­us de­fi­ni­ti­on and cha­rac­teri­za­ti­on of the new and the up-to-date. The pre­sent ex­hi­bit­ion is the first comp­re­hen­sive pub­lic show that al­lows each ar­tist who has ever been in­vol­ved with the de­part­ment eit­her as a stu­dent or a tea­cher the op­por­tunity to pre­sent their work to­get­her. Alt­ho­ugh the al­most fifty ar­tists inc­lu­ded in the ex­hi­bit­ion have not ne­ces­sa­rily ex­hi­bi­ted their work to­get­her most of them are per­ma­nent fi­gu­res of shows ab­road as well as in Hun­gary. The ex­hi­bit­ion also in­tends to be a brief re­port on in­ter­me­dia´s his­to­ry and thus any fo­rei­gn ar­tist or the­o­re­ti­ci­an who has cont­ri­bu­ted to the de­part­ment will also be inc­lu­ded. The no­velty of the ex­hi­bit­ion comes from the fact that - de­vo­id of any sty­lis­tic or me­di­al pre­ju­di­ce - it pre­sents young ar­tists (who des­pi­te their age have al­re­ady had se­ve­ral ex­hi­bit­ions) in a con­text which is si­mul­ta­ne­o­usly "past and pre­sent" and "for­mal and open" (as re­fe­ren­ti­al ma­te­ri­al I would like to recall two ear­li­er smal­ler ex­hi­bit­ions, "Spect­rum", Újlak Gal­lery and "Coll­ec­ting the Fu­tu­re", Liget Gal­lery). Pa­ral­lel with the ex­hi­bit­ion a bi­lin­gu­al ca­ta­lo­gue and a do­cu­men­tary CD-ROM will be pub­lis­hed. http://​www.​in­ter­me­dia.​c3.​hu