Resonating Stories, photo: Petra Pilbák

FUTURESENSE

Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (HU)

„Despite all canons, all inflexible laws, all technical perfection, this inventive potency, this generic tension which defies analysis, determines the character of every work of art. It is the outcome of intuitive knowledge both of the present and of the basic tendencies of the future.“
László Moholy-Nagy, From Pigment to Light, 1936

The works exhibited at FUTURESENSE aim to understand and reflect on the current anomalies and challenges of the present, interpolating towards the future, creating a space where questions, considerations, and possible solutions coincide. The exhibition is a curated selection of artworks and design prototypes by students of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME). Utilizing an array of tools and mediums resulting in physical installations, animations, soundscapes, graphics, and hybrid materials, the selected works offer profound reflections on the multifaceted challenges stemming from the intricacies of contemporary networked society. Each work represents a unique perspective, offering viewers an immersive journey through the complexities of our time within the surroundings of its sociocultural environment.

These artworks were selected from the culmination of student works, drawing primarily from graduation projects at the Design Institute, the Media Institute, the Doctoral School, the Stefan Lengyel scholarship grantees, accompanied by research endeavors from the MOME Innovation Center.

  • Animation Selection 

    Animation Selection 

    Éva Darabos (HU), Domonkos Erhardt (HU), Nikolett Fábián (HU), Vivien Hárshegyi (HU), Bence Hlavay (HU), Melinda Kádár (HU), Marcell Mostoha (HU), Nikoletta Veress (HU)

    MOME Anim’s collection of animated short films features some of the most compelling and visually stunning works from the university’s history. BEST of MOME Anim exemplifies the creative excellence and artistic diversity of MOME Anim’s masterpieces.

  • Beep-boop

    Beep-boop

    Viktor Varga (HU)

    A kinetic installation that previously spent 100 hours machine learning and attempting to maximize the attention of the viewers of an online video-chat platform by changing its own movement. The aim of the work is to raise the question: how anthropomorphic is this behavior, both in practice, and as the gesture of an unnecessary, self-deluding…

  • Dung Dkar Cloak

    Dung Dkar Cloak

    Judit Eszter Kárpáti (HU), Esteban de la Torre (HU/MX)

    Dung Dkar Cloak is an interactive installation that combines digital jacquard weaving, sound synthesis, fractal geometry, and algorithmic thinking to unfold matter into the visual and sonic domains. The augmented textiles are hybrids and provide a rich multi-sensory experience: complex haptic interactions with the woven fractal patterns control sound synthesis processes in real time.

  • Exit Strategies

    Exit Strategies

    Polina Velyka (UA)

    In the contemporary world, terminally ill individuals often become absorbed into a system that views them primarily as patients. Declines in physical and mental capacities lead to a loss of autonomy and a sense of total disintegration.

  • Exoskin

    Exoskin

    Balázs Ágoston Kiss (HU)

    Since the beginning of time, man has sought to understand the foundations of existence and the forces shaping the surrounding world. The advance of technology has the biggest impact on the future of the environment and various species, resulting in radical changes.

  • Food of the Future

    Food of the Future

    Melinda Doktor (HU)

    The project is aimed at developing a photobioreactor for cultivating microalgae – the superfood of the future. The designer wants to explore their potential in terms of small-scale production integrated with urban spaces.

  • FutureStructure

    FutureStructure

    Rita Madarász (HU)

    I explore the transformation of our attitude to physical materials with the rise of digital technology through this interactive woven installation that reacts to its environment and starts to move without any touch.

  • Hello, generated_name!

    Hello, generated_name!

    Ágnes Petrucz (HU)

    Exploration of data-ism through an installation that bridges physical and digital spaces, featuring non-human digital entities called data-humanoids. It reflects the fragility of human data-based identity.

  • Resonating Stories. An Alternative Edition of ‚White Noise‘

    Resonating Stories. An Alternative Edition of ‚White Noise‘

    Petra Pilbák (HU)

    Resonating Stories redefines the contemporary reading experience by combining language, code, visual notation, and sound to create an alternative reading experience for Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise.

  • Sketches of an Excursion

    Sketches of an Excursion

    Sári Zagyvai (HU)

    Throughout my work in the photo lab, I have been turning everyday visual imagery into abstract art. I replaced the negative film with an electric display. The found images go through a transformation that can be linked to a spontaneous process and cannot be repeated.

  • The Right to Be Forgotten

    The Right to Be Forgotten

    Viktoria Biki (HU)

    The Right to Be Forgotten questions existing data collection practices in which the excessive sharing of personal data is a technological norm. It explores the options for deleting one’s online identity from cyberspace.

  • Thread of Life

    Thread of Life

    László András Halák (HU)

    After handling human fates, the Moiræ turn to exercise their power over a rudimentary AI: a cellular automaton. Synthetic lives are born from chaos and randomness harvested from the environment, and as the three Greek goddesses of fate spin, measure, and cut, the synthetic lives unravel like holes punched into a long strip of paper.

Credits

Curators: Judit Eszter Kárpáti, Ágoston Nagy, Esteban de la Torre
Exhibition Management: Judit Gottfried, Andrea Kovács