o Listening to the Earth - Sonifying planetary health ecologies (2024)
Listening to the Earth: Sonifying Planetary Health Ecologies is an online exhibition consisting from sound artworks that explore notions of listening, the sonification of environmental processes at different scales, and innovative sensing methods, recording instruments and techniques.
Curated by Ryo Ikeshiro (School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong) and Tom Tlalim (School of Performance, Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London).
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o Four Sunsets - sound installation and performance (2023)
The composition sonified data about the temperature, humidity, air pressure, and light intensity of one live and three archived sunsets. A sensor device was used to capture live data outside the Center for the Arts (CFA) theatre to create a correspondence between outside and inside. Data from three sunsets captured in February, March, and April in Buffalo (2023) were used simultaneously with the live analysis process to sensualize the de-synchronous flow of time and varieties of the sunset’s fading light inside the theatre. The performance was supported by the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo.
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o DAT/ACT Data Art for Climate Action Gallery (2022)
DAT/ACT brings together a collection of artworks responding to climate change, the defining crisis of our time. Perhaps a contraction at first glance, the title is open to interpretation and visitors may detect a variety of possibilities in both meaning and pronunciation. Should it say “DATA”? Is the data incomplete? Does it contain an imperative, a command to “act”? Or does it refer to a written law, as in an Act of Parliament? Should it rhyme with “tact”? Is it an abbreviation of “ACTION”? Does it indicate something performative? Does the “/” mean that it is an either/or statement? Should we choose one or the other?
Many of the works use data as material through visualisation and sonification, the process of presenting data and information through graphical means and non-speech sounds respectively. These techniques can serve a didactic purpose by conveying the science and data behind climate change. But their use in an artistic context can progress beyond merely being visual and auditory display or a formalist exercise. How the data is communicated via the audio and the visuals becomes inseparable from the aesthetic concerns of the sound and the moving image.
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o There is No Landscape - Táj nincs (2022)
Lecture by artist and writer Emily Verla Bovino. In her presentation she discusses the various stages of the artist’s research, his motivations, as well as the historical, sociological, artistic and geographic context of the work.
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o »Horizons« – a new form of exhibition series - Akademie Schloss Solitude (2022)
Artists: Karolina Kaltschnee, Gloria Aino Grzywatz, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, András Blazsek, Krasimira Butseva, Barbara Gryka, Luana Lojić, Jasmina Hanf
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o Wayfinding (online environment) at the Spatial Affairs. Worlding – A tér világlása (2021-23)
Conceived as part of the exhibition Spatial Affairs, presented at the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Spatial Affairs: Worlding is an exploratory online environment, a virtual multi-user exhibition populated by crawling artworks, where visitors’ avatars coexist with moving bodies of internet art and browser-based projects.
Artists: Morehshin Allahyari, Besorolás Alatt (Unrated), Petra Cortright, Louise Drulhe, Sam Ghantous, JODI, Sam Lavigne & Tega Brain, Oliver Laric, Jan Robert Leegte, Rosa Menkman, Sascha Pohflepp & Alessia Nigretti & Matthew Lutz, Rafaël Rozendaal
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o Research Catalogue Profile - An International Database for Artistic Research
o Degree show - Out of KHM (2020)
Uta M. Reidl’s review of Degree show. Concept: Gertrud Peters, Mischa Kuball.
Artists: András Blazsek, Anna Ehrenstein, Céline Berger, Denzel Russell, Düsseldorf, Kerstin Ergenzinger, Søren Siebel presents Bas Grossfeldt, Uta M. Reindl, Viktor Brim.
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o A távolság meghatározása: idők és terek - Meg nem valósult művek 3.0 (2020)
Article in the series of Unrealized works 3.0. Published on tranzitblog.hu.
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o Art for Radio? Radio for Art? – an artist-led symposium (2018)
Can radio be art, rather than just be about art? Is it more than media, as a medium for art; not just a material for making art, but a means to an ‘elsewhere,’ a beyond? What shapes have artists given to radio as medium and media to bring out its communicative, artistic, and activist potential? How has radio shaped the artists who have explored it, transforming them into channels for radical imaginings?
Participating Artists and Speakers:
Amber Au, Emily Verla Bovino, András Blazsek, Hera Chan, Bryan Chung, Hitomi Hasegawa, Meri Kyto, Lam Laam Jaffa, Tang Kwok-hin, Heikki Uimonen, Gregory Whitehead, Wong Chun Hoi, Yang Yeung, Yuen Cheuk-wa
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o Izolátor at the OFF-Biennale Budapest (2015)
"Az elkülönulés-finommechanikája," Mészáros Zsolt's review of the Izolátor exhibition at the OFF-Biennale Budapest from 2015.
Artists: Blazsek András, Csákány István, Kokesch Ádám, Szörényi Beatrix, Randomroutines (Kristóf Krisztián és Kaszás Tamás)
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o On the Edge of Perceptibility–Sound Art (2014)
Curator: Zsolt Sőrés, Concept: Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás.
Artists: András Blazsek, Arturas Bumsteinas, Bernhard Gál, BINAURA group, Carsten Stabenow, Christian Skjodt, Gerardo Nolasco Magana, Gergő Nagy, Gyula Varnai, hans w. koch, Jon Rose, Jozef Cseres, Thanos Chrysakis
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o Szinesztézia – a percepció kiterjesztése vakok és gyengénlátók, valamint látók számára (2013)
Zsolt Sőrés’ review of the “Szinesztézia” exhibitions from 2013.
Curator: Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás. Artists: Martin Blažíček, Blazsek András, Kiss László, and Zérczi Attila
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o Lands End short film (2013)
Lands End was commissioned for the Biennale JCE — Jeune Création Européenne (edition 2013-2015). In Lands End, "home is displayed as an estranged, scenic landscape, as an interior and a cultivated garden at the same time: a place once left, a place waiting for its reoccupation, a place of one’s own at the end of the world" (Nolasco-Rózsás). The short film was inspired by Stanisław Lem’s Return from the Stars (1961).
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o Besorolas Alatt – Kaos Camping at Flórián Műhely (2013)
Audio-visual performance with 16- and 8-mm projections. Part of the exhibition Under Reconstruction Újlak 1989-1995.
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o András Blazsek and France Jobin at LACE (2012)
The concert venue was set up inside the exhibition of Steve Roden’s Shells, Bells, Steps and Silences, the exhibition and the concert were curated by Robert Takahashi Novak.
#Live-performance
o Sleep Today for Yesterday (2011)
Performance for the artMUSE Project - Alliance of Media Art Events in Europe, Industry Culture Museum Nordwolle, Delmenhorst, Germany
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o +3dB Contemporary Sound Art Festival (2009-10)
Concert and exhibition series from Budapest.
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