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EFFECT
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NEW INTERNET ARTS ACCESS PROGRAM extended borders offered by the new
media promise to have an as of yet
The Soros Center for Contemporary Arts unforseen impact on the artistic and
has initiated a World Wide Web (WWW) communicational forms of the future.
Internet service from December 1995, on
the occasion of the BUTTERFLY EFFECT The SCCA is launching a training
media art event series. The SCCA provides program (free of charge) in an effort to
the opportunity for Internet access free of provide artists with the technical
charge to Hungarian artists, artist groups knowledge and experience to use the
Internet and WWW and to become
and arts organizers.
acquainted with its artistic and latest
The Internet network, as a new technology applications. The SCCA also provides
and form of communications of our time, artists with the technical opportunity to
create their own artistic projects and
has created a special medium for
home pages on the network. The final
contemporary artistic tendencies and
works will be globally retrievable via the
endeavors. In addition to the traditional art
SCCA WWW server. The SCCA Internet
forms (painting, sculpture), special network
program is open to all artists and artistic
forms have appeared on the Internet
initiatives. For detailed information,
(WWW, virtual reality, hypermedia) which
please contact Laszlo Tolgyes, SCCA
are based on the creative and interactive Internet Program Coordinator.
usage of the network as a progressive
medium. The Internet today presents a great
challenge to the artist since the potential and Please indicate your interest to participate
the in the SCCA Internet Arts Access Program
by calling in advance for an appointment on
weekdays between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm on
343-7401/108
The SCCA WWW site:
lhttp://~~\\~w.dataHct.hu/buttcrfl~°/index.lil1111
As a part of THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
exhibition, in the Mticsarnok gallery space,
there will be a number of computer terminals
with Internet access, courtesy of DataNet
Telecommunications. Visitors to the
exhibition will be able to surf the Net and
browse specially bookmarked sites on the
WWW.
All those who wish to subscribe to DataNet to receive
their own Internet services can take advantage of
a special offer. All visitors to THE BUTTERFEY- EFFECT
can receive their first 10 hours free of charge when
they subscribe on site at the exhibition.
All those who show their exhibition ticket when later
subscribing to DataNet will receive their first
5 hours of Internet services free of charge. DataNet
SOROS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTS - BUDAPEST
CURATORS Suzanne Mesz6ly Director SCCA & Mikl6s Peternak Board Member SCCA
ORGANIZERS Andrea Szekeres, Janos Szoboszlai, Laszl6 T61gyes, Zoltan
Szegedy-Maszak, Zsuzsa Megyesi, Helga Eszter Rajz, Adele Eisenstein, Livia Paldi
ARCHITECT Marta Zekany
GRAPHIC
DESIGN
l1v
a Pikler
COMPUTER
EXPERTS Computronic
S C C A - BUDAPEST MCCSARNOK
PARTNERS Pet6fi Csamok, Goethe Institute, Austrian Cultural Institute, French
Institute Polish Cultural Institute
DOZSA GYORGY UT 37 PO Box 35, H-1406 TEL/FAx 361343-5379 TEL 361343-7401
e-mail sccabp@mail.datanet.hu
http://www. datanet.hu/butterfly/index.html
CURRENT COORDINATES MOCS ARNO K
an exhibition of media art works by Hungarian J AN 20-FEB 25,
and international artists related to Central and 1996 Eastern
Europe
MEDIA RELICS MOCS ARNO K
an historical exhibition of inventions focusing J AN 20-FEB 25, on
technological innovations produced by 1996 Central and Eastern
Europeans
MOVING HORIZONS MOCS ARNO K
a retrospective video, film and computer J AN 20-FEB 25, animation
program of work by 1996 international artists
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT TO BE
a comprehensive catalogue and CD-ROM PUBLISHED of the
manifestation including essays and M AY 1996
documentation on the exhibited works
THE MOMENT BEFORE DISCOVERY
MOCS ARNO K an international symposium devoted to J AN 22-23,
the development of media technology and media 1996
art both forgotten and unforeseen
IN THE SHADOW OF TECHNOLOGY GOETHE INSTITUTE MUCSARNOK INTERMEDIA
DEPT
a lecture program covering both practical and MCCSARNOK FEB 7-21, 1996 ACADEMY OF
FINE
theoretical issues presented by international and JAN 24-25, 1996 ARTS, BUDAPEST
STAGED COMMUNICATIONS MOCSAR,'OK
a series of multi-media performances,
Hungarian guests PFI0FI CS,Aitnolc 1996
happenings and experiments JAN 20-J AN 24,
by international artists 1996
CURRENT COORDINATES
an exhibition of media art works by Hungarian and
international artists related to Central and Eastern
Europe
THE CURRENT COORDINATES exhibition presents Participating Artists
MUCSARNOK
works made by world-acclaimed international and BAKOS GABOR JEFFREY SHAW
JAN 20-FEB 25,
1996 Hungarian artists working in the field of media art. The BEOTHY BALAZS SUGAR JANos
curators have selected artists who are working in Central WOTCIECH SZEGEDY-MASZAK
Europe or have originated from the region. The works BRUSZEWSKI ZOLTAN SZOCS ATTILA
chosen for the exhibition use both high and low CSORGC5 ATTILA TNPU/IPUT
technology and traditional art media such as EL-HASSAN ROZA TYJRK PETER
photography and painting. In general, these projects deal FARKAS GABOR
with the fundamental elements of chaos theory, the FORGACS PETER. WOODY & STEINA
implications of the so-called butterfly effect, the abstract GYORFI GABOR VASULKA VESZELY
themes of time, discovery, and process, and with the GUSZTAv HAMOS BEATA
AGNES HEGED(JS KISS TAMAS
concrete concepts of technology, the history of media art
PETER WALICZKY
and the cognitive processes of the human brain. Visitors
RICHARD KRIESCHE PETER WEIBEL
to the exhibition will have an insight into the utilization
GEORGE LEGRADY
of media technology in art through challenging
MAURER DORA
interactive installations, computergenerated
NEMES CSABA
environments and thought-provoking interactive internet
REVESZ LASZLO
projects.
LASZLO JOZEF
ROBAKOWSKI
Acnss HEGEDPS
HANDSIGHT
1991-1994
CURRENT COORDINATES
LIST OF WORKS
MOCSARNOK BAKOS GABOR EL-HASSAN ROzA GuSZTAv HAMOS GEORGE LEGRADY
(6.1969, Budapest, lives (6.1966, Budapest, lives in (1.1955, Budapest, lives in Berlin) (6.1950, Budapest, lives in
San
JAN 20-FEB 25, in Budapest) Budapest) Moebius Circus. Female Francisco)
Television Tube Camera Untitled, 1995-96 and Male, 1995-96 Slippery Traces, 1995
1996 Obscura, 1994-95 mixed media interactive installation interactive installation
installation with video projection with video projection
FARKAS GABOR
BEOTHY BALAZS (6.1965, Szombathely, lives in AGNEs HEGEDOS MAURER DORA
(6.1965; Budapest, lives Budapest) (b. 1964, Budapest, Lives in (6.1937, Budapest, lives in
Thought Diagrams, 1995 Budapest)
in Budapest) Karlsruhe)
STP 1.0, 1994-95 mixed media Handsight, 1991-94 Inter-Images
computer installation interactive installation (1. Retardation,
FORGACS PETER 2. Anti-zoetrope),
WOJCIEcH BRUSZEWSKI in KISS PtTER 1989
., (6.1950, Budapest, lives
(6.1947, Wroclm, lives in Lodz) Budapest) (6.19fi_, Siklds, lives in Budapest) video projection
PRE*PRO*SECA*TURA,
The Sonnets, 1992 Detector, 1995-96 installation
computer installation 1996 mixed media installation Hand-Made Fraetal,
video installation
1988-1995
CSORGO ATTILA GYORFI GABOR RICHARD KRIESCHE paintings
(6.1965, Budapest, lives in (6.1940,Vienna, lives in Grav and
Budapest) (6.1970, Budapest, lives in Offenbach)
Counter-Space, 1991 Budapest) sound/image/robot,
mixed media wall Interior Images, 1995 1995-96
installation computer installation computer installation
with video projection
WAUC-s
Meuaea
NEMES CSABA SUGAR JANOS TURK PETER TAMAS WALICZKY
(alias Zsolt Veress) (6.1958, Bndape,t, lives in (6.1943, (6.1959, Budapest, lives in
(6.1961, Debrecen, lives in Budapest) Pestszenterzs€bet/Hungary•, Karlsruhe)
Budapest) Reference Generator, lives in Budapest) Trilogy (The Garden,
I Have Caught a 1995-96 Psychograms and The Forest, The Way),
Butterfly, 1996 Internet and Phenomena, 1975-85 1992-94
mixed media computer installation mixed media video installation
installation installation Animation sponsored
Butterfly Giving, 1996 SZEGEDY-MASZAK by ZKM, Karlsruhe
video installation ZOLTAN WOODY & STEINA
(6.1969, Budapest, lives in VASULKA PETER WEIBEL
REVESZ LASZLO LASZIO Budapest) (Ste na Vasulke, b. 1940, (6.1999, Ode-, lives m
(6.1957, Budapest, lives in Pencryption, 1995-96 Reykjavik Woody Vasulka Vienna)
Budapest) !; interactive 6.1937, Biro; live in Santa Fe) The Curtain of
Pioneers of Electronic
Triumphal Arch, environment Art, 1992 Lascaux, 1995-96
1995-96 interactive historical interactive computer
video projection SZCJCS ATTILA research installation installation
(6.1967, Miskol Virdg-> Butter Flay (Effect)
being in the electronic landscape,
communication in multi-user virtual JOCHEN GERZ, Germany/France The
Ever- Changing Matter of the
worlds and interface metaphors Permanent Return of Time
in interactive media.
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IN THE SHADOW OF TECHNOLOGY
a lecture program covering both practical and
theoretical issues presented
by international guests
GOETHE DR. SIEGFRIED ZIELINSKI, Germany
INSTITUTE Academy of Media Arts, Cologne
Multiplicity and Standard:
MOCSARNOK The Signification of the Digitalized
JAN 24-25, 1996 Ethical-Aesthetic
6.00 pm Wednesday 24
January Goethe Institute
WALICZKY TAMAS,
Hungary/Germany Computer-animation
Researcher ZKM, Institute for Image
Research Karlsruhe
Animation: Artist's Talk
6.00 pm Thursday 25
January Mticsarnok
INTERMEDIA The Intermedia Department of the Hungarian
DEPT ACADEMY Academy of Fine Arts will be inviting guests
OF FINE ARTS, throughout 1996 from various international
BUDAPEST 1996 media art institutions to present lectures at the
Academy.
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As a part of THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT MR. KOLOZSI SANDOR MUCSARNO
educational program, a number of lectures will Engineer K FEB 7-21,
The History of Slide Projection in Hungary 1996
be presented by Hungarian experts regarding
7.00 pm Wednesday 14 February
Hungarian inventors or those related to the
country through their work. All lectures will be Ms. KATALIN SINKO
Hungarian National Gallery
held (in Hungarian only) in the T6rley Dark Theater, Bright Images
Auditorium of the Mdcsarnok. 6.00 pen Thursday 15 February
MR. JOZSEF HORVATH Gothard
MR. GY6z6 KOVACS Observatory, Lbrand E6tv6s University
Neumann Association of Sciences The Life and Works of Jeno
The History of Information Gothard 7.00 pm Thursday 15 February
Technology in Hungary
6.00 pra Wednesday 7 February
MRS. GERGELY KOVACS
MR. LAlos NYIKOS Hungarian Post and
Telecommunications Foundation The
Central Research Institute for Physics Life and Works of
Fractal Analysis of Artistic Images: Tivadar Puskcis and Denes Mihkly
From Cubism to Fractalism 6.00 pra Wednesday 21 February
7.00 pra Wednesday 7 February
MR. GYORGY GADANYI Hungarian DR. SANDOR JESZENSZKY
Academy of Applied Arts The History of
Photography in Hungary 6.00 pm National Museum of Technology
Wednesday 14 February Nikola Tesla in Hungary 7.00 pra
Wednesday 21 February
STAGED COMMUNICATIONS
a series of multi-media
performances, happenings, and
experiments
by International artists
WOjCIECH BRUSZEWSKI, Poland The GRANULAR SYNTHESIS, Austria
MCCSARNOK
Sonnets - An Introduction to the Motion Control MODELL 5
PETVF1 Phraseological Dictionary performance Uls Langheinrich and Kurt Hantschlager
JAN
CSARNOK incorporating the artist's computer Live performer: Akemi Takeya
20-24, installation and readings 5.30 put Saturday computer-generated performance
9.00 Inn Saturday 20 January Pet6fr Csarnok
1996 20 January Mucsarnok
MICHAEL BIELICKY, Czech Republic/Germany EIKE, Germany/Hungary The Naked Eye Another
Time-Space-Nothing Attempt at Three-Dimensional Television:
Internet performance Performance in Thirty Minutes
technological experiment/performance 1.00
6.00 pm Saturday 20 January Mucsarnok pm Monday 22 January Mucsarnok
STEINA VASULKA, lcdand/USA
Violin Power
multimedia performance
6.00 Inn Tuesday 23 January Mucsarnok
COMPAGNIE K. DANSE, France 10
multi-media dance performance
8.00 pm Wednesday 24 January Pet6fi Csarnok
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THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
COORDINATES OF THE MOMENT BEFORE DISCOVERY
EXHIBITION OF INTERNATIONAL St HUNGARIAN MEDIA ART & MEDIA HISTORY
SPACE PROBE PIONEER V LAUNCHED 11 MARCH
1960
Fundamental to chaos theory is the phenomenon of sensitive dependence on initial conditions,
commonly referred to as the Butterfly Effect.
We have no way of knowing what effect technological media will have on the future of contemporary
art. Today's situation is just as unpredictable as that of the last century, prior to the new discovery of
film, television, holography and the computer.
If, while examining the routes to our present we realize what the original idea or invention meant (or
could have meant) at the time, keeping in mind even aspects which were later forgotten, then we may
be able to "see into the future". Applying this method, we can perceive the new in the old, recognizing
the original richness of that which later became tradition. We can see the old in the new, too, with its
transience and the boredom of its fashionability.
Although the fertile media environment appears to provide orientation, anyone existing within it can
easily become lost due to information overload. A new analysis of historical events can, however, lead
us out of the communication crisis. Archaeological media research, in itself an artistic activity, could
be effective in bringing this issue to the fore and making the transitional step within the public sphere,
into a consciousness of the future.
With history as its starting point, this comprehensive exhibition attempts to provide an overview of the
current media art situation; it not only presents a general discussion on the shifting borders between
science, technology and art in the 20th century, but renders a palpable image of the initial conditions
and their possible effects with concrete art works, events and the demonstration and utilization of
media tools.
The exhibition, The Butterfly Effect; will consist of two parts presented simultaneously.
The first exhibition uses in an artistic format the relics of media history to focus on Central and
Eastern European innovations and in particular on the role of Hungary. The second exhibition will
consist of art projects utilizing or reflecting on new technological media, which capture the moment
before the discovery of unpredictable future inventions.
SOROS CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY
MUCSARNOK, BUDAPEST ARTS CURATORS
SUZANNE MESZOLY, DIRECTOR SCCA-BUDAPEST
JANUARY 20-FEBRUARY 28, 1996 MIKLOS PETERNAK, BOARD MEMBER SCCA-BUDAPEST
ORGANIZERS
ANDREA SZEKERES, JANOS
SZOBOSZLAI ZOLTAN
SZEGEDY-MASZAK
S C C A - BUDAPEST MUCSARNOK, DOZSA GYORGY UT 37, PO BOX 35, H-1406 TEL(PAX 361 343-5379 E-MAIL h9307me5@eI1a.hu
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
CURRENT COORDINATES AN MUCS.ARNOK
EXHIBITION OF MEDIA ART WORKS BY JAN 20 - FEB 28, 1996
HUNGARIAN AND INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS
RELATED TO CENTRAL, AND EASTERN EUROPE
MEDIA RELICS MUGSARNOK
JAN 20 - FEB 28, 1996
AN HISTORICAL EXHIBITION OF INVENTIONS
AND EXPERIMENTS FOCUSSING ON
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS PRODUCED
BY CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEANS
MUCSARNOK
NG HORIZONS
JAN 20 - FEB 28, 1996
A RETROSPECTIVE VIDEO, FILM AND
COMPUTER ANIMATION PROGRAM OF
WORK BY INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT TO BE PUBLISHED
JANUARY 1996
A COMPREHENSIVE COLOUR CATALOGUE
AND CD-ROM OF THE MANIFESTATION
INCLUDING ESSAYS AND DOCUMENTATION
ON THE EXHIBITED WORKS
THE M o I V w T BEFORE MUCSARNOK
JAN 22 - 23, 1996
I)LscOVERY AN INTERNATIONAL
SYMPOSIUM DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT
OF MEDIA TECHNOLOGY AND MEDIA ART
BOTH
BOTH FORGOTTEN AND UNFORESEEN
IN THE SHADOW OF INTERMEDIA
DEPT ACADEMY OF
TECHNOLOGY
A LECTURE PROGRAM COVERING BOTH FINE ARTS, BUDAPEST
PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL ISSUES FEBRUARY, 1996
PRESENTED BY INTERNATIONAL GUESTS
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
CURRENT COORDINATES AN MtJCSARNOK
EXHIBITION OF MEDIA ART WORKS BY JAN 20 - FEB 28, 1996
HUNGARIAN AND INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS
RELATED TO CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPE
APPLICATIONS Michael Bielicky George Legrady
INVITED FROM Wojciech Bruszewski Jeffrey Shaw
THE LISTED Gabor Csaszari J6zef Robakowski
INTERNATIONAL Eike Steina Vasulka
ARTISTS Ivan Ladislav Galeta Woody Vasulka
Gustav Hamos Tamds Waliczky
Agnes Hegediis Peter Weibel
APPLICATIONS Adam Zoltan K6sa Janos
INVITED FROM Bakos Gabor Lakner Antal
THE LISTED Beothy Baldzs Maurer D6ra
HUNGARIAN Chilf Maria Nemes Csaba
ARTISTS Csaji Attila Pasztor Erika Katalina
Csorgo Attila Ravasz Andras
El-Hassan R6za Revesz Ldsz16 Ldsz16
Farkas Gabor Sugar Janos
Feher Maria Szab6 Agnes
Forgacs Peter Szarka Peter
Glatz Lasz16 Szegedy-Maszdk tan
Gyo"rfi Gabor St Auby Tainds
Haraszty Istvan Szucs Attila
Hegedds 2 Laszl6 Szil Istvan
J6lius Gyula Turk Peter
Karolyi Zsigmond Vamai Gyula
Kiss Peter Veress Zsoit
Komor6czky Tamas Veszely Beata
THE-, BUTTERFLY EFFECT
MUCSARNOK
MEDIA RELICS
JAN 20 - FEB 28, 1996
AN HISTORICAL EXHIBITION OF INVENTIONS AND EXPERIMENTS
FOCUSSING ON TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS PRODUCED BY
CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEANS
INNOVATIONS Optical Innovation - microscope, telescope, lenses
TO BE EXPLORED Laterna Magica - projection
Automatic Machines
Panorama, Diarama
Stereoscope Printing
Technology
Telegraph
Sound Production and Recording - speech, music
Telecommunications, Telephone, Radio
Camera Obscura, Camera Lucida
Photography
oving Images, Animation
-Phenakistoscope, Zoetrop, Mutoscope, Zoepraxiscope
Film & Projection - colour, sound
Television
Computers, Cybernetics, Mathematics
Communications
Chemical Technolgies
Precedents to Multi-Media & Network Communciations
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
MUCSARNOK
MOVING HORIZONS
J A N 24 - FEB 28, 1996
A RETROSPECTIVE VIDEO, FILM AND
COMPUTER ANIMATION PROGRAM OF
WORK BY INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS
INVITED Michael Bielicky
ARTISTS Wojciech Bruszewski
Gabor CSdsziiri
Jean Paul Fargier
Fred Forest
Ivan Ladislav Galeta
Gustav Hamos Agnes
Hegediis Richard
Kriesche George
Legrady Jeffrey Shaw
Jozef Robakowski
Steina Vasulka
Woody Vii.sulka
Tamas Waliczky
Peter Weibel
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
THE MOMENT BEFDRE DISCOVERY MUCSAR NO K
JAN 22 - 23, 1996
AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM DEVOTED
TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIA
TECHNOLOGY AND MEDIA ART BOTH
INVITED Akira Asada, Japan SPEAKERS
Philipe Dubois, Belgium Karel
Dudacek, Germany Jean Paul
Fargier, France Fred Forest,
France Derrick-De Kerckhove,
Canada Werner Kunzel,
Germany George Legrady,
USA
Tamas St Auby, Hungary
Jeffrey Shaw, Australia
Valentina Valentina, Italy
Paul Virilio, France Peter
Weibel, Austria Gene
Youngblood, USA Siegfried
Zielinski, Germany
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PRESENTED BY INTERNATIONAL GUESTS
ITED Bauhaus Dessau
INSTITUTIONS
Information Arts/Conceptual Design, Art Dept,
San Francisco State University
Kunsthochschule fur Medien, Koln
Le Fresony, Studio National des Arts Contemporains,
Tourcoing
Media Dept, Academy of Fine ts, Bratislava
Video ep, Academy of Fine Prague
Video Dept, ademy of Fine Arts, Bucharest
Zentrum fur Kunst and Medientechnologie Karlsruhe