szmz[at]c3.hu , http://www.c3.hu/~szmz, mobile: (36-30) 905-7336
Hungarian University of Fine Arts Intermedia Department
Address: H-1063 Budapest, Kmety Gy. utca 27.
Tel.: (+36)(1) 373-0069 Fax: (+36)(1) 373-0070
Zoltán Szegedy-Maszák was born in 1969 in Budapest, Hungary where he lives and works today. Graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts first from the Painting (1992), later from the Intermedia Department (1994). Currently he works as the director of the Doctoral School of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and as a professor of the Intermedia Department.
His artistic approach can be characterized by experimentalism closely related to technical media. Szegedy-Maszák uses a broad spectrum of mediums in his artworks, from traditional chemical based photographical processes through painting and printmaking to interactive virtual- and augmented reality installations. Albeit his artistic approach is strongly based on media (an)archeology and the creative applications of contemporary digital technology, his art became internationally known by his immersive installations from the 1990-s, where the meaningful usage of special interfaces and digital technology made explorable the computer generated illusions. His artworks combine cutting edge tools with anachronistic processes both in terms of technology and meaning; intentionally confronting the viewer with the (historical) determination of our world picture by our depicting technologies.
1969 born in Budapest
1988-92 Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Painting Department, Budapest
(teachers: Gábor Nagy, later Dóra Maurer)
1992 Graduated at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Painting
Department, Budapest
1992- Lecturer of computer studies at the Intermedia Department
1992-94 postgraduate studies, Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest
1994 Graduated at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts Intermedia Department, Budapest
1994-95 Lecturer of computer-animation at the Hungarian Academy of
Applied Arts
1994-96 Lecturer of computer studies at the postgraduate
video&telecommunicationscourse of the ELTE University Budapest
1996-2002 program coordinator of C 3
(Center for Culture and Communication Budapest)
1997 assistant professor at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts,
Intermedia Dept.
1999-2002 DLA studies, Hungarian University of Fine Arts Budapest,
Intermedia Dept.
2003 Doctor of Liberal Arts degree at the Hungarian University of Fine
Arts
2003 associate professor at the University of Fine Arts, Intermedia
Dept.
2005-2009 Vice Rector of Education, Hungarian University of Fine Arts
Budapest
2007 Habilitation Qualification in Visual Arts
2009-2012 General Vice-Rector, Hungarian University of Fine Arts
Budapest
2011 professor, Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Intermedia Dept.
2012-2022 Director of Doctoral School, Hungarian University of Fine Arts
2020 Regular Member of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts
1992 1st price of Hermann Lipót Foundation
1993 Eötvös Foundation, Budapest
1995 Hungarian Photobiennale Esztergom/Budapest: price of the magazine
"Fotoművészet"
1995 Europian Media Artist in Residence, Dessau, Bauhaus
1999-2002 Derkovits scholarship
2003 finalist for Nam June Paik Award
2003-2004 Deák Ferenc post doctorial scholarship
2008 Camera Obscura - second prize of the restricted tender by
Hungarian Museum of Photography
2010 Munkácsy state art award
1989
Det nya Ungrens Konst , Kulturcentrum Ystadt, Stockholm
1990
Árnyék (Shade), Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts,
Barcsay Hall, Budapest
1991
Olaj (Oil), Fészek Club, Budapest
Ostmodern Künstlerhaus Klenzestr. (with Attila Csörgő
& Róza El-Hassan), München
Áthatás (Cross-Reflections), Fészek Gallery, Budapest
Oszcilláció (Oscillation), 6th Bastel, Komarno (
Czechoslovakia) - Műcsarnok, Budapest
Sub Voce , Műcsarnok, Budapest
1992
Fotogram (Photogram), Goethe Institut, Budapest
Tér-képzetek I. ( Space-concepts I.), Budapest
Gallery, Budapest
Aritmia , Uitz hall, Dunajváros
1993
Tér-képzetek III. (Space-concepts III.), Budapest
Gallery, Budapest
Jövőgyűjtés (Collecting future), Liget Gallery,
Budapest
Polyphony, Budapest
1994
Rajz, rajzolás... (Drawing, to draw...), Polish
Institute, Budapest
Intermedia Diploma Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts,
Budapest
Sculpture City , RAM Galerie, Amsterdam
Fotogramok (Photograms), Photobiennale, Esztergom
1995
Fotogramok (Photograms), Vigadó Gallery, Budapest
Autokatalízis Vizivárosi Gallery, Budapest
Ostranenie, Bauhaus Dessau
1996
The Butterfly Effect, Műcsarnok - Kunsthalle Budapest
Internet Galaxis, Budapest Gallery
Exploration Network, Center
for Culture and Communication, Budapest
Beyond Art, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
1997
Internet Galaxis, Museum of Fine Arts Budapest
The code exhibition and lecture with Gustav Hámos
and Miklós Peternák, Vilém Flusser Symposion,
Goethe Institut Budapest
Áthidalás , Duna Museum Esztergom
1998
Obserwatorium , Centrum Sztuki Wsplczesnej - Zamek
Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland
Inter/Media/Art , Ernst Museum, Budapest
SeaFair, Skopje, Macedonia
Trieste Contemporanea 98, Triest, Italy
DEAF Festival, Rotterdamm NL
Digital Glance, Trafó Gallery Budapest
1999
Pesrpective,
Műcsarnok - Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary
Young and serious - recycled images , Ernst Museum,
Budapest, Hungary
Kunst der neunziger Jahre in Ungarn , Akademie der
Künste, Berlin, Germany
Interstanding III. , Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallin,
Estonia
Intermedia - Inductive Point of Junction, Artpool P60
Budapest
2000
Derkovits scholarship holders' exhibition, Ernst Museum, Budapest
"Intuition, Innovation, Invention, Műcsarnok -
Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary
Media Modell", Műcsarnok Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary
2001
C3 ou la jeune création, Maison Européenne de la
Photographie, Paris
On Photogram, C3 Gallery Budapest
Young Artists from Hungary, ICA London
2002
Iconoclash, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
Zweite Welt(Second World), KunstAllianz Berlin
Hungarian Electro-graphy, National Museum, Belgrad
Nam June Paik Award, NRW Forum, Dusseldorf
VISION - Image and Perception, Műcsarnok - Kunsthalle
Budapest
2003
Aura - After the Age of Technical Reproduction ,
Millenáris, Budapest
2004
The Hidden Holocaust, Műcsarnok, Budapest
EU&You, Wien - Graz - Szombathely, Railway Stations
Second World, APA Ateliers pro Arts, Budapest
2005
Dingpolitik – Making Things Public, ZKM - Zentrum für
Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Active Image, NCCA Moscow, Russan Federation
Digital Media Artworks, House of the Future,
Millenáris, Budapest
2006
Re:mbrandt - Contemporary Hungarian Artists
Respond, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
ACM Multimedia Interactive Art Exhibition,
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Real and Virtual Spaces Vasarely Museum Budapest
2007
Kempelen, Műcsarnok - Kunsthalle Budapest
Wolfgang von Kempelen. Mensch [ in der ] Maschine, ZKM
- Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
ARTINACT, Museum of Paks, Hungary
2008
Camera Obscura, Millenáris, Budapest
Constructive-Concrete Wanted, Vasarely Museum Budapest
Camera Obscura, Hungarian House of Photography,
Budapest
Blickmaschinen - Visual Tacticts, Museum für
Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany
2009
Visual Tactics, Kunsthalle, Budapest
Agóra Digitáliában – Digital Trends in Contemporary Hungarian
Art 2, Magyar Alkotóművészek Háza, Budapest
Camera Obscura, House of Hungarian Photographers,
Budapest
Máquinas de mirar. O cómo se origan las imágenes,
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla
2010
Concrete Photo, Photogram, Vasarely Museum Budapest
Art exhibition of state award winners 2010, Magyar
Alkotóművészek Háza, Budapest
Contemporary Media Art, Arthouse Veszprém, Hungary
2011
Gateways - Art and Networked Culture, KUMU Art Museum,
Tallinn, Estonia
Coleur Locale - Hungarian Contemporary Artworks,
320fok, Siófok, Hungary
Grafitri XXV - Mimetical Constructions, Rákóczi-ház,
Miskolc, Hungary
Background II. - Neiher Master, nor Student, Kisterem,
Budapest
2012
Works Based on Human Intervention, Kunsthalle Paks,
Hungary
Quadratic Equatations, Kepes Center, Eger, Hungary
Rangefinder, Kepes Center, Eger, Hungary
2013
Coded Images - Informatics in Photography, Aquarium,
Budapest, Hungary
Cake, Gallery of Miskolc, Hungary
Conceptualism Today, Kunsthalle Paks, Hungary
Still - Photography in the Museum, MODEM, Debrecen,
Hungary
2014
The State of Things, Castle Gallery, Veszprém, Hungary
Contemporaries: collectors and artists, New Budapest
Gallery, Hungary
2015
Thougths around the Black Square, Museum Vasarely of
the Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
TIMEBASE - Time-Based Media in Contemporary Art, New Budapest Gallery, 5 December 2015 – 20 March 2016, http://www.c3.hu/idoalap/?p=en
2016
Tértelenítés (De-spacing) - exibition with Zsombor Pólya, Artbázis, Budapest
The Tongue is not a Reliable Instrument, B32 Gallery, Budapest
DLADLA100, Barcsay exhibition hall, HUFA, Budapest
2017
SAVE AS... – WHAT WILL REMAIN OF NEW MEDIA ART?, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
The Formula of the Present - Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest
2018
DIA-LOGOS - Ramon Llull und die Kunst des Kombinierens, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Fugue, Vasarely Museum, Budapest
Found exhibition, Artpool P60, Budapest
Thinking Machines, EPFL Artlab, Lausanne, Switzerland
GameOmetry, Vasarely Museum, Budapest
2019
BAUHAUS100, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Tamás Waliczky: Imaginary Cameras, Interactive Outdoor Installation in the Hungarian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, co-authored with Márton Fernezelyi
Vom Pinsel bis zur Kamera. Werke von László Moholy-Nagy und seinen ungarischen Zeitgenossen, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin
Code and Algorithm, Vasarely Museum, Budapest
2020
THE DEAD WEB - THE END, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Tamás Waliczky: Imaginary Cameras, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Finally We Can Learn Something, an exhibition by Kisterem Gallery, Kincsem Palace, Budapest
MOHOLY-NAGY 125, Hegyvidék Gallery, Budapest
2021
Wide Angle, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Disciples of Dóra Maurer, David Kovats Pop-up Gallery, London, Liszt Institute, Brussels
Sketch, Kisterem Gallery, Budapest
2022
Delineo ergo Cogito, Vasarely Museum, Budapest
The Masters of Graphic Arts - 11th International Biennal of Drawing and Graphic Arts, Flóris Rómer Museum of Art and History, Győr, Hungary
Winter Listing, Kisterem Gallery, Budapest
2023
INNOVATION IN CONTEMPORARY DRAWING AND PRINTMAKING ART III., FUGA Budapest Centre of Architecture
BINÁLÉ - Queering Democracy, Kristály Színtér, Budapest
1991
Camera Obscura I-VII. (VHS)
S8 1-3 (Super-8)
1992
Cavalier (Computeranimation)
3d (Computeranimation/Installation)
1995-96
Life-forms (Video-CD, together with Dóra Maurer)
1997
Real-time I-III. (interactive computeranimation usig
celluloid shooted in pinhole camera)
1999
Real-time IV. (computeranimation)