Digitized Bodies / Virtual Spectacles, Budapest

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26 October - 26 November
Ludwig Museum, Budapest

Digitized Bodies / Virtual Spectacles
Opening: 25 October 6 p.m.

Works on display from: Nell Tenhaaf, Jon Baturin, Eric Fong, Jack Butler, Nina Czegledy, Hilda Kozári - Tibor Vámos, 
Orshi Drozdik, Gábor Kerekes, Zsolt Péter Barta, József Hajdú, Antal Lakner, Tibor Gyenis, Luca Göbölyös, Rajko 
Bizjak, Eclipse
Introduction by: Marta Moszczenska, Ambassador of Canada in Budapest and Miklós Peternák, director of the C3 
Center for Culture and Communication Foundation
Co-curators: Nina Czegledy, Vera Baksa-Soós, Marina Grzinic;
Assistant curator: Kata Krasznahorkai

25 October 7 p.m.    Ludwig Museum

Digitized Bodies - book and CD premiere
Introduction by: Jean Gagnon, director of the Daniel Langlois Foundation in Montreal

25 October 8 p.m.    Ludwig Museum
Would You Digitalize Your Soul? - performance by Tanja Ostojiæ

26 October 10 a.m.-6 p.m.   French Institute
BIO_MEDIA_FORUM - symposium
Participants: Vera Baksa-Soós, Nina Czegledy, Kim Sawchuk, Tibor Vámos, Oliver Ressler, Erika Katalina Pásztor, 
Nell Tenhaaf, Eric Fong, Balázs Beöthy, Jill Scott, Peter Ride, Gusztáv Hámos, Rudolf Frieling, Sara Diamond, Marina 
Grzinic, Antal Lakner

(Supported by the Canadian Embassy, Ludwig Museum Budapest -Museum of Contemporary Arts, French Institute in 
Budapest, Goethe-Institut Budapest, Austrian Cultural Institute, Japan Foundation)

26 October 8 p.m.     French Institute 
Corporeal - performance by Atau Tanaka

27 October 10 a.m.    Ludwig Museum
Wired Body / Mediated Body - selection from international video works
Curators: Nina Czegledy, Vera Baksa-Soós, Marina Grzinic

29 October 10 a.m.-5 p.m.   C3
Code Zebra - workshop of Sara Diamond

31 October 6 p.m.    Ludwig Múzeum
Code Zebra - performance by Sara Diamond
The explosive advancement of bio-technical sciences and digital technology and their relationship to art has not been 
presented yet in Hungary, although the so-called post-biological body and its presentation in various artistic genres has 
been the subject of several recent exhibitions, books, TV shows, conferences and symposia. The Digitized Bodies / 
Virtual Spectacles project's primary goal is to establish interdisciplinary communication. Secondly, the project aims to 
present works that show the transformation of our ideas about the human body as a result of medical technology. The 
exhibition and the entire project Seek answers to the same question: how do artists, theoreticians and scientists view 
our transforming ideas and the digitalisation of our culture, which is a result of the rapid development of various 
technologies.
(Supported by C3 Centre for Culture and Communication Foundation,  Ars Wonderland Studio Ltd., Toronto Arts 
Council, Foreign Affairs Ministry of Canada, Toldi cinema, Budacolor Ltd., Canada Council,  InterAccess, Ministry of 
National Cultural Heritage, Phoenix Community Works Foundation, Hungarian Radio)
http://www.c3.hu/~ludwig/