Vision - International exhibition, symposium, Kunsthalle Budapest - C3

[anna balint]

International exhibition, symposium, screening series, net.project, publications
Budapest Autumn Festival- Mûcsarnok/Kunsthalle Budapest - C3
18 October - 17 November 2002

Vision - Image and Perception, exhibition organised as the opening event of the Budapest Autumn Festival by the C3 
Foundation and the Mûcsarnok/Kunsthalle Budapest in the Mûcsarnok, aims to present the active process of human 
vision as approachable through historical, cultural, technical and neurobiological methods, with the aid of artworks, 
demonstration charts and apparatus, as well as the potentials of interactive multimedia. In the present case, similarly as 
with our previous exhibitions achieved with great success, The Butterfly Effect and Perspective, our aim is to establish a 
comprehensive, scientific and technological historical context, with the organisation of lectures and the screening series, 
as well as the production of various publications, in connection with the show.

Exhibition
Principal elements of the presentation organised in all exhibition halls of the Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle:
The first, and largest, group of artworks presents the thematic sphere of vision - image and perception, through the 
means of contemporary media art and in accordance with the characteristics of art. We sent out a call for applications 
toward the realisation of such new works that are linked to the theme at hand and would be produced first and foremost 
through the application of technical media. Those projects suitable for realisation and approaching the subject at hand 
are produced within the framework of the C3 Foundation Lab Grant. The recipient is provided with technical and 
operational assistance, as well as the opportunity for consultation with our scientific colleagues participating in the 
programme.
The second, the historical section is divided between earlier artworks, apparatus and documentation. Here, for both the 
researchers and the audience, such rarely visible and studiable original objects and equipment are rendered accessible, 
which, with the exception of such infrequent occasions, are closed to public view. New, until now unpublished, results 
and reports relevant to the theme of research are employed and presented in connection with this Hungarian and 
international material.
The third part is comprised of demonstration tableaux, prepared for this occasion, as well as those produced earlier by 
scientists researching similar themes, which render viewable those artworks that, due to their high value, are inaccessible 
and unlendable, which are important as illustrations or images demonstrating and assisting in comprehension of the theme 
and research.

Exhibition - Contemporary artists
Participating artists include, among others: Barba, Rosa - Beöthy, Balázs - Boyadjiev, Luchezar - Bölcskey, Miklós -Chilf, 
Mária - Csörgõ, Attila - Diebner, Hans H. - Sahle, Sven - El-Hassan, Róza - Erdély, Miklós - Farkas, Roland - Farocki, 
Harun - Fleischer, Joachim - Galeta, Ivan Ladislav - Gyõrfi, Gábor - György, Katalin -Hanfeld, Folke - IPUT - Jovánovics, 
György - Julesz, Béla - Kerekes, Gábor - Keserue, Zsolt - Enyingi, Tamás - Keserü, Ilona - Kirkovits, Andrea - KissPál, 
Szabolcs - Körösényi, Tamás - Maurer, Dóra - Molnár, François és Vera - Muller, Norman - Tirel, Thomas  - Hahne, Sven
Örkényi, Antal - Palotai, Gábor - Ravasz, András - Révész, László László - Sugár, János - Surányi, Miklós - Szacsva y, 
Pál - Szegedy-Maszák, Zoltán - Fernezelyi, Márton - Takahashi, Keiko  - Sasada, Shinji - Hori, Seiji -Theismann, Anja
and Türk, Péter


IMAGE and the BRAIN
Scientific symposium, 19-20 October 2002 in the Mucsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest

The wise man's eyes are in his head;  (Ecc. 2.14, Authorised King James version)

Symposium on the connections between the visual arts and brain research. The invited lecturers are the highest 
representatives of world renown of the neuronal (anatomical, physiological), behavioural (neurological, psychophysical) 
and theoretical (philosophical) approaches of brain research, and they are bound together by their common interest 
touching upon the background of the nervous system as it relates to the creative process. Alongside the scientific 
researchers, eminent representatives of the sphere of art and the humanities will also take part in the conference.

Symposium Lecturers:
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
(Professor of Neurosciences and Psychology, University of California - San Diego)
Melvyn A. Goodale
(Canada Research Professor in Visual Neuroscience; University of Western Ontario, London Ontario, Canada)
Nicholas Wade
(Professor of Visual Psychology; Department of Psychology, University of Dundee, Scotland)
Jean-Pierre Changeux
(Collège de France; Institut Pasteur, Paris)
Richard Gregory
(Professor of Psychology, Downing College, Cambridge, UK)
Siegfried Zielinski
(Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne, Germany)
Peter Weibel - Hans H. Diebner
(ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany)
Jaroslav Andel
(Independent curator, New York)
Ilona Kovács
(BME (Budapest Technical University) and Rutgers University, New York)
Gyula Kovács
(Center for Cognitive Sciences, Technical University of Budapest)
Zoltán Vidnyánszky
(MTA TKI, Neurobiological Research Group)
David Melcher & Francesca Bacci
(Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan - Rutgers University, New Brunswick)
Balázs Gulyás