Guest Researchers
David Bowen
David Bowen is a studio artist and educator. His work has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions including: Brainwave at Exit Art, New York, NY, The Japan Media Arts Festival at The National Art Center, Tokyo, if/then at Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA, Artbots at Eyebeam, New York, NY and Data + Art at The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. His work has been featured in publications such as: Art in America, Leonardo and Sculpture Magazine. He received his BFA from Herron School of Art in 1999 and his MFA from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis in 2004.
Researchers
Ádám Csörnyei
Adam graduated in electrical engineering at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2010. He continued his studies in the master's course. He is keen on operating things without wires. The power of simple, clear concepts is what he believes in. Anything that makes a sound or emits light magnetizes him, but he won't step into a spaceship again. His opinion is that two wheels are often more than four. As past time activity, he is thinking to get clue to liquid light and laser wells.
agoston nagy (stc)
Recently worked with sound (traditional and experimental) and image (still and motion), using free and open tools. Deep interest in interaction design, dynamic systems for installations, web-sites and live performances. Holding summer programming courses and making experimental media, signal processing and basic physical computing at the moment. please visit binaura website
András Sly Szalai
Andras Sly Szalai is a multimedia hacker and prototype ninja, who likes to connect everyday objects to his computer, or remote control non-everyday things with an ordinary mobile phone.
He also works as an artist and interaction designer and likes to build crazy installations that makes people mad.
In 2008, he became the "Face of KIBU".
Now, SLY is learning design in the Royal College of Art in London.
Bálint Ferenczi
Bálint is 24 years old, has glasses. Used to learn industrial design at BUTE, currently works as frontend designer and developer. Likes playing with mental models.
He is quite interested in gizmos, whatever those are.
Daniel Feles
Dani studies at IIIOIIIE - Media Design
Actually he is interested in generated graphics.
He does flash, reads, listens, and looks, shoots photos, does archery, does sports and thinks...
David Dul
David is a fifth year BUTE student, specializing in media technologies. Recently he has been dealing with new media-related service development. In general, he likes to work on projects whose results will make less technically-minded people happy.
Dávid Lakatos
David (Dögi) studies at Budapest University of Technology and Economics
as a junior year electrical engineer, but recently he is searching for great plains of graphene at the Kavli Institut of Nanosciences, in Delft. He wants to simulate Quantum mechanical systems using Quantum-computers.
He enjoys when the software and
hardware side of a given problem come to harmony with each other.
+ hacking music, instruments
Otherwise he spends most of his time in the water, playing/practicing music and
trying to finish the MIT guide to lock picking.
dr Manuela Lukács
She has graduated in law. She has studied political science for one year. She has the patent for her first invention that she has admitted when she was 14. Regarding her research work she has ten admitted inventions and 79 products in under protective right for model proclaimed in the Hungarian Patent Office.
Eszter Ozsvald
Besides studying Industrial Design at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics she studies Mechatronics in the same place not only to design the shape of the robot of her life but to make the important inside as well.
She is interested in anything that moves itself, has some wires sticking out and harms the people's gray taste.
She is interested in anything that from pure existence harms the people's gray taste.
She believes the world can be made colorful.
Gabor Papp
Computer scientist whose main interest is software art, by which he is exploring the cultural implications of software.
http://mndl.hu/
Gáspár Hajdu
Gás is shortly finishing as an architect at BUTE.
His profile page will be uploaded soon but he is taking photos, drawing, rendering, playing music, tries to code stuff, sleeping or just eating at the moment.
Till then: www.gasparhajdu.hu
Gergely Krisztián
He is that type of guy who like cook and code. He is also interested in AIs, so he want to make a chef-bot. He is currently learning at the
Eötvös Loránd University to be a computer scientist. He is very eager to been able to awake the skynet one day.
Györgyi Gálik
Györgyi is graduated at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design as a visual communication artist and designer, at the same time she's doing the fifth year at the Departement of Design Manager. Beside her photos, visual design and video works she is interested in new media projects.
Haraszti, Gina
She is graduated from the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, as a visual artist, interested primarily in motion picture. Now she is a student of Concordia University in Kanada, studying film directing. Her research topic focuses on different media with regard to experimental or/and interactive motion pictures, visual communication and locative media. She is passionate about creating experimental projects with cross-disciplinary teams.
In 2008, she became the "Face of KIBU".
Irma Földényi
She was born in Hungary and has always been fascinated by everyday objects. In 2009 she graduated at the Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design (MOME) as a product designer after completing her internship and graduation project at Philips Design Eindhoven. Whether the object be a ring or an environmental intervention - she seeks to link the unique with the everyday. She is currently working as a researcher at Kitchen Budapest and is looking forward to continue her studies at the Design Academy Eindhoven man&humanity department.
Judit Boros
Judit graduated at the industrial design engineering faculty of BUTE in 2009. She also studied furniture design in Holland and interior design in Paris.
She is interested in all that design, especially fond of gadgets and boats and wants to see the whole wide world.
Kiss László
Laci got his degree in Creative Music Technology from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. He searches the possible connections between human, sound, light and machine through interactive installations. He is a sound designer, electronic musician and programmer.
Milan Korsos
Milan is a fifth year computer engineering student at Budapest University of Technology and Economics majoring in mobile telecommunications.
Before he joined KIBU he was mainly interested in web development and new-media research. He
was always more motivated by how users love and utilize their devices, products or services rather than the restrictions of the technologies. At KIBU he mainly works on interactive design and
user-interface design projects. He has also been managing external IT commissions since Sept 2008 .
He likes skiing, windsurfing and drinking beer.
Réka Harsányi
Réka graduated at MOME’s video faculty. In 2005 she spent a couple of months at Rotterdam’s Willem de Koonig Academy as a media designer. Experimental short videos, interactive installations constitute her repertoire so far. She’s very fond of experimenting with sound.
Sik Eduárd
Eduárd arrived to KIBU from the world of advertising. He studied IT at the Pannon University, while he was working as a graphic designer and later as an art-director. He has encountered both PLC and Z80 before, and had a crush on pneumatics. His favorite expression is "fluxuskompenzált induktív távadó" (fluxus-compeensated inductive tele-transmitter), but he also gets on well with Totem-pole outputs.
His future image can be described as such:
Sztojánovits Andrea
In 2009 she graduated at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts - Intermedia and Teacher department. She is a vj at parties.
She thinks music and visual has the power to alter consciousness. Likes working on computer, going to nature and playing the piano.
Tamás, Nadrai (Gatza)
Webprogrammer. Has an incurable addiction to Internet. Earlier he was a C=64 addict. His interests are: computer music, and machine aided learning(e-learning).
Zoltán Csík-Kovács
Graduated on visual communication at MOME in 2004. Preceding studies: philosophy (SZTE), informatics (SZTE).
Most recently he worked on Nighmo (Home Moonlight) project. This was an old dream came true in Kitchen. Although he imagined it in a completely different way, the final product which has been realized is something what he would never dare to dream of.
Former Guest Researchers
Christopher Baker
Christopher Baker is an artist whose work engages the rich collection of social, technological and ideological networks present in the urban landscape. Baker creates artifacts and situations that reveal and generate relationships within and between these networks. http://christopherbaker.net/
Jayme Cochrane
Jayme Cochrane is an interaction designer and new media artist. After receiving a B.Sc in Interactive Arts (focus Interaction Design) from Simon Fraser University in Canada, he moved to Linz to work in the Ars Electronica Futurelab. He is now a master’s degree candidate in Interface Culture at the Kunstuniversität Linz. His research interest lies in the intersection of real-time social data with architecture and urban environments.
Lin Ying Kuo
Lydia is studying interaction design at Domus Academy in Milano. She has many years experience in visualization design in Taiwan. She is working on experimental short videos, interactive installations and interface innovation. She is super glad to be a member of Kibu for Summer 2009 :)
Maria Laura Méndez-Martén
Maria is a designer from Costa Rica, based in Paris, France since 2002. Currently at her last year of master degree at ENSCI, les Ateliers, Paris, she worked in lighting projects and interactive and services design. She is interested in social networks and how the different devices create relations in between users and machines. She likes to use graphics, music,light and video in order to find new interactions and services for peoples needs.www.mmmaria.com
Ramyah Gowrishankar
Ramyah graduated as a Communication Designer from Srishti, School of Art Design and Technology, in Bangalore, India. Her works are a curious mix of Visual Communication, Film, Interaction design and Digital media. She is interested in exploring the relationships that evolve around people and their everyday objects and is always searching for interesting stories about the world around her. Learning through sharing ideas and experiences in a multi-contextual space through a variety of mediums is one of her key sources of inspiration.
Tim Devine
The challenge and the motivation to create interactive art comes from both trying to foresee how the experience of a work might be for a person and how it actually is experienced; it is at once an experiment for the artist and the people who engage with it.
Coordinators
Winkler Zsolt, managing director
Zsolt has been working for Magyar Telekom since 1999, he started his carrier in the field of mobil communication.
He was a team member in the Hungarian MMS implementation program, and has been working for the Integration Office helping the reorganization of the company. In the last years he has been active in the Strategic and Business Development unit focusing on media development projects.
Barnabás Málnay, external relations
Director of external relations and development at Kitchen Budapest.
Studied social and political theory at ELTE, CEU, and Stanford University. Before joining KIBU, he worked in the fields of higher education, public affairs, and industry-academia partnerships.
Melinda Sipos program director
Melinda Sipos is a Budapest-based artist and interaction designer. She is currently the program director of Kitchen Budapest. She studied glass design at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, followed by a New Media Design post-graduation course in Paris (École Nationale Superieure de Création Industrielle).
As the program director at KIBU she helps foster a collaborative environment by directing cross-disciplinary operations and encouraging an inspiring and productive atmosphere.
Attila Nemes, deputy director of communications and strategy
Attila, as the deputy director of communications and strategy, is responsible for Kitchen Budapest strategic development, global communication and chief-curating KIBU presentations at international art&tech exhibitions and design fairs.
Eszter Bircsák, project manager of Education and Curating
She is an art historian and cultural manager, freelance curator who is interested in emerging technologies in contemporary art. Eszter is working as project supervisor of the KIBU education.
Studies :
2002 – 2007 Péter Pázmány University of Sciences, Piliscsaba, Hungary, art historian faculty
1996 - 2002 Eötvös Lóránd University of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary,
hungarian language and literary faculty
Professional Activity:
2009- KIBU project supervisor
2008 - KIBU educations
2007- 2008 Kitchen Budapest, coordination assistant
Juhász Márton András
Bio_logic: University of Sciences Szeged / Molecular biologist: biochemistry, Biotechnology, Bioinformatics;prev.workplaces: University - SZTE TTiK, Hungarian Academy of Sciences - MTA SZBK, Beike Biotechnology, Institute of Robot Research - NeoRobot; interests: experimental music, neurocybernetics, robotics, chaos;
Attila Bujdosó
Attila keeps tabs on the progress of the projects and coordinates the work at KIBU.
He graduated as an architect but he wants to design not only buildings but the whole world. He is especially interested in the field where technology, culture and society meets and interacts. Attila never likes to be bored. He is addicted to coffee, large cities and internet.
Key Advisors
Adam Somlai-Fischer
Adam is one of the key generators of the content created at KIBU, he helps the teamwork dynamics with his experience in international interdisciplinary projects
An architect and interaction designer, is interested in the cultural qualities of new technologies, and to explore these he creates installations and experiments that blend spaces, technologies and interactivity. A team worker, Adam collaborates with designers, artists and engineers, where motivations are shared to create projects from conglomerates of thinking cultures.
Péter Halácsy, technologist
Peter has a degree of electrical engineering from BME Budapest, besides KIBU, he is a researcher at MOKK Media Research, at the department of sociology.
Nina Czegledy
Nina is a media artist, curator and writer. She has collaborated on international projects, produced time based and digital works, and participated in workshops, forums and festivals worldwide. She has exhibited her work as part of the ICOLS group at ISEA2004, and venues in Australia and the US. In the same year exhibited with the Girls&Guns collective's touring exhibition.
György Peter
Reader at the Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and at the Media Research Centre, Budapest University of Technology. His research interest is 20th-21st century Hungarian art history – especially the waves of the avantgarde movement -, theory and practice of contemporary art, and the cultural context of new media. He is the author of 12 books and hundreds of journal articles.
