Ágnes Hegedûs


b. 1964 in Budapest, Hungary.
Studied Photography, Graphic Design and Video at the Hungarian Academy of Applied Art, Budapest, 1985-88. In 1988, continued studies in Video at the Minerva Academy in Groningen, The Netherlands, and between 1988-90 at the AKI Art Academy in Enschede, The Netherlands, where she received her diploma in Monumentale Voormgeving. Completed her postgraduate studies between 1990-91 at the Institute für Neue Medien in Frankfurt.
Lives and works in Karlsruhe, Germany.




Video and Computer Graphic Installations

Plain Plane Playing (1990, video installation):
1990   Rene Coelho Gallery, Amszterdam


Unstable (1990, computer graphic installation):
1991   Implosion, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany


4 Space (1991, interactive computer graphic installation):
1991   Artec'91, Nagoya, Japan
1992   Atrium Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
  Videonale 5, Bonn, Germany
  Factory, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
1993   Mediale, Prizma Art Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
  Artificial Games, Medien Labor, München, Germany, Uluv Gallery, Prague


Handsight (1992, interactive computer graphic environment):
1992   Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
  V2_organisatie, Ha's-Hertogenbosh, The Netherlands
1993   Interface 2, Hamburg, Germany
  Video Arco, Madrid Art Fair, Madrid
  MuuMedia Festival, Otso Gallery, Tapiola, Finland
  Artec'93, Nagoya, Japan
  Siggraph'93, Anaheim, Kalifornia
  IC'93, Beam Gallery, Tokyo
  MultiMediale 3, IWKA site, Karlsruhe, Germany
1994   Interactive Media Festival, Los Angeles
  Artifice 3, Paris
1995   Centre Culturel, Albi, France
  Interaction'95, Gifu, Japan
1996   The Butterfly Effect, Mûcsarnok (Kunsthalle), Budapest
  Phantasmagoria, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia


The Televirtual Fruit Machine(interactive telecommunication project):
1993   MultiMediale 3, IWKA site, Karlsruhe, Germany
  IC'93, Beam Gallery, Tokyo
1995   CebIT, Deutsche Telecom stand, Hannover, Germany
  ICA, London


Between the words (interactive computer-installation):
1995   Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublic Deutschland, Bonn Germany
  Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
  MultiMediale 4, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
  ISEA, Montréal, Québec, Kanada


Video Presentations

1989   Symmetry-Asymmetry Conference, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
  International Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
  World Wide Video Festival, Haga, The Netherlands
  Hungarian Film and Video, Genf, Switzerland
  AV Garde, Amsterdam
  AVE Festival, Arnhem, The Netherlands
  Art Vidéo Hongrie, Strasbourg, France
  Videofest 90, Berlin
  Video und Malerei, Hochschule für Künste, Berlin
1990   Fete de l'image 90, Lille, France
  Fete de cinéma, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
  XI. Vidéo-Art Festival, Locarno, Switzerland
  Les instants Vidéo, Marseille, France
  Art Contemporain Hongrois, Strasbourg, France
  Vidéo-Art Plastique, Herouville Saint-Clair, France
  Sound Basis Visual Art Festival, Wroclaw, Poland
  Exground II, Wiesbaden, Germany
  Fukui International Media Art Festival, Fukui, Japan
1991   Artech, Art et Nouvelles Technologies, Etampes, France
  Video del Este, Granada, Spain
  Vidéoformes, Clermont-Ferrand, France
  International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
1992   Film et vidéo experimentaux, Jeu de Paume, Paris


Grants and Awards

1990-93   Stipend, Stichting Fonds voor Beeldende Kunst, The Netherlands
1992   Artist-in-Residence project stipend, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
1993   Prizma Prize for Computer Art, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung, Germany (The Fruit Machine)
1993   Honorary Mention, Interactive Category, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (Handsight)
1994   Sparky-Award, Interactive Media Festival, USA (Handsight)


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