PROFESSOR, HEAD OF INTERMEDIA DEPARTMENT, DIRECTOR

Hungarian University of Fine Arts, C3 – Center for Culture & Communication, Budapest (HU)

BIO

Born in Esztergom, Hungary, lives in Budapest. Studied history and history of art, PhD 1994: New Media – Art and Science. He was a member of the Béla-Balázs-Studio, Budapest (1981-87) and the Indigo-Group. Head of the Intermedia Dept. at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts since its foundation (1991) and director of C3: Center for Culture and Communication. He has produced several films and videos during the 1980’s and published numerous articles and book on media art and history. Organized several exhibitions: Vision – Image and perception, Eyeresonator, Photo/Model – Memories of Forgetting 2018, and curated the exhibition at Hungarian Pavilion of the 2011 Venice Biennale.

ABSTRACT

LONG LIVE THE DEAD WEB?

In November 24, 2019 Tim Berners-Lee published in the New York Times an opinion article entitled: I Invented the World Wide Web. Here’s How We Can Fix It. In this article the author initiates „A global plan of action to make our online world safe and empowering for everyone” The “Contract” proposes nine principles, three for governments, three for companies and three for the citizens, the people. The first sentence on this website reads: “The Web was designed to bring people together and make knowledge freely available.”
Do we agree with this? Do we live in such interesting times, when it is necessary to argue for the obvious truths? What can be the role of the artists in such situation? Where is the museum of sustainable truth?

Brigitta Zics is a guest speaker of Miklós Peternák’s lecture