Limitations and distance will be our inspiration. 

We are all perfecting the “embrace it and work with it” pedagogy collectively. For some of us this concept has been quite familiar. I grew up in Hungary, witnessing the last decade of the Cold War, a culture of limitations. It’s not by accident that I’m interested in concepts responding to the limitations of technology and that I find this time creatively stimulating.

Working in distance requires a dedicated collaboration. This distance collaboration makes the limitations not only visible, but needs our attention to find ways to work around and with them. Since 2009 I have been experimenting with the role of the screen and the remote location, as a way to acknowledge the effect of technology on our thinking and responding methodologies. See some examples between: Budapest – Chicago >>   Somerville – Lesvos, Greece >>  An attempt to merge two studios afar>>   Collaboration with Hungarian poet while traveling through timezones>>  We already navigate many distances: timezone, geographical, and disciplinary distances.

For art history examples: Stan VanDerBeek who predicts Photoshop and YouTube in 1969>> and the mesmerizing Nancy Holt in Boomerang by Richard Serra from 1974>>and more to come.