The first immersive digital art exhibition space opened on Thursday, 6 July in the Parisi Courtyard in Budapest. The inaugural exhibition of the gallery showcasing new media focuses on the relationship between sacredness and digital art.
According to the press release, the artistic project named
Cinema Mystica aims to organise exhibitions every six months in the Parisian Courtyard, showcasing the works of new media artists from Hungary and the Central-Eastern European region.
The first exhibition features digital artworks, immersive projected spaces, 3D printed sculptures, interactive experiences, and short films. The more than 20 interactive unique installations are spread over 1,200 square meters (13,000 square feet) in 10 rooms, featuring both domestic and international artists. Most of the artists come from the Global Illumination artistic community.
The works seek answers to questions such as whether digital art can be visionary, whether it can convey sacred content, whether technology can become humble for a higher purpose, and how artificial intelligence can be applied in the production of transformative content.
According to the press release, immersion refers to the state of being fully engrossed. In the context of this exhibition, it means traversable or circumnavigable spaces, objects, and their sequences, where visual and auditory experiences are available in three dimensions. As a result, the viewer becomes an active or passive participant in the artwork, transcending the boundaries set by classical art for millennia.
For the exhibition, 85 projectors, five kilometres of cables, state-of-the-art media servers, sensors, and special speakers and resonators were used,
as Dávid Vigh, the artistic director and curator of the exhibition venue said. He highlighted the most complex installation, The Garden, where 17 projectors display the space, infrared cameras serve as sensors, the floor is interactive, and in the centre of the space, there is an LED light installation featuring a tree of life.
The curator also drew attention to the interactive multimedia installation called Aedan, based on ChatGPT, which explores the interaction between artificial intelligence and human creativity. Upon entering the sensor zone of the sculpture, one can ask the entity anything through a microphone. ‘The images mapped onto the sculpture are generated by the AI based on the original pixel array, using prompts from the viewer’s text,’ Vigh highlighted.
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