Suzanne Mészöly, Miklós Peternák

Adele Eisenstein, Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem, Intermédia Tanszék, Műcsarnok, Lívia Páldi, Helga Rajz, Zoltán Szegedy-Maszák, Andrea Szekeres, János Szoboszlai, László Tölgyes

EVENT (collection)

conference / exhibition / performance / presentation / screening

1996-01-22 - 1996-01-23

http://www.c3.hu/scca/butterfly/index.html

Fundamental to chaos theory is the phenomenon of sensitive dependence on initial conditions,commonly referred to as the Butterfly Effect.We have no way of knowing what effect technological media will have on the future of contemporary art. Today's situation is just as unpredictable as that of the last century, prior to the new discovery of film, television, holography and the computer. If, while examining the routes to our present we realize what the original idea or invention meant (or could have meant) at the time, keeping in mind even aspects which were later forgotten, then we may be able to "see into the future". Applying this method, we can perceive the new in the old, recognizing the original richness of that which later became tradition. We can see the old in the new, too, with its transience and the boredom of its fashionability.