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HYMEX 2021

 * HyMEx 2021 | Concept
 * Proceeding
 * Speakers | Video Archive
 * Schedule
 * Registration
 * Spatial Affairs
 * Call for Papers
 * Info


HYBRID
MUSEUM
EXPERIENCE
SYMPOSIUM


ONLINE SYMPOSIUM

MAY 6-7, 2021


Video Archive »»»

Publication »»»

 

 

 

 

 

 


HYMEX 2021 | CONCEPT


GENERAL INFORMATION

HyMEx // Hybrid Museum Experience Symposium // took place online on May 6-7,
2021. Its aim was to bring together leading researchers, scholars in digital and
experimental museology, in collection care, curatorial practice, as well as
researchers from a broad spectrum of disciplines to exchange views on
challenging situations and latest innovations in the field of hybrid museum
experiences, with a focus on contemporary art.

The two-day symposium organised by Ludwig Museum took place as a following stage
of the path introduced by the media preservation symposium MAPS in 2015,
followed by three editions.

HyMEx came to life within an international, collaborative, practice-based
research project, Beyond Matter, that takes cultural heritage and contemporary
art to the verge of virtual reality and reflects on the virtual condition with a
specific emphasis on its spatial aspects in art production, curating, and
mediation via numerous activities and formats, such as the HyMEx Symposium.
Beyond Matter takes place from 2019 to 2023; it was initiated and being led by
ZKM | Karlsruhe, and includes six partners (Centre Pompidou Paris, Tallinna
Kunstihoone, Aalto University, Tirana Art Lab) and Ludwig Museum. The project
celebrated its first curated event, the exhibition Spatial Affairs in April 2021
at the Ludwig Museum and was followed right after by HyMEx in early May.


HYMEX 2021 – FOCUS | CONCEPT

The transmogrified entity of the museum: how to deconstruct and reconstruct the
hybrid experience through the involvement of pluridisciplinary angles and by the
means of physical, virtual, spatial and socio-political exposures.

Museums as defined geographical spaces have been settled institutions since
their inception. They provide a physical and theoretical location allowing
assemblies and working as a platform for encounters between people, so as to
exchange ideas and to produce knowledge. Museums indicate, but also contribute
to social change. However, in the first quarter of the 21st century, the
palpable boundaries of museums seem to be blurred: Where does the museum begin,
since its physical demarcation lines have lost their almighty substance and
since the museum experience does not begin at the entrance, nor stops at the
exit?

Museums have the tendency to expand onto digital platforms and create additional
content regardless of the location of the audience. The digital world
increasingly dominates a museum’s reality and even before that, the audience’s
reality. It intertwines the physical with the virtual, blurs the edges of
sensing the dimensions that called the institution of the museum to life, such
as the linearity of time. Under such circumstances, the museum shall
transmogrify into a hybrid entity which may embrace at once a geographical
location, various digital platforms, manifold ways of mediation, immersive
knowledge production, participation and exchange.

It is one way to describe the hybrid museum experience, however the roles
museums may hold within a wide spectrum of societies and the concept of the
museum space approached from a perspective where virtual has a meaning beyond
computer-generated technology anticipates an approach where the question is less
about the technological side of the hybrid experience, rather than the
participatory side.

The symposium aims to search for interpretations of the hybrid museum experience
within the contemporary art scene in the light of spatial and societal aspects,
to elucidate the possibility of the deterritorialization of the museum space, or
to understand the ways of constructing participative solutions through which the
museum may be an active mediator towards the audience. Also, how to get hold of
the ecosystems of museum experiences, or allow an insight into what immersive
technologies may hold beyond the visual, personal experience per se?
And as for stepping outside of its own confines: Can the hybrid museum
experience help contemporary art gain more responsible functions in a societal
context, further than cultural mediation?

HyMEx attempts pluridisciplinary perspectives that remain relevant and
constitute a credible source of reference towards the artist, the artwork, the
exhibition, the visitor and the museum expert.


PROCEEDING


VIDEO ARCHIVE

HyMEx // Hybrid Museum Experience Symposium // took place on May 6-7, 2021 as an
online event through a specially dedicated platform. Thanks to the speakers’
felxibility, the presentations have been archived and can be reached on this
present microsite: you may access the presentations by clicking on the Speakers
section, and then by choosing the speaker you wish to watch, the video will
appear under the speaker’s bio and abstract (for instance, watch Christiane
Paul’s presentation: http://hymex2021.ludwigmuseum.hu/speaker/christiane-paul/)


PUBLICATION

Due to the great interest that followed the two-days symposium (almost 1000
registrants, from at least 52 different countries), and the positive feedback on
the symposium’s new approach concerning the raised topics, the organisers are
planning to create throughout Summer 2021, with the contribution of the
participant speakers, an ebook that will embrace the symposium’s structure and
will provide a more efficient ground for future research within the field.

UPDATE // December 2021: the publication is ready to be downloaded. Please feel
free to read the captivating texts. Following foreword and greetings by Julia
Fabényi and Peter Weibel, as well as a detailed editorial, 22 contributors share
their written proceedings.


HYMEX_EBOOK_PROCEEDINGS_PDF


SPEAKERS I VIDEO ARCHIVE

The HyMEx symposium took place on a specially dedicated online platform on MAy
6-7, 2021, however each presentation is still accessible when clicking on the
Speaker’s icon: under the respective Bio and Abstract, you will find the
recording of the Speaker’s presentation during the two-days symposium. 

CHRISTIANE PAUL

Adjunct Curator of Digital Art, Whitney Museum of American Art (USA) | Director
of Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (The New School / USA)

BORIS GROYS

Professor at the New York University (USA)

TANIA AEDO ARANKOWSKY

Cultural producer | Coordinator at Cátedra Max Aub (Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México / MEX)

BRUCE ALTSHULER

Director of Program in Museum Studies, New York University (USA)

ROBERT B. LISEK

Associate Professor / Institute for Research in Science and Art (POL)

PHILIPPE BETTINELLI

curator, New Media Department / Centre national d'art et de culture Georges
Pompidou (FRA) 

DANIEL BIRNBAUM

Artistic Director of Acute Art

TEGAN BRISTOW

University of the Witwatersrand, Wits School of Arts (ZAF) | Director of
Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival (ZAF)

BRUNO BRULON SOARES

Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO / BRA)

LILY DÍAZ-KOMMONEN

Department of Media - Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture
(FIN)

JONATHAN DOTSE

science fiction writer, digital hypermedia artist, Founder of AfroCyberPunk
Interactive (GHA)

KRISZTIÁN FONYÓDI

Head of Digital Photography Department / Museum of Fine Arts (HUN) | Supervisor
of Digitisation / Ministry of Human Resources (HUN)

VARVARA GULJAJEVA

artist / Varvara & Mar | researcher / Estonian Academy of Arts (EST)

BORBÁLA KÁLMÁN

art historian, curator / Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art (HUN) |
cultural heritage expert

SARAH KENDERDINE

Head of Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) | Director & lead curator:
EPFL Pavilions (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne / CHE)

SEONG EUN KIM

Director of Nam June Paik Art Center (KOR)

FELIX KOBERSTEIN

art historian, curator / ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (DEU)

BÉLA TAMÁS KÓNYA

Chief Operating Officer, Head of Conservation, Hungarian National Conservation
and Storage Center / Museum of Fine Arts (HUN)

JOASIA KRYSA

Professor of Exhibition Research, Liverpool John Moores University (GBR) |
Liverpool Biennial (GBR)

CORINA L. APOSTOL

curator / Tallinna Kunstihoone (EST) | curator / Estonian Pavilion, 59th Venice
Biennale

LÍVIA NOLASCO-RÓZSÁS

art historian, curator / ZKM - Hertz-Lab (DEU) | Head and Initiator of Beyond
Matter

ZSÓFIA RUTTKAY

University Professor (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design / HUN) | Digital
Curator (dimu.hu)

KRISZTINA VARGA

PhD student / ELTE (HUN) | researcher / Minor Media - Culture Research Center
(HUN)

BEN VICKERS

curator, writer, publisher and technologist


SCHEDULE


THE SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE IS GIVEN IN CENTRAL EUROPEAN SUMMER TIME (GMT+2).
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE ACCORDING TO THE AVAILABILITY
OF THE SPEAKERS OR CANCELLATION DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES.
MAKE SURE TO CHECK BACK THE DAY PRIOR TO THE SYMPOSIUM’S START.


THURSDAY MAY 6, 2021 | DAY 1

9:00-9:10 Welcome words by Julia FABÉNYI, Director of Ludwig Museum – Museum of
Contemporary Art, Budapest
9:10-9:20 Welcome words by Lívia NOLASCO-RÓZSÁS, Initiator and Head of Beyond
Matter project, research associate at ZKM | Hertz-Lab
Morning moderator: Lívia NOLASCO-RÓZSÁS

PANEL 1
9:25 – 10:40 // RISING VIRTUALLY: INTERFACE AND ITS DISSOLUTION //

9:25-9:40 Béla Tamás KÓNYA
9:45-10:10 Daniel BIRNBAUM
10:15-10:30 Corina L. APOSTOL
10:30-10:40 Q&A (10’)

˙˙˙10:40-10:55 Break (15’)˙˙˙

PANEL 2
10:55 – 12:15 // COGNITIVE PROCESSES AROUND THE HYBRID FORMULA //

10:55-11:15 Varvara GULJAJEVA
11:20-11:45 Joasia KRYSA
11:50-12:05 Borbála KÁLMÁN
12:05-12:15 Q&A (10’)

˙˙˙

˙˙˙12:15 – 13:25 // LUNCH BREAK (70’) // ˙˙˙

12:25-13:05: Guided Tour // Spatial Affairs – LIVE
by co-curator Giulia BINI (40’) + Q&A (’10)

˙˙˙


Afternoon moderator: Borbála KÁLMÁN, curator at Ludwig Museum

PANEL 3
13:25 – 14:50 // FICTITIOUS MUSEUM //

13:25-13:40 Lívia NOLASCO-RÓZSÁS
13:45-14:10 Jonathan DOTSE
14:15-14:40 Bruno BRULON SOARES
14:40-14:50 Q&A (10’)

˙˙˙14:50-15:00 Break (10’)˙˙˙

PANEL 4
15:00-16:30 // REPOSITORY OF NEGENTROPIC PROCESSES: COMMONING AND REPRESENTATION
//

15:00-15:25 Seong Eun KIM
15:30-15:55 Tania AEDO ARANKOWSKY
16:00-16:20 Krisztina VARGA
16:20-16:30 Q&A (10’)

˙˙˙16:30-16:45 Break (15’) ˙˙˙

16:45-17:40 // KEYNOTE PRESENTATION, DAY 1 //

16:45-17:30 Christiane PAUL
17:30-17:40 Q&A (10’)
17:45-18:15 // Debate // Tania AEDO ARANKOWSKY, Béla Tamás KÓNYA, Corina L.
APOSTOL, Bruno Brulon SOARES  


FRIDAY MAY 7, 2021 | DAY 2

9:00-9:15 Welcome words, recap of previous day (15’)
Morning moderator: Borbála KÁLMÁN

PANEL 5
9:15 – 10:10 // ENHANCING MEDIATION: ARCHIVING AND ACCESSING //

9:15-9:30 Krisztián FONYÓDI
9:35-10:00 Zsófia RUTTKAY
10:00-10:10 Q&A (10’)

˙˙˙10:10-10:30 Break (20’)˙˙˙

PANEL 6
10:30-11:35 // KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION UNDER THE VIRTUAL CONDITION //

10:35-10:50 Ben VICKERS
10:55-11:20 Lily DÍAZ-KOMMONEN
11:25-11:35 Q&A (10’)

˙˙˙

˙˙˙11:40-13:00 // LUNCH BREAK (80’) //˙˙˙

11:40-12:40 Guided Tour // Time Machine
by curator Krisztina SZIPŐCS, Deputy Director of Ludwig Museum (60′)

˙˙˙

Afternoon moderator: Lívia NOLASCO-RÓZSÁS

PANEL 7
13:00-14:30 // EVOLVING ARCHITECTURES: ALGORITHMIC, DYNAMIC AND PERFORMATIVE
SPACES //

13:00-13:25 Tegan BRISTOW
13:30-13:55 Sarah KENDERDINE
14:00-14:20 Robert B. LISEK
14:20-14:30 Q&A (10’)

˙˙˙14:30-14:45 Break (15’)˙˙˙

PANEL 8
14:45-16:00 // SUMMONING GHOSTS: FROM RECONSTRUCTIONS TO VIRTUAL MODELS //

14:45-15:10 Bruce ALTSHULER
15:15-15:30 Philippe BETTINELLI
15:35-15:50 Felix KOBERSTEIN
15:50-16:00 Q&A (10’)

˙˙˙16:00-16:15 Break (15’)˙˙˙

16:15-17:10 // KEYNOTE PRESENTATION, DAY 2 //

16:15-17:00 Boris GROYS
17:00-17:10 Q&A (10’)
17:10-17:40 // Debate // Bruce ALTSHULER, Tegan BRISTOW, Lily
DÍAZ-KOMMONEN, Sarah KENDERDINE
17:40-18:00 // Closing remarks by Borbála KÁLMÁN and Lívia NOLASCO-RÓZSÁS


REGISTRATION 

HyMEx is an online symposium taking place on May 6–7, 2021 with a live
programme.

No registration fee is required: once submitting your data, you will receive an
automatic confirmation. Please note that the uploaded email address will be the
one to serve your access to HyMEx.
The direct link to the symposium will be sent to you later on. The symposium’s
language is English. HyMEx will be scheduled on GMT+2 (CEST) time.

Those who registrate before the symposium will be able to access to platform for
video on demand during one month following the symposium.

REGISTRATION »»»


SPATIAL AFFAIRS




THE EXHIBITION SPATIAL AFFAIRS / WORLDING


SPATIAL AFFAIRS | https://www.ludwigmuseum.hu/en/exhibition/spatial-affairs
April 29 – June 27, 2021 | Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
WORLDING | https://spatialaffairs.beyondmatter.eu

Computer-generated simulations, virtual realities, networked digital platforms –
from cyberspace to metaverse – are no longer fictitious locations found in
science-fiction literature. Their significance and role is almost on a par with
real spaces. Information technology has given rise to immaterial spheres that
have become legitimate, parallel dimensions of our perception, experience,
knowledge, communication and ourselves, where the real and the virtual are no
longer antithetical opposites. For this reason, we must re-examine our
three-dimensional conception of space.

The goal of the Spatial Affairs exhibition is to analyse the relationship and
mutual dependence of physical and digital presence through works of conceptual
and contemporary art as well as manifestos. The presented positions from before
and after the emergence of computer technology share a common trait regardless
of their medium: they all examine the development and social impact of science
and technology through the notion of space, thereby pointing out the
co-dependency between the tangible real and the intangible digital.

The Spatial Affairs exhibition endeavours to reassess certain widely accepted
but not necessarily valid ideas regarding space. Instead of exploring the
differences between the conceptions of space in any type of transcendental
idealism and materialism, the following question is posed: do computer
technology and computer-generated spaces influence our conventional knowledge of
space, and if yes, how?

As early as the seventies, the pioneers of computer art had already demonstrated
that the computer was capable of creating and representing artificial spaces –
take the works of Hiroshi Kawano and Georg Nees, for instance. Supplanting early
descriptive practices, the focus of contemporary artists has shifted from
formalism towards critical approaches: made in 2016, Information Skies, a piece
of digital video art by the Metahaven collective visualises the ubiquity of
networked social spaces and the epistemological complications they generate, as
well as the condition arising in the wake of fake news.

The impact of information technology and science on the notion of space and
visual arts had inspired many authors to write manifestos and create new types
of artworks way before the spread of computers. Key examples include the 1936
Dimensionist Manifesto by Károly Tamkó Sirató, or Lucio Fontana’s environments
from the forties and fifties.

The representation of space, which is inherently invisible, is a complex task,
whether approached as absolute, relative, real or virtual space. Spatial Affairs
exposes modernist conceptions of space and their non-modern reflections – as
such, it necessarily explores the possibilities offered by information
technology.

Spatial Affairs. Worlding is the online extension of the Spatial Affairs
exhibition, designed by The Rodina. In this multi-user environment, figures
representing works of net.art and browser-based digital art move around the
virtual space mingling with visitors represented by avatars. The online
environment was inspired by the theory Konrad Zuse expounded in Calculating
Space (Rechnender Raum, 1969), which describes the universe as a space inhabited
by living and evolving automata, more precisely, as self-reproducing and
self-reprogramming cellular automata. Boundaries between digital objects and
active subjects dissolve for good in such a virtual world. The online
environment designed for Spatial Affairs. Worlding is one possible answer
proposed by The Rodina to the questions posed by the curators: How can the
content of an online exhibition by developed into a spatial and adaptive
experience? What if artworks are represented by avatars? What if the exhibition
becomes an ecosystem and, to use Zuse’s phrase, generates a “computing cosmos”?

The exhibition, both physical and digital, is documented by a catalogue that
contains the reproductions of exhibited artworks as well as essays by
theoreticians and selected manifestos, supplemented by additional content via
Transbooking Augmented Reality.

Exhibited Artists: Morehshin Allahyari, Andreas Angelidakis, Carola Bonfili,
Adam Broomberg & Guy De Lancey & Brian O’Doherty, Petra Cortright, Agnes Denes,
Aleksandra Domanović, Louise Drulhe, Wojciech Fangor, Stanislav Filko, Lucio
Fontana, Dora García, Sam Ghantous, János Gulyás, Hans Hollein, Lauren Huret,
Jodi, Hiroshi Kawano, Katarzyna Kobro, Alicja Kwade, Oliver Laric, Sam Lavigne &
Tega Brain, Jan Robert Leegte, Lou Cantor, Stano Masár, Cildo Meireles, Rosa
Menkman, Metahaven, Imre Nagy, Georg Nees, Robert Olawuyi, Gyula Pauer, Goran
Petercol, Sascha Pohflepp & Alessia Nigretti & Matthew Lutz, Àngels Ribé, The
Rodina, Rafaël Rozendaal, Jeffrey Shaw, Andrej Škufca, Károly Tamkó Sirató,
Viktor Timofeev, Unrated/Besorolás Alatt, Gyula Várnai

Curators: Giulia BINI, Lívia NOLASCO-RÓZSÁS
Assistant Curators: Jan ELANTKOWSKI, Fruzsina FEIGL

Spatial Affairs was created in the scope of the international collaborative
project BEYOND MATTER: Cultural Heritage on the Verge of Virtual Reality in the
form of collaboration between ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and
Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, with additional
contribution by Aalto University. Spatial Affairs. Worlding is a coproduction of
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and EPFL Pavilions. The exhibitions are
co-financed by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.


CALL FOR PAPERS


SELECTED APPLICATIONS / HYMEX – CALL FOR PAPERS

The HyMEx – Call for Papers has arrived to a deadline on February 22: based on
the submitted applications, the panel of reviewers has chosen the following
applicants to be part of the final programme of HyMEx:

Varvara GULJAJEVA (EST)
Robert B. LISEK (POL)
Zane ONCKULE (LVA)
Krisztina VARGA (HUN)

Members of the panel of reviewers:
Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás
ZKM | Hertz-Lab / Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe; Initiator and head of
project Beyond Matter
Julie Champion
New Media Department / Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou
Borbála Kálmán
Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art; Project Manager of HyMEx


THE APPLICATION PROCESS IS CLOSED! THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST!


HYMEX – CALL FOR PAPERS




HyMEx – Hybrid Museum Experience Symposium
Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art
May 6-7, 2021 // Budapest (Hungary)

THE PROGRAMME OF THE SYMPOSIUM IS COMPOSED OF A NUMBER OF INVITED INTERNATIONAL
SPEAKERS (SEE SPEAKERS), AS WELL AS OF THE PARTICIPATION OF SPEAKERS CHOSEN
THROUGH A CALL FOR PAPERS PROCEDURE.

DEADLINE: MONDAY FEBRUARY 22, 2021 – MIDNIGHT CET // THE APPLICATION PROCESS IS
CLOSED! THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST!
SUBMISSION: PLEASE FILL OUT THE APPLICATION FORM ON HYMEX2021.LUDWIGMUSEUM.HU
(CALL FOR PAPERS SECTION, SEE BELOW)
SUBMISSION AND PRESENTATION LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
ELIGIBLE REGIONS FOR APPLICANTS: EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE, SOUTH-EAST EUROPE, BALTIC
STATES (PLEASE CHECK BELOW THE GUIDE FOR APPLICANTS SECTION FOR DETAILS)


HYMEX – GENERAL INFORMATION

The transmogrified entity of the museum: how to deconstruct and reconstruct the
hybrid experience through the involvement of pluridisciplinary angles and by the
means of physical, virtual, spatial and socio-political exposures.

Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art (Budapest) organizes on May 6-7, 2021
the HyMEx // Hybrid Museum Experience Symposium: Ludwig Museum aims to bring
together leading researchers, scholars in digital and experimental museology,
collection care, curatorial practice, art mediation, as well as researchers from
a broad spectrum of disciplines to exchange views on challenging situations and
latest innovations in the field of hybrid museum experiences, with a focus on
contemporary art.

The two-day symposium (planned for the moment as a hybrid event) comes to life
within an international, collaborative, practice-based research project, Beyond
Matter, that takes cultural heritage and contemporary art to the verge of
virtual reality and reflects on the virtual condition with a specific emphasis
on its spatial aspects in art production, curating, and mediation via numerous
activities and formats, such as the HyMEx Symposium. Beyond Matter takes place
from 2019 to 2023; it was initiated and being led by ZKM | Karlsruhe, and
includes seven partners (Centre Pompidou Paris, Tallinna Kunstihoone, Aalto
University, Tirana Art Lab, Weiss AG and Ludwig Museum).

The aim of HyMEx is to provide a wide platform for thought-provoking ideas
concerning a topic that is essential in the everyday life of most art museums.


HYMEX – CONCEPT

Museums as defined geographical spaces have been settled institutions since
their inception. They provide a physical and theoretical location allowing
assemblies and functioning as a platform for encounters between people, so as to
exchange ideas and to produce knowledge.

Museums indicate, but also contribute to social change. However, in the first
quarter of the 21st century, the palpable boundaries of museums seem to be
blurred: Where does the museum begin since its physical demarcation lines have
lost their almighty substance and since the museum experience does not begin at
the entrance, nor stops at the exit?

Museums have the tendency to expand onto digital platforms and create additional
content regardless of the location of the audience. The digital world
increasingly dominates a museum’s reality and even before that, the audience’s
reality. It intertwines the physical with the virtual, blurs the edges of
sensing the dimensions that called the institution of the museum to life, such
as the linearity of time. Under such circumstances, the museum shall
transmogrify into a hybrid entity that may embrace at once a geographical
location, various digital platforms, manifold ways of mediation, immersive
knowledge production, participation and exchange.
It is one way to describe the hybrid museum experience, however the roles
museums may hold within a wide spectrum of societies and the concept of the
museum space approached from a perspective where virtual has a meaning beyond
computer-generated technology anticipate an approach where the question is less
about the technological side of the hybrid experience than the participatory
side.

The symposium aims to seek interpretations of the hybrid museum experience
within the contemporary art scene in the light of spatial and societal aspects,
to elucidate the possibility of the deterritorialization of the museum space, or
to understand the ways of constructing participative solutions through which the
museum may be an active mediator towards the audience. Also, how to get hold of
the ecosystems of museum experiences, or allow an insight into what immersive
technologies may hold beyond the visual, personal experience per se? And as for
stepping outside of its own confines: Can the hybrid museum experience help
contemporary art gain more responsible functions in a societal context, further
than cultural mediation?

HyMEx attempts to find pluridisciplinary perspectives that remain relevant and
constitute a credible source of reference towards the artist, the artwork, the
exhibition, the visitor and the museum expert.


HYMEX – TOPICS OF INTEREST

 * Knowledge Production under Virtual Condition
 * Economy of Museum Experiences
 * Crises and the Hybrid Museum
 * Participatory Involvement
 * Deterritorialization and the Hybrid Museum
 * Cognitive Processes around the Hybrid Formula
 * Interface and its Dissolution


GUIDE FOR APPLICANTS

Deadline: Monday February 22, 2021 – Midnight CET
Submission: Please fill out the application form on
hymex2021.ludwigmuseum.hu
Submission and presentation language: English

Eligibility Conditions
The Selection Committee is encouraging in the first place young emerging
professionals from the museum field and beyond to apply – however there is no
age limit for the application.
According to the mission of Ludwig Museum to focus on the Central and Eastern
European region, applicants should be originated from (place of birth), residing
on long-term in and / or having the nationality of one of the following
East-Central European and South-East European countries, completed with the
Baltic States:
Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, Slovenia,
Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, North Macedonia,
Kosovo, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.

Format of the presentation
The Ludwig Museum is awaiting applications for stand-alone paper format.
The presentation at the Symposium will be of 20 minutes length, with visuals
(details will be communicated to the selected applicants later on) and in fluent
English.

Application procedure
The application form on the following link has to be filled out before February
22, 2021, midnight CET: hymex2021.ludwigmuseum.hu No application uploaded after
will be accepted. The length of the abstract should not exceed 2000 characters
(spaces included). A short biography of 1500 characters (spaces included)
maximum should accompany the abstract, briefing the Selection Committee on the
professional background and research field of the applicant. One applicant can
submit only one application. We only welcome individual applications. We will
not be able to accept applications through mail or post (a confirmation email
will be sent to you after submitting your application).

Costs
The Symposium will take place in Budapest (venue in the Auditorium located
within the Palace of Arts / Müpa including the Ludwig Museum) and we are working
on adapting the Symposium’s structure to the possibilities shaped by the global
pandemic situation. Hence we would offer a hybrid participation: in fortunate
conditions, the Symposium will remain partly physical and partly streamed
online, otherwise, we will be prepared to become fully online. The ability to
travel remains a question until the last moment, hence we are prepared for both
possibilities. For selected speakers, a support for participation is allocated –
however all information below needs to be specified later on, before the actual
purchase of tickets according to the new changes / developments.
In case of participating in the Symposium with a physical presence, the Museum
would cover the travel expenses up until 150 euros within Europe. As for the
accommodation, the organizers would be able to offer up to 2 nights for one
person at a partner hotel of the Museum. In case of no possibility to travel, a
one occasion per diem of 100 euros would be granted for the presentation online.

Selection
The Selection Committee will choose up to five (5) applications to integrate
them in the panels of the Symposium based on the pertinence of the application
and the complexity of its approach.

Notice of acceptance: by March 12, 2021

For inquiries, please contact us: hymex@ludwigmuseum.hu
Please do not hesitate to write in case we might be of guidance.

Looking forward to meeting you or e-meeting you at the HyMEx Symposium,
HyMEx Selection Committee


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LUDWIG MUSEUM – MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, BUDAPEST

Ludwig Museum, Budapest was established in 1989 through the initiative of Peter
and Irene Ludwig and hence is part of the big network of Ludwig Museums
worldwide. The permanent collection contains valuable pieces from significant
artists of American pop art (Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg
etc.) while it has a strong focus on the Eastern and Central-Eastern European
region, besides putting a special emphasis on representing Hungarian art from
the 1960’s to recent days in an international context. Ludwig Museum’s
collection is the biggest collection of international contemporary art in
Hungary and enfolds all together more than 800 works.



On its three exhibition floors, with its average 8 temporary exhibitions per
year completed with the semi-permanent selection, international programmes and
events, the Museum makes every effort to render contemporary art available and
accessible to the widest possible public embracing the youngest generations as
well as the elder ones, while enabling the understanding of today’s visual
culture. The museum works also as a research centre for museum pedagogy,
regularly organizes research-based conferences, gives home to the Venice
Biennale Office and works as a major initiator within the Hungarian scene for
participatory initiatives and diverse endeavours like the ARTtransfer prize.
Ludwig Museum is a major cultural attraction in Budapest and takes through its
activities a leading role in shaping the country’s 21st century image.

HyMEx Project Manager: Borbála KÁLMÁN art historian, curator (Ludwig Museum)
Concept of HyMEx: Lívia NOLASCO-RÓZSÁS (ZKM | Hertz-Lab), Borbála KÁLMÁN (Ludwig
Museum)
HyMEx Project Supervisor: József KÉSZMAN – Head of Exhibition Department (Ludwig
Museum)
HyMEx Project Assistant: Fruzsina FEIGL – curator assistant, collection care
assistant (Ludwig Museum)
Research Fellows (Aalto University): Selina OAKES, Pekko VASANTOLA

Deputy Director of Marketing and Communications of Ludwig Museum: Zsuzsanna
FEHÉR
Director of Ludwig Museum: Dr. Julia FABÉNYI

Beyond Matter / Initiator, Head of Project: Lívia NOLASCO-RÓZSÁS (ZKM |
Hertz-Lab) / www.beyondmatter.eu

Web Design: Zoltán SZMOLKA
Web Developer: András SZŐNYI
Texts: © Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest / 2020

contact:

hymex@ludwigmuseum.hu

Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
www.ludwigmuseum.hu
+36 1 555 3444
H-1095 Budapest, Komor Marcell u. 1.

The project is co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.



 

HyMEx is organized within the Beyond Matter project-frame.



 

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