THE WAY

MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCE BY CONNECTED BODIES TEAM (2017) SMART! XTRA // OPEN DATA! ~ COMMON KNOWLEDGE @ BÁNKITÓ Let it Be! develops new network opportunities between art, technology, education and city. The agency gives support and background to hybrid art projects of Hungarian media artists and young designers (http://letitbeartagency.com/en/) https://trafo.hu/en/programs/common_knowledge_4 photos: © Réka Bogdán    

Connected Feelings – work in progress presentation

Brainwave based audiovisual performance by Réka HARSÁNYI,  Dóra Ida SZŰCS and Bálint BOLCSÓ Work-In-Progress Presentation at Trafo House – smART! XTRA, on 16th January 2017. Connected Bodies Team tries to retrieval invisible signals from the human body – but is it possible in an opposite way? With what kind of effects, sounds, colours, pictures can influence the feelings, thoughts of…

Bálint Bolcsó

Composer, Improviser Bálint Bolcsó studied instrumental and electroacoustic composition in Budapest, Vienna, Paris, Hannover and Cologne. For a period of ten years, he was a returning participant of the International Bartók Seminar in Szombathely, Hungary. His compositions have been performed at Bartók Festival, Budapest Autumn Festival, Making New Waves, Wien Modern, mise-en music festival (New…

Connected Bodies // Feelings

Brainwave and biofeedback based interactive and audience participated performance The dancer’s feelings (through measured brainwave, face expression, sweating, heartbeats) are visible thereby she is at the mercy of the audience. This experiment focuses the contextual behavior and the cultural differences of people. It is provocative, because the participants /audience must secede from their usual passive observer…

Birth, biofeedback performance, 2016

by Réka Harsányi and Dóra Ida Szűcs Our biofeedback based audiovisual performance, called Birth, is about an unseenstory. This artwork converge with experiment, using technology to creatively reinterpret the imperceptible of the unseen life, inside a human body through biological processes. The ECG and Pulse sensors attached to the dancer’s body measure not only the…

Réka Harsányi

media designer Réka is a media designer and experimental-video artist. Founder of Connected Bodies Team, contributing artist at several projects. She graduated from MOME (Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design) with a MA in Media Design in 2007. After university she tried herself in various areas, working in digital media and film production. In 2008…

Dóra Ida Szűcs

freelance contemporary dancer, choreographer, performer She graduated (BA) at Budapest Contemporary Dance Academy in 2012. Since then she worked and collaborated with choreographers such as Iván Angelus, Dóra Barta, Péter Gemza, Zoltán Grecsó, Ádám Zambrzycki, Anikó Zsalakovics and she participated to Research into the Unknown – improvisational laboratory with Nicole Cataldo Davis (GB) and residency…