Conference, Performance • Budapest
Final Event
A final event of 5 days opened for a general public is organised in Budapest, Hungary hosted by Trafó House of Contemporary Arts. Trafó House of Contemporary Arts in Budapest is the almost unique venue for hosting performing art pieces mixed with digital technologies. They launched a series of performances called SMART! that presented during recent years pieces among other as Drives, Holistic Strata and Accumulated Layout of Hiroaki Umeda (Japan); Atomos by Wayne McGregor & Random Dance (UK); Nothing's for something by Heine Avdal & Yukiko Shinozaki (Norway, Japan, Belgium); Grind of Jefta van Dinther (Netherlands) & Minna Tiikkainen (Finland, Netherlands) & David Kiers (Netherlands), Cinématique of Adrien Mondot&Claire Bardainne, DieSpace 3.0 of PiPS: lab (Netherlands), etc. A major initiative, also managed within Trafó House of Contemporary Arts by Andrea Kovács is the series of events titled smART! XTRA. The event is organized once or twice a month and provides an opportunity for collectives, individuals, start-ups or other representatives of initiatives working on innovative projects related to technology to present their projects. Professionals and the public of the stage of dance and theatre have the possibility to come to explore these pilot projects and in most cases also to try technological devices in practice.
http://zigguratproject.com/stella-program-budapest