The György Kepes Fellowship

The György Kepes Fellowship for Advanced Studies and Transdisciplinary Research in Art, Culture and Technology endows outstanding scientists, artists, architects, cultural practitioners with a stipend of four to five months, enabling them to realise innovative projects within the highly stimulating and singular context of the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology. Fellowships can be awarded to candidates who are from, or whose practices are based in, Central and South Eastern European countries.

The objective of the project is to support the scholarship and/or artistic practice/research of fellows. Outcome could include making the results accessible to others, as well as serving as a catalyst for future collaborations. A central point of the fellowship is the knowledge transfer back to CEE. Therefore the fellows will give public lectures or presentations when they return home, e.g. in collaboration with their home institutions, universities, the tranzit.org network and ERSTE Foundation.

A Kepes fellow is an outstanding scientist, artist, architect, cultural practitioner whose work fits into the CAVS legacy, who is interested in art at the intersection of science and technology; or who proposes work related to Kepes’ tenure at CAVS, including research into archiving and documentation methodologies. Fellows are appointed by a jury consisting of representatives of MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT), tranzit.org and ERSTE Foundation. The focus is on fellows whose practice is based in Eastern European countries as the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology has continuous ties to the region and its avant-garde movements.

The first Kepes Fellow is Márton Orosz, born in 1979 in Budapest, an art historian who lives and works in Hungary. Orosz took his PhD Studies at the Doctoral School of Art History, University of Eötvös Loránd, Budapest, Hungary (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Miklós Peternák). He is a Curator of Photography and Media Arts in the Department of Art after 1800 at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary. For the last four years, Orosz has been doing extensive research on György Kepes, as well as published on the subject, and he is currently writing his dissertation on Kepes ― which will be the first comprehensive monograph on Kepes. Further, he is preparing a large scale travelling exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest, in 2014, in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago and the MIT Museum in Cambridge, MA.