János Sugár
János Sugár (8 July 1958, Budapest) is a Hungarian artist, filmmaker, and a founding member of the Media Research Foundation that organized the MetaForum conference series in Budapest. Studied in the Department of Sculpture at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest (1979-84). He worked with Indigo, an interdisciplinary art group led by Miklós Erdély from 1980-86. With Erdély he also organized the discussion series Gyorskultúra [Fast Culture] between 1984-1988. Since 1990, he has been teaching in the Intermedia MKE Budapest. His work includes installations, performances and film/video. He has exhibited widely throughout Europe including Documenta IX, Kassel (1992), Manifesta I, Rotterdam (1996). He completed an Artslink residency at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1994, fellowships at Experimental Intermedia, New York (1988 and 1999), and in 2001 a fellowship by the invitation of Civitella Ranieri Foundation, New York in Italy. His films were screened at the Anthology Film Archives in New York in 1998. He lives in Budapest.
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Publications
- editor, with Agnes Ivacs, Buldózer: Médiaelméleti antológia, intro. János Sugár, pref. Geert Lovink, Budapest: Media Research Foundation, 1997, 220 pp. Anthology of contemporary media theory, derived from the Metaforum conference series and Nettime mailing list. (Hungarian)
- editor, Hyper text + Multimédia, notes & afterw. János Sugár, trans. Ágnes Ivacs and Gabriella Bartha, Budapest: Artpool, 1996, 64 pp; 2nd ed., corr., 1998. Anthology with texts by Vannevar Bush, Ted Nelson, George P. Landow, Ian Feldman, Chuck Clifton, and chronology. (Hungarian)
- editor, Digital Identity / Digitális identitás, trans. Béla Zsadon, Budapest: Media Research Foundation, 2000, 28+28 pp. Texts by Felix Stalder, Alan Sondheim. [1] [2] [3] (English)/(Hungarian)
- "Reciklált figyelem", Balkon 8, 2004. [4] (Hungarian)
- "Schrödinger’s Cat in the Art World", in East Art Map: Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe, ed. IRWIN, London: Afterall Books, 2006, pp 208-221. (English)
- PST (Public – Street – Tactical). The Public Art Practice of János Sugár, ed. Eszter Szakács, Budapest: tranzit.hu, 2017. Texts by Dóra Hegyi, Sándor Hornyik, János Sugár, Eszter Szakács, Andrea Tarczali. [5] (Hungarian)/(English)
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Interviews
- Ágnes Ivacs, János Kurdy Fehér, "Egy csomag vasdrót, néhány vessző, farostlemez, egy pici gipsz és néhány cukorkás doboz: riport Sugár Jánossal", Gondolat-Jel 5, 1995, pp 48-59. (Hungarian)
- Geert Lovink, "Intermedia: The Dirty Digital Bauhaus. An e-mail interview with Janos Sugar", Nettime, Feb 1998.
- Geert Lovink, "The Typewriter of The Illiterate. Interview with János Sugár", Nettime, May 2003.
- István Hajdu, "A jelentés a lojalitáshoz kapcsolódik, ami a jelentés keresésére indít. Sugár Jánossal beszélget Hajdu István", Balkon 5 & 6, May & Jun 2005, Part 2. (Hungarian)
- Zsuzsa László, "János SUGÁR, visual artist, 1958", in Regime Change: An Incomplete Project, Budapest: tranzit.hu, n.d. (English)/(Hungarian)
- Szilvia Seres, "„Akkor már lehetett tudni, hogy a számítógép létezik és valahogy a jövő errefelé vezet, és végre ideológiamentesen lehetett valami korszerűt propagálni.” Seres Szilvia beszélgetése Sugár János képzőművésszel", Digikult.hu, 22 May 2014; reposted, Artmagazin, 23 May 2014. (Hungarian)
Literature
- Beáta Hock, "Vremenska patrola, populistički slušatelj" / "Time Patrol, the Populist Listener", trans. Larisa Petric, Frakcija 33-34, Zagreb: Centre for Drama Art, and Academy of Drama Art, Winter 2004/2005, pp 104-113. [6] (Croatian)/(English)
- Márton Orosz, "Tanárok a Képzőművészeti Egyetemen IX. - Sugár János", Artmagazin, Nov 2013. (Hungarian)