Subjective Budapest Map Competition Closed

Altogether 40 works have been received. The jury met on May 27th to select finalists and winners. Competitors will be notified of the results by May 31st.


Artwork received includes interactive online and touch-screen works, video installations, Javascript code distorted SVG maps with sticker printer, maps to be worn, voice maps, digital and mental maps, plans for paintings, data visualization experiments and performance documentation.


Artists include: cartographers, photographers, mechanical engineers, information technology specialists, visual artists, designers, sculptors, media artists, communications and media students, painters, and sociologists.

Members of the jury:

Imre Dózsa, communications executive, Nav N Go
Gábor Gyáni, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, academic counselor at the Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Szilvia Seres, media artist, aestheticist, curator of the exhibition
Zoltán Szegedy-Maszák, media artist, deputy rector of Hungarian University of Fine Arts
András Török, cultural historian, Summa-Artium


In the period before the exhibition, consultation will be available for finalists to carry out their projects.


The exhibition of subjective maps will open on October 20th, 2010 in Galeria Centralis, OSA Archivum. The functions, spaces, life, memories, problems, changes, initiatives and hidden networks of the city will be shown through an interdisciplinary dialogue between the cartographer, the researcher and the artist.

One of the sponsors of the exhibition is the Fine Arts Professional College of the National Cultural Fund