ZSOLNAY LIGHT ART VIDEO MAPPING COMPETITION 2024
In 2024, between 4 and 7 July, we are looking forward to seeing you at the Zsolnay Light Art Video Mapping Competition, the main attraction of the Zsolnay Light Festival.
THEME OF THE COMPETITION: THE RUBIK’S CUBE
This year's theme of the competition is the Rubik’s Cube (earlier coined as the magic cube). In 2024, designer Ernő Rubik’s iconic 3D puzzle, the Rubik's cube is going to be fifty years old. This simple still refined amazing invention can teach you a lot of things that may come in handy in many other areas of life. It has built a worldwide community free of language barriers and other obstacles, and long before the advent of the widely available Internet, and even more so social media, it encouraged people around the world to use it to improve their problem-solving skills, patience and perseverance.
ABOUT THIS YEAR'S EVENT:
As in previous years, five video mapping works will be created for the southern façade of Pécs Cathedral, which harmonize with the architecture, sacrality, spirit and traditions of the building.
In addition to earlier traditions, we are introducing a number of innovations this year.
The most important of them is that from now on the works can be viewed on all 4 days of the festival, we will repeat them continuously in half-hour blocks. Screenings will finish at midnight on Thursday and Sunday, and at 1 a.m. on Friday and Saturday.
Another change is that this year we did not select the 5 works by invitation, not by open competition. The creators invited are recognized international artists. It is no longer our goal to make them compete with each other, so only our audience chooses the overall winner. Our decision was guided by goals that we hope will create a more level playing field for the creators of the genre in the remuneration of their work, put more emphasis on creative self-expression, bring about closer cooperation between the curatorial team and the artists, and all the while these changes will further enhance the quality of the event.
CREATORS:
Dandelion + Burdock (United Kingdom) - https://dandelion-burdock.com
Felix Frank (Ecuador/Germany) - https://www.felixfrank.net
Jonas Denzel (Germany) - http://www.jonasdenzel.com
Ivó Kovács (Hungary) - https://3dvideomapping.net
VPM (Spain) - https://vpmapp.wordpress.com
HOST + PROFESSIONAL PARTNER:
Zsolnay Light Art has been a professional partner and host since the beginning of the festival by the 25-year-old Hungarian visual artist group, Glowing Bulbs.
