The compelling story of György Kepes, the “Father of Media Art,” which poses a thought-provoking question: “Can technology itself serve as the solution to the problems it creates?”

The Hungarian artist György Kepes (1906‒2001) is well-known for his explorations of the interconnectedness of art and science, nature and technology. As an artist, photographer, painter, film-maker, graphic designer, environmental artist, educator, thinker, architect and creator, he embraced mid-20th modernity and technology, while recognising the fundamental expressiveness of forms found in the natural world. He is known as a fundamental pioneer of multimedia art. Kepes was among the first to introduce the term “visual culture” as an independent research subject in a contemporary context, and in 1944 he wrote The Language of Vision, one of the most influential art books of its time.

Kepes was a member of the European Bauhaus before moving to Chicago, upon the invitation of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, to teach at the New Bauhaus, where he created the Light Workshop in 1937, and in 1967 he was a founding director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kepes aimed to bridge the gap between the humanities and the sciences.