György Kepes: Interthinking Art & Science documentary premiere

György Kepes: Interthinking Art + Science, a 90-minute documentary by Hungarian filmmaker Márton Orosz, will make its L.A. premier in association with the exhibition Seeing the Unseeable: Data, Design, Art at ArtCenter College of Design.

With introduction by artist/designer and ArtCenter faculty Ramone Muñoz, in conversation with film creator Márton Orosz.

Screening will begin at 2:30 p.m. Following the screening, join us at the Williamson gallery for a reception with refreshments at 4:30 p.m.

The free film screening will take place at ArtCenter's hillside campus Ahmanson Auditorium, as part of the Getty-organized PST ART: Art and Science Collide weekend of special programming and events.

György Kepes (1906–2001) was a prominent figure in the mid-20th-century art and design scene, contributing to the international development of art and design theory and the application of design principles in various fields.

With a focus on progressive creativity and "with the scientist’s brain, the poet’s heart and the painter’s eye,” Kepes (pronounced “Képesh”) was among the first who used the term “visual culture” as an independent research subject in contemporary practices. As the architect of the Light Workshop at the New Bauhaus/School of Design in Chicago in 1937 and as the founder and first director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) at MIT in 1967, Kepes’s enterprise was to fill the gap between the humanities and the sciences.

Among his published works, The New Landscape in Art and Science, (1956) and Structure in Art and in Science (1965) influenced art and design directions in the second half of the 20th century. The powerful new tools he offered to “intersee” and “interthink” knowledge on a participatory basis proved to be the foundations for subsequent developments such as EAT (Experiments in Art and Technology), the Ecology movement, and Media Art. His artwork, writings, and teaching helped set in motion the intellectual and aesthetic underpinnings of the 21st century’s burgeoning entanglement between art and science.

Hungarian filmmaker Márton Orosz’s documentary, György Kepes: Interthinking Art + Science, will make its Los Angeles premier in association with the exhibition Seeing the Unseeable: Data, Design, Art at ArtCenter College of Design. Orosz is the Curator of the Collection of Photography and Media Arts at the Museum of Fine Arts–Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest.

Ramone Muñoz is on faculty at ArtCenter College of Design. He is a studio artist and graphic designer whose clients have included Atlantic Richfield Company, The Los Angeles Music Center, and Mitsubishi Motor Corporation of America.

The György Kepes: Interthinking Art + Science film premier is a collaboration between the Williamson Gallery at ArtCenter, and Fulcrum Arts.

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