netartdothu (beta)

Internet art and Internet culture in Hungary in the 1990s and 2000s. A research project by Flóra Barkóczi

MOKKA Group (Kata RévésZ, László László Révész, András Kangyal, Géza Földesi): Present time, 1998

“The basis for this Project was that we learned that the National Meteorological Service collects all the meteorological data measured by the measuring stations in Hungary on an hourly basis. We wanted to visualize the data from their server. Since all four of us were born in different seasons, it was a given that our portraits would be representative of the current weather indicators. We painted portraits of each other in watercolour and began to match parts of the face to specific weather patterns. For example, the eye became a measure of the cloudiness, the mouth of the wind conditions, and the shape of the head represented the deviation of the temperature from the average temperature for many years that day. In Photoshop, we took the paintings and combined them according to the current weather values. The resulting page automatically shuffled the face image over and over again based on real-time data. The whole site was something that looked like a watercolour painting, changing imperceptibly but constantly. It was just showing how we feel here in Hungary.” (András Kangyal, 2014, http://www.digikult.hu/2014/05/11/kangyal/)