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MOME Success at ANIFEST 2010.

Teplice 23. 5. 2010 – The 9th edition of the International Festival of Animated Films, AniFest in Teplice has come to an end. AniFest is the largest international specialized competition festival in the Čzech Republic running for 9 years. There were 10 competition categories to which 1315 films from 56 countries were submitted. Among the 158 selected films MOME Animation was represented by its graduation films, directed by Mátyás Lanczinger, Tünde Molnár and Bella Szederkényi in the Student Film category.

The award of the category Student films went to I am Simon by Tünde Molnár.
Jury Justification: high level of mastering the philosophical theme by expressing civilization‘s problem of defining personal freedoms, using inventive animation and the director´s brilliant metaphor.

A special jury mention for the category Student films goes to Orsolya by Bella Szederkényi.
Jury justification: witty and simple solution of the problem of „diversity“ amidst the real society, this is an accomplished animation and has a surprising and optimistic punchline.

More info: www.anifest.cz

ASF Submission Now!

Animation Sans Frontiéres is a lecture-based supplementary training programme, which is run by and at 4 prestigious European animation film schools:
- Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg
- Gobelins, l'école de l'image in Paris
- The Animation Workshop in Viborg
- MOME in Budapest

The 3rd edition of ASF is open to students from all European animation film and film production schools.
Applicants are required to follow the online registration and application process as described on:
www.animationsansfrontieres.eu

Chief Designer Gorden Wagener has donated a Smart car to boost the already 9 year old collaboration between Mercedes-Benz Design and Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME).
The handover ceremony took place on the 18th of March, 2010. Mr. Gorden Wagener expressed his satisfaction with the continued collaboration between MOME students and Mercedes-Benz Design which he said is fruitful and inspiring for both parties.

The Goldsmiths' Craft and Design Council was founded in 1908 and today it still carries forward its original remit to encourage, stimulate and promote the pursuit of excellence in craftsmanship and design amongst all those in the United Kingdom engaged in silversmithing, goldsmithing, jewellery and allied crafts.
The central aim of the Council is to organise and conduct its prestigious annual awards. By investigating the current and future craftsmanship needs of the profession the competition has become diverse and wide ranging, embracing every aspect of craft and design activity currently being practiced in the industry. It is truly a unique competition to which there is no parallel in the UK. All the work entered is judged by skilled and experienced practitioners drawn from their specialist fields of expertise within the profession. These professionals endorse the high standards and objectives set by the Council, thus validating the status and quality of these awards.

The 2010 Gold & IJL (Internationally Jewellery London) Special Award Winner is Erasmus student from MOME: Krisztina Nemeth with her Moving Cones Ring. Congratulations!

A MOME student, Tünde Molnár with her movie I am Simon has won the Best Animation Film Award at the Lille Festival de Cinema Européen. The same movie also gained the Best Computer Animated Film Award at the Zlin Dog 2010 International Student Film Festival in Zlin, Czech Republic.

For more about Budapest Design Week and its programs please visit www.designhet.hu

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MOME at Fantoche

The seventh Fantoche was held in the town of Baden in September 8-13, 2009. The international show of animation film has become one of the world's most prominent animation festivals and is the only cultural event in Switzerland that is devoted exclusively to the full array of animation techniques, content and media.
Since making its debut back in 1995, Fantoche has shown hundreds of short and long films from right around the world every two years.

With a programme containing many screenings, talks, workshops and exhibitions MOME, as special guest, had the opportunity to screen the very best animation movies from the school's past three years work. Jozsef Fülöp, Head of the Animation School also presented the methods of working of MOME Animation.

For more about Fantoche please visit this website.

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Photomeetings Luxembourg 2009

Between 9-12 September 2009, MOME's students of Photography - Benedek Bognár, Lili Érmezei, Dániel Halász, Árpád Horváth, Donát Kékesi, Dorka Taskovics - with the guidance of Abel Szalontai, leader of the Faculty of Photography, had the opportunity to think and create together with Andreas Wienand, Roman Bezjak, Peter Bialobrzeski, Michel Medinger, Roman Pfeffer, Marla Rutherford, Simon Welch and Klaus Honnef at Luxembourg's Photo Festival called Photomeetings. The fifth edition of the meeting focused on the theme "Taboo".

For more about Photomeeting Luxembourg 2009 please visit this website.

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That's design! - MOME in Milan

That’s Design! is the new event which proposes an exhibition of the most important design schools worldwide and young independent designers during the Milan design week held in 22-27 April 2009. Links to the exhibition in Milan: www.thatsdesign.it , www.zonatortona.net

The MOME exhibition represents the interdisciplinary compatibility of arts and science and the contemporary trends in their mutually fruitful coexistence. The exhibits include prototypes like the reactant jewel of Bence Ádám Kiss that transforms heat into light, the BUG, the LED lamp of Balázs Püspök, or the neon gas filled illuminators designed by Zsolt Budai. We introduce you young designers who work with new semiology to create a unique structure of interpretation, and construe the medium among us in an abstract manner through the toolset of design.

Curator: Rita Mária Halasi

Project manager: Zsófia Németh

Installation design: Márton Ágh

Sponsors: Hungarian Patient Office, Hungarian Design Council

Further information: Rita Mária Halasi

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Cell: 00 36 20 914 3810

Bence Ádám Kiss: Bug

The BUG is an environment reacting object, a piece of interactive jewellery that turns heat into light. Its function is unspecified: you can stick it to any surface as a special symbol, be it your body, a notebook or even a bicycle frame. The wearer or user can observe how the temperature of air, a bottle of wine or a body turns into colours, lustre or the rhythms generated by the BUG software.

Zsolt Budai: Luminous Beings

The basic idea for Luminous Beings was to create a multifunctional light emitting sculpture. It is ideal as ambient lighting at home or in a bar. The lamp is made of a borosilicate glass tube filled with neon gas that emits light when exposed to high voltage.

Bence Ádám Kiss and Ágoston Nagy: Space Scan (interactive installation)

Pictures and animations are projected to the handheld and free-to-move board with their topics depending on the spatial movement and location of the visitor. Turning and moving the board in various directions displays diverse content for the watcher.

The technical background running the installation is the result of the creators’ own software and hardware development. The LEDs integrated in the board are scanned by a real-time application that transforms the projected environment into a virtual space full of visual information. The zones generated can be considered to be a kind of experimental interface: photos of designs, renders and abstract animations can be “scanned” in space.

Je suis belle: Smocked maxidress

The tube silhouetted haute couture maxidress is made of 97% floss with cotton satin stiffening lining. The surface work is handmade the type of smocking imitating plaiting with upwards decreasing scale. This piece – requiring more than 300 needlework hours is one of the image pieces for the 2009-2010 autumn-winter Je suis belle collection. The collection was inspired by the leafless promiscuousness and unsettled rhythm of winter forest and nature. The silhouettes are typically tubular and vertical in direction.

Tamás Erdélyi: Hand-saw

In the course of designing the saw, I was addressing the issues of simple and safe portability and a design required for ergonomic application. The curved shape of the frame can be straightened and the saw-blade can be integrated into the straightened hollow frame to facilitate transport. The frame is made of textile glass reinforced carbon fibre composite that makes the structure light and resistant.

The parts of the frame are designed to have the handle in the proper angle to provide a comfortable grip and the cross-section to load the stronger palm tissues during application. The interlocking parts are held together by a steel sheet. The tightness can be adjusted by a screw positioned under the handle. Standard saw-blades can be easily and quickly fixed with an interrupted ring fastener.

Balázs Püspök: Constellation lamp

The Constellation lamp assuming its ultimate shape in equilibrium was inspired by Calder’s mobile statues. The colour of the LEDs can be varied to counterbalance the colourless lighting fixture. The three-armed version is mostly suitable for ambient lighting. Its low-key shape makes it a fine lighting choice for public building and homes alike. Expanding the structure with further arms and therefore achieving higher brilliance turns it into a lighting fixture for general purposes and the redefinition of the chandelier.

Réka Lőrincz: Balloon bracelet and ring

These pieces of jewellery were originally designed for the stage, therefore, larger than the average. They are made of biodegradable material that is 100% disintegrating balloons, while the setting-in is made of anodised aluminium. The balloons can be exchanged therefore used several times. Since their weight comes from the air inside and they are made of degradable material, they are an environmentally conscious response to the issue of increasing waste generation.