Janos Sugar

ISEA Bio(s) Available:

• ISEA1997

  Janos Sugar (Hungary b. 1958) attended the Department of Sculpture of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Art, Budapest from 1979 to 1984. Between 1980 and 1986 he was active­ly involved in the exhibitions and performances of Indigo, an interdisciplinary art group, led by Miklos Erdely. Janos Sugar has participated in national and international exhibi­tions since 1980 and has also created several perfor­mances, films and videos. Between 1990 and 1995 he was one of the board members of the Bela Balazs Film Studio, Budapest. He is a founding member of the Media Research Foundation. Since 1990 he has been a lecturer at the Intermedia Dept. of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, which was established in 1990 by he and Miklos Peternak. In 1992 he exhibited at the documenta IX, Kassel. He com­pleted an Artslink residency at the Clevelend Institute of Art in 1994. Since 1994 he organizes the MetaForum con­ferences with Geert Lovink and Diana McCarty).

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• HU