Viktor Varga (b. 1997) is a Budapest-based media artist. He studied fine art photography, then media design at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. His work spans prints, algorithmic pieces and installations, often made with tools, hardware and software built for the given piece. It has been shown at Ars Electronica and in galleries in Hungary, most recently at Csikász Galéria in Veszprém. He is a member of the Studio of Young Photographers (FFS).
My practice usually lets the choice of medium itself — its properties, limits and the processes it enforces in its making — become the primary metaphor or gesture framing the concept at hand. This approach comes with an inseparable entanglement of personal matter and thinking about media and technology. Presence, reduction, lack and decodability of information are recurring themes, as is its lifecycle in time: how information is transcribed, degraded or lost, and how differently we perceive the time it passes through.
That said, I am interested in both ends of the spectrum. At one end are pieces that reward being read, where the concept and the recognition of how the thing was made arrive together, and that recognition is part of the work. At the other are pieces that simply give an experience and ask nothing beyond attention. Neither end seems more valid to me.