archivuminternetwork. 30 years of artpool.hu

TY - ADVS

T1 - archivuminternetwork.

T2 - 30 years of artpool.hu

A2 - Bodor, Judit

PY - 2026/5/21

Y1 - 2026/5/21

N2 - Curated exhibition. Commissioned by Museum of Fine Art Budapest based on previous research (see: artpool.hu a user's guide). archivuminternetwork marks 30 years of Artpool Art Research Center’s presence on the internet. Since its launch in December 1995, artpool.hu has expanded György Galántai's idea of the ‘active archive’ into digital time and space, where art and information exist in flux and flow, becoming, at times, indivisible. Hence the exhibition’s portmanteau title, archivuminternetwork The visual, sound and video installation situates artpool.hu within a broader history of artistic engagement with emerging communication technologies in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly during the rapid political and social transformations of the late twentieth century. As one of the few cultural websites to have operated continuously since the early days of the public internet in Hungary, artpool.hu reflects Artpool’s commitment to open access and the circulation of ideas beyond physical boundaries. archivuminternetwork reaches forward and back through this history to explore the archive itself as an information technology across analogue and digital media from telephone-based works to decentralised networks. Archival materials, including hand-drawn sitemaps, appear alongside later works that explore systems theory, computation, and ‘digital thinking’ through assemblage sculpture. Looking beyond social or cultural interpretations, archivuminternetwork presents artpool.hu as a way to understand György Galántai’s view of the world wide web as cosmological, as a ‘random galaxy’ or virtual universe. In this space, art functions as information, circulating and flowing through time and space, and inviting us to reflect on broader metaphysical questions about reality and existence, and on how such systems continue to reshape the ways we create, share, and understand knowledge today. By examining how Artpool developed ways of working with once-unfamiliar technologies, such as the internet, archivuminternetwork also invites reflection on the present. How might artists, archivists and curators continue to develop new approaches in an age of automation and superintelligence - systems we are still only beginning to understand?

AB - Curated exhibition. Commissioned by Museum of Fine Art Budapest based on previous research (see: artpool.hu a user's guide). archivuminternetwork marks 30 years of Artpool Art Research Center’s presence on the internet. Since its launch in December 1995, artpool.hu has expanded György Galántai's idea of the ‘active archive’ into digital time and space, where art and information exist in flux and flow, becoming, at times, indivisible. Hence the exhibition’s portmanteau title, archivuminternetwork The visual, sound and video installation situates artpool.hu within a broader history of artistic engagement with emerging communication technologies in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly during the rapid political and social transformations of the late twentieth century. As one of the few cultural websites to have operated continuously since the early days of the public internet in Hungary, artpool.hu reflects Artpool’s commitment to open access and the circulation of ideas beyond physical boundaries. archivuminternetwork reaches forward and back through this history to explore the archive itself as an information technology across analogue and digital media from telephone-based works to decentralised networks. Archival materials, including hand-drawn sitemaps, appear alongside later works that explore systems theory, computation, and ‘digital thinking’ through assemblage sculpture. Looking beyond social or cultural interpretations, archivuminternetwork presents artpool.hu as a way to understand György Galántai’s view of the world wide web as cosmological, as a ‘random galaxy’ or virtual universe. In this space, art functions as information, circulating and flowing through time and space, and inviting us to reflect on broader metaphysical questions about reality and existence, and on how such systems continue to reshape the ways we create, share, and understand knowledge today. By examining how Artpool developed ways of working with once-unfamiliar technologies, such as the internet, archivuminternetwork also invites reflection on the present. How might artists, archivists and curators continue to develop new approaches in an age of automation and superintelligence - systems we are still only beginning to understand?

KW - exhibition

KW - archive

KW - installation

UR - https://artpool.hu/en/posts/archivuminternetwork

M3 - Exhibition

PB - Artpool Art Research Center

CY - Budapest

ER -