András Cséfalvay

ANDRÁS CSÉFALVAY
András Cséfalvay (1986) is a visual artist, digital storyteller, mytho-poet from Bratislava, currently teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. After his studies of painting and mathematics, he wrote a dissertation on the usefulness and reality of fiction. He delves into the relationship between culture and technology, the political and ethical aspects of listening to non-dominant voices in world-interpretation. His latest works look at the relationship between astronomers and indigenous peoples in the construction of the Mauna Kea telescopes, the flight of dinosaurs as a technology for survival after the extinction and the re-categorization of the planet Pluto. He is a recipient of the Oskar Čepan Award for young visual artists, member of The New Centre for Research and Practice, is a co-founder of the Digital Arts Platform at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava.  He exhibited in KunstWerke Berlin, Art In General New York, Trafo Gallery Budapest,  Firstdraft Sydney, Karlin Studios Prague among other institutions.
http://www.andrascsefalvay.com/

Interested in the intricacies of science, knowledge, power, and our faith in progress, András Cséfalvay crafts an animated video opera in three acts, set in the underground tunnels of the Bátaapáti repository. Inspired by the story of Prometheus and Percy Shelley's lyrical drama "Prometheus Unbound", his mythological figures interrogate our desire to dominate nature and move from nuclear fission to fusion, in order to achieve the utopian horizon of unlimited energy.