Artist Name: Veronika Romhány
Residency Dates: April – May 2025
Born: 1987
Hometown: Budapest, Hungary
Lives & Works: Brussels, BE and Budapest, HU
URL: veronikaromhany.org | Instagram @nimova_projeckt
Education:
2021-Present – Ph.D. candidate in the Arts, LUCA / KU Leuven Associate, FilmEU RIT
2024 – Summer School on the Law, Ethics and Policy of Artificial Intelligence, KU Leuven (BE)
2011-2013 – MA, artist-teacher, Hungarian University of Fine Arts
2009-2013 – MA, painter artist, Hungarian University of Fine Arts
Bio/Statement:
Veronika Romhány is the winner of the 2024 ACAX award.
Veronika Romhány is a multimedia artist and a PhD student at LUCA School of Arts/KU Leuven and the European University for Film and Media Arts. Her research focuses on the interdependence of humans and software in today’s knowledge production from an artistic, critical point of view. In the last few years, she has been involved in various artistic research projects in international academic contexts, which explore new, meaningful ways to engage with archival material through radically interactive methods such as game-developing tools or conversational AI.
Veronika’s doctoral research focus departed from visualizing social plasticity in interdisciplinary, collaborative creations through digital media arts, with an inevitable shift inward in human-computer, human-AI interaction design. She has been investigating hybrid, co-creative processes to understand how bottom-up collaborations (de)form and evolve. Veronika has also been prototyping interactive, open-ended design structures to examine digital tools as equally important and effective narrative systems. Experimenting with this narrative aspect, she also collaborated with numerous music producers and sound designers across the European DIY and experimental music scene like Roberto Auser (NL), and sound designer and sociologist Myroslava Kuts (UA). Romhány’s artworks use deconstructive analysis with a speculative reconstruction, portraying mostly paradoxical situations in virtual, laboratory environments, focusing on the digitized, automated human/body. In her latest artwork exhibited during the Data Imagination Conference in Ghent in 2023, she designed a multi-channel interactive work with a customized, voice-based conversational AI – an algorithm-driven self-archive of the absent researcher that functions as a dynamic memento.
Support: Veronika Romhány’s residency is made possible with support from The Trust for Mutual Understanding.
