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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2025
6.30 PM
BLACK BOX, PALAZZO DIEDO

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Running time: 98'
The film is screened in English.
Free entrance until capacity is met.
The event will be followed by a conversation between the Director Márton Orosz, and Media Art Curator and Art Historian Francesca Franco.

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To mark the closing of the exhibition The Next Earth. Computation, Crisis, Cosmology, Palazzo Diedo is pleased to host the screening of the documentary György Kepes: Interthinking Art + Science.

Orosz’s film celebrates the legacy György Kepes, the visionary founder of the so-called “Bauhaus of MIT.” A painter turned designer and polymath, who championed “interthinking”—the collaborative effort of artists and scientists working together on shared projects to expand the boundaries of human perception and to foster ecological awareness.  The film embarks on a thrilling exploration of the origins of new media art through a question that feels more urgent than ever: “Can technology be used to protect us from technology itself?”

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Dr. Márton Orosz is the Founder and Curator of the Photography and Media Arts Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts – Hungarian National Gallery. He has been the Director of the Vasarely Museum in Budapest since 2014. Orosz curated numerous exhibitions around the world, authored several books and articles on diverse art-related topics, and given lectures across the globe. His research spans a wide range of areas, including light-based media, photography, avant-garde collecting, abstract geometric and kinetic art, computer art, film, and animation. In 2023, he released his first feature-length documentary, György Kepes: Interthinking Art + Science, which has been featured at several international festivals and won multiple awards.

Francesca Franco, PhD, is a UK and Italy-based curator, art historian and producer. She researches early computer art and its pioneers, with books including Generative Systems Art (2018), The Algorithmic Dimension (2022), and Computer Art at the Venice Biennale (2025). She is Visiting Professor at KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and 2025 SIGGRAPH Art Gallery Chair.