This document is the portfolio of Gábor Karcis, a media designer based in Budapest, Hungary. It outlines his education background, skills, theater and performance works, exhibitions and installations, and contact information. Some of his notable projects include complex media design, mapping, and animation for performances at Müpa Budapest and Trafó House of Contemporary Art. He has also created installations for exhibitions in Shanghai, Paris, and Budapest.
2. GÁBOR KARCIS CV
Born on 05.10. 1986,
Budapest, Hungary
CONTACT
H-1024 Budapest,
Margit Krt. 5/a,
Hungary
+3620 368 3240
kg.trinidad@gmail.com
iamnewhere.com
http://krjc.tumblr.com/
PERSONAL PROFILE
Budapest based media
designer. Experienced in
video production and
post-production, 3D mapping,
animation and programming.
Confortable with analogue
and digital tools, such as
analogue optical installations
and digital generative arts.
EDUCATION
2013-2010:
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design,
Media Design Department Media Designer,
BA Diploma, Budapest, Hungary
2013:
ENSAAMA - l’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts
Appliqués et des Métiers d’Arts
BA Visual Communication, Paris, France
2010-2007:
Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
BA Department of Telecommunications and Media
Informatics, Budapest, Hungary
MEMBERSHIPS
VJ Centrum (co-founder), Jelenlet Egyesület,
Urbanaizer visual, Loope,
LANGUAGES
Hungarian - Mother tongue
English - Intermediate
Hebrew - Basic level
French - Basic level
SKILLS
FinalCutPro, Avid, PremierPro, Photoshop, Aftereffects
Cinema 4D, Modulate, Quartz composer, Madmappar
3. THEATER AND PERFORMANCE WORKS
2015
Project_Lulu [complex mediadesign,mapping,scenery]
Directed by Geréb Zsófia, Jurányi Inkubátorház, Budapest
The Doll of Kokoschka [animation, mapping]
Directed by Gergye Krisztián, Müpa Budapest
https://www.mupa.hu/program/gergye-krisztian-tarsulata-es-
gloria-benedikt-kokoschka-babaja-2015-09-13_20-00-feszti-
valszinhaz
https://vimeo.com/147900467
1 Link [complex mediadesign,mapping,scenery]
Dirtected by Bánki Gergely, Proton Theatre
Trafó House of Contemporary Art, Budapest
http://trafo.hu/hu-HU/1-link
We Hear You [animation,video postproduction, projetion]
Directed by Boross Martin, SztereoAkt
Trafó House of Contemporary Art, Budapest
http://trafo.hu/hu-HU/we-hear-you https://vimeo.
com/151127607
2014
GipsyPlanet [design, programing, animation, video]
Director by Mahji Torres, Torres Ballet, Paris, France
Body Studies 3. 0 [complex
mediadesign,mapping,animation]
Directed by Juhasz Kata, Jurányi Inkubátorház, Budapest
http://katajuhasz.hu/esemenyek/aulea-alkotomuhely-
body-studies-3-0-es-body-building-bemutatok-a-jasz-
berenyi-malom-szinhazban https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=kSGCxkeIMac
Like me,Like me [complex mediadesign,mapping,animation]
Directed by Juhász Kata, Kisvárdai Színház
http://katajuhasz.hu/esemenyek/like-me-like-me-kisvardai-
bemutatok
Gipsy Mirage [mediadesign, mapping, animation]
Directed by Novák Péter, Budapest
http://krjc.tumblr.com/theaterworks_performances
PEEKERS [mediadesign, mapping, animation]
Directed by Boross Martin, Jurányi Inkubátorház, Budapest
http://stereoakt.hu/contact-1/ https://vimeo.com/109711420
I Don’t Remember Being Raised Like This
[complex mediadesign]
Directed by Szabó Réka, The Symptoms performance collective,
New Jersey Montclaire University, USA, Mu Theater, Budapest
http://www.tunetegyuttes.hu/index.php?page=repertoar_
details§ion=szinlap&id=68
https://vimeo.com/108043735
E föld befogad, AVAGY számodra hely [mapping animation]
Directed by Mohácsi János, Örkény Theater, Budapest
http://www.orkenyszinhaz.hu/eloadasok/
repertoar?view=szinlap&id=1058
http://krjc.tumblr.com/theaterworks_performances
2013
Social Error [mediadesign, video, animation]
Directed by Bodó Viktor, Szputnyik Hajózási Társaság
Graz, Mainz, Budapest, Leipzig, Cluj-Napoca, Parma
http://socialerror.szputnyik.com/en/home.html
http://krjc.tumblr.com/theaterworks_performances
Winterreise [video editing, post production]
Directed by Mundruczó Kornél, Opera Antwerp, Opera
Ghent, Belgium
https://operaballet.be/nl/programma/2013-2014/de-burcht-
van-hertog-blauwbaard-winterreise/media#tab
2012
Limit way! [animation, mapping]
Directed by Jonas Zsuzsa, Budapest Táncszínház, Budapest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLgareq7scQ
http://evaduda.net/repertoire/daradar/
4. WORKSHOPS AND CURATING
2016
Smart X, Budapest [presentation]
2013
Behind the VJ scene [curator]
2012
Hellowood 2012 New Media Workshop Manager
http://2012.hellowood.eu/#workshop/12
HMC// Hot Marketing Club [presentation]
Crossmedia/Community Movies/ Transmedia
Hova lesznek a kitörölt fileok? [presentation, curator]
https://vjcentrumbudapest.wordpress.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Fq7T5pw6o
2010
City Art workshop place for young, Budapest
http://www.kekpont.hu/blog/2010-05-10-city-art-muhely-
--lazadasmuveszeti-klubunk----is-bemutatkozik-az-egyenlito-
bazarban/
EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
2014
When i am dead Paris [post production, mediadesign]
Directed by Qin Jin,
http://krjc.tumblr.com/exhibitions_installations
Hudec Processor [robotic mapping installation]
Hudec Institute Shanghai, China Curator: Bodoczky Antal
http://www.hudecproject.com/hu/aktualis/sanghaj-magyar-
design-f-rum-a-hudec-memorial-hallban-m-rcius-18-22
http://krjc.tumblr.com/exhibitions_installations
International Fashion Showcase [mapping installation]
VOYAGE THROUGH CENTRAL EUROPE
Central European Booth Installation, London, UK
http://krjc.tumblr.com/exhibitions_installations
2013
Ötkert Club Light installation, Budapest
2012
Survivor’s wall [interactive installation]
Holocaust Memorian Center, Budapest
http://www.hdke.hu/emlekezes/emleknapok/totalitarius-diktat-
urak-aldozatainak-emleknapja
HelloWood Sziget Festival Installation
https://vimeo.com/61286193
Hova lesznek a kitorolt fájlok?: The EYE
https://vjcentrumbudapest.wordpress.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Fq7T5pw6o
2011
The eye [analog interactive installaion]
A38, Eger, Hová Lesznek a Kitörölt Fájlok?, Interfészkek
https://www.a38.hu/hu/galeria/feny-test-kep?kep=49895
https://vimeo.com/59255293
RefugeeWall [interactive installation]
university project for UNHCR
https://vimeo.com/59921488
FacEcho [interactive installation]
LPM Live Performance Meeting, Rome, Italy
https://vimeo.com/59921490
http://liveperformersmeeting.net/event/2011-rome/artists/fa-
ceecho/
2010
Light by Night
AV Node Varfok galléria, Cekl’Art, VisualBerlin
https://vimeo.com/37704916 http://lightbynightproject.
blogspot.hu/
FreeCikli
Installation, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest
http://kiscellimuzeum.hu/eng/freecikli_the_cultural_history_of_
cycling https://vimeo.com/59921489
5. AudioVisual Perfomances
Mapping Projections
2015
DoN’t Eat Group: LOOP EVENT
http://www.donteat.org/works/remixing-the-city-loop-event/
World Science Forum, Budapest
https://vimeo.com/151662133
BuildingScape, Berlin, Germany
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDjaGC3tcgQ
Žagar
Forbes Hungary, Budapest
Žagar: Motion Picture Laboratory
Müpa Budapest
http://blog.solid.hu/2015/06/29/zagar-koncert-mapping-visu-
als-snippets/
Žagar EasTaste
Budapest
BUEK live cinema
Budapest
Special Provicdance
Müpa, Budapest
Pharaoh’s death Mapping
Atrium Nézőképző, Budapest
http://atriumfilmszinhaz.hu/oktatas/707-nezokepzo-oktatas_714
screenshotok
2013
MVM50 Mapping
Solid Studio/ Urbanizer, Szépművészeti múzeum, Budapest
http://blog.solid.hu/2013/11/12/mvm50-visual-mapping/
Wagner 200
fashion show mapping Solid Studio/ Urbanizer, Budapest
http://blog.solid.hu/2013/09/17/wagner200-visualmapping/
Miniatűrák
Trafó, Budapest
https://vimeo.com/61286192
2012
Yonderboi Vodafone Soundmapping
Solid Studio/ Urbanizer, Budapest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAWN32D5Xdw
Nyary Krisztián: Így szerettek ők I.-II.
Book launch event, Budaoest
http://www.pecsprogram.hu/program/Nyary_Krisztian_Igy_sz-
erettek_ok/2012-11-09/18:00
Nyáry Krisztián: Szerelem térkép
Margó fesztival, Budapest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tUl8y1t_tE
Art Moment Mapping, Design Terminal
https://vimeo.com/59250391
Designhét - Bits and Beats
https://vimeo.com/59255291
2010
Paint up, Budai vár mapping épület vetítés
Live Shows and Scenic works, VJ works
2009-2015
Resident VJ on main stages:
Sziget festival, Balaton Sound, Volt festival, B.my.Lake, etc.
Club Vj for many guest artist:
Deadbeat, Carl Cox, Bonobo, Gold Panda, etc.
6. Film relatead works
2014
Idegenek a kertemben Spot
[as mediadesigner: mapping projection]
Directed by Lakos Nóra
2013
Nagyanyám köldöke
[as Mediadesigner: mapping projection, animation]
Directed by Lakos Nóra
Budapest Image Film for Tony and Guy Fashion week
https://vimeo.com/75762774
2010
Hangolódás “Hello, itt vagyunk”
[as Editor]
Directed by Dombrovszky Linda
Image film competition, 2nd prize, Budapest
https://vimeo.com/44015592
Kemény csajok nem álmodnak
[as Video Assistent]
Directed by Zsemberi Zsófia
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1804546/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt
Transmedia, Crossmedia, New media
2014
BUEK
Community Movie Project, Budapest
Hungarians in Europe
Community music video, Budapest
2012
MOB•IS•LAND, Community Movie Project, Budapest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skRSb7Fq_C0
2011
Wakoopa shirt Datavisualization
http://old.kibu.hu/en/wakoopatshirt
Events and Campaign
2015
GrandMirror Club
Complex media design and interior concept, Budapest
https://vimeo.com/127359130
2012
Mercure Hotel sensation
Budapest
Telenor Christmas Campaign
Budapest
http://mittecomm.com/portfolio/telenor/?lang=hu
8. THEATER WORKS
Interactive, generative
video projection.
I Don’t Remember Being Raised Like This [programing, mediadesign]
Directed by Szabó Réka, The Symptoms performance collective, 2014 New Jersey Montclaire University, Mu Színház
http://www.tunetegyuttes.hu/index.php?page=repertoar_details§ion=szinlap&id=68
https://vimeo.com/108043735
9. THEATER WORKS
Winterreise [video editing, post production]
Directed by Kornél Mundruczó, Opera Antwerp, Opera Ghent, 2014
https://operaballet.be/nl/programma/2013-2014/de-burcht-van-hertog-blauwbaard-winterreise/media#tab58
http://krjc.tumblr.com/theaterworks_performances
10. THEATER WORKS
E föld befogad, AVAGY számodra hely [mapping proction, animation]
Directed by János Mohácsi, Örkény Theater, Budapest, 2014 Critics’ Award: Best direction, Play of the Year,
http://krjc.tumblr.com/theaterworks_performances
http://www.orkenyszinhaz.hu/eloadasok/repertoar?view=szinlap&id=1058
11. THEATER WORKS
Social Error
[mediadesign, video, animation, programing]
Directed by Bodó Viktor, Szputnyik Hajózási Társaság, 2013-14,
Graz, Mainz, Budapest, Leipzig, Cluj-Napoca, Parma
http://socialerror.szputnyik.com/en/home.html
http://krjc.tumblr.com/theaterworks_performances
13. THEATER WORKS
PEEKERS [mediadesign, mapping, animation]
Directed by Boross Martin, -wall theater-
Jurányi Inkubátorház, Budapest, 2014
http://stereoakt.hu/contact-1/
https://vimeo.com/109711420
14. THEATER WORKS
The doll of Kokoschka [animation,mapping]
Directed by Gergye Krisztián, Müpa Budapest
https://www.mupa.hu/program/gergye-krisztian-tarsulata-es-gloria-benedikt-kokoschka-babaja-2015-09-13_20-
00-fesztivalszinhaz
https://vimeo.com/147900467
15. THEATER WORKS
1 Link [complex mediadesign,
180ºmapping scenery]
Dirtected by Bánki Gergely, Proton Theatre,
Trafó House of Contemporary Art, Budapest
http://trafo.hu/hu-HU/1-link
http://krjc.tumblr.com/theaterworks_performances
17. EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
When i am dead [post production, mediadesign]
Directed by Qin Jin, SOME/THINGS gallery , Paris, 2014
http://www.leparadox.com/art/qin-jin-when-i-am-dead/
http://krjc.tumblr.com/exhibitions_installations
18. EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
Hudec Processor, [robot-kinetic automated live tracking 3d mapping installation]
Hudec Institute, 2014, Shanghai, China Curator: Bodoczky Antal
http://krjc.tumblr.com/exhibitions_installations
http://www.hudecproject.com/en/aktualis/hungarian-design-forum-shanghai-hudec-memorial-hall-20140318-22
19. EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
looking to my eyes [analog interactive camera installtiion]
A38 Budapest, Eger, Hová Lesznek a Kitörölt Fájlok?, Interfészkek, 2011
https://vimeo.com/59255293
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Fq7T5pw6o
https://www.a38.hu/hu/galeria/feny-test-kep?kep=49895 https://vimeo.com/59255293
20. EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
RefugeeWall [Interactive motion tracking installtion]
university project for UNHCR. Interactive installation about the problem of medial communication and main-
stream media and its perception about ‘humanitarian crisis far away’.
https://vimeo.com/59921488
21. EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
VOYAGE THROUGH CENTRAL EUROPE [mapping installation]
international fashion showcase,London, Uk, 2014
http://welovebudapest.com/uzletek.szolgaltatasok/megnyitott.a.magyar.stand.a.londoni.divatheten
https://www.behance.net/gallery/15133101/VOYAGE-THROUGH-CENTRAL-EUROPE-London-IFS-installation
http://krjc.tumblr.com/exhibitions_installations
22. EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
FacEcho [interactive installation with self developed facial expression coding system]
LPM Live Performance Meeting (Rome), 2011
https://vimeo.com/59921490
http://liveperformersmeeting.net/event/2011-rome/artists/faceecho/
http://krjc.site11.com/?section=interactive-installation&tag=facecho
23. EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
Light by Night [interactive public space installation with DIY pressure sensors]
AV Moments Varfok galléria, Cekl’Art, VisualBerlin, 2010
http://lightbynightproject.blogspot.hu/
https://vimeo.com/37704916
25. AudioVisual Perfomances AND Mapping Projections
Žagar: Motion Picture Laboratory
Müpa Budapest, 2015
https://www.mupa.hu/en/program/zagar-motion-picture-laboratory-2015-06-21_20-00-festival-theatre
http://blog.solid.hu/2015/06/29/zagar-koncert-mapping-visuals-snippets/
26. AudioVisual Perfomances AND Mapping Projections
DoN’t Eat Group: LOOP EVENT [public space liveloop video performance]
Public spaces of Budapest, 2015
http://www.donteat.org/works/remixing-the-city-loop-event/
http://placcc.hu/index.php/2015/09/06/dont-eat-group-hu-loop-event/
27. AudioVisual Perfomances AND Mapping Projections
Berlin Building Scape [story telling mapping animation about the historical Varnhagen Palais]
Berlin, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDjaGC3tcgQ
http://www.buildingscape.de/projects/project-palais-varnhagen/
http://krjc.tumblr.com/audiovisual_mapping
28. AudioVisual Perfomances AND Mapping Projections
Pharaoh’s death Mapping Atrium Nézőképző [mapping animation]
Educational mapping project for High School students about the Egyptian cult of death,
Atrium Theater, 2015, Budapest,
http://atriumfilmszinhaz.hu/oktatas/707-nezokepzo-oktatas_714
http://krjc.tumblr.com/audiovisual_mapping
29. AudioVisual Perfomances AND Mapping Projections
World Science Forum [mapping animation]
Hungarian Academy of Science, 2015, Budapest,
https://vimeo.com/151662133
30. AudioVisual Perfomances AND Mapping Projections
Yonderboi Vodafone Soundmapping [mapping animation and live show]
Solid Studio/Urbanizer, Ruin of Zsambek, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4MMzOunamQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAWN32D5Xdw
31. AudioVisual Perfomances AND Mapping Projections
Nyáry Krisztián: Love map [datavisualization and live photo animation project]
Based Krisztian Nyary’s books about literary figures connected with a live performance with the writter himself,
Margó fesztival, Budapest 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tUl8y1t_tE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax60qPfrfqI
33. FILM RELATED WORKS
IDEGENEK A KERTEMBEN [mediadesigner, mapping and video compositor]
spot for online documentary project about migration
Directed by Lakos Nóra, Budapest 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyXSBLdsh-M
34. FILM RELATED WORKS
my granny’s Belly Button- [as mediadesigner: mapping projection, animation]
short movie by Lakos Nóra, Budapest 2013
http://iamnewhere.com/static/project.html#My-Granma’s-Belly-Button_4
36. Transmedia, Crossmedia AND New media
MOB•IS•LAND, COMMUNITY CINEMA PROJECT
[interface design, concept, 2nd director]
Budapest, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skRSb7Fq_C0
38. Events and cAMPAIGNS
comité colbert: House of curiosities
Campaign project with ENSAAMA and CENTRAL SAINT MARTINS College
for Pierre Frey, Faïencerie de Gien, Rémy Martin, Guerlain
2014, Paris, London
http://krjc.tumblr.com/events_campaigns