Meet the Artists F2025
Lecture
Duration: 45 min.
Saturday, 13 December 2025 | 21:00 > 21:452025-12-13T21:00:00.000Z | Auditorium
The Meet the Artists session of FOTONICA 2025 brings together three distinctive Hungarian voices shaping the evolution of digital, audiovisual and interactive art: Márton Urbán, Adél Garics and Fausto Mercier.
Márton Urbán opens the session by presenting the light installation Ezer év közös úton (A Thousand Years on a Shared Path), created in collaboration with Erik Mátrai. With more than a decade of experience in the audiovisual field, Urbán specialises in interaction design and in the development of technologically sophisticated environments. His work with robotic lighting systems demonstrates how engineering and artistic vision merge to transform space. Urbán explains the conceptual and technical processes behind the installation: a luminous choreography where geometric forms transcend the architecture of Palazzo Falconieri, expanding freely into the courtyard. Through shifting colours, movements and atmospheric tension, the piece evokes the symbolism of Advent and the theme of anticipation. The six-minute loop generates an immersive spatial experience shaped by the encounter between light, movement and perception.
Adél Garics follows with her research into light art, media design and VJing. Her practice explores how light and space interact with human perception, transforming environments into immersive, atmospheric experiences. During the encounter, she shares her creative process, revealing how her light installations, audiovisual performances and hybrid digital experiments take form. The audience has the opportunity to engage with her directly and discover the techniques and ideas behind her works presented at the Festival.
Fausto Mercier — the moniker of producer and sound engineer Roland Nagy — pushes electronic experimentation to its limits. His sound world combines hardcore digital aesthetics with fractal structures and constantly shifting micro-details. In this session, he explains how he constructs tense and intricate sonic architectures, how he shapes textures that appear chaotic yet are meticulously designed, and why natural soundscapes remain central to his research. The public can speak with him and explore the concepts behind his releases on Unlog, EXILES, Kaer’Uiks, Pointless Geometry and Genot Centre.
Together, Urbán, Garics and Mercier offer a multifaceted insight into contemporary digital creation:
three complementary perspectives — interaction, light and sonic intensity — meeting in an open and dynamic dialogue with the audience.
Márton Urbán opens the session by presenting the light installation Ezer év közös úton (A Thousand Years on a Shared Path), created in collaboration with Erik Mátrai. With more than a decade of experience in the audiovisual field, Urbán specialises in interaction design and in the development of technologically sophisticated environments. His work with robotic lighting systems demonstrates how engineering and artistic vision merge to transform space. Urbán explains the conceptual and technical processes behind the installation: a luminous choreography where geometric forms transcend the architecture of Palazzo Falconieri, expanding freely into the courtyard. Through shifting colours, movements and atmospheric tension, the piece evokes the symbolism of Advent and the theme of anticipation. The six-minute loop generates an immersive spatial experience shaped by the encounter between light, movement and perception.
Adél Garics follows with her research into light art, media design and VJing. Her practice explores how light and space interact with human perception, transforming environments into immersive, atmospheric experiences. During the encounter, she shares her creative process, revealing how her light installations, audiovisual performances and hybrid digital experiments take form. The audience has the opportunity to engage with her directly and discover the techniques and ideas behind her works presented at the Festival.
Fausto Mercier — the moniker of producer and sound engineer Roland Nagy — pushes electronic experimentation to its limits. His sound world combines hardcore digital aesthetics with fractal structures and constantly shifting micro-details. In this session, he explains how he constructs tense and intricate sonic architectures, how he shapes textures that appear chaotic yet are meticulously designed, and why natural soundscapes remain central to his research. The public can speak with him and explore the concepts behind his releases on Unlog, EXILES, Kaer’Uiks, Pointless Geometry and Genot Centre.
Together, Urbán, Garics and Mercier offer a multifaceted insight into contemporary digital creation:
three complementary perspectives — interaction, light and sonic intensity — meeting in an open and dynamic dialogue with the audience.
Author
Adél Garics (born 30 July 2000, Üllő, Hungary) is a visual artist and multimedia designer whose work investigates the relationship between light, space, and the viewer. Her artistic practice focuses on light installations, visual performance, and VJing, driven by a strong interest in experimentation and in discovering order within chaos.
She is currently pursuing an MA in Media Design at the Budapest Metropolitan University (METU), following a BSc in Industrial Product and Form Design Engineering from Óbuda University. Her background also...
Roland Nagy is a sound engineer, former multimedia arts student, and experimental music producer from Pécs, Hungary. In 2016, he launched his artistic and sonic project Fausto Mercier, which quickly gained recognition within the international experimental electronic scene. His releases have appeared on labels such as Unlog, EXILES, Kaer‘Uiks, Pointless Geometry, and Genot Centre.
Nagy’s work is situated within the most radical fringes of contemporary electronic production: fractured rhythms, extreme dynamics, and an aesthetic resonating with hardcore digital culture. At the...
Márton Urbán has over a decade of experience in the audiovisual field, specializing in the creation of immersive and engaging experiences. With a strong focus on interaction design, he seamlessly merges technology and creativity to deliver innovative solutions. His work with robotic installations demonstrates a unique blend of art and cutting-edge technology.
In addition, Márton is involved in electrical design for smaller devices and interactive elements, enhancing the sensory dimension of the projects he contributes to. His commitment to pushing boundaries...
Promoter, producer, coder, networks enthusiast is considered a guru of the new media and the digital arts world as well as a pioneer in the Audio Visual Performing Arts, he was born in Rome in 1970.
Very interested in any kind of avant-garde, costume, music, art and experimentation, it is updated on all sorts of innovation in art, technology and communication.
In 1996, with a background in house party organization from 1988, he founded and coordinates the various activities of Flyer Communication...