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György Bp.Szabó is a technology artist; he is not a “media artist” but rather an innovator. He uses opportunities inherent in technology as if they were part of the natural physical, spiritual and mental characteristics of his own body. Everything that he sees and hears or perceives – i.e. he doesn't see and hear but only perceives – manifests as “substance” through him. We could say it is “regained” from beyond art, but this is beside the point. What matters is that it is, i.e. that we perceive the IS.

Over several years Szabó Bp. Collected ERROR messages from a color printer and this became a serious collection. He uses them and supplements them with photos the computer cannot interpret and breaks them down into information which sometimes comes to 50 pages. He is planning to mount an ERROR exhibition because we generally don't deal with this – the area between images and writing – despite the fact that the message of the computer can almost always be deciphered.

Some years ago he and Mark Mothersbaugh, the singer of the group DEVO, opened a restaurant (Bp. Service) where Bp. Szabó's “pins” were displayed. These pins were actually images, or in other words a seemingly haphazard assemblage of varying small-sized, worn-off, incompatible objects. In connection with this he also created some musical material: he asked 25 of his friends to talk about his pins without forming definite opinions but just to give cold descriptions of what they could see. From these sounds he made musical material with noise generator software. The exhibition allows the audience to become familiar with these works and audio materials.