György Kepes
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Biography
György Kepes (Hungarian: [ˈkɛpɛʒ ˈɟørɟ]; October 4, 1906 – December 29, 2001) was a Hungarian-born painter, photographer, designer, educator, and art theorist. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus (later the School of Design, then Institute of Design, then Illinois Institute of Design or IIT) in Chicago. In 1967 he founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he taught until his retirement in 1974. Description above from the Wikipedia article György Kepes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
Short by György Kepes.
Squares Forming Patterns 1
Publicity film for Jena Glass.
Der Feinschmecker
This film focuses on Gyorgy Kepes, an influential Hungarian-American artist with whom Frank Eidlitz studied in 1966. Kepes, a professor at MIT, founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) in 1967 to facilitate the intersection between art, science and technology. The film, though silent, features Kepes speaking at a seminar. It includes title cards towards the beginning, including one introducing Gyorgy Kepes and another showing a brochure for a symposium accompanying the exhibition in January 1966. It also includes close-ups of Kepes’ influential books, including editions in a variety of languages.
Gyorgy Kepes
Short by György Kepes.
Illuminations
Filmed presentation of Flame Orchard, a 20-foot (6-metre) field of burning gas flames that respond to music, designed by György Kepes in collaboration with William Walton, Paul Earls, and Mauricio Bueno, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., 1972.
Flame Orchard
Short by György Kepes.