Gábor Lázár’s new three-channel audiovisual installation, Fundamental Fields (HHK), created in collaboration with Tamás Boros, draws on Károly Hopp-Halász’s Neo Geo series from the 1980s and 90s, bringing its refined and playful forms into his own generative musical and visual language. This installation, on view at the acb Plus gallery in connection with Hopp-Halász’s exhibition, explores potential parallels between Lázár’s music and the visual medium of Hopp-Halász’s geometric abstract paintings. Through this multimedia installation, Lázár seeks to answer how the questions posed by a classic art genre can be reimagined within contemporary technological conditions. The installation finds possible directions in Hopp-Halász’s diverse and medium-sensitive artistic practice, capturing not only the artist’s aesthetic toolkit but also creating a real-time, randomly generated synthesis of sound and image that recontextualizes modernist notions of seriality, programmatic structure, and variability.

Designed for three large screens and sound sources, the installation builds upon a limited set of formal elements characteristic of Hopp-Halász’s paintings, while sound-based and visual content are synchronized in real-time through a custom program developed specifically for this work. This is not merely a reconstruction of a bygone atmosphere or visual culture, but a reimagined aesthetic program, formed as a multimedia installation that resonates with contemporary informatics and experimental music. The programming of the installation’s infrastructure and visual content was carried out by Tamás Boros, who is deeply connected to key developments in Hungary’s contemporary experimental music scene, and who explores the artistic possibilities of digital culture through creative coding. Collaborating with composer and media artist Gábor Lázár, they not only pay tribute to one of the foremost figures of Hungarian neo-avant-garde painting but also extend their compositional and programming practices towards a broader, media art-driven framework.

Gábor Lázár is currently one of the most prominent and internationally acclaimed figures in Hungary’s contemporary experimental music scene. Tamás Boros (Borisz) is a programmer whose work spans creative and real-time coding and co-founding the DVX NVX formation, contributing to experimental noise music creation. The project is supported by Samsung Electronics, and special thanks are due to art quarter budapest for their assistance with the installation.

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