Zalka Márton

𝟬. 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 laboratory of visual correlation dialogue based on cognitive association subjective taxonomy 𝟭. 𝗧𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲: “I also took the same photo last week.” 𝟮. 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘀: The mplusfplus is an ongoing research project which is based on visual conversation between Zalka Márton and Francesco Dipierro. The researchers (M andF) typically publish this image-based dialogue via photobooks and Instagram; this exhibition functions as a physicalized research journal. This experiment of the exhibition posits that the visual dialogue is not merely a medium, but a photographic apparatus that challenges linear communication. Unlike this descriptive text, which follows a rigid logical structure, the images used by M andF operate through simultaneous visual transmission, communicating everything at once. This study (the exhibition) works as a spatial correlation, seeing all images at once. 𝟯. 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁: While the setup and display is inspired by and leaning into scientific research and archiving methods, providing a structural logic for the exhibition, the workflow of M and F is far more intimate. At its core, this project documents the public disclosure of a private visual dialogue. M and F do not merely curate each other – they read each other. In their practice, a photograph is never just an image; it is a tool for communication. Their work functions as a continuous, non-linear interaction, and their research topic is the communication itself. Each image serves as both a stimulus (a prompt) and a response (an interpretation), constructing a shared language based on mutual trust and associative partnership. M and F do not produce new images specifically for this purpose. Instead, they mine their own personal archives – the photos they take daily. These images are building blocks, pulled from a digital archive to see how they resonate with the others’ visual proposal. It is a shared, unpredictable conversation between M andF that opens up to whoever steps foot in the exhibiting space. 𝟰. 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄: Opening: 2026. 04. 10. 19:00 On view: 2026. 04. 11 - 05. 02. Opening hours: On the weekends / or by appointment mplusfp

𝟬. 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 laboratory of visual correlation dialogue based on cognitive association subjective taxonomy 𝟭. 𝗧𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲: “I also took the same photo last week.” 𝟮. 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘀: The mplusfplus is an ongoing research project which is based on visual conversation between Zalka Márton and Francesco Dipierro. The researchers (M andF) typically publish this image-based dialogue via photobooks and Instagram; this exhibition functions as a physicalized research journal. This experiment of the exhibition posits that the visual dialogue is not merely a medium, but a photographic apparatus that challenges linear communication. Unlike this descriptive text, which follows a rigid logical structure, the images used by M andF operate through simultaneous visual transmission, communicating everything at once. This study (the exhibition) works as a spatial correlation, seeing all images at once. 𝟯. 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁: While the setup and display is inspired by and leaning into scientific research and archiving methods, providing a structural logic for the exhibition, the workflow of M and F is far more intimate. At its core, this project documents the public disclosure of a private visual dialogue. M and F do not merely curate each other – they read each other. In their practice, a photograph is never just an image; it is a tool for communication. Their work functions as a continuous, non-linear interaction, and their research topic is the communication itself. Each image serves as both a stimulus (a prompt) and a response (an interpretation), constructing a shared language based on mutual trust and associative partnership. M and F do not produce new images specifically for this purpose. Instead, they mine their own personal archives – the photos they take daily. These images are building blocks, pulled from a digital archive to see how they resonate with the others’ visual proposal. It is a shared, unpredictable conversation between M andF that opens up to whoever steps foot in the exhibiting space. 𝟰. 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄: Opening: 2026. 04. 10. 19:00 On view: 2026. 04. 11 - 05. 02. Opening hours: On the weekends / or by appointment mplusfp

𝟬. 𝗞𝗲𝘆𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀 laboratory of visual correlation dialogue based on cognitive association subjective taxonomy 𝟭. 𝗧𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲: “I also took the same photo last week.” 𝟮. 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘀: The mplusfplus is an ongoing research project which is based on visual conversation between Zalka Márton and Francesco Dipierro. The researchers (M andF) typically publish this image-based dialogue via photobooks and Instagram; this exhibition functions as a physicalized research journal. This experiment of the exhibition posits that the visual dialogue is not merely a medium, but a photographic apparatus that challenges linear communication. Unlike this descriptive text, which follows a rigid logical structure, the images used by M andF operate through simultaneous visual transmission, communicating everything at once. This study (the exhibition) works as a spatial correlation, seeing all images at once. 𝟯. 𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁: While the setup and display is inspired by and leaning into scientific research and archiving methods, providing a structural logic for the exhibition, the workflow of M and F is far more intimate. At its core, this project documents the public disclosure of a private visual dialogue. M and F do not merely curate each other – they read each other. In their practice, a photograph is never just an image; it is a tool for communication. Their work functions as a continuous, non-linear interaction, and their research topic is the communication itself. Each image serves as both a stimulus (a prompt) and a response (an interpretation), constructing a shared language based on mutual trust and associative partnership. M and F do not produce new images specifically for this purpose. Instead, they mine their own personal archives – the photos they take daily. These images are building blocks, pulled from a digital archive to see how they resonate with the others’ visual proposal. It is a shared, unpredictable conversation between M andF that opens up to whoever steps foot in the exhibiting space. Opening: 2026. 04. 10. 19:00 On view: 2026. 04. 11 - 05. 02. Opening hours: ask @mplusfplus The exhibition is part of the Budapest Photo Festival

⚡️Master’s Projects: Marton Zalka | Anaesthetics.⚡️ Degradation, decay and death are thoughts that are hard to navigate in our everyday life, in the world of harsh objective sciences. Thus we create systems and surfaces that deter us from our own mortality salience, into constant growth as an anxiety buffer. The thesis Anasthetics dissects the global north’s predominant fascination with smooth and optimised aesthetics, an approach that is a result of the secular dread of modernity. In times of accelerated change and masked despair we might find an unexpected calm in the worn and the raw. The scene is a medical waiting room, a place where vulnerability and hope puts us into a state of suspense. While the never-thought-of lingers and pushes us into a numbing but safe uncertainty, a game in the corner invites us for a minute to regress and reflect on our personal and collective agency towards identity and matter. As neither is free of change. 📍Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, EG, Lichthof B 🕦 10:00

And now the pretty pics :) all of which are by @kozalkalmazott The Artificial Literature Laboratory explores large language models (LLMs) not as services, assistants, or all-knowing agents, but as tools for creative writing. A specially developed interface enables interaction with the LLM through the physical hardware that makes the generative process possible in the first place — inviting visitors to collaboratively write a short text. Instead of the optimization-driven logic that dominates current applications of AI, this installation centers on an experimental interaction process rooted in the traditions of electronic literature, constrained writing, and chance-based poetics. Collaborative writing here is not a simple prompt-response-output routine. It offers visitors the opportunity to explore working with LLMs as a creative tool in a non-commercial way — while critically reflecting on their underlying logic of optimization. The installation engages with the generative logic of LLMs through the act of human writing — and vice versa — inviting reflection on what it truly means to create something new.

and now the pretty pics :) all of which are by @kozalkalmazott The Artificial Literature Laboratory explores large language models (LLMs) not as services, assistants, or all-knowing agents, but as tools for creative writing. A specially developed interface enables interaction with the LLM through the physical hardware that makes the generative process possible in the first place — inviting visitors to collaboratively write a short text. Instead of the optimization-driven logic that dominates current applications of AI, this installation centers on an experimental interaction process rooted in the traditions of electronic literature, constrained writing, and chance-based poetics. Collaborative writing here is not a simple prompt-response-output routine. It offers visitors the opportunity to explore working with LLMs as a creative tool in a non-commercial way — while critically reflecting on their underlying logic of optimization. The installation engages with the generative logic of LLMs through the act of human writing — and vice versa — inviting reflection on what it truly means to create something new.

by far my favourite ars electronica so far 😎 thanks to the coolest crew ever @kozalkalmazott , @miss_haupt , Jonas & Paul! it was a blast and one of the most unconflicted senses of pride i have felt so far - can only recommend ;) 2/3

by far my favourite ars electronica so far 😎 thanks to the coolest crew ever @kozalkalmazott , @miss_haupt , Jonas & Paul! it was a blast and one of the most unconflicted senses of pride i have felt so far - can only recommend ;) 1/3

The third group of designers arrived at @rohsska museum for their Super Ö residency. In June, DING built a big whale in the museum, which now serves as working space for the DING residents. @rimondarr @kozalkalmazott and @joh.pic will take you along in our Instagram stories and share their process! 🍬 Rimon Alyagon Darr: Candy Sculptures / Sweetened Memories Rimon creates sweet glass-blown candy forms using molds from found objects across the cities she spends time in. Using the whale’s belly as refuge from the states of crises, her candies provide sweet alternatives to reality. 🪁 Johanna Pichlbauer: Residency in Motherhood Johanna is joined in her residency by her four-year-old daughter Josefa as they explore the museum and its collections together. The two engage in a shared process of discovery, responding to each other’s perspectives and curiosities. 🎭 Márton Zalka: Design Therapy On a floating raft, Márton hosts therapy-like interviews about objects people would take to a deserted island. He explores their material histories and cultural meanings through personal stories. The raft gathers sketches and fragments from these sessions as a drifting archive.

Die Ding-Portraitserie geht in die nächste Runde mit Márton Zalka @kozalkalmazott 🔥 TREN❤️‍🔥DING: aesthetics of decay and sustainability, subtle mortality salience, Terror Management Theory REA📖DING: David Graeber - Utopia of Rules (to piss me off) Adolf Loos - Ornament and Crime (for work) Herman Hesse - Siddhartha (to calm me down) PEN🔜DING: A workshop on personal consumerist desires for the RHÖSSKA Design Museum collaboration at Göteborg. A poem machine for Ars Electronica. A Master’s thesis on the individualization of ornament. BLEN🌪DING: Materials into stories and stories into materials BUIL👷‍♂️DING: Exhibitions, installations, objects, furnitures, set and stage designs. Ideas. HOAR📁DING: old marble and wood pieces / cute offcuts / zines and photobooks PICS: 1 - (c) Sarah Franzl, @saafraan 2 - First Person Plural stage design at BRUT/Imagetanz, with @lukas_koetz 3 - Forever hungry Fungi friend, learning from extracellular digestive systems, Funken Summerschool at Fraunhofer Institute, Dresden and Ars Electronica Center, Linz 4 - Shelf consoles for friends 5 - Koloradó Festival furniture workshop in Budapest, @koloradofesztival 7 - Tonhalle storage shelf, @tonhallewien 8,9 - M+F visual reasearch project with @francesco_dipierro - mplusfplus