Emoke Lorincz's desire to create does not focus on a single medium, her experience and curiosity in IT environment, her desire to connect the past with the present manifested in joint projects with the Hungarian Museum of Ethnography.
MotifCreator application
After nearly a decade of experimentation and preparatory work alongside Zsuzsanna Tasnádi, curator (Hungarian Museum of Ethnography), a comprehensive database was developed containing vectorized decorations from 1,300 carefully selected objects in the museum’s collection. Building on this database, Emőke, as the project’s designer, collaborated with mathematicians and programmers from MOON42 to create the MotifCreator application. This innovative tool functions both as a touchscreen installation and a web application, seamlessly blending technology with cultural heritage.
The project won the golden prize at Pixel Perfect Awards in 2023 (Museum of Ethnography and
MOON42 Ltd.)
It is presented in the Hungarian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023 next to the winning entry,
REZIDOOM
– The Frequency of Architecture.
About the application
The motifs can be easily filtered by tags or location. It is possible to view a photograph of the carrier object, its details, data, including its place of origin. The application gives access to the user to create freely and creatively immersed in a treasure trove of motifs.
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The number of variations that can be created with motif generators is endless, so no two visitors will ever create the same work. The goal was to contribute to the integration of the motif treasure into a system and thus to their accessibility as public treasure.
