Everything, going back in time: installations, architecture, research, exhibitions, music and products, and Aether Architecture archive for works from before 2008.
For our combined hundredth birthday we celebrated Midsummer Night at Leányfalu with friends — and a small concert: Anna Rákóczy and Lajos Rozmán playing Sári and W.F. Bach, and my “musical reading” of Bach’s Chaconne.
I gave the opening speech for Albert-László Barabási’s exhibition The Art of Dataism at the Műcsarnok — on Newton, Castel’s ocular harpsichord, network hubs, and why understanding must become personal.
Fully agentic prezi let's you chat through your presentation, but also helps you engage your audience, your students, your team.
My essay for Válasz Online, April 2026: a rare historical window is opening — let us switch into creating mode. Full English translation on this page.
Our family exhibition in the Hungarian Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale — Draw, Make, Code & Prezi.
Interview with the whole family about the joint installation at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
I was honoured to be featured in this data visualisation of the history of the Biennale, as a four-time exhibitor — BarabásiLab’s 30-metre network installation on the Padiglione Centrale.
Reharmonized Hungarian folk song and 2 jazz standards performed live with Móni Venczel at the Fonó, Budapest, September 2025.
Plenary talk at Cumulus Budapest, the large design education conference, 2024: Form is Past, Shaping is Future.
Jazz guitar rendition of Mozart’s Fantasy in D minor
Interactive installation of all existing images “It’s an interesting feeling to look and imagine that if we observed each image for an attosecond, even over the lifespan of the universe, we could only…
Experimental jazz concert with Ádám Bögöthy at the Madách 200 Festival — visualizing the musical spaces we improvise in, from Bach to Billie Eilish.
Long interview on the path from tech optimism to sustainability and climate communication — Kitchen Budapest, Prezi and beyond.
Interview by Júlia Pokol in Építészfórum on architecture education — the BME versus Stockholm, mindset, collaboration and what should change (2021, in Hungarian).
It’s you and your content together on screen — the easiest way to drive engagement in your hybrid and virtual meetings.
BrainBar, Budapest, Hungary
EUvsVirus, Prezi - The Startup Journey, Virtual
Large pandemic-era interview on responsible technology use, remote work, distance learning and the family’s digital habits.
I have always been interested in, and experimenting with augmented reality, even as a young artist. At Prezi we have been looking into ways to bring similar experiences to widely available devices pe…
ARiA (AR in ACTION) MIT Media Lab, Boston, USA
AWE - Augmented World Expo, Munich, Germany
Taking Back Augmented Reality from The Terminator — talk at Tech Open Air, Berlin 2017 (video).
Talk on Prezi’s adoption of augmented reality — AR in ACTION, New York University.
Prezi’s AR demo at the TED Conference, Vancouver, April 2017.
I code therefore I am (Hungarian)
Guest lecture in the BME DLA school’s design methodology course, at the invitation of Balázs Mihály.
Interview on why programming should be taught as a joyful, liberating creative skill alongside reading and writing.
Interview on building Prezi from an artist’s personal tool in Budapest — and why it could not have started in Silicon Valley.
We co-founded Bridge Budapest in 2016 with six other startup founders to build an ethical and inspiring entrepreneurial culture in Hungary. Peter Arvai is the chair of the association, and Veronika Pi…
Nutshell was an iOS app that made it very simple to create short A.R. like stories using your phone. Take 3 pictures of the most interesting things around you, add comments / animations, and share it…
BrainBar, Budapest, Hungary
How and why to invent things — Vírus Klub, Budapest (Hungarian).
Robotics/electronics workshop for small kids @ Prezi
On stage at The Next Web Conference 2015, Amsterdam.
Budapest School is a truly revolutionary school network for elementary education. We participated in the initial founding and are proud shareholders. Anita designed the first physical school for BPS.
Panelist on “Central Europe — New Reality, New Energy?” at the Aspen Annual Conference, Prague.
Talk about Prezi at BpScienceMeetup / Kutatók Éjszakája (Hungarian).
Interview on Prezi’s origins as a personal zoomable presentation tool, and Budapest’s startup culture.
The Secret of Creativity, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
CNBC video interview on Hungary’s startup environment and Prezi’s international investment.
Full talk at CreativeMornings Budapest, January 2012.
Lecture on creative self-management at the Ernst Múzeum, April 2012 (Hungarian).
Long-form television interview by Alinda Veiszer — Zárora, Hungary.
Frontiers of Interaction, Florence, Italy
Television feature — Propaganda, Hungary.
CNBC Business magazine profile by Kester Eddy: “Can this Hungarian artist’s software really breathe life into any corporate presentation?”
Lecture at ETH Zürich, July 2010 — recorded on video.
Conference speaker at the Media Architecture Biennale 2010, Künstlerhaus Wien.
Panoramic Wifi Camera creates a live panoramic image of a space seen through Wifi radio and other 2.4 GHz radio signals – how they bounce back from the architecture, composing an image, just as light would do.
Prezi is a nonlinear presentation editor, with a very intuitive interface and support for online sharing. With the help of Prezi you can create dynamic and visually structured zooming presentations using texts, videos, d…
The Reconfigurable House is an environment constructed from thousands of low tech components that can be “rewired” by visitors. The project is a critique of ubiquitous computing “smart homes”, which are based on the idea…
The Reconfigurable House is an environment constructed from thousands of low tech components that can be “rewired” by visitors. The project is a critique of ubiquitous computing “smart homes”, which are based on the idea…
Exhibition about our work, methodologies, collaborations, and some actual experiments.
“Wifi Camera reveals the electromagnetic space of our devices and the shadows that we create within such spaces, in particular our wifi networks which are increasingly found in coffee shops, offices and homes throughout…
By allowing a diverse community to participate in the making of technology systems, new kinds of tangible beauty emerge — RCA London, May 2008.
Toy hacking workshop with Tinker.it at the Bartlett, London — opening cheap electronic toys to build new interactions.
hvg.hu on the Hungarian architect invited to the Venice Biennale’s central pavilion: who is Somlai-Fischer and why does this invitation matter? (In Hungarian.)
All mobile phone users have the opportunity to reach a friend almost anywhere and anytime. However, apart from the traditional use of our phones, we have other opportunities as well to communicate with our environment. B…
Aether Architecture lecture in the Bartlett International Lecture Series — Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL, November 2007.
Departing from Reorient, our installation for the 2006 Architecture Biennale in Venice , we have transformed the building of the Hungarian Institute in Paris with material we recycled from the Venice show, and added some…
Pimp my Gadget - hardware hacking workshop @ Kitchen Budapest with Massimo Banzi
Low-tech sensors and actuators workshop at Rome Design Week & University of Rome.
Low-tech workshop at IUAV University, School of Architecture, Venice.
Low-tech workshop at Domus Academy, Milan.
Interview by Marco Mancuso on aether architecture — Digicult, Italy.
Kitchen Budapest, opened in June 2007, is a new media lab for young researchers who are interested in the convergence of mobile communication, online communities and urban space and are passionate about creating experime…
Inverted World — proposal for the Budapest Municipality’s “Atlantisz” competition (aether architecture, 2006): a lenticular-print installation opening the floor of the Nyugati underpass onto Budapest’s hidden faces. (Text in Hungarian.)
Aleph is an experimental public display, that is using the spaces, people and objects it faces as a palette to display messages from hidden viewpoints. When looking at a small mirror, it reflects a fraction of the space…
Distributed Projection Structure is an architecture prototype where physical matter is animated by algorithmic light. Testing the limits of architectural constructions reaching the precision and resolution of media as we…
Genius Loci stands for the spirit of the place, a common phrase in architecture for the poetic context, for the cultural reading of a site. Ping, the most basic command in computer networking, is a sort of greeting among…
Reorient at the Venice Biennale of Architecture was a big success, already got further invitations.
Scattered House is an architectural experiment founded on a truly contemporary notion of space, where issues of ubiquitous connectivity, family diasporas, design-by-occupant, and public control technology come together i…
Wifi Camera reveals the electromagnetic space of our devices and the shadows that we create within such spaces, in particular our wifi networks which are increasingly found in coffee shops, offices and homes throughout c…
Low-tech workshop at Domus Academy + Ivrea Interaction Design, Milan.
Ping Genius Loci shown at Mal au Pixel, Paris.
Low-tech workshop at Goldsmiths College design department, London.
Interview about aether architecture and low-tech media art by Régine Debatty, 2006.
Proposal to create a giant conveyor belt to replace the highly overloaded motorways alongside the Danube in Budapest. A traffic jam is a pseudo-social space, people are close to each other and are forced to spend time to…
BrainMirror is an interactive experience where the image of the visitors brain appears mixed with his/her mirror image, using natural head movement as an interface to explore volumetric visuals of the human brain.
While roaming in Europe, Budapest Heat regularly receives SMS messages to stay updated on the current temperature in Budapest, then tries to apply this temperature to its local environment.
This report describes the results of a collaborative research project to develop a suite of low-tech sensors and actuators that might be useful for artists and architects working with interactive environments. With this…
Presented low-tech sensors and actuators at the first Dorkbot Budapest, November 2005.
Presenter at Trondheim Matchmaking 2005 (TEKS), Norway.
Presenter at the Crystalpunk Workshop for Soft Architecture, Utrecht.
Low Tech at Maker Faire, O’Reilly European Open Source Convention, Amsterdam, October 2005.
Concept for mobile phone users mapping the city by logging adjacent cell IDs, and building public services on top…
Flash implementation of Buckminster Fuller's concept
The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) created an ambitious project where the new achievements of bio-research are presented to the general public in a non scientific language.
Concept for public wells that heat and cool pools of water to match the temperature of remote seas and lakes. more soon…
Induction House — low-tech media architecture shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale: distributed projection structures, fish-tank interfaces and DIY media façades. The full project site is preserved below.
The purpose of NDA (National Digital Repository) is to organize and make Hungarian cultural content from public and private collections available for the public.
Media Embodiment workshop — physical, embodied interfaces built with media technology students, KTH Stockholm, spring 2004.
Induction House by AETHER (Nagy, Pozna & Somlai-Fischer) presented at ISEA2004, Helsinki.
Interaction design workshop at Konstfack with Jonas Öquist — students hacked toys into new social interactions, Stockholm 2004.
A 300X300X600 cm self-tensioned structure made out of fishing rods, plastic strings, lead weights, lambing gums and metal rings. As projection surface we used double-folded cash register paper rolls that were hanging in…
Aether induction house is an architecture prototype looking into ways of treating digital media as physical matter.
Kinetic Shadows — interactive shading benches proposed for the streets of Athens during the 2004 Olympics, with the Smart Studio.
Prototypes for expressive interfaces for public use of mobile phones. As these phones function as part of our personal expressions today, why not develop an interaction language which can be spectacular as well?
Qualities of virtual spaces are building up social conditions that architecture should respond to, the actual gets blurred with the virtual, local with the global, and our perception of space and architecture is going th…
The RemoteHome will be one place of living in two distant cities: London and Berlin. Communication and media technologies are creating new scenarios of sharing situations of friendship and intimacy over distance. The ris…
One-week workshop where first-year design students hacked electronic toys to create new social interactions — Konstfack, Stockholm.
Memory Scan Installation at magasin - Vienna Kerstin Nigsch and Adam Somlai-Fischer 25 February 2003
Fractal based cellular structure for genetic biology
We departed from looking at Kowloon Walled City, a unique phenomenon of non-governmental territory between British Hong Kong and communist China, that flourished in the second half of the last century. Its modernistic ho…
"Imagination (old/new): A term which today has a totally different, even opposite meaning. The "old imagination" is the ability to make images of (external or internal") circumstances, and the converse ability to recogni…
Biofeedback instrument mediating music to dance. A backpack, that turns the dance of the person wearing it into music. We have tested and documented on 20 people from the streets of Vienna and Budapest.
In his “Invisible cities“, Italo Calvino mentions the town Marozia, where spatial splits have been opened in some unexpected moments(1). Through these holes there is another city’s actual sight can be seen. Similarly, th…
The social habits for an architecture as media are already existing with the use of mobile phones, Internet, and so on. This condition makes these issues relevant for architects, looking into how material qualities can b…
A virtual structure designed through physical modelling, by informing the virtual with qualities of a physical model. The structure is responsive, it is aware of the visitors presence and redefines its geometry
Assistant teacher at A+URL, the postgraduate architecture + urban research programme at KTH Stockholm, from 2002.
Introductory design course for media technology students at KTH Stockholm — portals, installations and an exhibition, 2002.
Navigation design of the official website of Kis Péter Architects office in Budapest.
Interactive installation for a learning lab — showers of words and images triggered by visitors, KTH Stockholm, spring 2002.
Meta L Hyttan Digital Model for an interactive media installation developed by the SMART studio at the Interactive Institute, Stockholm 2002
Poiesis of Spaces — course on poetic, mediated spaces for media technology students, KTH Stockholm, 2002.
PoP (Project or Proposal) — five-week summer architecture course at KTH Stockholm, 2002.
Reality: What we perceive as reality is a tiny detail from the field of possibilities surging around us, which our nervous system has realized through computation. If all reality is a computation from possibilities, then…
A text composed by displacement. The history of a travel. Discover the dynamics of the spiral, moving around of an interior landscape, always getting further from the centre and returning to the principles. Advance in th…
Satellite Algorithms Fictional entity playing complexity science Adam Somlai-Fischer, A+Url 2001 fall
Architectural Design Competition with Peter Kis architect First prize
The vertical rainstructure penetrated by volumes of light creates rainbow. The space of the refracted light, a zone whose soft limits could be percepted through the vanishing color bows... Peter Sandor Nagy & Adam Somlai Fischer competition entry for Shinkenchiku architecture competition