VR/NP is an interdisciplinary artist and currently a PhD student at KU Leuven/LUCA School of Arts in Belgium.
Her doctoral research focus departed from visualizing social plasticity in interdisciplinary, collaborative creations through digital media arts, with an inevitable shift inward in human-computer, human-AI interaction design. She has been investigating hybrid, co-creative processes to understand how bottom-up collaborations (de)form and evolve.
She has also been prototyping interactive, open-ended design structures to examine digital tools as equally important and effective and impactful narrative systems. Experimenting with this narrative aspect, she also collaborated with numerous music producers and sound designers across the European DIY and experimental music scene like Roberto Auser (NL), and sound designer and sociologist Myroslava Kuts (UA). Romhány’s artworks use deconstructive analysis with a speculative reconstruction, portraying mostly paradoxical situations in virtual, laboratory environments, focusing on the digitized, automated human/body.
Her artistic practice and research focuses on appropriative methods and unreliable storytelling to reflect on the complexities of the digital, non-destructive realm we inhabit, work and through we socialize.
The often sarcastic, dark-toned works aim to encourage specifically self-critical thinking: critical thinking about technology's procedural and persuasive influence on identity production; let it be either personal or collective knowledge.
She often uses screen recordings of performative software-testing to treat creation as ‘performance’(Please, Do Not Touch, 2018); explanatory videos (Footnote, 2023, and Der Bau: White Heaven, 2020) or interactive narration for deceptive storytelling (Sensing Chamber, 2023 or Denkraum, 2024). She examines how digital tools and interfaces can control interactions and self-expression: our ways to access (and to create new) knowledge in the algorithmic era. These projects –mostly with a dystopic setting– highlight these sociopolitical (and historically colonial, biased) dependencies built into the digital tools.
Moreover, she uses the theme of self-actualization through storytelling as a feminist and critical approach while analysing the limits of ‘sharing and understanding’ in this multidisciplinary context. She follows the argument that while interfaces are becoming more and more personalized, this customization is very often external and therefore controlling(Foster,2022) –and it brings the danger of losing our capabilities of objective judgement and self-positioning by filtering out the ‘less likely’ of our digital perception.
The often sarcastic, dark-toned works aim to encourage specifically self-critical thinking: critical thinking about technology's procedural and persuasive influence on identity production; let it be either personal or collective knowledge.
She often uses screen recordings of performative software-testing to treat creation as ‘performance’(Please, Do Not Touch, 2018); explanatory videos (Footnote, 2023, and Der Bau: White Heaven, 2020) or interactive narration for deceptive storytelling (Sensing Chamber, 2023 or Denkraum, 2024). She examines how digital tools and interfaces can control interactions and self-expression: our ways to access (and to create new) knowledge in the algorithmic era. These projects –mostly with a dystopic setting– highlight these sociopolitical (and historically colonial, biased) dependencies built into the digital tools.
Moreover, she uses the theme of self-actualization through storytelling as a feminist and critical approach while analysing the limits of ‘sharing and understanding’ in this multidisciplinary context. She follows the argument that while interfaces are becoming more and more personalized, this customization is very often external and therefore controlling(Foster,2022) –and it brings the danger of losing our capabilities of objective judgement and self-positioning by filtering out the ‘less likely’ of our digital perception.
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LUCA / KU Leuven Associate -- Ph.D. candidate in the Arts (2021 - Present)
PhD Candidate -- FilmEU RIT (2022-Present)
AI Summer School, KU Leuven (BE) 2024
Law, ethics, and policy of Artificial Intelligence
Hungarian University of Fine Arts
MA, artist-teacher, (2011-2013)
MA, painter artist, (2009 - 2013)
2025 ACAX/Residency Unlimited , New York (US)
2023 Vasarely Foundation, Residency, Aix-en-Provence(FR)
2022 Budapest Gallery Residency program: Salzburg(AT)
2017 Agosto Foundation Residency, Prague(CZ)
2011 ESBAM, Marseille (FR)
Member of MŰTŐ since 2017 - non-profit artist-run gallery in Budapest (HU
Member of Hungarian Studio of Young Artists’ Association since 2011
National Conference of Scientific Students’ Associations (OMDK) category of photography, 2nd place, 2009
LOKART FESTIVAL(HU) Special Prize - Vasarely Foundation(FR), 2023
PhD Candidate -- FilmEU RIT (2022-Present)
AI Summer School, KU Leuven (BE) 2024
Law, ethics, and policy of Artificial Intelligence
Hungarian University of Fine Arts
MA, artist-teacher, (2011-2013)
MA, painter artist, (2009 - 2013)
2025 ACAX/Residency Unlimited , New York (US)
2023 Vasarely Foundation, Residency, Aix-en-Provence(FR)
2022 Budapest Gallery Residency program: Salzburg(AT)
2017 Agosto Foundation Residency, Prague(CZ)
2011 ESBAM, Marseille (FR)
Member of MŰTŐ since 2017 - non-profit artist-run gallery in Budapest (HU
Member of Hungarian Studio of Young Artists’ Association since 2011
National Conference of Scientific Students’ Associations (OMDK) category of photography, 2nd place, 2009
LOKART FESTIVAL(HU) Special Prize - Vasarely Foundation(FR), 2023
2023
- Data Imagination, LUCA School of Arts, Ghent (BE)
- Common Ground - Chimera / MŰTŐ group, Vienna (AT)
- Footnote on a Neuron Scream, solo show, Discotec, Vienna(AT)
- Illusion, LOKART FESTIVAL, Pécs (HU)
2022
- NOAHSTAS - BLACK BILE. Tájidegen Test. EXILES RECORD LABEL(HU). Music video clip
- This Untamed Field I Know Well - group show with the members of MŰTŐ about MŰTŐ, Budapest Gallery (HU)
- Untold In Unfold Waters - duo show with Lili Agg, Curated by Zsofia Kókai at U10 Gallery, Belgrade, (RS)
2020-21- online collaborations
MMN CHANNEL(HU) - experimental video series for music clips, collaboration with ROBERTO AUSER(NL) ÚJ BÁLA(HU), QVIRK(HU)
NEMEROV(HU) JEREMIAH SOFT(HU) ALPÁR(HU)RAPHA(IR)
collaborative project with ÁBRIS GRYLLUS for his ALBUM release at DEATH OF RAVE LABEL(UK)
collaborative project with FOR(HU) for their album VACUUM at EXILES RECORD LABEL(HU)
collaborative project with MYROSLAVA KUTS(UA) for her album SLEEP DISORDERS at OFF RECORD LABEL(BE)
2020
- SAUNA - one-channel video, collaboration with Ráhal Anna Molnár, SWEAT at AQB, Budapest(HU)
- White Heaven - solo exhibition, MŰTŐ - Budapest (HU)
2019
- LOOP - group show, MŰTŐ - Budapest (HU)
- The Tidal Flood Beneath the Lunar Sway – group show, Lateral Art Space – Cluj-Napoca (RO)
- Future Motion – Artstays Festival – Ptuj (SL)
- Night Shop Screening – Nightshop Chez Madeleine, Brussels (BE)
- Helsinki Independent Art Fair with MŰTŐ (HU), Helsinki (FI)
- MIART 2019 –with Horizont Gallery, Milano (IT)
- Acidic Taste – group show, Durden & Ray Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)
- Der Bau – video projection with Fausto Mercier – MŰTŐ, Budapest (HU)
2018
- Scale – group show – New Budapest Gallery, Budapest (HU)
- Fluid Like a Gel – solo show at Gallery 209, Brno (CZ)
- Gallery Weekend Budapest (HU)
- In Need Of.. – group show – Brass’art, Brussels (BE)
- Plastik Peristaltik – a collaboration with Rebeka Racz (HU) aka Rebuceramics and Lanuk(HU) –
- Lollipop Factory Budapest
- POPPOSITIONS – solo projekt with Horizont Gallery(HU) – Brussels(BE)
- Breakout – SUPERMARKET 2018, Stockholm(SE)
- Please Do Not Touch! – solo exhibition – Horizont Gallery, Budapest(HU)
- Please Do Not Touch! Let’s Entropy – solo exhibition – Punctum, Prague (CZ)
- (Agosto Foundation Residency)
2017
- Falafel Island, group exhibition, Falafel Sziget, Budapest(HU)
- Illusive Estate, group exhibition, Colloredo-Mansfeld Palace, Prague(CZ)
- NERO – solo exhibition, Horizont Gallery, Budapest(HU)