Overview

The Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts and Walter’s Cube have developed an innovative project that creates detailed 3D digital documentation of graduate exhibitions across all artistic disciplines, capturing works from painting, sculpture, graphics, and intermedia departments in three exhibition venues. This groundbreaking initiative not only ensures permanent digital accessibility of student works beyond physical exhibitions but also provides graduating artists with sophisticated 3D documentation for their portfolios, setting a new standard for how art institutions worldwide could approach the preservation and presentation of emerging artistic talent.

The Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, in partnership with Walter’s Cube, has pioneered an innovative digital documentation project that creates comprehensive 3D scans of graduate exhibitions across all artistic disciplines. Using advanced scanning technology, the initiative produces precise digital twins of three distinct exhibition venues within the Academy, capturing works from painting, sculpture, graphics, and intermedia departments in unprecedented detail. These digital replicas go beyond traditional documentation methods by allowing viewers to virtually navigate through the exhibition spaces and examine individual artworks from multiple angles.

The project serves two critical purposes in advancing artistic education and career development. First, it addresses the Academy’s strategic need to make graduate exhibitions permanently accessible in digital form, ensuring that student work lives beyond the temporal constraints of physical exhibitions. Second, it provides graduating artists with sophisticated documentation of their work through detailed 3D representations that can be integrated into their professional portfolios. This digital archive becomes particularly valuable for artists’ future opportunities, allowing them to share their early works with curators, galleries, and potential collaborators worldwide.

By successfully merging traditional artistic presentation with cutting-edge digital technology, the Academy has created a forward-thinking model for art documentation. This innovative approach not only preserves the creative output of emerging artists but also sets a new standard that could influence how art institutions worldwide approach the documentation and presentation of student work. The project demonstrates how digital technology can enhance rather than replace traditional art exhibition practices, creating new possibilities for artistic preservation and presentation.

The 3D model of Lisa Arnika Glauser’s work at the Best of Diploma exhibition in the Parthenon-Frieze Hall at the
Hungarian University of Fine Arts, made by Walter’s Cube

Partners

Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts
Walter’s Cube

Key Features

Full 3D digital documentation of exhibition spaces
Online accessibility for graduate student artwork
Permanent digital portfolio resource for emerging artists

Project Goals

Preserve and showcase student artwork in a digital format
Provide young artists with a professional digital record of their early works
Create an innovative archival platform for artistic documentation

The 3D model of Dániel Rozinyák’s work at the Best of Diploma exhibition in the Barcsay Hall at the
Hungarian University of Fine Arts, made by Walter’s Cube

The 3D scanning of graduate shows is an innovative project by the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts and Walter’s Cube to create a comprehensive 3D documentation of graduate exhibitions across all disciplines, including painting, sculpture, graphics and intermedia. This project transforms traditional exhibition documentation by providing a digital twin of physical exhibition spaces, ensuring that graduate artworks are captured, preserved and easily shared for future professional opportunities.

The Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts has pioneered an innovative digital archiving initiative in collaboration with Walter’s Cube, creating a groundbreaking platform that transforms how graduate artwork is documented, preserved, and shared across multiple artistic disciplines.

This comprehensive digital documentation project comprehensively captures the graduate shows from all academic departments, including painting, sculpture, graphic design, and intermedia arts. By leveraging advanced 3D scanning and documentation technologies, the project creates precise digital twin spaces of three distinct exhibition venues within the Academy, offering an unprecedented level of detail and accessibility.

The primary objective of this initiative is multifaceted. First, it responds to the Academy’s strategic need to make graduate exhibitions digitally available, ensuring that student artwork transcends physical exhibition limitations. Second, it provides emerging artists with a critical professional resource – a permanent, high-quality digital record of their early artistic works that can be integrated into their individual portfolios.

Each digital documentation encompasses:

Comprehensive 3D spatial reconstruction of exhibition venues
Detailed digital representation of individual artworks
Immersive online exhibition experiences
Permanent archival documentation for each graduate’s artistic journey

For young artists, this project represents more than mere documentation. It offers a sophisticated digital platform that can serve multiple professional purposes: portfolio development, artistic showcase, and long-term preservation of creative output. The digital archive becomes a dynamic resource that supports artists’ future career opportunities, allowing them to present their foundational works with unprecedented clarity and accessibility.

By bridging traditional artistic presentation with cutting-edge digital technology, the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts has created an innovative model for art documentation that could potentially be replicated by educational institutions worldwide, setting a new standard in preserving and presenting emerging artistic talent.