ABOUT
Anna has a range of experience as a social researcher as well as working in the cultural sector as a facilitator, curator and engagement coordinator. In 2024, she won a scholarship to undertake a PhD in Experimental Research through Design, Art & Technologies at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen. She holds an MScR from the Health Humanities and Arts program at the University of Edinburgh, an MLitt in Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) from the Glasgow School of Art and a BA in Cultural Management & Art Theory from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. She is a motivated curator with a passion for collaborative and interdisciplinary practices. She is the founder and/or member of various arts collectives: szabadonbalaton, BÜRO imaginaire, Roundabout and BRUT.
Interdisciplinarity, social justice, and an attention to more-than-human worlds are at the core of her practice. She’s worked on projects concerned with creative engagements around physical and mental health, contributed to research on macro-narratives’ influence on identity formation, and initiated participatory processes to highlight the social entanglements of urban playgrounds. Currently, her focus is on multispecies food systems. Through ethnographic and arts-based research, she catalyses an understanding of producing and consuming edible plants through an ecological lens.
She has previously worked with BALATORIUM, Šopa Gallery, Zentrum für Netzkunst, Ars Electronica, Glasgow Artists’ Moving Image Studios, Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival and OFF Biennale Budapest among others. See: Projects
Originally from Hungary, she studied in Germany, Scotland and Italy. She is now based in Italy. She plays bike polo, makes zines and upcycles clothes.
TALKS/PRESENTATIONS
10th Ethnography and Qualitative Research International Conference (ERQ)
Panel: Rethinking the role of ethnography in more-than-human participatory research and design
Presentation: ‘Farm to fork entanglements: Using arts-based methods to “retrace” the socialities of the asparagus plant’
University of Trento, Italy, July 2025
International Society for Ethnology and Folklore SIEF 2025
Panel: Eating our ways to the future: unwriting heritage and ecological futures
Presentation: Playing with food – using art-based methods to map the socialities of the asparagus plant
University of Aberdeen, June 2025
By Design and by Disaster Conference 2025
Workshop: Rivers as Assemblages: A Visit to the Confluence
with Renata Berta
University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
22nd International Play Association Triennial World Conference
Presenting the short film ‘Once there is space, there is breath’, reflecting on the play of adolescent young people through movement and building
Glasgow, Scotland, June 2023
BALATORIUM Ecological Weekend
with BÜRO imaginaire
As part of the event: The wine of the future, the future of wine
Örvényes, Hungary, August 2022
Reclaiming Our Heritage Legacy event
Scottish Mental Health and Arts Festival
online, March 2022
2nd Biennial Conference on Food & Communication
Discourses on the future of food
Ljubljana, September 2021 (remotely)
Artist talk: Our Stadium
with Marija Nemčenko
Laboratory of Critical Urbanism, European Humanities University
online, July 2021
PUBLICATIONS
Tudos, A. What does urban play mean beyond the playground?, The BINKS Hub blog, July 2024
https://binks-hub.ed.ac.uk/what-does-urban-play-mean-beyond-the-playground/
Gedeon, G. T. , Gschanes, S., Tüdős, A., Szalipszki J., Mucsi, E., Walk Under the Midnight Sun. Mapping Capsicum Ecologies. Footprint: delft architecture theory journal, 17(2) 2024, 123-134.
https://doi.org/10.59490/footprint.17.2
Tudos, A., It’s hard to win – using gaming to help imagine better playing fields, Flash Art Czech & Slovak Edition, NO 69 Vol XVI – 2023
Mit jelent a tájba lassulni? – A 2022-es ökológiai x kulturális hétvége SLOWWALK eseménysorozatáról (in Hungarian), Balatorium Bázis, 2023, online
Tudos, A., Nemcenko, M., The right to public space, the right to movement in cities, 6th issue of „Į“ Magazine from Kaunas , Futures of the City, Kauno fotografijos galerija, 2022
Tudos, A., Czene, M., Fridvalszki, M., Versions, Fragments or Inaccessible Works? Conservation Approaches to Media Art Installations and Net Art Works in the Collection of the C³ Centre for Culture & Communication Foundation, New Media Museums //Proceedings// : Collecting and Preserving Media Arts Reader, 2022, online: https://newmediamuseums.multiplace.org/doku.php?id=proceedings
Tudos, A., Szalipszki, J., Cooking with Stones In: On the Same Page, Kálmán, R., Páldi, L., Sevic, K. (eds.) OFF- Biennale Budapest, 2022
Illustrated by Indrė Šimkutė
Tudos, A., Playing meaningfully In: Brut: Boredom: High Rises, Emptiness and Play. Hatherley, O., Leslie, C., Mitha, H. & Hollis, E., Nemcenko, M., Hudson, E. (eds.), City Heritage Trust & 101 Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania, 2019, p. 54-86.
GET IN TOUCH
Anna is always interested in collaborations worldwide. If you want to chat, don’t hesitate in reaching out.
panka[at]tudos.hu