Alexander Kremer
(SZTE, Hungarian Forum for Somaesthetics), habil. associate professor
Alexander Kremer is a habilitated associate professor of philosophy at the University of Szeged, Hungary. His professional field of interest includes hermeneutics, ethics, aesthetics, and pragmatism, especially neopragmatism. He is the author of four books (Chapters from the History of Western Philosophy from Thales to Hume (1997, Hungarian); Why Did Heidegger Become Heidegger? (2001, Hungarian); Basic Ethics (2004, Hungarian); Philosophy of the Late Richard Rorty (2016, Hungarian)) and has published numerous articles on philosophical hermeneutics, Richard Rorty’s neopragmatism, and Richard Shusterman’s somaesthetics. He is the editor in chief of Pragmatism Today, head of the Hungarian Forum of Somaesthetics, and was a Visiting Fulbright Professor at the UNCC (NC).
Bálint Veres
(MOME), habil. associate professor
Bálint Veres is a tenured Associate Professor of Art and Design Philosophy at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest (MOME). Specializing in music, media, architecture, and design, he is the head of a PhD-in-practice Program at MOME Doctoral School. Formerly acted as a regular music critic and curator of contemporary music festivals. Currently he is working on a book co-edited with Richard Shusterman, Somaesthetics and Design Culture.
Attila Horányi
(MOME), associate professor
Attila Horányi is the director of the Institute for Theoretical Studies at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. He has an MA in Art History and a PhD in Aesthetics, both from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. Dr. Horányi was a Fulbright scholar at the Cultural Anthropology Department at Northwestern University. He received the Kállai Grant for three years and is the recipient of the prestigeous Németh Lajos Prize (given to art historians and art critics), for one of his book reviews he received the Opus Mirabile Prize and was awarded the Art Critic Prize by the Horváth Art Foundation. He has been the member of numerous boards, the most notable of which was the Photography Board of the National Cultural Fund, which he also led for two years. Between 2015 and 2017 he chaired the Capa Grand Prize Jury. Dr. Horányi frequently organizes conferences in art history, theory of photography and visual culture. His areas of research include photography theory, design theory, and the philosophy of art and art history. Besides teaching and researching he enjoys writing reviews for various art magazines. Presently he serves as the president of the Hungarian Section of AICA, the International Association of Art Critics.
Botond Csuka
(Hungarian University of Sports Science, Budapest) assistant professor
Botond Csuka is an assistant professor at the Department of Social Sciences at the Hungarian University of Sports Science, Budapest. He earned his MA and PhD in Aesthetics at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest (2020). His primary research interests lie in the eighteenth-century history of ideas and history of aesthetics, particularly how the early modern cooperation of philosophy, science, and art shaped our modern understanding of the human body.