Draft:Susan Kosti

Susan Kosti (Zsuzsanna Koszti) (born 20 September 1986) is a media artist, stage designer and film director who lives and work in Sydney, Australia. She works with large-scale public artworks and projection mapping that combine light, music, and modern technology.

Early life
Born in Paris, Kosti studied Media Design course in Fine Art at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. While undertaking her studies, she created visuals and stage designs for Punnany Massif. After her graduation in Budapest, she moved to Sydney in 2019.

Career
Kosti began working in music and visuals as part of the Hungarian pop-rock band, Punnany Massif. In this period she directed a music video, created live visuals and stage designs for the band. She started to work with live visuals and 3D animation in 2010, and she designed her first stage design in 2016 at Mupa Budapest. During her studies, she directed music videos and made her first short film, IM Perfekt. Her research focused on transhumanism and cyborg s. In 2018, she gave a TED talk titled "Invisible Cyborgism".

In 2019, Kosti was invited to be the art director for the Ring Cycle by Richard Wagner, collaborating with Hartmut Schorghofer during the Wagner days in Budapest. In 2021 she showcased her work on the Guinness World Record Projection Mapping Freefire and Limelight in Las Vegas. In 2022 Hajogyar created an autobiographical documentary, detailing the journey of her life and works which was followed by her first collaboration with Cinema Mystica, the first immersive exhibition in Budapest. In 2021 she began her research on datasets and in 2023 she debuted with her first data visualization project What Lies Beneath on Vivid Sydney. What Lies Beneath then was invited to the largest light festival in Hungary, the Zsolnay Light Festival. In 2023 she was invited to collaborate with Es Devlin and Luke Halls for the 52ND UAE Union Day in Dubai.

in 2024 Istituto Marangoni invited Kosti to give an immersive workshop at Kanvas Dubai. 'Design in Immersive Environments' was a collaboration with Kanvas Dubai where Kosti demonstrated one of her projects with the help of graphic design software and projection mapping.

Awards
Kosti has received film-making awards. She won the audience award at the Foresight Film Festival and was named best female director at the Independent Days Internationales Film Festival. Her short film IM Perfekt was nominated at the Highlights of Hungary.