Ágnes Kaszás
Ágnes Kaszás

Ágnes Kaszás

CYENS Residency Program / EDMEDIA

Biography

Ágnes Kaszás is a Hungarian actor, director, art and tech game designer, and entrepreneur based in Helsinki and Budapest. In 2014, she introduced the escape game concept to Finland and founded, designed, and directed her room escape company, Insideout Escape Games, which operated for 9 years in Helsinki.

Between 2015 and 2019, she created and produced numerous art and tech edutainment concepts for companies such as Veikkaus, Silja Line, OAJ-Finnish Ministry Of Education, and was a guest teacher at Haaga-Helia University Of Applied Sciences. In 2017, with her company, she scripted and directed Escape Train, a 13-hour, 1000 km-long immersive theatre show set on a speeding train through Finland for VR Finnish National Railways based on the 20th Century Fox movie “Murder On The Orient Express.” This production won two Bronze awards in the Eurobest Creative Festival.

Between 2019 and 2022 she founded IOP Games, a video game development company delivering immersive digital games for young adults on the majority of Silja Tallink’s vessels.

 

Link to Website

AI & I: The Artist, the Algorithm, and the Audience by Ágnes Kaszás