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Tamás Waliczky
b. 1959 in Budapest, Hungary.
Animator, painter, computer animator. Has been working with computers since 1983.
Presently employed by the Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) Karlsruhe as artist and computer animation researcher, and by the HBK Saar as Guest Professor.
Between 1968-74, made animated cartoon films and comics; between 1974-80, private studies in drawing and painting. 1980-82 was employed by Pannonia Animation Film Studio, Budapest. 1983-87 was employed by Caesar CG Studio as a computer-game graphic designer; 1988 was employed by Novotrade Software Studio as graphic designer; began at Halas & Batchelor Co., London as computer animator, where he completed his first computer animations, Pictures and Is there any room for me here? In 1989 was a co-founder of Novotrade CG Studio, and in 1990 was named its Director. In 1991 named co-Director of Wallada Bioscop Ltd. Lectured at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest. In 1992, invited by the ZKM, Karlsruhe to complete The Garden computer animation, during a year-long stipendium, and in 1994 became employed by the ZKM Karlsruhe. In 1996 was on the international advisory committee of the Board of C3 in Budapest. Has been guest-professor at Hochschule der Bildenden Kunste Saar since 1997.
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Selected exhibitions
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| 1982 |
| Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna |
| 1983 |
| Faculty of Philosophy, ELTE (Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences), Budapest |
| 1986 |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Digitart I (First National Computer Art Competition), Budapest
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| 1988 |
| Galérie Robert Doisneau, Nancy, France |
| 1989 |
| Techni-Colour Exhibition, Gallery Alberto Pivi, Milan, Italy |
| | "No Name" Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland |
| 1990 |
| Digitart II, Budapest |
| | Hungarian Artists and the Computer, Lille, France |
| | Tendances Multiples, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Paris Cité, Paris |
| | Passages de l'Image, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
MoMI (Museum of the Moving Image), London
Galérie 172, Paris
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| | EL Art exhibition, Retretti Art Center, Finland |
| | Un Art de Machines? (Exhibition of Electronic Images), Reze, France |
| 1991 |
| Fujita Vente, Tokyo |
| 1992 |
| ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie), Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 1993 |
| Medionale, Hamburg, Germany
Universita di Salerno, Salerno, Italy
Creative Computing Theatre, Milan, Italy
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| | Multimediale 3, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 1994 |
| Europa-Europa, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn |
| | Version 1.0, Geneva, Switzerland |
| | Videonale, Bonn |
| | La Metafort, Aubervilliers, France |
| | L' Image de Synthese (ICONO), La Province de Hainaut, Aihm, Belgium |
| | Techno Art, Ontario Science Centre, Ontario (Canada) |
| | Electronie d'Arte e Altre Scritture Festival, Turin, Milan, Bologna, Florence, Rome, Italy |
| 1995 |
| Pecci Museum, Prato-Florence, Italy
Link, Bologna, Italy
Agave-Atelier Gluck, Milan, Italy
Doks, Turin, Italy
Lavatoio Contumaciale, Rome
Spaziotempo Gallery, Florence, Italy
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
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| | ARSLAB, Turin, Italy |
| | Biennial de Lyon, Lyon, France |
| 1996 |
| The Butterfly Effect, Mûcsarnok (Kunsthalle), Budapest |
| | NTT/ICC Gallery, Tokyo |
| | Jenseits von Kunst / Beyond Art, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria;
Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia
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Fesztiválok
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| 1988 |
| Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria |
| | P.L.E.I.A.S. Festival, Paris |
| 1989 |
| Art Interfaces with the Computer symposium, Rennes, France |
| | Video-Visions, Frankfurt, Germany |
| | Europa Electronica, Naples, Italy |
| | 10e Journées Internationales de la Photographie et de l'Audiovisuel, Montpellier, France |
| | SCAN Video Festival, Tokyo |
| | Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria |
| | Geneva Video Festival, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 1990 |
| IMAGINA 9th Monte Carlo International Forum on New Images, Monte Carlo, Monaco |
| | Trevisocartoon, Treviso, Italy |
| | Video Festival of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy |
| | SIGGRAPH, Dallas, Texas (USA) |
| | Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria |
| | SISEA, Groningen, The Netherlands |
| | Los Angeles International Film Festival, Los Angeles |
| 1991 |
| IMAGINA 10th Monte Carlo International Forum on New Images, Monte Carlo, Monaco |
| | IVCA Festival, London |
| | Modern Dance Theater, New York
via Video Umbrella, London, Tamás Waliczky's films were shown at:
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| Video Positive, Liverpool; City Art Gallery, Plymouth;
Cornerhouse Cinema, Manchester; Pimlico, London;
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Ed Video Media Centre, Guelph, Canada |
| Canada |
| Hungarian Advertising Film Festival, Budapest |
| | SIGGRAPH, Las Vegas, Nevada (USA) |
| | Videoart XII: Festival et Forum International de Locarno, Locarno, Switzerland |
| | Los Angeles International Animation Celebration, Los Angeles (USA) |
| | Fukui Video Festival, Fukui, Japan |
| | Berlin I.F.A. (International Animation Festival), Berlin |
| | VideoLACE: Cyberspatial Intersections, L.A.C.E., Los Angeles (USA) |
| 1992 |
| Le Festival du Dessin Animé et du Film d'Animation, Brussels |
| | New-York-SIGGRAPH '92, New York |
| | TISEA, Sydney, Australia |
| 1993 |
| IMAGINA 11th Monte Carlo International Forum on New Images, Monte Carlo, Monaco |
| | MEDIAWAVE '93, Gyõr, Hungary |
| | SINTESI '93 (Second Computer Animation International Review), Lugano, Switzerland |
| | WRO'93 Sound Base Arts Festival, Wroclaw, Poland |
| | AVICOM '93, Porderone, Italy |
| | MUU Media Festival, Helsinki, Finland |
| | Brouhaha Movie Festival, Budapest |
| | Observatoire de l'Image, Paris |
| | SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles (USA) |
| | London Film Festival, London |
| | OSTranenie '93, Bauhaus Dessau, Germany |
| | Mediatech, Premio Imagine, Milan, Italy |
| | Computer Art, Media Art, Budapest |
| 1994 |
| Trieste Film Festival, Trieste, Italy |
| | Adelaide Festival, Brisbane, Australia |
| | A.S.T.A.R.T.I. Image Mutations, Paris |
| | Iconographics, Milan, Italy |
| | Medienkunsttage Mainz, Mainz, Germany |
| | 7. Internationales Trickfilm Festival, Stuttgart, Germany |
| | Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong |
| | Bit Movie '94, Riccione, Italy |
| | Les Rendez-vous d'IMAGINA, Paris |
| | IRRTON (Festival Virtueller Irritation), Berlin |
| | Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria |
| | Video Art, Locarno-Lago Maggiore, Locarno, Switzerland |
| | Videonale 6, Bonn |
| 1995 |
| MEDIAWAVE '95, Gyõr, Hungary |
| | MULTIMEDIALE 4, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| | ISEA '95, Montréal, Québec (Canada) |
| | 4th International Festival Films & Videos "Autour de la Naissance," Paris |
| 1996 |
| CD-Rom: Burning the Interface, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia |
| | 8. Internationales Trickfilm Festival, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 1997 |
| Spring Atelier, MTA (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Pécs, Hungary |
Performances
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| 1991 |
| Theatre Municipal, Etampes, France |
| 1992 |
| 1992 SZKÉNÉ, Budapest |
Computer works
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| 1986 |
| Figures 1-8 (computer graphic series) |
| | Message (b/w print) |
| | Room (computer graphic) |
| 1987 |
| Human Motions (Computer Mobiles) |
| 1988 |
| Pictures (computer animation, 5 min.) |
| | Is There Any Room for Me Here? (computer animation, 4 min.) |
| 1989 |
| Machines (computer graphic series) |
| 1990 |
| Memory of Moholy-Nagy (computer animation, in two versions: 4.5 min., and 15 min.
with documentary sections; John Halas, Halas & Batchelor, Education Film Centre)
Music (short version): Llaszló Kiss; (long version): Boris Karadimchev
Distributed by: (in USA) Museum of Modern Art, (in UK) The Roland Collection
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| | Conversation (interactive live performance/audio-visual duet, approx. 30 min.; Joel
Boutteville)
Visual Instruments: Tamás Waliczky; Musical Instruments: Tibor Szemzõ
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| 1992 |
| The Garden (21st Century Amateur Film),
and Studies for The Garden, (computer animation, with Anna Szepesi, 4.5 min.each; Wallada Bioscop Ltd., Budapest / ZKM, Karlsruhe / CIRAD Laboratoire du Modellisation, Montpellier)
Composer: Szemzõ Tibor
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| 1993 |
| Der Wald (computer animation, with Anna Szepesi, 5 min.; ZKM, Karlsruhe) |
| | The Forest (interactive flight simulation platform application, in collaboration with Sebastian Egner and Jeffrey Shaw; ZKM, Karlsruhe) |
| 1994 |
| The Way (computer animation, with Anna Szepesi, 3 min.; ZKM, Karlsruhe) |
| 1995 |
| Asylsymphony (computer animation for Bojidar Spassow's music, 10 min.; ZKM,
Karlsruhe)
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| 1996 |
| Trilogy, 1992-96 (Der Wald, The Way, The Garden) (computer animation/installation,
with Anna Szepesi, video version 11.5 min.)
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| 1997 |
| Landscape (computer animation, with Anna Szepesi, 3 min.; ZKM Institut für Bildmedien,
Karlsruhe)
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CD-Rom
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| 1994 |
| ICC Artists' Database, Working Research Version, ICC Tokyo |
| 1995 |
| ARTINTACT 2, Artists' Interactive CD-Rom Magazine, ZKM Karlsruhe (with Miroslaw Rogala and Jeffrey Shaw) |
| | Lost Boundaries, Stroom hcbk, The Netherlands |
| | 3e biennale d'art contemporain de lyon (interactive interviews and documents), Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Lyon, France
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| 1997 |
| Revue virtuelle (Actualising the Virtual), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris |
| | ICC Artists' Database, Working Research Version 1997, NTT/ICC, Tokyo |
Lectures
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| 1989 |
| Art Interfaces with the Computer Symposium, Rennes, France |
| | Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria |
| 1990 |
| IMAGINA 9th Monte Carlo International Forum on New Images, Monte Carlo, Monaco |
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| 1992 |
| ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Institut für Mediengestaltung und Medientechnologie, Mainz, Germany
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| | Hinterhaus & Artist im Exil, Wiesbaden, Germany |
| 1993 |
| MEDIONALE, Hamburg, Germany |
| | MEDIAWAVE '93, Gyõr, Hungary |
| | Video Arte, Xornadas de Infografia, Vigo, Spain |
| 1994 |
| Espace Electra, Paris |
| | Métafort Symposium, Aubervilliers, France |
| 1995 |
| V2_Organisation, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| | La Filature - Mulhouse, Strasbourg, France |
| | Art School of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France |
| | Art School of Pforzhaim, Pforzhaim, Germany |
| 1994 |
| NTT/ICC Gallery, Tokyo |
| | Mûcsarnok (Kunsthalle), Budapest |
| 1994 |
| Spring Atelier, MTA (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Pécs, Hungary |
Grants and Awards
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| 1986 |
| Third Prize, Digitart Computer Graphics Festival, Budapest |
| 1988 |
| Honorary Mention, Animation Category, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria |
| | First and Second prizes in 2D and 3D categories, P.L.E.I.A.S. Festival, Paris |
| 1989 |
| Golden Nica, Computer Graphics Category, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria |
| 1990 |
| one month stipendium, AII ENSAD Studio (Paris) with the grant of the CNAP |
| | Honorary Mention, Interactive Category, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria |
| 1991 |
| Third Prize, art category, IMAGINA Festival, Monte Carlo, Monaco |
| | World Graph Prize, Locarno Videoart Festival, Locarno, Switzerland |
| | Festival Prize, Berlin International Animation Festival, Berlin |
| | Best Animated Film Prize, Hungarian Advertising Film Festival, Budapest |
| | Honorary Mention, education category, IVCA Festival, London |
| 1993 |
| Special prize, Polish Television Channel2, and the Festival's Art Director, WRO'93 |
| | Sound Base Arts Festival, Wroclaw, Poland |
| 1994 |
| Honorary Mention, Animation Category, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria |
| | First Prize, 3D workstation category, Bit.Movie '94 Festival, Riccione, Italy |
| | Special Prize of the Jury, Locarno Videoart Festival, Locarno, Switzerland |
| | First Prize, Electronie d'Arte e Altre Scritture Festival, Turin, Milan, Bologna, Florence,
Rome, Italy
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| 1996 |
| Commission for an interactive artwork for the Year of Photography and the Electronic Image,
photoARTS2000, Huddersfield, England (UK)
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Works in Public Collections
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| Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris |
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| SCAN Video Gallery, Tokyo |
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| Oppenheimer Collection, Bonn |
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| ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie), Videotheque, Karlsruhe, Germany |
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| AIACE, Milan, Italy |
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| Video des Beaux Jours, Strasbourg, France |
Selected Bibliography
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| Bode, Steven, 'East is East,' in: VIDEOGRAPHIC, 1991 |
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| Capucci, Pier Luigi, 'L'Affettivita dello Spazio,' in: Domus magazine, October 1996 |
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| Dany, Frederic, Takis Kyriakoulakos, 'Souvenirs du Futur; Pictures,' in: L'IMAGE, July 1990 |
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| Duguet, Anne-Marie, 'Tamás Waliczky,' in: catalog for Waliczky exhibition at NTT/ICC Gallery, 1996 |
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| Gorewitz, Shalom, 'Prophet without Honor (Computer Video Artist Tamás Waliczky) in: The Independent, October 1990 |
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| Hemery, Annik, 'Tamás Waliczky: Un Infographiste Venu de l'Est,' in: MICRO SYSTEMES,
May 1990
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| Holtz-Bonneau, Françoise, 'Création Infographique' (with some parts about T.W.) in: Addison-Wesley France, S.A., 1994 |
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| Kluge, Franz W., 'Genugend Ideen,' in: HORIZONT, 1990 |
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| Kluge, Franz W., 'Tamás Waliczky, Experimentelle Arbeit am bewegten Bild,' in: Mediagramm, July 1993
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| Kyriakoulakos, Takis, 'Tamás Waliczky: Le poète de l'intime,' in: TECH IMAGES, May/June 1990 |
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| Mattei, Maria Grazia, 'L'Est Elettronico,' in: ZOOM, March, 1988 |
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| Shirai, Masato, 'A Mechanism for Reorganizing the World,' in: catalog for Waliczky exhibition at NTT/ICC Gallery, 1996 |
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| Swain, Bob, 'Eastern Promise,' in: AUDIO-VISUAL, September 1990 |
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| Szepesi Anna, Der Wald / The Forest, in: artintact 2, ZKM/Institut für Bildmedien, Cantz Verlag, 1995
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| Waliczky Tamás, 'The Manifesto of Computer Art,' in: DIGITART catalogue, 1990 |
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| Waliczky Tamás, Der Garten, in: Interface 2 Documentation, Hans-Bredow-Institut, Hamburg, 1995
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