Tamás Waliczky, born in 1959, in Budapest

Budapest

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, Hungary, works as a media artist. He started out by creating cartoon

Cartoon

A cartoon is a form of two-dimensional illustrated visual art. While the specific definition has changed over time, modern usage refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for satire, caricature, or humor, or to the artistic style of such works...

 films (1968–83), whilst working as a painter, illustrator and photographer. He began working with computers in 1983. He was artist-in-residence at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in 1992, and subsequently a member of the Institute's research staff (1993–1997) before taking up a guest professorship at the HBK Saar, Saarbrücken (1997–2002). IAMAS in Gifu, Japan, chose Waliczky as artist-in-residence for 1998/99. From 2003 until 2005 he was professor at IMG, Fachhochschule Mainz. From 2005 to 2010 he was at HBK Saar once again, this time as a fulltime professor. As of 2010, he is a professor at the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong

City University of Hong Kong

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His works have won numerous international awards, including the 1989 Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica

Prix Ars Electronica

The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the most important yearly prizes in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music...

, Linz, and has been shown in several exhibitions worldwide, including the Lyon Biennale, the ICC Gallery Tokyo, and the Multimediale Karlsruhe. His works are currently in several public collections, including the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Oppenheimer Collection, Bonn and the SCAN Gallery, Tokyo.

Main works

• Marionettes (Germany, computer animation, video installation), 2007
• The fisherman and his wife (Japan, computer animation), 2000
• Focus (Germany-England, interactive installation), 1998
• Sculptures (Germany, video installation), 1997
• Landscape (Germany, computer animation, video installation), 1996
• The way (Germany, computer animation, video installation), 1994
• Der Wald (Germany, computer animation, video installation, interactive installation), 1993
• The Garden, 21st Century Amateur Film (Germany-Hungary, computer animation, video installation), 1992
• Conversation (with Tibor Szemzo, Hungary-France, audio-visual performance), 1990
• Memory of Moholy-Nagy (with John Halas, Hungary-England, computer animation), 1990
• Is there any room for me here? (Hungary, computer animation), 1988
• Pictures (Hungary, computer animation), 1988

Works in public collections

• CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, MUSEE NATIONAL D'ART MODERNE (video collection),Paris
• SCAN VIDEO GALLERY, Tokyo
• OPPENHEIMER COLLECTION, Bonn
• ZENTRUM FÜR KUNST UND MEDIENTECHNOLOGIE KARLSRUHE (videothek), Karlsruhe
• AIACE, Milano
• VIDEO DES BEAUX JOURS, Strasbourg
• MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (video collection), New York
• AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR THE MOVING IMAGE, Melbourne
• CENTRO AUDIOVISIVI, Bolzano
• Private collection of KATALIN SPENGLER - ZSOLT SOMLÓI, Budapest