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Tamas Waliczky (1959) was born in Budapest, Hungary. He is an animation and new media artist. He started out by creating animations at the age of nine. Then he worked as a painter, illustrator and photographer. He began working with computers in 1983. He was artist-in-residence at the ZKM Institute for Visual Media in 1992, and subsequently a member of the Institute’s research staff (1993-1997) before taking up a guest professorship at the HBK Saar, Saarbrucken (1997-2002). The IAMAS in Gifu, Japan, has chosen Waliczky as artist-in-residence in 1998-99. From 2003 until 2005 he is a professor at Fachhochschule Mainz. Between 2005 and 2010 he is at HBK Saar again, this time as full-time professor. Since September 2010 he is a professor at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.
Waliczky works together with his wife Anna Szepesi since the early eighties. Anna is usually the artistic adviser in most of his works. His works won numerous international awards, including the Golden Nica of Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, was shown in several exhibitions worldwide, including the Biennial of Lyon, the ICC Gallery Tokyo, the Multimediale Karlsruhe or the Biennial of Seville, and are in different public collections, like the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Kunstmuseum Bonn or the Ludwig Museum (Budapest). In 2019, Tamás Waliczky represented Hungary at the 58th Venice Biennale with his project Imaginary Cameras, which is exhibited by Ludwig Museum Budapest as well in 2020.
1959, Budapest
Selected Exhibitions, Festivals and Symposiums
2022
Reinventing Image-Making,Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2020
‘Time Machine – A New Selection from the Collection of the Ludwig Museum’, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
2019
Writing the History of the Future – The ZKM Collection, The ZKM, Karlsruhe
“Imaginary Cameras”, 58th Venice Biennale, Hungarian Pavilion
“Exit Strategies”, H Queen’s, Hong Kong
2018
Optical Instruments, Lumenvisum Gallery, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
In Need of, Brass’Art Digitaal, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Belgium
Art in Motion. 100 Masterpieces with and through Media, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Cameras and Other Optical Devices, Molnar Ani Gallery, Budapest
Cameras, solo exhibition, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2017
Issues of Uncertainty, Ani Molnár Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
’The Formula of the Present – Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants’, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Chidren’s Tales?, iMAL Center, Brussels, Belgium
“Save as… What Will Remain of New Media Art?” exhibition, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
Brass’Art Digitaal, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, Belgium
Rendezvous der Freunde II, NATURE ON/OFF, nah dran | ZWÖLF STUNDEN KUNSTGESCHICHTE IN OSNABRÜCK, University of Osnabrück | Institut of Art History
2016
“Picturing Childhood | The Child in Hungarian Art Past and Present” exhibition, Budapest History Museum, Castle Museum, Budapest, Hungary
SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 Art Gallery, Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau
“The Age of Experience” exhibition, Angewandte Innovation Laboratory, University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria
2016 Hong Kong and Macao Visual Arts Biennial, Henan Art Museum
2016 Hong Kong and Macao Visual Arts Biennial, Dunhuang for The Silk Road Dunhuang International Culture Expo
2016 Hong Kong and Macao Visual Arts Biennial, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum
EXiS, International Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul, South Korea
RIDCH Conference on Digital Art and Film, Open University of Hong Kong
“Hungarian Artists and the Computer” exhibition, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
“ISEA2016 Hong Kong | Cultural R>evolution.”, 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Art, Hong Kong
“Third Culture Film Festival 2016”, California Tower, Hong Kong
2015
“RIDCH Conference on Digital Culture 2015, Animation Techniques and the Digital Art”, The Open University of Hong Kong
“TIMEBASE | Time-Based Media in Contemporary Art”, New Budapest Gallery, Hungary
“homes | Photography and New Media Art”, solo exhibition, Lumenvisum Gallery, Hong Kong
“Nature On | Off, Internationale Videokunst: Natur, Landschaft und Garten”, University of Osnabrück
“Getuscht & Geschnitten,” Stadtische Galerie In der Badstube, Wangen im Allgau
3. Urania Filmnapok, Budapest
2014
LUDWIG 25. The Contemporary Collection. The new permanent exhibition of the Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest
ISEA2014 “Location”, The 20th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Lobo Listone Gallery, Dubai
“Free Fall”, Chimera-Project Gallery for Contemporary Art, Budapest
“Meet the Curators”, Asian Experimental Video Festival, CMC, Hong Kong
Animamix Biennale | This Slow – That Fast | CMC, Hong Kong
Animamix Biennale | This Slow – That Fast | Oi!, Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong
2013
re-new digital arts festival, Copenhagen
Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre Summer Festival (an Art Basel Hong Kong related extibition), CMC, Hong Kong
“Dance with the interval” solo exhibition of Tamas Waliczky, Goethe Institut Hongkong, HK Arts Centre, Hong Kong
“the 18th ifva festival”, screening Tamas Waliczky’s animation as opening film, artist’s talk, HK Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2012
“FILE – Electronic Language International Festival”, Sao Paulo, Brazil
“The Virtual Centre Pompidou”, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou
“Frejm baj Frejm”, Neolog Synagogue in Zilina, Slovakia
“Quadratic Equations”, Kepes Institution, Eger
“The Burning Edge; Making Space, Activating Form / First Major Exhibition Showcases The Work of Creative Media Faculty”, Creative Media Centre, City University of Hong Hong
2011
“Adventures of Tom Tomiczky”, Hungarian Premiere, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
“Adventures of Tom Tomiczky”, World Premiere, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre Grand Opening Festival, City University of Hong Kong
“FILE – Electronic Language International Festival”, Centro Cultural Fiesp – Ruth Cardoso and Cervantes Institute, Sao Paulo, Brazil
“Global Pioneers of Contemporary Art Animation: USA, Europe and Asia Symposium”, Theatre, Hong Kong Heritage Museum
“Apt Art” solo exhibition, Hong Kong
“Kind of Change / New Acquisitions 2009-2010”, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
“MA Curating the Contemporary”, London Metropolitan University
2010
“Animáció mint kiállítási tárgy”, VÁROSI KÉPTÁR, Székesfehérvár
“Folyamatok III. Animáció”, VIDEOSPACE, Budapest
“Animáció mint kiállítási tárgy”, LUDWIG MUSEUM, Budapest
“Bloom”, Bury Art Gallery, Museum+Archives, Bury
“Kinetikus kép”, 2B Gallery Budapest
2009
“Project Processing 4. Animation as media art”, MOME, Budapest
“Imaging Media. produced@zkm”, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
“Intermodem”, MODEM, Debrecen
“Imaginative Shadows – a wizard in the star-spangled night”, Visual Museum (Sai-No-Kuni
Visual Plaza, Skipcity), Saitama-prefecture, Japan
“Computer Baroque”, Tate Modern, London
2008
“Youniverse”, 3rd International Biennal Of Contemporary Art Of Seville (BIACS3), Seville
“Hommage a Kovásznai”, Pixel Gallery, Budapest
“Image Science – Scientific Images”, Gallery 22, Budapest
“Maecenas Days – Eleven Contemporary Private Collections”, Palace of Exhibitions, Budapest
“La Celda”, Mesias Maiguashca’s opera with Tamas Waliczky’s video sequences, Warschau
2007
“Nuove Forme Nell’Interazione Uomo-Macchina”, AiEP, Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Gallarate, Milano
“Wolfgang Von Kempelen – Media Art And History Exhibition” Palace of Exhibitions, Budapest
“Play Innovation” Kitakyushu Innovation Gallery & Studio, Kitakyushu
“Let Us Go Together Into The Future!”, East Slovak Gallery, Kosice
“Wolfgang Von Kempelen – Mensch in der Maschine”, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
“Adventures For Eyes / Percosi Visuali”, MediaTime, Centro Audiovisivi Bolzano
“D’Arts”, Mûvészetek Háza, Veszprém
“7th International Light Symposium”, Hungarian Academy of Arts, Budapest
“Animotion”, Pixel Gallery, Budapest
“Recontres Internationales Sciences Et Cinemas”, Marseille
2006
Kino Achteinhalb, Saarbrücken
“Abtauchen – Wasser In Der Literatur”, Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe
“Screenland”, Horsebridge Arts and Community Centre, Whitstable
Asolo Art Film Festival, Asolo
TUFA, Trier
2005
Film/Video/Digital, Nasher Art Museum, Duke University, Durham
Pixel Galéria, solo exhibition of Tamas Waliczky, Millenáris Park, Budapest
2004
„A Tér a Szonrászatban – A Szobrászat Tere” / “Space In Sculpture – The Space Of Sculpture”, Symposion, Palace of Exhibitions, Budapest
2003
“Digital Forest”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
FILE 2003 Festival, Brazil
“Plastica Dreams”, Palace of Exhibitions, Budapest
“Magic Shadows”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
“Transfigure”, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
2002
VIPER Basel, Internationales Festival für Film Video und Neue Medien, Basel
“Streaming Media”, ZKM, Karlsruhe
“Animations For The Internet”, solo exhibition of Tamas Waliczky, C3 Gallery, Budapest
Videobrasil, International Electronic Art Festival, Itinerancy, Salvador, Bahia
2001
Festival Internazionale Del Film Sull‘ Arte, Asolo
“Anteprima Bovisa, Milano Europa 2000”, Milano
Videobrasil, Sao Paulo
“Fourth Biennale – The World Forum for Media and Culture”, Ogaki
2000
“Intuition, Innovation, Invention”, Palace of Exhibitions, Budapest
“Enter Multimediale”, Prague
Mediawave Festival, Gyôr
EXPO2000 project, Saar-Terassen, Saarbrücken
Dissection, The Macau Museum of Art, Macau
“Media Model”, Palace of Exhibitions, Budapest
“Digital Alice”, Seoul
5. International Shadow Theatre Festival, Schwäbisch Gmünd
ISEA, Párizs / Paris
“AIR” exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
1999
“Perspective”, Palace of Exhibitions, Budapest
“The Interaction ´99”, Ogaki
“Peripherical Visions”, Sydney
“Mediatime”, Bolzano
1998
Solo exhibition of Tamas Waliczky, Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery, Leeds
“Surrogate”, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
DEAF ´98 (The Art Of The Accident), Rotterdam
Prix Ars Electronica, Linz
1997
Multimediale 5, ZKM, Karlsruhe
1996
“The Butterfly Effect”, Palace of Exhibitions, Budapest
NTT-ICC Gallery, solo exhibition of Tamas Waliczky, Tokyo
“CD-ROM: Burning The Interface”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
8. International Festival of Animated Film, Stuttgart
1995
Tokyo Metropoliten Museum Of Photography, Tokyo
“Arslab”, Torino
Biennale De Lyon, Lyon
Mediawave Festival, Győr
Multimediale 4, ZKM, Karlsruhe
ISEA ‘95, Montreal
4th International Festival Films & Videos – “Autour De La Naissance”, Paris
1994
“Europa-Europa”, Kunst- Und Ausstellungshalle Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
“Version 1.0”, Geneva
“La Métafort”, Auborvilliers
“Techno Art”, Ontario Science Centre, Ontario
“Electronie D’Arte e Altre Scritture”, Torino, Milano, Bologna, Firenze, Roma
Adelaide Festival, Melbourne
“A.S.T.A.R.T.I. Image Mutations”, Paris
“Iconographics”, Milano
7. International Festival of Animated Film, Stuttgart
Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong-Kong
Prix Ars Electronica, Linz
Video Art, Locarno-Lago Maggiore, Locarno
Videonale 6, Bonn
1993
Medionale, Hamburg
Multimediale 3, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Imagina, Monte Carlo
Mediawave ‘93, Győr
“Sintesi ‘93”, Lugano
WRO ‘93, Wroczlaw
MUU Media Festival, Helsinki
“Observatoire De L’Image”, Paris
SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles
London Film Festival, London
Ostranenie ‘93, Bauhaus Dessau, Dessau
Mediatech, Premio Imagine, Milano
“Computerművészet, Médiaművészet”, Budapest
1993
Medionale, Hamburg
Multimediale 3, ZKM, Karlsruhe
Imagina, Monte Carlo
Mediawave ‘93, Győr
“Sintesi ‘93”, Lugano
WRO ‘93, Wroczlaw
MUU Media Festival, Helsinki
“Observatoire De L’Image”, Paris
SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles
London Film Festival, London
Ostranenie ‘93, Bauhaus Dessau, Dessau
Mediatech, Premio Imagine, Milano
“Computerművészet, Médiaművészet”, Budapest
1992
Zentrum Für Kunst Und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe
TISEA, Sydney
1991
IMAGINA, Monte-Carlo
IVCA Festival, London
Modern Dance Theatre, New York
Video Positive Festival, Liverpool
SIGGRAPH, Las Vegas
Video Art, Locarno
Fukui Video Festival, Fukui
Berlin I.F.A. Internationales Festival für Animation, Berlin
1990
“Passages De L’Image”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Galerie 172, Paris
“El Art”, Retretti Art Center, Punkaharju
IMAGINA, Monte-Carlo
“Trevisocartoon”, Treviso
SIGGRAPH, Dallas
Prix Ars Electronica, Linz
SISEA, Groningen
Los Angeles International Film Festival, Los Angeles
1989
“Art Interfaces With The Computer” Symposium, Rennes
“Video-Visions”, Frankfurt
“10iéme Journees Internationales De La Photographie Et De L’Audiovisuel”, Montpellier
Scan Video Festival, Tokyo
Prix Ars Electronica, Linz
1988
Galerie Robert Doisneau, Nancy
Prix Ars Electronica, Linz
P.L.E.I.A.S. Festival, Paris
1986
“DIGITART I.”, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Works in public collections
Tokyo Photographic Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee National D’Art Moderne (video collection), Paris
Scan Video Gallery, Tokyo
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Sammlung Oppenheim, Bonn
Zentrum Für Kunst Und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (video collection), Karlsruhe
AIACE, Milan
Video Des Beaux Jours, Strasbourg
Museum Of Modern Art (video collection), New York
Australian Centre For The Moving Image, Melbourne
Centro Audiovisivi, Bolzano
Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Awards and Grants
2014
Drs Richard Charles & Esther Yewpick Lee Charitable Foundation Grant
2013-2015
Principal Investigator for GRF (General Research Fund) grant “Using digital visualization to preserve local cultural heritage: a case study of Tai Ping Street, Tai O” with Co-Investigator Jane Prophet
2011-2013
Start-up Grant of City University of Hong Kong to produce two new installations, called “Wheels” and “Homes”
2008-2010
Yearly financial support of MMK (Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary) for the production of a computer animation, called “Adventures of T. T.” (working title)
2007
Financial support of MMK (Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary) for the preparations of a new animation.
2003
Finalist for 2003’s World Technology Award for Arts
2001
First prize in animation category at Mediawave festival, Győr
2000
First prize in video art category at Asolo Film Festival, Asolo
1998
Honorary Mention, Interactive Category, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz
Award of Distinction, Computer Animation Category, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz
Artist-in-residency at IAMAS, Ogaki
1997
Artist-in-residency at ZKM, Karlsruhe
1996
Commission of photoARTS2000, Huddersfield, England to make an interactive artwork for the Year of Photography & the Electronic Image
1994
Honorary Mention in Animation Category of Prix Ars Electronica Festival, Linz
First Prize in 3D workstation Category of Bit.Movie ’94 Festival, Riccione
Special Prize of the Jury of Locarno VideoArt Festival, Locarno
First Prize of Electronie d’Arte e Altre Scritture Festival, Torino, Milano, Bologna, Firenze, Roma
1993
Special prize of the Polish Television’s Channel2 and the festival’s Art Director of WRO’93 Festival, Wroczlaw
Siggraph Electronic Theatre selection, Anaheim
1992
Artist-in-residency at ZKM, Karlsruhe
1991
Third Prize in art category of IMAGINA Festival, Monte-Carlo
World Graph Prize of Locarno Videoart Festival, Locarno
Festival Prize of Berlin International Animation Festival, Berlin
Siggraph Electronic Theatre selection, Las Vegas
Honorary Mention of IVCA Festival in education category, London
1990
Honorary Mention in Interactive Category of Prix Ars Electronica Festival, Linz
1989
First Prize (Golden Nica) in Computer Graphics Category of Prix Ars Electronica Festival, Linz
1988
Honorary Mention in Animation Category of Prix Ars Electronica, Linz
First and Second prizes in 2D and 3D category of P.L.E.I.A.S. Festival, Paris
1986
Third Prize of DIGITART Computer Graphics Festival, Budapest
Publications
2015
Tamás Waliczky: “Homes”, a.m.post: art magazine, Hong Kong, issue 115, 07/08 2015
Tamás Waliczky: “Identity Collage (Art, Computer and I)”, Sustainable Identities, Essays commissioned and edited by Kinga German, Catalogue of the Hungarian Pavilion of the 56. International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2015. Published by Ludwig Museum Budapest and the Office of the National Commissioner of Hungary.
2013
Tamás Waliczky: “Wheels”, Dance with the interval exhibition catalog, Hong Kong
Tamás Waliczky: “Homes”, Dance with the interval exhibition catalog, Hong Kong
2006
Tamás Waliczky: “On Peter Callas, in Three Acts”, Catalog for Callas’ exhibition, Pixel Gallery, Budapest
2005
Tamás Waliczky: “Learning”, Pergő Kepek, 20-21, Budapest
2002
Tamás Waliczky: “Internet Motion Picture”, Pergő képek, 11, Budapest
2001
Tamás Waliczky: “Situation Report on Computer Art”, Új Alaplap, 2001 Feb. Budapest
Tamás Waliczky: “Machines”, Pergő képek, 7, Budapest
1995
Tamás Waliczky: “Der Garten (ein Amateurfilm des 21. Jahrhunderts)”, Weltbilder/Bildwelten Computergestüzte Visionen, Interface 2 Documentation, Hans-Bredow-Institut, Hamburg 1995, Hamburg
1990
Tamás Waliczky: “The Manifesto Of Computer Art”, DIGITART Catalogue, Budapest
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