[rohrpost] The Archive of Digital Art features Tamás WALICZKY

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Tamás WALICZKY is a pioneer in animation art. He developed new poetic
and visionary computer-generated worlds. Through experimental techniques
such as the "waterdrop-perspective-system", which WALICZKY invented for
'The Garden' in 1992, he profoundly influenced the aesthetics in this
genre. 

Jeffrey SHAW: 'The Garden' represented the achievement of an artist […]
who had discovered  the radically new expressive possibilities of
computer-generated images and who was working at a level of creative
freedom and  inventiveness that was in marked contrast to the prescribed
clichés that were (and still are) the outcome of industrial computer
animation.  

Itsuo SAKAE: ['The Way'] stimulates our intellectual inquiry and
inspires a new type of sensibility towards visual expression.  

Steve FORE Waliczkys artworks require, in addition to a visual
encounter, a bodily engagement with perspectival universes deliberately
configured to contradict our normal understandings of space and time.

WALICZKY is renowned for exploring time, space and movement in virtual
worlds and combining it with narrative elements based on personal
experience. His recent video installation 'Micromovements in snapshots'
(2014) decodes the illusion of movement in animation using photographs
illustrating the special Hong Kong way of living and cityscape.

Currently WALICZKY is professor at the School of Creative Media at the
City University of Hong Kong. His works won numerous international
awards, including the Golden Nica of Prix Ars Electronica and were shown
in exhibitions worldwide, including the Biennial of Lyon, the ICC
Gallery Tokyo, the Multimediale Karlsruhe or the Biennial of Seville.

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