Artist Statement
VIDEOTHEQUE
An old German folktale which crosses shadow theatre with animation of computer generated images. 2D Computer Animation, Wallada Bioscop Ltd, 30′, Hongary, 1999
Animation: Tamás Waliczky and Tsuyoshi Fuyama
Narrator: Manfred “Derek” Hauffen
Harpsichord music performed by: Angelika Csizmadia
Musical director: János Mácsai
Sound enginers: Károly Horváth and Gusztáv Bárány
Edited by: Tamás Waliczky and Anna Szepesi
Directed by: Tamás Waliczky
Concept: Tamás Waliczky and Anna Szepesi
Special thanks to: Itsuo Sakane, György Pálos, András Kárpáti, Jeffrey Shaw, Christina Zartmann, Astrid Sommer, László Márton, Masahiro Miwa, Shiro Yamamoto, Péter Kárpáti, Gulliver Tábor, Heike Staff, Tomomi Inagaki, Silke Sutter
Produced by IAMAS, International Academy of Media Arts and Sciences, Ogaki, Japan in collaboration with Wallada Bioscop Ltd., Budapest, Hungary and ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
- Tamas Waliczky, born in 1959, in Budapest, Hungary, works as a media artist. He started out by creating cartoon films (1968–83), whilst working as a painter, illustrator and photographer. He began working with computers in 1983.[1] 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. [source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tam%C3%A1s_Waliczky] waliczky.net