The computer is an instrument for me, like a photo or a film camera, that the consumer can choose in the shop, considering his or her purpose and purse. I've been working on an ATARI 520 ST for years, and as having this type of computer, I realized my graphical and animation film ideas on it. The artistic quality of a work of art doesn't depend in the first place on the technical background, but on the artistic invention of the artist. Realizing my ideas, I consciously imply the bad resolution and the few colours of this machine. Always the theme is, that determines the chosen softwares and pheripherials. I'm interested in every kind of sights, that can be seen on the monitor, from the digitalized pictures to the 3D-animation. And my themes are the eternal human problems. (T. Waliczky)

Technical background:

The works were created on an ATARI 520 ST with in-house and neochrome software.

Tamás Walicky, born 1959 in Budapest. At the age of ten, he already realized his first animated cartoon. In 1974 he started painting. From 1977 to 1980 he made private painting studies. 1980–83 he worked for “Pannonia” Film Studio and started working with photography. 1982–83 cooperation with György Pálos, first films and diaporamas being created. In 1983, he became graphics designer at Caesar Computer Software Studio. In 1984 his first computer work in film and photography sectors are made. 1986 winner of the Third Prize at the Hungarian DIGITART Competition with “Computer Mobiles”. Since 1987 various lectures about Computer Art. Exhibitons in Hungary, Austria and France, e. g. 1982 with György Pálos at the Collegium Hungaricum, Vienna, Austria; 1987 at the Attila Jószef Cultural Center, Baja, Hungary; 1988 at the Robert Doisneau Gallery, Nancy, France.