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Concept: Tamás Waliczky, Anna Szepesi
Programming: Tamás Waliczky, Wolfgang Muench
Focusing was commissioned by PHOTO 98: The UK Year of Photography and the Electronic Image.
Conceptual Description
Focusing is made up of hundreds of photographs and can be viewed equally as
a personal, digital photo-album as well as a visionary metaphor for Europe.
Starting with the blurred, simulated photograph of an imaginary street on which
a crowd of people has gathered, it is possible to investigate individual members
of the crowd and the relationships between them. The camera in this case is
the interface.
Biography
Tamás Waliczky, born in Hungary in 1959; works as a painter, film cartoonist
and computer-animation filmmaker. He was artist-in-residence at the ZKM-Institute
for Visual Media in 1992, and subsequently a member of the Institute's research
staff (1993-97) before taking up a guest professorship at the Hochschule der
Bildenden Kunste Saar, Saarbrucken in 1997. The International Academy of Media
Arts and Science (IAMAS) in Gifu, Japan, has chosen Waliczky as artist-in-residence
in 1998/99. His works are in various public collections, including the Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Oppenheimer Collection, Bonn, and the Scan Video
Gallery, Tokyo.