Tamás Waliczky, born in 1959, Budapest, Hungary. He started out by creating cartoon films (1968-83), then he worked as 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 choosen Waliczky as artist-in-residence in 1998/99. From 2003 until 2005 he is professor at IMG, Fachhochschule Mainz. Between 2005 and 2010 he is at HBK Saar again, in this time as full time professor. Since September 2010 he is professor at School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.

His works won numerous international awards, including the Golden Nica of Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, was shown in several exhibitions worldwide, including the Lyon Biennale, the ICC Gallery Tokyo, the Multimediale Karlsruhe and are in different public collections.