FOCUS, FOCUSING
"Focus" is made up of hundreds of photographs and can be viewed equally as a personal, digital photo-album as well as a metaphorical vision of 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.
"FOCUS"
1998
Interactive computer installation.
Necessary equipments
for the installation: 1 PC, 1 trackball, 1 video projector.
Conception:
Tamás Waliczky & Anna Szepesi
Design: Tamás
Waliczky
Programming:
Wolfgang Münch & Tamás Waliczky
Copyright ©
1998 T. Waliczky & A. Szepesi
"Focus"
was originally commissioned by "PHOTO 98: The UK Year of Photography
and the Electronic Image" as part of a series of exhibitions featuring
ten international artists and asking important questions about the nature
of Europe and its changing political, economic and cultural identities.
Copyright ©
1998, 1999 Tamás Waliczky & Anna Szepesi
Distributor: Tamaliczky and Anna Szepesi; Impressions Gallery, York, England
"FOCUSING"
1998
The interactive
cd-rom version of "Focus".
Published by ZKM and Cantz, in the ZKM digital arts edition series.
"FOCUS"
1999
Second installation
version, made by the support of the IAMAS, International Academy of Media
Arts and Sciences, Gifu, Japan.
Conception:
Tamás Waliczky & Anna Szepesi
Design: Tamás
Waliczky
Programming:
Wolfgang Münch & Tamás Waliczky
Special thanks
to: Itsuo Sakane, Shiro Yamamoto, Nobuya Suzuki, Ryota Kuwakubo
Copyright ©
1998 T. Waliczky & A. Szepesi
Used software: Photoshop, Macromedia Director
Used hardware: Pentium II 450, videoprojector, LCD monitor with touchscreen.
"Focus" is an image composed of and comprising 98 different layers. Each individual element of the picture is given a layer, and each digital layer documents a detail from Waliczky's reality.
The viewer can explore the individual elements of this virtual documentation according to contents and contex, can reveal the structures and principles of the digital space of perception and thereby also reveal its process of becoming. Yet in exploring the picture collage the viewer will never forget than he is moving through a virtual world of Tamás Waliczky's perception and creation.
Annika Blunck
