Awards and Grants:
2020
Tamas Waliczky is selected into the "50 Most Influential Hungarian
Artists" list of Műértő (Connoisseur) magazine. (48. place, 185 points.)
2019
Tamas Waliczky has got "Prima" prize in Hungarian Fine Art Category at
Prima Primissima 2019. Prima Primissima is the most prestigious
Hungarian independent cultural prize.
SCM Teaching Award
2018
Tamas Waliczky has been selected to represent Hungary at the
Fifty-Eighth Venice Biennale, 2019.
2013-2015
Principal Investigator for GRF (General Research Fund) grant "Using
digital visualisation to preserve local cultural heritage: a case study
of Tai Ping Street, Tai O" with Co-Investigator Jane Prophet.
2014
Drs Richard Charles & Esther Yewpick Lee Charitable Foundation Grant
2011-2013
Start Up Research Grant of City University of Hong Kong for two computer
installations, titled "Wheels" and "Homes".
2008-2010
Yearly financial support of MMK (Motion Picture Public Foundation of
Hungary) for the production of a new computer animation, called
"Adventures of Tom Tomiczky".
2007
Financial support of MMK (Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary)
for the preparations of a new computer animation. ("Adventures of Tom
Tomiczky")
2003
Finalist for 2003's World Technology Award for Arts.
2001
First prize in video art category at Asolo Film Festival, Asolo ("The
Fisherman and His Wife")
2000
First prize in animation category at Mediawave festival, Györ ("The
Fisherman and His Wife")
1998
Honorary Mention, Interactive Category, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz
("Focus")
Award of Distinction, Computer Animation Category, Prix Ars Electronica,
Linz ("Landscape")
Artist-in-residency at IAMAS, Ogaki ("The Fisherman and His Wife",
"Focus" new version)
1997
Artist-in-residency at ZKM, Karlsruhe ("Focusing" CD-ROM version)
1996
Commission of photoARTS2000, Huddersfield, England to make an
interactive artwork for the Year of Photography & the Electronic
Image. ("Focus")
1994
Honorary Mention in Animation Category of Prix Ars Electronica Festival,
Linz ("Der Wald")
First Prize in 3D workstation Category of Bit.Movie '94 Festival,
Riccione ("The Garden, 21st Century Amateur Film")
Special Prize of the Jury of Locarno VideoArt Festival, Locarno ("Der
Wald")
First Prize of Electronie d'Arte e Altre Scritture Festival, Torino,
Milano, Bologna, Firenze, Roma ("The Garden, 21st Century Amateur Film")
1993
Special prize of the Polish Television's Channel2 and the festival's Art
Director of WRO'93 Festival, Wroczlaw ("The Garden, 21st Century Amateur
Film")
Siggraph Electronic Theatre selection, Anaheim ("The Garden, 21st
Century Amateur Film")
1992
Artist-in-residency at ZKM, Karlsruhe ("The Garden, 21st Century Amateur
Film")
1991
Third Prize in art category of IMAGINA Festival, Monte-Carlo ("Memory of
Moholy-Nagy")
World Graph Prize of Locarno Videoart Festival, Locarno ("Memory of
Moholy-Nagy")
Festival Prize of Berlin International Animation Festival, Berlin
("Memory of Moholy-Nagy")
Siggraph Electronic Theatre selection, Las Vegas ("Memory of
Moholy-Nagy")
Honorary Mention of IVCA Festival in education category, London ("Memory
of Moholy-Nagy")
1990
Honorary Mention in Interactive Category of Prix Ars Electronica
Festival, Linz ("Conversation")
1989
First Prize (Golden Nica) in Computer Graphics Category of Prix Ars
Electronica Festival., Linz ("Gramophone")
1988
Honorary Mention in Animation Category of Prix Ars Electronica, Linz
("Pictures")
First and Second prizes in 2D and 3D category of P.L.E.I.A.S. Festival,
Paris ("Pictures", "Is There Any Room for Me Here?")
1986
Third Prize of DIGITART Computer Graphics Festival, Budapest ("Human
Motions")