Tamás Waliczky: Sculptures

Tamás Waliczky: Sculptures, 1997, excerpt

SCULPTURES

For us humans, who are limited in space and time, time is a one-dimensional thing. We can only move along an axis defined in terms of "past-present-future" coordinates (in this definition, "present" is the origin of our coordinate system, and "past" and "future" are to the right and left of it, respectively). And unfortunately, even in this single dimension, we can only move in one direction, and that is forward. But if there is a God, a being who lives forever and is everywhere present, then for him time is a 3-dimensional unchanging landscape.

In this installation I wanted to show (with my own modest visual means) how our perception of time is different from God's. Using simple everyday movements and gestures such as walking, jumping, waving, I built three-dimensional sculptures on the computer. I call them "time crystals" because they preserve brief moments in an individual's life in a frozen form. These crystals exist side by side in space and can be observed from any location using a virtual camera, or traveled through using the camera. By traveling through the time crystals, the camera can recreate the original movement, but from different directions and at different speeds. Therefore, we can say that this camera can display time "from the side" or "from above" in 3 dimensions.

Tamás Waliczky, 1996

"SCULPTURES", 1997

Computer animation, video installation, 12'

Master: Digital Betacam, DVD

Necessary equipments for the installation: 1 DVD player, 1 video projector, or (second version) 3 DVD players, 3 projectors.

Conception: Tamás Waliczky & Anna Szepesi

Direction and computer animation: Tamás Waliczky

Computer animation assistance: Christina Zartmann

Software (Xfrog): Bernd Lintermann

The piece was originally designed and performed for the opera of Mesias Maiguashca called "The Enemies"

Producer: Heike Staff

Commissioned and produced by ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe

Copyright © 1997 Tamás Waliczky & Anna Szepesi

"TIME/SPACE (SCULPTURES)", 2001

Computer/video installation.

The new, re-edited and re-designed version of the "Sculptures" with 3 projection screens, produced especially for the Anteprima Bovisa - Milano Europa 2000 exhibition.

"Sculptures" in "Perspectiva" exhibition, Kunsthalle, Budapest, 1999

Picture provided by C3