Visual Music

Bart Vegter, Nacht-Licht , Netherlands, 1993, 13 min. 16mm View Nacht-Licht on the EYE channel at Preview Instant Cinema http://preview.instantcinema.org/eye/422 "Vegters first film made with the use of handwritten image generating computer programmes. Each of the three parts in the film has its own, formal starting-point. On this formal basis, variations are executed by gradual changes in position, direction, movement, velocity and colour of the elements."

Computer Baroque - curated by Richard Wright. online exhibition from 14 April to 14 July 2009 "Animate Projects presents Computer Baroque, an online exhibition, curated by Richard Wright. Computer Baroque is a selection of defining works in the history of artists’ digital moving image. Rarely seen, they represent a period – the late eighties and early nineties - in which computer animation was the focus for the most audacious and exuberant experiments across all areas of new media, art and technology... The Computer Baroque programme screened at Tate Modern on 20 March 2009; the majority of those works are now showing here from 14 April to 14 July 2009. Programme notes by curator Richard Wright." See: http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_project/computer_b…

http://www.waliczky.net/waliczky_start.htm Tamás Waliczky was born in 1959, Budapest, Hungary. He started out by creating animations at the age of nine. 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 Fachhochschule Mainz . Between 2005 and 2010 he is at HBK Saar again, this time as full time professor. Since September 2010 he is professor at School of Creative…