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http://georgelegrady.com/
About
George Legrady has been creating interactive digital media installations and projects since the early 1990's. He is best known for his projects focuses on the classification and visualization of data as in Pockets Full of Memories (2001) commissioned by the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Slippery Traces (1996) published by the ZKM Center for Media & Technology Museum in Karlsruhe, Germany, and the award winning Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War (1993). George Legrady is Professor of Digital Media in the Media Arts & Technology (MAT) Graduate program at the University of California, in Santa Barbara.
CV
2003 Honorary Mention of the Ars Electronica, Linz / Interactive Art Category for Pockets full of Memories
2001 Langlois Foundation for Art, Science & Technology Fellowship
2000 Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara / MAT graduate program & Art Studio, head of the Visual/Spatial Arts area.
1997 Artist in Residence Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
1996 - 2000 Professor at the Merz Akademie, University of Applied Arts, Stuttgart, Germany / Head of the Interactive media program
1994 Visiting Faculty Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest / Faculty in digital media
1994 Honorable Mention at the Ars Electronica 'Festival, Linz / Digital Media Category for An Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War
1989 - 1997 Associate Professor at the San Francisco State University / Faculty in digital media
1988 - 1989 Independent Researcher at the Canada Council Paris Studio, Paris
1988 Honorable Mention at the Ars Electronica '88 Festival, Linz / Digital Media Category for News Beirut
1984 - 1988 Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles / Faculty in photography
1983 Assistant Professor at the UCLA School of Art, Design, Architecture / Visiting Faculty in photography
1981 - 1982 Independent Researcher at the University of California, San Diego
1978 - 1981 Lecturer at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario / Lecturer and Assitant Professor
1976 Masters of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute / Visual Arts
1973 Undergraduate studies at the Goddard College, Vermont / Visual Anthropology
1970 Undergraduate studies at the Loyola College, Montreal / English Literature
Works
- »Slice« 2011
- »Cornucopia« 2011
- »Magnetic« 2011
- »Movement« 2011
- »Display« 2011
- »Retelling« 2011
- »In Conversation« 2011
- »In Between« 2011
- »At the Bar« 2011
- »At the Table« 2011
- »Voice of Sisyphus« 2011
- »Cell Tango« 2009
- »GCVMA« 2007
- »Cell Tango« 2006
- »We are Stardust« 2003
- »Chance Encounters« 2002
- »Eternal Summer« 2000
- »A Sense of Place« 1998
- »Tracing« 1997
- »Slippery Traces« 1995
- »[the clearing]« 1994
- »Equivalents II« 1992
News
Exhibitions & Events
Publications & References
Lunenfeld, Peter. Snap-to-Grid: A User´s Guide to Digital Arts, Media, and Cultures. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.
Weber, Christian. »Freundschaft im Internetzeitalter Du hast 100 neue Freunde.« [<02.07.2014>].
Weber, Christian. »reundschaft im Internetzeitalter. Du hast 100 neue Freunde.« [<02.07.2014>].
Rieser, Martin and Andrea Zapp. New Screen Media: Cinema/Art/Narrative. London, UK: BFI London and ZKM Karlsruhe, 2002.
Legrady, George. »Intersecting the Virtual and the Real: Space in Interactive Media
Installations.« In New Screen Media. Cinema/Art/Narrative, edited by Martin Rieser and Andrea Zapp, 221-226. London: BFI London and ZKM Karlsruhe, 2002.