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George Legrady (born 1950) is an artist in the field of interactive media arts.

1 Background
2 Selected Projects
3 Selected Exhibitions
4 Selected Awards
5 External links

[edit] Background

Legrady was born in Budapest in Hungary and raised in French Montreal. He began his studies at Loyola College then received his MFA in Fine Arts photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. His first teaching position was at the University of Western Ontatio (1977 to 1981.) In 1981 he moved to La Jolla, California at which time he learned computer programming in the studio of the artist Harold Cohen at UCSD. He has taught at the California Institute of the Arts (1982-1984), at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (1984-1988), the Information Arts/Conceptual Design program at San Francisco State University (1989-1997), at the Merz Akademie of Visual Communication, Stuttgart (1996-2000), and since 2001, in the Media Arts & Technology, a multidisciplinary doctoral program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

[edit] Selected Projects

Legrady began to integrate computer processes into his artistic work in the mid 1980’s, producing pioneering prizewinning interactive installation projects such as the “Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War” (1993), “Slippery Traces” (1995), “Sensing Speaking Space” (2002), and more recently the internationally traveling “Pockets Full of Memories” (2001-2006) commissioned by the Centre Pompidou. His recently completed commission "Making Visible the Invisible" for the Seattle Public Library, was featured in the Whitney Museum Artport in 2005.

His early artistic work focused on a conceptual and semiotic analysis of the photographic image. His contribution to the digital media field since the early stages of its formation into a discipline in the early 1990’s has been in intersecting cultural content with data processing as a means of creating new forms of aesthetic representations and socio-cultural narrative experiences.

[edit] Selected Exhibitions

His digital interactive installations have been exhibited internationally most recently at ISEA 06, San Jose (2006); 3rd Beijing New Media Festival (2006); Frankfurt Museum of Communication (2006); Telic Gallery, Los Angeles (2006), BlackBox 06 at ARCO, Madrid (2006), the Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester (2005), Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma (2004), Ars Electronica (2003), DEAF03, Rotterdam (2003), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002), Centre Georges Pompidou (2001), the National Gallery of Canada (1997) and others.