George Legrady

Interactive Media

George Legrady holds a joint appointment in the Department of Art and the Media Arts & Technology graduate program. His research and production work in interactive media installation bring together a number of specialized interests such as the language and aesthetics of interaction design, collaborative narrative development through audience interaction and data management through semantic categorization using neural-net based self-organizing map algorithms. Recent interactive installations have been presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma Helsinki 2004; the “Aura” exhibition, Budapest 2003; the Ars Electronic Arts Festifal, Linz 2003; the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival 2003; the Centre Pompidou, Paris with Pockets full of Memories, 2001; Transitional Spaces at the Rotunda, Siemens World Headquarters, Munich, 1999/2000; Tracing at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1998 and the Kunst und AustellungHalle der Bundes Republik, Bonn 1997-98; a solo retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, 1997- 98; Slippery Traces at the Palais des beauxarts, Brussels, 1997, also in Deep Storage, a travelling exhibition at the Haus der Kunst, Munich, 97; the Kunstforum, Berlin, 1997; the kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, 1998; PS1, New York, 1998. Awards include Creative Capital Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts Visual Fellowship, Canada Council Computer Media Awards, and Honorable Mentions at Ars Electronica, Linz in 1989 and 1994. His cd-rom publication An Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War received the New Voices, New Visions prize from Voyager and Interval Research Corporation. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute.

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