»George Legrady«
* 1950
Summary
Biography
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.
2003
Honorary Mention of the Ars Electronica, Linz

2001
Langlois Foundation for Art, Science & Technology Fellowship

2000
Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara

1997
Artist in Residence Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart

1996 - 2000
Professor at the Merz Akademie, University of Applied Arts, Stuttgart, Germany

1994
Visiting Faculty Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest

1994
Honorable Mention at the Ars Electronica 'Festival, Linz

1989 - 1997
Associate Professor at the San Francisco State University

1988 - 1989
Independent Researcher at the Canada Council Paris Studio, Paris

1988
Honorable Mention at the Ars Electronica '88 Festival, Linz

1984 - 1988
Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles

1983
Assistant Professor at the UCLA School of Art, Design, Architecture

1981 - 1982
Independent Researcher at the University of California, San Diego

1978 - 1981
Lecturer at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario

1976
Masters of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute

1973
Undergraduate studies at the Goddard College, Vermont

1970
Undergraduate studies at the Loyola College, Montreal