George Legrady

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.

George Legrady (Hungary, Canada, USA) is Distinguished Professor in the Media Arts & Technology Ph.D program at UC Santa Barbara where he directs the Experimental Visualization Lab. His research, pedagogy and artistic practice address the impact of computation and software design as a form of narrative construction. A pioneer in the field of digital media arts with an emphasis on digital photography, data visualization, interactive installation, machine-learning and natural language processing, his projects have been presented as publications, digital media arts installations, and various other forms of visualization that have featured in both the fine arts institutions, digital media fields and engineering conferences: www.georgelegrady.com

Research and projects have been supported by National Science Foundation grants, National Endowment of the Arts, Creative Capital Foundation Emerging Trends, Graham Foundation Advanced Studies in Fine Arts, the Canada Council for the Arts, and other awards. He was a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2016.

His works are in numerous museum collections such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Canada, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, the ZKM (Center for Art & Media), the Smithsonian institution, and others.

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2006-present Directs the Experimental Visualization Lab: vislab.mat.ucsb.edu

2019 Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in ARTS: http://grahamfoundation.org/grantees/5959-james-bay-cree-culture-architecture?mc_cid=d078984000&mc_eid=0abf4b0959

2016 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship: https://www.gf.org/fellows/george-legrady/

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