George Legrady

b. 1950, Budapest, Hungary, lives and works in California, US
Selected Solo Exhibitions/Installations
2009
CHINA IN TRANSITION, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, Hanover, November - January 2009
2008/2009
CHINA IN TRANSITION, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, Hanover, November
2006
Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto
Algorithmic Visualizations, Telic Gallery, Los Angeles
2005
Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War, Centre Gantner, Belfort, France
Pockets Full of Memories Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, UK
2004
Algorithmic Visualizations, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Pockets Full of Memories Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
2002
Chance Encounters, 7th & Metro Subway Station, Los Angeles Metro Rail Arts Commission, July 2002-Jan 2003 Interactive Installation
Sensing Speaking Space, in the Activating the Medium Festival, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, (Interactive Installation)
2001
Interactivités Pockets Full of Memories, Centre Georges Pompidou, Beaubourg, Paris (with Jean-Louis Boissier)
George Legrady New Media – Neue Medien, Galerie Klaus-Peter Goebel, Stuttgart
1999/00
Transitional Spaces Rotunde, Siemens Headquarters, Munich, Germany (Commissioned work for the opening of the newly designed Richard Meier Siemens Headquarters) Premier
1998
Tracing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
1997/98
Tracing, Kunst und Austellunghalle der Bundes Republic, Bonn, Germany
George Legrady from Analogue to Digital, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada (Anecdoted Archive) (Solo Retrospective Exhibition)
George Legrady from Analogue to Digital, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, (Slippery Traces - A two museum retrospective exhibition) Solo Retrospective Exhibition
1995
George Legrady Interactive Media Art, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland, (Anecdoted Archive, [the clearing], Equivalents II) Solo exhibition of three installations
1992
Nothing Essential Happens in the Absence of Noise, Watertoren, Hedendaagse Kunst, Vlissingen Solo Photography exhiibtion
1991
Between East & West (1956 >>>>1989) YYZ Gallery, Toronto
1987
From Noise to Signal, USC Atelier Gallery, Santa Monica
1986
Posing & Studies for Monuments, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (Solo Photography exhibition)
1985
George Legrady, Yajima Galerie, Montreal (Solo Photography exhibition)
1984
Stock Footage, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla (Solo Photography exhibition)
1981
George Legrady, Yajima Galerie, Montreal (Solo Photography exhibition)
George Legrady, PSI, (Projects Studios One) room 202, NYC (Solo Photography exhibition)
Floating Objects, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario (Solo Photography exhibition)
1980
Everyday Stories, Forest City Art Gallery, London Ontario (Solo Photography exhibition)
1976
George Legrady/ Miklos Legrady, A Space Gallery, Toronto (Two solo exhibitions)
1973
The Way of life of the Fort George Metis and Indians, in wake of the James Bay development project, Baldwin Street Gallery, Toronto (Solo Photography exhibition)
Selected Group Exhibitions/Installations
2008/2009
OBSERVE, Exhibition in conjunction with NASA Spitzer Center, Williamson Gallery, Art Center college of Design, Pasadena
2008
Drifting, Slowly, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto
Institute of the Electronic Image in Poitiers, France
2007
Made in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Speculative Data, National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC
Pockets Full of Memories, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2006
Global Collaborative Visual Archive, Premiere at International Society of Electronic Arts (ISEA), San Jose
Code Blue, 3rd Beijing International New Media Festival Exhibition and Conference (Curated by Tim Druckrey, Zhang Ga), Beijing, China
Pockets Full of Memories, Frankfurt Museum of Communication (Summer 2006)
Sensing Speaking Space, Blackbox 06 invitational (Curated by Christiane Paul), ARCO Art Fair, Madrid
2005
“Library” (with Candida Höfer, Robert Longo, Cindy Sherman, Buzz Spector, Rachel Whiteread, and others), Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs (installation)
Slippery Traces in “Database Imaginary”, http //databaseimaginary.banff.org, University of Toronto.
“Making Visible the Invisible” . Whitney Museum Artport online exhibition
2004
Slippery Traces in “Database Imaginary” exhibition curated by Steve Dietz, Sarah Cooke, Anthony Kiendl, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan (Initiated at Banff Centre for the Arts). Interactive installation in group exhibition
Slippery Traces in “Database Imaginary” exhibition on databases curated by Steve Dietz, Sarah Cooke, Anthony Kiendl. Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts. Interactive installation in group exhibition
Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War in “Contact Zones The Art of CD-Rom”. New World Gallery, Sag Harbor.
2003
Pockets Full of Memories in “Aura, After the Age of Technical Reproduction”. c3 center for culture and communication, Budapest. Installation in international exhibition
Pockets Full of Memories (Honorable mention selection). Ars Electronica Media Festival, OK Centrum Museum gallery, Linz Austria. Installation in International Media Festival exhibition
Pockets Full of Memories, in “Information Is Alive” Festival exhibition. DEAF 03, Dutch Electronic Arts Festival, Rotterdam. Installation in International Media Festival exhibition
2002
Sans commune mesure, image et texte dans l’art actuel, Le Fresnoy, Studio National des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France (Slippery Traces) CD-ROM exhibition
ISEA International Society of Electronic Arts Annual Conference exhibition, Nagoya, Japan (Sensing Speaking Space) Interactive installation
Future Cinema, ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe (Slippery Traces - overview of new digital, non-linear cinema artworks) Interactive installation
2000
Beyond the Screen/Au dela de l’écran Des souvenirs plein les poches/Pockets Full of Memories, Ecole Nationale de Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (ISEA International Conference Exhibition)
1999
Interactive Frictions – University of Southern California, Los Angeles Interactive installation
Contact Zones, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (Anecdoted Archive) CD-ROM Exhibition
1998-00
Deep Storage, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Neue National Galerie, Berlin (Nov.), Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf (Feb.) PS 1, New York (July), Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (Slippery Traces in a major international travelling exhibition) Interactive installation
1998
Anticipation – Version 4.0 Center d’art contemporain, Saint-Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland (Sense of Place) Premiere Interactive Installation
1998 VERBINDINGEN/JONCTIONS, 3 exhibitions Palais des beaux-arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium (Anecdoted Archive in conjunction with Chris Marker) Interactive Installation
1997
Selected Memories, Palais des beaux-arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium (Slippery Traces) Interactive Installation
Dawn of the Magicians, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (Slippery Traces) (no documentation) Interactive Installation
1996/98
CD-ROM Burning the Interface, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Australia (Anecdoted Archive) A traveling exhibition on state-of-the-art CD-ROM’s artworks
1996
The Butterfly Effect, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Mucsarnok Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary (Slippery Traces) Interactive Installation
Equivalents II, Open Space Gallery, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, California (Solo installation)
Osnabruck European Media Festival, Osnabruck, Germany (Slippery Traces) Interactive Installation
Everybody’s Talking (6 installations) Gemeente Museum Helmond, Helmond, Netherlands (Anecdoted Archive) Interactive Installation
Das digital Wort, Word Up Festival, Vienna, Austria ([the clearing]) CD-ROM installation
Can it Digit? Postmasters Gallery, New York City ([the clearing]) CD-ROM installation
1995/97
Photography After Photography Siemens Kultur Programm, Munich Germany (Equivalents II installation with catalog text) Interactive Installation
1995/96
3rd Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France (Slippery Traces - major retrospective of digital media art) Interactive Installation
1995
V2 DEAF Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands (Anecdoted Archive) Conference exhibition
The 6th Fukui International Video Biennale, Fukui, Japan ([the clearing]) (no documentation) CD-ROM Exhibition
Obsessions from Wunderkammer to Cyberspace, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (Anecdoted Archive) Interactive Installation
International VideoFest, Berlin Video Festival, Berlin, ([the clearing])
International Society of Electronic Arts 1995, Montreal, Quebec (Slippery Traces) (online documentation http //www.isea-web.org/eng/inl/inl42.html) Premiere Interactive Installation
ARC Interactive Media Festival, Los Angeles, California (Anecdoted Archive) Interactive Installation
1994
New Langton Arts Gallery, San Francisco, California ([the clearing]) Premiere Interactive Installation
Les Hypermedias revue virtuelle 12, Center Georges Pompidou, Paris France (Anecdoted Archive) CD-ROM kiosk installation
ISEA’94, Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki Finland (Anecdoted Archive) (www print-out - no documentation) Conference Installation
Fifteen Years of Ars Electronica Ars Electronica ’94, Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria (Anecdoted Archive) Interactive Installation
Artifices 3, Salle de la Legion d’Honneur, Mairie de Saint-Denis, Paris France (Anecdoted Archive) Interactive Installation
1993/94
Iterations The Digital Image, International Center for Photography, New York City (Equivalents II – traveling to Memorial Arts Gallery, Rochester, New York) Premier Interactive Installation
1993
In/Out of the Cold, Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, California (Premiere of the Anecdoted Archive in the inaugural exhibition for the Center) Interactive Installation
1990
Official Language, San Francisco Art Institute Group Exhibition
Enigmatic Light, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Los Angeles Group Exhibition
1989
The Technological Imagination, Minneapolis college of Art & Design Group Exhibition
The Photography of Invention American Pictures of the 1980’s, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (traveling to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis) Travelling Group Exhibition
Fotografie, Wissenshaft und Neue Medien, Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf Group Exhibition
1988
The Posing Series, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Montreal Group Photography exhibition
Digital Photography Captured Images, Volatile Memory, New Montage, San Francisco Cameraworks Gallery (Group exhibition travelling to CRCA, University of Texas, Arlington, Houston Center of Photography, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Museet fur Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark) Travelling Group Exhibition
1987
Cultural Identities, LACPS, Los Angeles (Photography exhibition)
1985
Images Fabriquées, Yajima Galerie, Montreal (Photography exhibition)
1984
Situational Photography, San Diego State University (Photography exhibition)
New Works, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas (Photography exhibition)
Allocations, 49th Parallel Gallery, New York (Photography exhibition)
1983
Images Fabriquées, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Group Travelling exhibition
1982
Beyond Photography, The Fabricated Image, Delahunty Gallery, New York (Photography exhibition)
1978
San Francisco Associates, Optica Gallery, Montreal (Photography exhibition)
1976
West Coast Conceptual Photographers, La Mamelle Art Center, San Francisco (Photography exhibition)
Public Arts and Other Commissions
2005-2006
Kinetic Flow, LA MetroRail, LA
2003-2005
Making the Invisible Visible, Seattle Public Library, Seattle
2002
Chance Encounters, LA MetroRail, LA
2001
Pockets Full of Memories, Centre Pompidou Museum of Modern Art, Paris
2000
Eternal Summer, Ebner, Stolz Associates, Stuttgart
1999
Transitional Spaces, Siemens Kultur Programm, Munich
1997
Tracing, Kunst und AustellungHalle, Bonn
Authored Publications (Articles, artist’s books and digital works)
2006
From Data to Its Organizing Structure, George Legrady, in “Distributed Networks”, edited by Therese Thierny, Anthony Burke, Princeton Architectural Press, 2007 (forthcoming)
Des Souvenirs pleins les poches: l’installation d’un musée interactif, George Legrady, in “L’art, a-t-il besoin du numérique? edited by Jean-Pierre Balpe, Manuela de barros, Editions Hermes, Lavoisier, Paris, 2006
Perspectives on Collaborative Research and Education in Media Arts, George Legrady. LEONARDO Vol. 39:3 (2006), MIT Press. Article in refereed Journal
The Photographic Image Mathematically Modeled, (article with visual portfolio). VU Fine Arts Editions, Quebec. Media Arts academic journal
2005 Sep
Making Visible the Invisible, http //www.ichim.org (Bibliotheque National Conference, Paris). Conference Proceedings
2004 Jul
Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Digital Media Arts A Psychological Perspective on the Production Process, Dr. Brigitte Steinheider, George Legrady. LEONARDO Vol. 37, No. 4 (2004), MIT Press. Article in refereed Journal
2003
Slippery Traces in “Future Cinema, “Slippery Traces”. ZKM (Center for Media Art Museum), MIT Press. Authored article in exhibition catalog
2002
“The Dynamics of Real and Virtual Space Audience Dialogue” in New Screen Media. Edited by Martin Rieser, Andrea Zapp, British Film Institute, London. Article
“Slippery Traces” in the complete artintact vols. 1-5 1994-1999. ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe. Interactive DVD
“Intersecting the Virtual and the Real in New Screen Media. Edited by Martin Reiser, Andrea Zapp, British Film Institute. Article in book
“A Sense of Place” in New Screen Media. Edited by Martin Reiser, Andrea Zapp, British Film Institute. DVD
“Pockets Full of Memories” in Visual Communication. vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 163-169(7) Sage Publications Inc., London, Thousand Oaks. Article
2001
“Realizing a Digital Media Installations Problems and Synergetic Effects of an Interdisciplinary Collaboration”, Dr. Brigitte Steinheider, G.Legrady. Proceedings “Multimedia Technology & Applications Conference”, MTAC 2001, UCI, November 7-9, 2001, IEEE. Conference Proceeding
“Narrative & Interactivity” in Gegenwarts-Bildung/Present Formations. Ed. H.von Amelunxen, Antje Krause-Wahl, Muthesius-Hochschule, Kiel. Article in book, and CD-ROM
“Modular Structure and Image/ Text Sequences Comics and Interactive Media”. Comix Culture, Department of Romance languages, University of Copenhagen . Article in Conference book
2000
Wide Angle, Vol 21, no 1 John Hopkins Press. Article in refereed journal
“Intersecting Real and Virtual Spaces in Interactive Media Installations” in Digitality and the Memory of Cinema. Edited by Tim Murray, Cornell Univ.
1998/00
“Image Archaeology” . C3 Center for Media Communication Culture, Budapest, Hungary. On-line/CD-ROM
1998
Videonale 8. Bonn Videonale. Proceedings
“George Legrady: From Analogue to Digital”. National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. CD-ROM exh. catalog
1996
“Slippery Traces”. ArtintAct 3 ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (edited, J.Shaw). CD-ROM
“Slippery Traces: The Postcard Trail”. ArtinAct 3 ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (edited, J.Shaw). Article in book/cd-rom
1995
“DO NOT ENTER New Voices, New Visions”, 1994 Winning Entries. Voyager Co., New York. CD-ROM
“The Equivalents II” in Photography After Photography: Memory and Representation in the Digital Age. Siemens Kultur Programm, Munich, Germany. Article in exh. catalog
“Images, Language & Belief in Synthesis” in Critical Issues in Electronic Media, Ed. Simon Penny. SUNY Press. Article in book
[the clearing] (disk insert for Mediamatic “Home” issue). Mediamatic vol 8, #2/3 journal, Amsterdam. cd-rom insert
1994
“An Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War”. HyperReal Media Productions, Budapest and San Francisco. CD-ROM
“[the clearing]”, an interactive document on the Bosnian Situation. Computer disk publication, base.arts, San Francisco. Digital publication
1991
“Digital Dialogues”. TEN.8, Vol 2, No 2, UK. Journal
1989/90
“Impressions” Noise Factor/ Figures of Authority. Perspectief, Rotterdam. Journal
1981
“Artificial Intelligence”, Parachute, journal of contemporary art, Montreal. Commissioned publication project
1980
“Floating Objects”, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario. Artist book
“Everyday Stories”, Artist book
Exhibition Catalogues
2007
V2_Unstable Media, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Exhibition Catalog
Made in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Exhibition Catalog
2006
Code Blue, 3rd Beijing International New Media Festival Exhibition and Conference, Beijing, China, Exhibition Catalog
ARCO Art Fair, Madrid, Exhibition Catalog
2005
Algorithmic Visualizations. Philbrook Museum of Art, Exhibition brochure
2003
Information Is Alive. DEAF 03, Rotterdam. Conference Catalog
Future Cinema. ZKM Museum for Technology, Karlsruhe, Exhibition Catalog
2002
Sans commune mesure, image et texte dans l’art actuel. Le Fresnoy, Studio National des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France. Exhibition Catalog
1999
Transitional Spaces, edited with interview by Matthias Winzen. Siemens Kultur program, Munich. Exhibition Catalog
Interactive Frictions, edited by Marsha Kinder, Holly Willis. University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Exhibition Catalog
1998
The Butterfly Effect. Center for Culture & Communications, (Soros Center for Contemporary Arts), Budapest. Exhibition Catalog, cd-rom
La Coscienza Luccicante. Gangemi Editore, Rome Italy. Exhibition Catalog
<COMPACTS> station Arts Electroniques. Université Rennes, France. Exhibition Catalog
1997
Lab 6, International Multimedia Exhibition. Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland. Proceedings/ exh Catalog
Hardware, Software, Artware. Institut fur Bildmedien, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. Catalog
Hardware, Software, Artware. Institut fur Bildmedien, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany. CD-ROM/catalog
Deep Storage. Siemens Kultur Program, Prestel, Berlin. Exhibition Catalog
Actualité du virtuel/Virtual Today, Edited by JL Boissier, M. Moinot, C.V. Assche. Revue Virtuelle, Center Georges Pompidou, Paris, France. CD_ROM Catalog
1996
Multimedia Graphics 1. Thames & Hudson, London/New York, BIS Publishers (Amsterdam) Bangert Verlag (Munich) co-published in Japan and France. Book
George Legrady, Slippery Traces . Osnabruck European Media Festival, Osnabruck, Germany. Festival Catalog
Everybody’s Talking. Gemeente Museum Helmond, Helmond, Netherlands. Exhibition Catalog
CD-ROM Burning the Interface. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia. Exhibition Catalog
1995/96
3rd Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France. Lyon Musée d’art contemporain. CD-ROM + book
1995
Photography After, Photography, and an article “Language & Belief in Synthesis”. Siemens Kultur Programm, Munich, Germany. Exhibition Catalog
Interactive Media ARC Festival, Los Angeles. Sponsored by Motorola Company. Exhibition Catalog
George Legrady Interactive Media Art, Intro. By Erkki Huhtamo . Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland. Exhibition Catalog
DO NOT ENTER New Voices, New Visions, 1994 Winning Entries. Voyager Co., New York. CD-ROM
1994
Prix Ars Electronica ’94, ORF, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, Linz, Austria. Ars electronica, Linz. Festival Catalog
Iterations, The New Image. MIT Press. Exhibition Catalog
Artifices 3, Saint-Denis, France. Edited by Anne-Marie Duguet, Jean-Louis Boissier. Préfecture de la ville de Saint-Denis. Exhibition Catalog
ISEA ’94, Symposium Catalog, Helsinki Finland (online documentation http //www.isea-web.org/eng/inl/inl30s.html). ISEA. Proceedings
1993
Teleskulptur. Kulturdata, ed. R. Kriescher, Graz, Austria. Conference Catalog
1992
Virtual Seminar on the Bioapparatus, . Banff Centre for the Arts. Conference Catalog
La Collection, Paulette Gagnon. P.334. Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal. Exhibition Catalog
1989
The photography of Invention, Joshua Smith. MIT Press. Exhibition Catalog
1988
Prix Ars Electronica – Meisterwerke der Computerkunst. Ars Electronica, Linz. Festival Catalog
Digital Photography Captured Images, Volatile Memory, New Montage, Jim Pomeroy, Tim Druckrey, Marnie Gillett. San Francisco Cameraworks.
Exhibition Catalog Interviews
2005
The Art of Mapping Statistics, Roberto Simanowski, http://www.dichtung-digital.com/2005/2-Legrady.htm
2002
Conversations Around the Archive Sven Spieker, http //www.artmargins.com. On-line Journal
2001
Art During Wartime Is it Dead? Tulsa Kinney. Coagula, Los Angeles. Journal
1995
Interview by Erszebet Komar, (A critical film theory journal). Film Kultura, Budapest. Journal
Interview with George Legrady by Geert Lovink. Mediamatic.
1995 Feb.
Interview by Kati Timar (Interview with an art historian Budapest’s major theoretical art journal). Balkon 1/95 Art journal, Budapest. Journal
1994
Interview, Under the Sign of Pi (On interactive, technological media art – no documentation). TV Ostankino Television Co., Moscow. TV
MediaMix (Interviewed during the Media Forum. Conference in Budapest, special program on technology – no documentation). Channel 2, Hungarian National Television, Budapest. YV
Selected Bibliography
2006
“Materializing New Media: Embodiment and Information Aesthetics”, Anne Muenster, Univ. New England (forthcoming)
“George Legrady visuálmüvészete Seattle új könyvtárában”, Bänhegyi Zsolt, Könyvtári Levelezö, Budapest
“George Legrady at Telic”, Jody Zellen, Artweek, San Francisco
“At the Cutting edge of Art”, Rosa Pera, ARCO Art Fair Journal, Madrid
2005
“New piece for Central Library pushes art to the technical edge”, Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Art Critic, Seattle
“George Legrady at the Seattle Public Library”, Gary Faigin, ArtDish,
“Spielraume als Wissenraume”, Matthias Fuch, p56-57, Kunstforum 187, Berlin
2004
“The aesthetics of Distracting Media”, Mark Poster, Culture Machine, UK
“Les collections d’archives de George Legrady”, Bernard Gauchet, Univ. de Rennes
“Mediateos järjestää yleisön tavarat”, Arja Maunusksela on (Pockets Full of Memories), Helsinki Sanomat
“The Imaginative Device, Towards A Methodology of Possibility”, Ulrich Schmidts, Univ. Luebeck
“Neue Erzählstrategien von Geschichte in der Interaktiven Kunst: An Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War” von George Legrady,Tasja Langenbach, Univ. Leipzig
2003
“Digital Art”, Christiane Paul, Thames & Hudson, London
“Sensing Speaking Space”, Holly Willis, Creative Capital Foundation
“Aura, After the Age of Technical Reproduction”, Praesens, Budapest
“Digital Identification”, Yvette van Nierop, DEAF03, Rotterdam
2002
“Renderings of Digital Art”, Christiane Paul, in “Vectors Digital Art of Our Time”, Leonardo Vol 35, No 5. pp473, 484. MIT Press. Journal
“Experimental Design and Testing of Visualization in Data Mining”, in Profiles in Research, Judy Watts, UCSB. Office of Research
“High Tech artists Create Interactive Installation Addressing Poetics of Presence”, in Engineering Today, Vol. XXV111, Jackie Savani. Engineering, UCSB . Journal
“The Digital Stain of Technology”, in the Complete artintact, Tim Murray, pp 33-43. Hatje Cantz. Brochure, DVD
2001
Information Arts The Intersection of Art, Science & Technology, Stephen Wilson, pp 318-339, pp 668-670. MIT Press. Book
“Pockets Full of Memories”, in Practica 1, pp 136-137. Japan. Journal
De mémoire de vide poches, Marie Lechner. Libération, Paris. Newspaper Review
De l’art plein les poches, Odile Fillion, http //interactif.lemonde.fr/article/0,5611,2871—174854-0,FF.html. Le Monde Interactif. On-line Review
The Language of New Media, Lev Manovich, pp 221, 263-264. MIT Press. Book
2000
Snap-to-Grid A User’s Guide to Digital Arts, Media and Culture, Peter Lunenfeld, pp 67,68. MIT Press. Book
1999
Technik und Kunst im neuen Siemens-Haus, September 30, 1999. Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung. Newspaper Review
Raum als visuelle Brücke, Oliver Herwig, October 13, 1999. Süddeutche Zeitung – SZ Extra. Newspaper Review
Nur im Ansatz interessant, Hanne Weskott, October 20, 1999. Süddeutche Zeitung. Newspaper Review
George Legrady. Siemens Kultur Programm. Exhibition Information
George Legrady “Transitional Spaces”, Rotunde SiemensAG, München. Siemens Kultur Programm. Exhibition Press Release
1998
Das Verhältnis von Sprache und Bild,Jürgen Kisters. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. Newspaper review
George Legrady in der Kunst-und Austellungshalle,Söke Dinkla. Das Kunst-Bulletin, Zürich. Newspaper review
Collection/Fabrication, Anne Benichou, Jacques Doyon (A comprehensive review of the National Gallery of Canada exhibition). Parachute 92 magazine, Montreal. Review
Between ‘Screen Memories’ and ‘Associative Engine’, Tim Druckery, in George Legrady From Analogue to Digital (CD-ROM). National Gallery of Canada. Catalog article/cd-rom
Notes and Dialogues on the Anecdoted Archive of George Legrady, Jean Gagnon, associate curator. In George Legrady From Analogue to Digital (CD-ROM) Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography. National Gallery of Canada . Catalog article/cd-rom
L’Harmattan, Olga Kisseleva, pp 181-184 (no documentation). L’Harmattan, Paris. Book
Qu’est-ce qu’une Madeleine? Raymond Bellour, Laurent Roth, editions Yves Gevaert, Centre Pompidou, Paris (no documentatiaon). . Book
1997
Fortaellinger I tekst og billede – Spohie Calle og George Legrady, Mette Sandbye. NY Poetik, Odense Universitestforlag. Journal
A müvészeten tül, edited by Peter Weibel. Mester Nyomda, Budapest,Passengen Verlag, Wien. Book
1996
The Butterfly Effect. Horizon, Budapest. Journal
Media & Design, Emma Roper-evans, p 4. Where/Budapest. Journal
1995
Réseaux, interactivité et réalité virtuelle, Myriam Boutouille. Beaux-Arts, Paris. Art Journal
The Art World and I go on Line, Robert Atkins (A review of the state of new technologies in the art world) (no documentation). Art in America. Article
False Endings, Anecdoted Histories, Deterritorialized Subjects and Central European Imaginaries by Irit Rogoff. Art & Design, London. Article
(the clearing), Reviewed by Mark Bartlett, Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, Vol 1 1, Winter (no documentation). See magazine, SF. Review
1994
Memoires vives, Jean-Paul Fargier, 18 November 1994 (Review of Anecdoted Archive in Artifices 3, Saint-Denis, France (no documentation). Le Monde, Paris. Review
1992
Computer und Kunst, Erwin Steller, Universitat Karsruhe, p.250. B-I Wissen-schaftsverlag, Mannheim. Book
Abstracte kunst in Watertoren, Tentoonstelling van Galgian end Legrady, August 7, 1992. Vlissingen, Netherlands. Newspaper Art Review
1988
Machine Dreams, Christine Tamblyn, September 1988. Afterimage, NY. Art Journal
1987
George Legrady will be minding the store, Zan Dubin, July 7, 1987. Los Angeles Times. Newspaper Art Review
1984
Seeing is Believing, Judith Christensen, August 22, 1984. Artweek, LA. Art Journal
1981
Legrady’s photographs fall into place, John Bentley Mays, September 232, 19811. Globe and Mail, Toronto. Newspaper Art Review
George Legrady, Floating Objects, London Regional art Gallery, Parachute 23, Goldie Rans, pp 41,42. Parachute, Montreal. Art Journal
Grants and Awards
2006
Numerous University of California Speciality awards to fund the ACM Multimedia Arts Exhibition
2005
UCSB Faculty Senate Research Grant
2002/03/05
Creative Capital Foundation. Sensing Speaking Space
2002
UCSB Research Across Disciplines, Office of Research. Digital Science, Art & Culture
National Science Foundation IGERT Educational Grant. Digital Multimedia Graduate Training Program in Interactive Digital Multimedia
UCSB Research Across Disciplines, Office of Research. Human Body Tracking As Interface For Interactive Installations
UCSB Faculty Senate Senate grant. Pockets Full of Memories
2001
Centre Pompidou exhibition production honorarium. Pockets Full of Memories
Langlois Foundation for Art, Science & Technology Fellowship. Pockets Full of Memories
1998
C3 Media Center for Culture and Communication, Budapest. 2 month Artist residency program and exhibition
1997/98
Canada Council Computer-Aided Media Award. Production for “Tracing”, an interactive digital installation
1997
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. Artist residency program for the production of the National Gallery of Canada cd-rom catalog
I.D. Magazine, New York (Excellence award Artintact 3, ZKM, CD-ROM)
1996
Artslink, National Endowment for the Arts Award. CD-ROM project on Hungarian Stalin Era newsreels with Balasz Varga, at the Hungarian Film Institute, Budapest
1995
Interactive Media Festival, Los Angeles (ARC Award Nomination and Exhibition).
1994/95
Canada Council Computer-Aided Media Award. Research and production of Slippery Traces
1994
National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship. To support artistic activities in interactive media
Competition Grand Prize Award, Voyager Company, Wired magazine, Interval Research Corporation. New Voices, New Visions
Ars Electronica ’94 Festival, Linz, Austria. Honorable Mention, Digital Media Category
1993
WESTAF National Endowment for the Arts (Regional Fellowship in Photography). Development research for [the clearing]
1992/93
Canada Council Computer-Aided Media Award. For implementation of the 2D midpoint synthesis algorithm for the Equivalents II project
1991
Canada Council Project Grant
1988/89
Canada Council Arts Fellowship Award (Paris studio fellowship & research work in digital media). Paris studio cultural exchange program
1988
Ars Electronica ’88 Festival, Linz. Honorable Mention, Digital Media Category
1974-1988
Numerous Canada Council and Ontario Arts Council Grants
Academic Appointments
2000-
University of California, Santa Barbara, joint appointment, Media Arts & Technology doctoral program & Department of Art, Head of the Visual/Spatial Arts area
1998
UCLA School of Art, Design, Architecture, Visiting Faculty in media arts
1996-2000
Merz Akademie, Institute of Visual Communication, Stuttgart, Germany Head of the Interactive media program
1995
San Francisco State University, Sabbatical leave
1994
Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, Faculty in digital media
1989-1997
San Francisco State University, Faculty in digital media
1988-1989
Canada Council Paris Studio, Paris, France, Independent Research
1984-1988
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Faculty in photography
1983
UCLA School of Art, Design, Architecture, Visiting Faculty in photography
1982-1984
California Institute of the Arts, Visiting Faculty in photography
1981-1982
University of California, San Diego, Independent Research
1979 Sum
Nova Scotia College of Art & design, Visiting faculty in photography
1978-1981
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Head of photography area
1977 Sum
North Texas State University, Denton, Texas, Visiting faculty in photography
Education
1974-76
Masters of Fine Art, San Francisco Art Institute, Visual Arts
1973
Undergraduate studies, Goddard College, Vermont, Visual Anthropology
1968-70
Undergraduate studies, Loyola College, Montreal, English Literature