George Legrady

George Legrady (born in 1950, in Budapest) is a multidisciplinary, interactive media artist. He began his photographic artistic practice in Montreal. In 1973, he received his first major project, a photo documentary in northern Quebec of four James Bay Cree communities in response to the James Bay Cree hydroelectric conflict. Following graduate studies at the San Francisco Art Institute in the mid 1970s, his work resulted in numerous projects that focused on a semiotic analysis of the photographic image. In 1985, he produced a photo documentary on the visual syntax of public billboards in four major Chinese cities.

Legrady began to explore the potential of digital technologies in the early 1980s in the studio of Harold Cohen at the University of California in San Diego. His contribution to the digital media field since the early stages of its formation in the early 1990s has been in intersecting cultural content with data processing. This is a means of creating aesthetic and socio-cultural narrative experiences. In 1997, the digital catalog of his solo museum exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Photography, tracing the transition from photography to interactive media installations in his artworks, is now featured online at the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Arts, Science, & Technology.

His most significant interactive digital media arts projects include the “Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War” in 1993, “Slippery Traces” in 1995, published by the ZKM Museum in Karlsruhe. His data visualization project "Making Visible the Invisible" for the Seattle Central Library will be operational until 2014. It was featured in the Whitney Museum Artport in 2005. Commissioned by the Centre Pompidou and travelling internationally from 2001-2006, the project “Pockets Full of Memories” invited visitors to contribute objects in their possession, digitally scanning and describing them. This information was stored in a database and organized by the Kohonen Self-Organizing Map algorithm that positioned objects of similar descriptions near each other in a two-dimensional map. The map of objects was projected in the gallery space and was also accessible online at where individuals in the gallery and at home could review the objects and add comments and stories to any of them.[1]

He is Director of the Experimental Visualization Lab in the Media Arts & Technology doctoral program at the University of California in Santa Barbara. He has previously taught at the University of Western Ontario, the California Institute of the Arts, the University of Southern California, the San Francisco State University, and the Merz Akademie of Visual Communication.

Selected Solo Exhibitions/Installations

2012 Refraction, Nature Morte, Berlin, Germany
2011 Refraction, Edward Cella Art+ Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Cell Tango, in RAM, The Museum, Kitchener, Ontario. CA
Sprengle Museum, Hanover, Germany
Science, Memory, Art, Panel at Edward Cella Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Grow: From Nature to Beyond, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Blink, ArtWithoutWalls, Louisville, KY
Cell Tango, Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland
Cell Tango, featured artwork at the Lawrence Hall of Science
We Are Stardust, at CODE Live, Vancouver Olympics, Vancouver BC
2009 Blink and Stardust, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
Cell Tango, Wellesley College, Mass
Blink, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV
Blink, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, Hanover, Germany
2008 We Are Stardust, Caltech NASA Spitzer Center and the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Cell Tango, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
Pockets Full of Memories in "V2_UNstable Media", Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
Cell Tango, TAP Theatre, Poitiers, France
China in Transition, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, Hanover, Germany
Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War, in Drifting Slowly, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto
George Legrady: Stardust, Edward Cella Art +Architecture, Santa Barbara, CA
2007 Algorithmic Visualizations, Edward Cella Art +Architecture, Santa Barbara, CA
Blink, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2006 Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Sensing Speaking Space at ARCO Art Fair, Pari Nadimi Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Algorithmic Visualizations, Telic Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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, OK
Pockets Full of Memories, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
2002 Chance Encounters, 7th/Metro Subway Station, Los Angeles Metro Rail Arts Commission, Los Angeles, CA (interactive installation)
Sensing Speaking Space, Activating the Medium Festival, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2001 Pockets Full of Memories in Interactivités, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
George Legrady New Media, Galerie Klaus-Peter Goebel, Stuttgart, Germany
1999/2000 Transitional Spaces, Rotunde, Siemens Headquarters, Munich, Germany (Commissioned work for the opening of the newly designed Richard Meier Siemens Headquarters)
1998 Tracing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1997/1998 Tracing, Kunst und Austellunghalle der Bundes Republic, Bonn, Germany
George Legrady: from Analogue to Digital, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada (a two museum retrospective exhibition) (Anecdoted Archive; Slippery Traces)
1996 Equivalents II, Open Space Gallery, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA
1995 George Legrady Interactive Media Art, Rovaniemi Art Museum, Rovaniemi, Finland, (Anecdoted Archive, [the clearing], Equivalents II)
1994 ([the clearing]) New Langton Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA (premiere interactive Installation, two person with Gilles Peress)
1992 Nothing Essential Happens in the Absence of Noise, Watertoren, Hedendaagse Kunst, Vlissingen, the Netherlands
1991 Between East & West (1956 >>>>1989) YYZ Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1987 From Noise to Signal, University of Southern California Atelier Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1986 Posing & Studies for Monuments, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1985 George Legrady, Yajima Galerie, Montreal, Canada
1984 Stock Footage, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
1981 George Legrady, Yajima Galerie, Montreal, Canada
Staged Photography, George Legrady, PSI, New York, NY
Floating Objects, London Regional Art Gallery/Museum London), London, Ontario, Canada

Awards & Commissions

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Notes

  1. ↑ Legrady, George (2002). "Pockets Full of Memories: an interactive museum installation". Visual Communication 1 (2): 163.

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