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George Legrady |
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Slippery Traces |
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1995 |
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George Legrady is currently Professor of Interactive Media, with joint appointment in the Media Arts & Technology program and the department of Art, UC Santa Barbara. Born in Budapest and raised in Montreal, George Legrady, received a Masters of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute and has previously held academic appointments at the Merz Akademie School of Visual Communication, Stuttgart, Germany, San Francisco State University, University of Southern California, California Institute of the Arts, and the University of Western Ontario.
His interactive installations have been widely exhibited internationally most recently at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiasma, Helsinki; the Ars Electronica Media Festival, Linz; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Museum of Contemporary Art, LA; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Canada; The Center for Media Art & Technology (ZKM), Karlsruhe, and many others. He has received awards and fellowships for his digital media works from the Creative Capital Foundation, the Daniel Langlois Foundation for the Arts, Science and Technology, the Canada Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Slippery Traces installation had its inaugural presentation at the ISEA conference in Montreal, 1995. It was then featured in the 3rd Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, 1995; in "Butterfly Effect", Müscarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, 1996; the Osnabrück Media Festival, 1996; the "Dawn of the Magicians", National Gallery of Prague, 1997; Palais des beaux-arts, Brussels, 1997; Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, 1997/1998; and travelled in the Siemens Kultur Programm curated Deep Storage exhibition at the Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1997; the Kunstforum, Berlin, Fall 1997; the kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, Spring 1998; Projects Studios One, New York, summer 1998, the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Fall 1998, anad most recently in "Future Cinema" at ZKM, Karlsruhe, 2002-2003. A cd-rom version was published by ZKM, Karlsruhe in Artintact 3, 1996.
He is at this time in production of a commission for the Rem Koolhaas designed Seattle Central Library to visually map the circulation of books moving in and out of the library's collection.
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