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 George
Legrady is
Professor of Interactive Media in the
Media
Arts & Technology
Graduate
program at UC Santa Barbara. His contribution to
the digital media field since the early stages of
its formation into a discipline in the early
1990’s has been in intersecting cultural
content with data processing as a means of creating
new forms of aesthetic representations and
socio-cultural narrative experiences. Current
projects at this time integrate algorithmic
processes as a means to data visualization through
semantic categorization and self-organizing
systems, interactive art installations, and mixed
realities collaborative narrative development. His
digital interactive installations have been
exhibited
internationally most recently at Telic Gallery, Los
Angeles (2006), BlackBox 06 at ARCO, Madrid (2006),
the Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester (2005), Museum
of Contemporary Art Kiasma (2004), Ars Electronica
(2003), DEAF03 (2003), San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art (2002), Centre Georges Pompidou (2001),
the National Gallery of Canada (1997) and others.
He has received awards
from Creative Capital Foundation, the Daniel
Langlois Foundation for the Arts, Science and
Technology, the Canada Council, and the National
Endowment for the Arts. He is in production of a
commission for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and
recently completed Making
Visible the
Invisible
for the Seattle Central Library, a permanent
installlation that visually maps the circulation of
books moving in and out of the library's
collection
Roberto Simanowski
talked with George Legrady about his work Making
Visible the Invisible, about the revelation and
beautification of data, about the negotiation
between artist and engineer in mapping art, and
about the future of art.
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