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Geboren 1950 in Budapest, kanadischer
Staatsbürger seit 1961, lebt seit 1981 in
Kalifornien. Von 1996 bis 2000 war
Legrady Professor für elektronische
Medien an der Merz Akademie in Stuttgart,
z. Zt. ist er Professor für Digitale Medien an
der University of California, Santa Barbara.
Zuvor war er u.a. an der University of
Southern California, am California Institute
for the Arts in Los Angeles und an der
University of Western Ontario in London,
Kanada, tätig. Seine künstlerischen und
wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten beschäftigen
sich mit den kulturellen Auswirkungen der
Technologieentwicklung im Hinblick auf
Repräsentation und Gesellschaft. Er
begann seine künstlerische Karriere 1970
mit Fotografie, lernte 1981 Computerprogrammierung
und verband beides Mitte der
8oer Jahre. Seit 1992 entwickelt er alle
Arbeiten mit interaktiven Medien.
Jüngste Stipendien und Auszeichnungen
(Auswahl) / Selected recent
stipends and awards
Honourable Mention, distinction
Computer Graphics, Prix Ars
Electronica, Linz, 1988
Canada Council Computer-Aided Media
Award, 1992/93, 1994/95, 1997/98
Honourable Mention, distinction Interactive
Art, Prix Ars Electronica, Linz,
1994
New Voices, New Visions prize, Voyager
Co., Wired and Interval Research, 1994
Visual Artist Fellowship, National Endowment
for the Arts, Washington, 1994
George Legrady
George Legrady, who was born in Budapest
in 1950, has been a Canadian citizen
since 1961, and resident of California since
1981. From 1996 to 2000, he was Professor
of Electronic Media at the Merz Academy
in Stuttgart, and currently holds a position
as Professor of Digital Media at the University
of California, Santa Barbara. Prior
appointments include: University of
Southern California and California Institute
of the Arts in Los Angeles, University
of Western Ontario in London, Canada.
His work and research have focused on the
cultural impact of emerging technologies
on representation and the social environment.
He took up photography in the early
1970s, learned computer programming in
1981 and integrated the two in the mid-
1980s. Since 1992, all his work has been in
interactive media.
Artslink, National Endowment for the
Arts, Washington, 1996
Honourable Mention, distinction Interactive
Media, ID. Magazine, New
York, 1997 (artintact 3)
Residency, Akademie Schloss Solitude,
Stuttgart, 1997
Residency, c 3 Media Center for Culture
and Communication, Budapest, 1998
international media art award, ZKM,
Karlsruhe, 2000 (nomination)
The Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art,
Science and Technology, Montreal,
2000