George Legrady
George Legrady was born in Budapest, and grew up in Montreal. He currently lives in Paris and Santa Barbara, where he is Distinguished Professor in the interdisciplinary arts-engineering Media Arts & Technology program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Legrady initially studied photography at Loyola College in Montreal where he was inspired by the artist Charles Gagnon and the photographer John Max.
He is a digital media artist, researcher and scholar with projects realized at the intersections of photography, interactive installations, data processing and computationally generated visualizations, cultural analysis and the digital humanities. His contribution to the digital media arts field since the mid-1980s has been in a critical investigation of the impact of integrating computation and creative coding with photographic visualization.
His practice and research have been supported by various agencies in the arts and sciences including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for the Arts, Science and Technology. His artworks are in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution (Washington), National Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest), Centre Pompidou, ZKM Karlsruhe, National Gallery of Canada, Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal and others. He is represented by RCM Galerie in Paris and Inda Gallery in Budapest. [Source: VOX]
