Art Studio and Media Arts & Technology
University of California, Santa Barbara

Date: Friday, January 9, 2004
Place: CS Conference Room
_____ Engineering 1, Rm. 2114
Time: 4:00 pm — 5:00 pm (Refreshments served at 3:30 pm)

Abstract:
The production and exhibition of interactive media arts installation projects involve extensive collaboration between artists, designers, engineers and programmers. This presentation will review some of the issues dealing with such productions through the presentation of two projects produced in conjunction with faculty and students of the Media Arts & Technology program. "Sensing Speaking Space" was commissioned by the "Activating the Medium" music festival and presented at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002) and in the jureed International Society of Electronic Arts Conference exhibition at Nagoya, Japan (2002). "Pockets Full of Memories" was commissioned by the Centre Pompidou museum in Paris, and came out of an European based international collaborative effort between cognitive scientist Dr. Timo Honkela, Helsinki University of Technology, MAT faculty George Legrady Dr. Brigitte Steinheider, psychologist, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering), engineering teams in Budapest and Paris, a design team from Stuttgart, and the CREATE research lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Biography:
George Legrady is Professor of Interactive Media at UC Santa Barbara. He has previously held appointments at the Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, San Francisco State University, University of Southern California, and the University of Western Ontario. His interactive installations have been exhibited internationally most recently at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Ars Electronica, DEAF03, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 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 has lectured internationally at over 70 institutions during the past ten years. George Legrady Studio provides the focus for his research and practice. Projects integrate interactive art installation, collaborative narrative development, data visualization through semantic categorization and self-organizing algorithms. Emphasis is on a cultural and conceptual approach to aesthetics through the implementation of complex technologies for new forms of content and analysis.