person

1950 –

Hungary

http://www.georgelegrady.com/

Born in Budapest and emigrated to Montréal 1956. Lives and works in Santa Barbara. He attended Loyola College in Montréal (1968/70), the Goddard College in Vermont (1972/74) and the San Francisco Art Institute (1974/76), from which he obtained a Masters of Fine Arts in 1976. His research and artwork began in a conceptual approach to photographic representation. Since the mid-1980's, his projects have focused on the cultural and theoretical implications of digital computer media and its impact on our belief in the image. As Associate Professor of Interactive Computer Media, Conceptual Art and Theory in Information Arts Conceptual Design, within the Art Department at San Francisco State University, an art programme that integrates cultural theory and advanced applications in digital technology within the contexts of conceptual art and contemporary art practice, he received the USC Innovative Teaching Award. He was Visiting Scholar at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, for a semester 1994. (2011)