George Legrady

Wednesday, March 25, 4:30 pm
Peter B. Lewis Library - Bowl LL 120
Washington Rd & Ivy Lane

Aesthetic and Data Visualization

Legrady's  presentation will trace the intersection of data organization and visualization in a number of the artist's projects such as "We Are Stardust" in collaboration with the NASA Spitzer Science Center, at the California Institute of Technology (2008);  "Pockets Full of Memories" (2001-2007) inaugurated at the Centre Pompidou, and  "Making Visible the Invisible" (2005) a public arts commission for the Seattle Central Library, and the Cell Tango (Global Collaborative Visual Mapping Archive - 2007) visual archive exhibited at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. These projects consist of visualizations generated by custom designed software that dynamically organize data.  Legrady will discuss his research and production work in data visualization with the Experimental Visualization Lab of the Media Arts and Technology Program at UC Santa Barbara.

Bio:

George Legrady is Professor of Art & Digital Media in the arts-engineering Media Arts & Technology Doctoral 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. His digital interactive installations have been exhibited internationally.

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