George Legrady at Digital Studies Symposium Monday April 4

On April 4th, the IML Digital Studies Symposium presents media artist and scholar George Legrady. Legrady’s talk will focus on exploring the intersections of data, art and interaction design. George Legrady is an artist whose interactive installations and web-based artworks make use of data collection, data processing methodologies and data visualization. “I have integrated digital processes into my artistic work since the mid-1980′s, investigating two different directions: methodologies for new forms of visualization through the organization of cultural data, and implementation of algorithmic processes,” he explains. Legrady holds a joint appointment in the Department of Art and the Media Arts & Technology graduate program at UC Santa Barbara, and his work overall considers the language and aesthetics of interaction design, collaborative narrative development through audience interaction and data management through semantic categorization using neural-net based self-organizing map algorithms. The presentation will be held at 7:00 pm in the main USC Cinema complex, SCA 112.