George Legrady
George Legrady is a multidisciplinary digital media artist and researcher specializing in data visualization, computation and photography, interactive media installations, and mobile robotic imaging systems. Born in Budapest and raised in Montreal, he has lived in California since 1981 and holds Hungarian, Canadian, and American citizenship.
He is a Distinguished Professor of Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he directs the Experimental Visualization Lab in the Media Arts & Technology program and served as department chair from 2013 to 2017. His academic background includes undergraduate studies at Loyola College (Montreal) and Goddard College (Vermont), and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Legrady’s prior appointments include positions at Merz Akademie (Germany), USC, CalArts, San Francisco State University, and the University of Western Ontario. He has also held visiting roles at institutions including UCLA and ParisTech, and was a research fellow at iCinema Lab in Sydney and Institut Mines-Télécom in Paris.
His work—at the intersection of cultural narrative, computation, and aesthetics—has been supported by the Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital, NSF, and others. His artworks are held in major institutional collections, including the Centre Pompidou, the Whitney Museum, and LACMA, and he has lectured extensively across Europe, the Americas, and Asia.