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George Legrady, a Professor of Interactive Media, holds a joint appointment in the Media Arts & Technology graduate program and the department of Art Studio. Prior academic appointments were held at the Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, San Francisco State University, UCLA, University of Southern California, California Institute of the Arts and the University of Western Ontario. His research and production work in interactive media installation brings together a number of specialized interests such as collaborative narrative development through audience interaction and data management through semantic categorization using neural-net based self-organizing map algorithms. Recent interactive installations have been presented at the Centre Pompidou, Paris with "Pockets full of Memories", 2001; "Transitional Spaces" at the Rotunda, Siemens World Headquarters, Munich, 1999/2000; "Tracing" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1998 and the Kunst und AustellungHalle der Bundes Republik, Bonn 1997-98; a solo retrospective at the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, 1997-98; "Slippery Traces" at the Palais des beaux-arts, Brussels, 1997, also in "Deep Storage" a travelling exhibition at the Haus der Kunst, Munich, 97; the Kunstforum, Berlin, 1997; the kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf, 1998; PS1, New York, 1998. Awards include a National Endowment of the Arts Visual Fellowship, Canada Council Computer Media Awards in 1994 and 1997, and Honorable Mentions at Ars Electronica, Linz in 1989 and 1994. His cd-rom publication "An Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War" received the "New Voices, New Visions" prize from Voyager and Interval Research Corporation.