An Anecdoted Archive
from the cold War

An Interview with George Legrady George Legrady recently won one of the three `New Voices, New Visions' prizes for his CDROM, An Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War, in a competition sponsored by Interval Research Corporation, the Voyager Company and Wired magazine. In this interview, the San Francisco based artist discusses the designing and programming of interactive art. As a follow-up to the CDROM, whose subject is Hungary, Legrady recently released on two floppies his new project about the war in Bosnia entitled [the clearing]. Alongside such socially oriented works, he also produces conceptually based computer installations which take us along on a voyage to the `heart of the machine'. Legrady's work could be seen recently at ISEA `94 (Helsinki), Artifices III (Paris) and Ars Electronica '94 (Linz). This interview was conducted in Budapest, where Legrady taught for several months at the Hungarian Art Academy's new Intermedia department.