June 4 – August 24, 2007
Closed Wednesday, July 4, 2007
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Marcos Novak and George Legrady, faculty from the Media Arts & Technology and Department of Art programs at UC Santa Barbara, have been selected separately to participate in a prestigious exhibition of new media arts, to be featured throughout the summer in the Rotunda Gallery at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. Fourteen internationally active artists representing the state of new media arts will be showcased in this exhibition between June and August, 2007.

Speculative Data and the Creative Imaginary: Shared Visions between Art and Technology is a group exhibition that includes the work of artists, designers, architects, and computer scientists. Projects include manipulated data used to create imaginary scenarios and real-time phenomenon addressing concepts of space.

George Legrady works with data visualization and will exhibit his work, ¡°Global Collaborative Visual Mapping¡±, a dynamic image database. Marcos Novak¡¯s theoretical and algorithm based research integrates nanotechnology with digital and aesthetic design. ¡°Allosphere¡±, is a study of a virtual reality fMRI, images created by data. The exhibit runs June 3 through August 24th, 2007 in the Rotunda Gallery of the NAS building.

NAS Exhibit Description (.pdf)

George Legrady
http://www.georgelegrady.com/

Marcos Novak
http://www.centrifuge.org/