The talk will focus on the collaborative aspects of George Legrady's installation "Pockets full of Memories" in terms of its production and audience contribution by analyzing the work process and the contributed objects and their descriptions. website link

Brigitte Steinheider is currently a residential fellow of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara. She serves as a Researcher (Project leader) in the Department of Human Resource Management, Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering in Stuttgart, Germany. She received her Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Technology, Dresden and her research interests include cooperation and knowledge sharing, transdisciplinary collaborations, computer support for cooperative work, knowledge work management, service engineering, and organizational change. Previously she was employed as Research associate at the University of Technology, Dresden, Institute of Work, Organizational and Social Psychology, and Research associate at the Medical Institute of Environmental Hygiene at the Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Germany, Department of Psychophysiology. She is instructor in "Design of Experiments" for industrial companies at the Technical Academy Esslingen (TAE), Germany and has lectured in the Institute of Human Factors and Technology Management at the University of Stuttgart. She is the author of Wirkungen von Industriegerüchen als Umweltstressoren (Effects of industrial odours as environmental stressors) DUV Psychologie: Wiesbaden, 1997.

George Legrady, Professor of Interactive Media at the University of California, Santa Barbara 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.

This event is sponsored by Interdisciplinary Humanities Center as part of its IHC Residency Program.