An Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War

Creator

George Legrady, Hyperreal Media Productions

Description

An Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War is an interactive CD-ROM and a computer media artwork installation project that features early 1950's East European personal and official Communist material in the form of home movies, video footage Eastern European places and events, objects, books, family documents, Socialist propaganda, money, sound recordings, news reports, identity cards, etc. These are part of my collection of things and stories related to the Cold War that I have gathered duing the past 20 years. These items, in the form of over sixty stories, have been arranged thematically in eight rooms superimposed on the original floor plan of the former Workers' Movement (Propaganda) museum in Budapest - (the original contents of whic have been in permanent storage since 1990). The Anecdoted Archive reflects my particular history in

relation to the Cold War. Born in Budapest in 1950 near the end of the Stalin era, I left with my family to the West during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
The Archive is published as a CD-ROM.

Computing Platform

Mac68K

Technology Used

Mac Quadra, PowerPC, 16MB RAM minimum

Speakers

LCD Projector

Includes specific Installation environment (contact the artist)

Why Is It Interesting?

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Exhibition History

Computer based installation artworks exhibited internationally include: Artifices III, Saint-Denis; les hyperm dias, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; ISEA'94, Helskinki Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland; Ars Electronica '94, landesmuseum, Linz, Austria; It is supposed to be going to the Berlin VideoFest and possibly Video/psitive, Liverpool. It has been presented in lecture mode at "Interactive Media Conference".

Exhibitions:

1995 May Conference on Digital Technology,
1994 Dec Hochschule f r Grafik und Buchkunst,
1994 Dec Hungarian Film Institute,
1994 Dec E tv s Lor nd University,
1994 Nov NewMediaLogia Symposium,
1994 Nov Hungarian School of Design Institute,
1994 Nov Hypermedia Colloquium, (with Paik, Lvy)
1994 Oct Meta-Forum a94, Interactive Media Conference,
1994 Aug ISEA'94, Visualization Panel, International Society of Electronic Arts, Helsinki, Finland
1994 Apr Photography and the Photographic: Theory, Practice and History,
1993 Nov Technology & Art: Exploring a New Frontier,
1993 Nov San Francisco Art Institute, New Genres program,
1993 Oct Art in the Age of Electronic Media, Conference,

Interviews:

1994 Under the Sign of Pi, TV Ostankino Television Co,
1994 MediaMix, Channel 2, Hungarian National Television,
1994 Revue Virtuelle, Centre George Pompidou studios,
1994 Mediamatic magazine,
1994 Balkon Art Journal,
1994 Film Kultura magazine.,
1994 Radio France Internationale, Artifices 3,
1994 Discovery TV, Interactive Media, John de Groot (forthcoming)

Date of Project Completion

August 93; CD-ROM vers, Nov 1994 project

Project Location, January 15th - March 5th, 1995

Discs will be submitted with video demo

Additional Information

Awards in 1994 include:

Voyager's "New Voices, New Visions" prize

A National Endowment for the Arts artist fellowship

A Canada Council Computer-aided Media grant