Peggy Weil
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Alma mater | Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Peggy Weil is an American artist working in digital media.[1]
Early life and education
She graduated from Harvard University in 1976, and received a master's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1982.[2][3]
At MIT she was a part of the
Work
In 1990, she produced A Silly Noisy House, an award-winning CD-ROM with multimedia pioneer The
In 2007 she co-authored, with Nonny de la Peña, the work Gone Gitmo, a virtual exploration of the
In 2011 Weil founded HeadsUP! a global data visualization competition. HeadsUP!2012 used datasets from NASA/JPL's GRACE Satellite (
In 2016 Weil, along with Refik Anadol, was commissioned by the City of Los Angeles for the Bloomberg sponsored citywide art biennale, CURRENT:LA Water to create UnderLA, a large scale public projection of the LA Aquifer from The First Street Bridge and Origin of LA River sites.[14][15]
The Climate Museum's inaugural exhibition in 2018, In Human Time, featured Weil's work, 88 Cores - a 2-mile descent through the Greenland Ice Sheet going back 110,000 years.[16][17]
References
- ^ Kormann, Carolyn (9 February 2018). "As the World Melts, an Artist Finds Beauty in Ancient Ice" – via www.newyorker.com.
- ISBN 978-1-317-26738-6.
- ^ "Alumi MIT Media Lab". Media.MIT.EDU.
- ^ "Peggy Weil - World Building Institute". worldbuilding.institute.
- ^ "Peggy Weil - USC SCA". USC.SCA.
- ISBN 978-0-262-29155-2.
- ISBN 978-1-317-26738-6.
- ISBN 978-1-317-39245-3.
- ^ "Gone Gitmo". MIT - Docubase. Retrieved 2017-09-13.
- S2CID 15185506.
- ^ "Feedforward: El ángel de la Historia". 22 October 2009 – via www.laboralcentrodearte.org.
- ^ "Groundwater Crisis Unfolds in Times Square". 22 March 2012 – via www.green.blogs.nytimes.com.
- ^ Rich, Sarah (2 May 2012). "Groundwater, Gravity and Graphic Design" – via www.smithsonianmag.com.
- ^ "CURRENT:LA Water".
- ^ Anzilotti, Eillie (August 3, 2016). "A 1,400-Foot Journey Through L.A.'s Groundwater Supply". The Atlantic, CITYLAB.
- ^ "Climate Museum: In Human Time".
- ^ Raskin, Laura (9 February 2018). "The Climate Museum Captures the Gravity of a Global Crisis" – via www.hyperallergic.com.