Peggy Weil is an artist and designer based in Los Angeles. An innovator in digital portraiture, Weil’s practice ranges from large-scale public installations to videos and interactive art. Since 2011, the artist has focused on what she calls Extended Landscapes: works that visualize the layers of the Earth that exist “beneath our feet, above our heads, and back in time.”
“Core Memory,” Weil’s current exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art (curated by Paula Vilaplana de Miguel), brings together two of the artist’s Underscapes: 88 Cores, a video descent through the Greenland ice sheet, and 18 Cores, which unearths images of rock cores from beneath California’s Salton Sea.
As a member of the Architecture Machine Group (precursor to the MIT Media Lab) she pioneered early interactive digital work, including an early net art chatbot, MrMind in 1998. Weil co-authored the recent MIT Press book, “INVENTING ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI.”
