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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> Stephanie Gayle
[mailto:<a href="mailto:sgayle@media.mit.edu" target="_blank">sgayle@media.mit.edu</a>] <br><b></b>
<b>Subject:</b> Lecture of interest to Biology students on 4/8 in E14-633</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">I'm promoting a
talk by a guest lecturer talking about evolution and art at the Media Lab next
Thursday at 3:00 PM in E14-633.</span> <br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Would you
please forward it to the Course 7 students?</span> <br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Details on the
talk are listed below.</span> <br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Many thanks,</span>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Stephanie Gayle</span>
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Stephanie Gayle<br>
Administrative Assistant<br>
Media Laboratory<br>
617.253.0330<br>
<a href="mailto:sgayle@media.mit.edu" target="_blank">sgayle@media.mit.edu</a></span> <br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt">Title: </span><br>
<tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Evolutionary Notes </span></tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
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<tt>Abstract:</tt></span> <br>
<tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">For many centuries, art has provided a
metaphorical stage for our doubts, desires, and demons. In like manner, I
construct biological allegories that tease out the impacts of life sciences on
the living: human, animal, and other. Recently, my imagination has fixed on the
topic of deep time. I find myself craving a better understanding of the
unknowable past. Working primarily in sculpture, video, interactive media and
print, these recent artworks attempt to visually manifest time in both its vast
and diminutive scales. I’ll be discussing these recent projects, as well as
some earlier works on evolution that led me to look for prolonged chords,
places where the deep past resonates in the present. </span></tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
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<tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Bio:</span></tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
<tt>Gail Wight holds an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute
where she was a Javits Fellow, and a BFA from the Studio for Interrelated Media
at Massachusetts College of Art. Wight has exhibited her work internationally,
including venues such as the Natural History Museum of London, Ars Electronica
(Austria), Exit Art (New York), the Physics Room (New Zealand), Cornerhouse in
Manchester, and Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco. She has worked for a
research project on cognition at MIT, in the Exploratorium's Performance
Program, and has held residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio,
Italy, at Capp Street Project and the Exploratorium in San Francisco, the
Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center, and at Stonehenge and the
Salisbury Museum, UK. Wight teaches Experimental Media Art in Stanford's
Department of Art & Art History, where she is the Director of Graduate
Studies in Art Practice. </tt></span></p>
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