[bioundgrd] Fwd: FW: Lecture of interest to Biology students on 4/8 in E14-633

[MacKenzie Outlund]

*From:* Stephanie Gayle [mailto:sgayle at media.mit.edu]
** *Subject:* Lecture of interest to Biology students on 4/8 in E14-633




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.
Would you please forward it to the Course 7 students?

Details on the talk are listed below.

Many thanks,
Stephanie Gayle

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Stephanie Gayle
Administrative Assistant
Media Laboratory
617.253.0330
sgayle at media.mit.edu



Title:
Evolutionary Notes

Abstract:
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.

Bio:
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.
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