Gail Wight

Associate Professor

Art & Art History

Director of Graduate Studies in Art Practice

Yes

experimental media art, with a focus on art & science

gailw@stanford.edu

650-725-0132

650-725-0132

TH 11-12 (fall 08) & by appt.

Gail Wight investigates issues of biology and the history of science and technology. Her work engages the cultural impact of scientific practice, and plays with our constant redefinition of self through our epistemologies. Historical frameworks express themselves in concepts about the nature of existence as well as upon the tools that
emerge out of scientific research. As an artist, Wight traces the ways in which those tools carry their ideologies with them, moving from the scientific to the social sphere and impacting the art-making process. Recent projects often involve other living organisms,
inviting them to become co-authors in the finished work of art.

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), Kohler Art Center (Sheboygan, WI), the Physics Room (New Zealand), and Cornerhouse, Manchester. 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, the Exploratorium, the Albuquerque High Performance Computing Center, and Headlands Center for the Arts.

www.stanford.edu/~gailw