Peggy Weil

Artist Statement / Bio

Peggy Weil is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer based in Los Angeles. Her work explores physical, digital, cultural, and socio-political landscapes through work spanning video installation, large-scale public art, and pioneering digital interactive media. Her long-form video installation 88 Cores has shown across the US, from The Climate Museum in NYC (2018) to currently at MoMA's Core Memory(2026). Her public installations include UnderLA for CURRENT:LA Public Art Biennial 2016 and HeadsUP! 2012 in Times Square.

Since 2011, her ongoing Extended Landscapes series has produced landscape portraits focused on the unseen processes of climate change. In 2007, collaborating with Nonny de la Peña, she co-created foundational immersive journalism and VR projects centered on human rights, including Gone Gitmo, a virtual installation of Guantánamo Prison exhibited internationally. In 1998, Weil created MrMind, an early netart chatbot that asked visitors, "Can you convince me that you are human?" Sixteen years of global conversations from MrMind became the libretto for The Blurring Test: Songs of MrMind, performed in New York in 2020 and 2023.

A Harvard and MIT graduate, she was a member of the Architecture Machine Group (precursor to the MIT Media Lab), grounding her practice in early human-computer interaction and AI discourse. She is co-author of Inventing Eliza: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI (MIT Press, June 2026), and has taught at CCA, UCLA, and USC.

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