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Gail Wight

Further information

Country of origin

Stanford Univeristy, USA

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Professor Gail Wight is a practicing artist and the Director of Experimental Media Arts and the Director of Graduate Studies in Studio Practice at Stanford University.

Research projects

Gail Wight believes that “by engaging and teasing out the irrational, the irreverent, and the unreasonable aspects of communication, we can begin to discover ways of interacting that lie outside familiar territory and broaden our conception of understanding.

"In particular, our attempts to communicate with machines and other animals offer valuable insights into our assumptions about this interchange.

“Visual art has offered me a playful way to explore ways in which we interact within these vastly dissimilar realms, and I attempt to situate these engagements within a history of science”.

Period of research

March to April 2008