BIO

Peggy Weil is a digital media designer and artist focused on interactive media and immersive design. A graduate of Harvard University, she received her Masters Degree at M.I.T. As an original member of the Architecture Machine Group (now the M.I.T. Media Lab) from 1980-1982, she worked on pioneering interactive projects in design and telepresence, going on to create titles for The Voyager Company, Broderbund, Electronic Arts, Von Holtzbrinck and Ravensberger Interactive. The award-winning Voyager title, A Silly Noisy House, published in 1991, was one of the first interactive titles for children.  She designed the original Roden Crater website in 1996 for Skystone and James Turrell. Weil was awarded the MILIA D'OR in Cannes in 1998 for the CD-ROM series Moving Puzzle. She is the mind behind MrMind, a computer program who challenges us to convince him that we are human.

Weil has several titles in the Serious Games space: she was Creative Producer and Designer for USC's Institute for Creative Technology E.L.E.C.T. project, a role-playing game to increase cultural awareness in Army Officers and The Redistricting Game, a USC Annenberg Center sponsored project to increase voter awareness about redistricting.   Other projects include Gone Gitmo, a virtual installation of Guantánamo Prison (recently acquired by EDGE Lab at Ryerson University in Toronto and documented in the LABoral Exhibition Catalogue and Wall Jumpers, a global visualization of political separation barriers and The IPSRESS Project, a collaboration with The EVENT LAB in Barcelona.

Her work is has been exhibited internatinally at FeedForward, The Angel of Historyat LABoral in Gijon, Spain and presented at Games for Change in NYC, The Center for Human Rights at UC Berkeley, MIPDOC and MIPTV in Cannes, Arte e Ciencia in Benasque, Spain, RAVE (Real Actions Virtual Environments) in Barcelona, Simposio Feedforward in LABoral, Gijon, ARGFest (Alternative Reality Game Festival), and PICNIC Amsterdam. Weil has taught graduate level courses as Visiting Assistant Professor at USC-SCA Interactive Media Division and Adjunct Professor at the Design School at California College of the Arts CCA in San Francisco. She is currently Adjunct Professor at USC School of Cinematic Arts in both Graduate Production and Interactive Media Divisions.

The team of Steuer + Weil has released CINEPUZZLE for mobile iOS and Web: clients include Discovery Channel (Flying Wild Alaska, Deadliest Catch, Shark Week, Mythbusters ,Life) and Disney Music (Joe Jonas Fast Life Cover, Cherri Bomb The Pretender).

Weil founded HeadsUP! A Global Design Competition to apply data visualization global issuein the public square. The competition launched September 2011 at Visualizing.org and HeadsUP! the winning visualization was displayed from 3/22/12 - 4/22/12 in Times Square. documented at HeadsUP2012.com.

 

 

PAPERS

Immersive Journalism: Immersive Virtual Reality for the First-Person Experience of News
Presence, Vol. 19, No. 4, August 2010, 291–301

CityGames
Public Art Review

Avatar Mediated Cinema
ACM/ACE Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, Yokohama 2008

CONTACT

pweil (at) usc (dot) edu

pweil (at) alum (dot) mit (dot) edu