Peggy Weil is an artist and designer whose practice spans large-scale public art installations, videos, and interactive works. As a member of the Architecture Machine Group at MIT, Weil created groundbreaking digital works including LIPSYNC/ SCAN/LOOK, an interactive facial animation (1981); MrMind, a 1998–2016 chatbot, and The Blurring Test: Songs of MrMind (2024); and Gone Gitmo, a virtual installation of Guantánamo Bay prison (2007).

Weil’s current work focuses on “extended landscapes”: the layers of the Earth that exist “above our heads, beneath our feet, back in time, in the cloud, on the overlooked and the unseen.” Core Memory, her exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, comprises 88 Cores, a video descent through the Greenland Ice Sheet, and 18 Cores, which reveals geothermal cores from beneath the Salton Sea. UnderLA projected images of Los Angeles’s aquifers onto the banks of the Los Angeles River for the CURRENT:LA public art triennial. Weil has taught at California College of the Arts, UCLA Design Media Arts, and USC School of Cinematic Arts.