BIO

Peggy Weil, Visiting Assistant Professor at USC-SCA Interactive Media Division and Adjunct Professor at the Design School at CCA, is a digital media artist and designer focusing on interactive and immersive design.  A graduate of Harvard University, she received her Masters Degree at M.I.T. As a 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.   Weil was awarded the MILIA D'OR in Cannes in 1998 for the CD-ROM series Moving Puzzle.  She designed the original Roden Crater website in 1996 and is working on a comprehensive redesign for Skystone and James Turrell. She was creative producer/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.   Current projects include Gone Gitmo, a virtual installation of Guantánamo Prison 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 currently on exhibition at FeedForward, The Angel of History at LABoral in Gijon, Spain, and she has presented internationally at Games for Change in NYC, The Center for Human Rights at UC Berkeley, MIPDOC and MIPTV in Cannes, Simposio Feedforward, LABoral, and PICNIC Amsterdam.


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Faculty Page CCA

A Proposal for Global Threat Clocks