Peggy Weil, M.S.

Visiting Assistant Professor

213.740.6797

LUC 310B
http://www.mrmind.com

Peggy Weil is a digital media artist and designer focusing on interactive design as immersive experience for perceptual and civic engagement. She teaches graduate level Interactive Experience Design at USC as well as seminars in the Institute for Multimedia Literacy. Most recently she acted as producer/designer for The Redistricting Game, an Annenberg Center sponsored project to increase voter awareness about redistricting.

Weil was creative producer/designer for ICT’s (Institute for Creative Technology) E.L.E.C.T., a role-playing game to increase cultural awareness in Army Officers. In 1990 she created and produced the award winning children's CD-ROM title for The Voyager Company, A Silly Noise House, widely credited as an outstanding innovation in the field. She has consulted for The Getty Institute and The Dia Foundation; for the latter Weil designed The Roden Crater Website for artist James Turrell.  She’s had interactive projects with Broderbund, Electronic Arts, Von Holtzbrinck and Ravensberger Interactive, distributors of the Moving Puzzle series of CD-ROMS for Ravensburger Interactive, awarded the MILIA D'OR in Cannes in 1998.  She is the mind behind MrMind, a bot who asks you to convince him that you are human. 

Most recently, Weil was awarded a residency at BAVC to develop Gone Gitmo, a virtual installation of Guantánamo in Second Life. Her undergraduate education was at Harvard University, her graduate work was at the Architecture Machine Group (currently The Media Lab) at M.I.T.