Gail Wight

Gail Wight is an eminent artist known internationally for her research explorations between biology, geology, and media art. She is an Emerita Professor at Stanford University, where she has taught since 2003. Her collaborations with scientists have explored such wide inquiries as the symbiotic relation between gut microbes and the mind, the effects of wind in color theory, and the alien timescapes of lichen. Besides nearly two dozen solo exhibits throughout North America and Great Britain, Wight’s work is featured in Information Art by Stephen Wilson, Art in the Age of Technoscience by Ingeborg Reichle, and Evocative Objects by Sherry Turkle, among other groundbreaking anthologies. 

Gail’s Black Box residency project studies the ostracod, a ubiquitous crustacean present in water and on land which is evolving with astounding speed in response to climate change. Her project is being developed with the Hadly Lab at Stanford University, and with researchers of the United States Geological Survey.

Photo courtesy of Silicon Valley Laureates Artist Laureate Awards, 2018.