Rachel Mayeri

Rachel Mayeri is a Los Angeles-based artist working at the intersection of science and art. Her videos, installations, and writing projects explore scientific representation in topics ranging from the history of special effects to the human animal. She curated a DVD of videos by artists and scientists entitled Soft Science, which is distributed by Video Data Bank. Her essay on artists' experiments with science documentary is published in Tactical Biopolitics: Theory & Practice@ life.science.art (MIT Press 2008). Shown at The Getty Museum, ZKM, and P.S.1/MoMA, Mayeri is a guest curator of the Museum of Jurassic Technology and Associate Professor of Media Studies at Harvey Mudd College.