Hiedi Boisvert: On Intricacies of the Body, Tech, and Design

Please join us for an artist lecture and conversation with Hiedi Boisvert on Wednesday, February 26, 2025 from 6:30-8:00pm at the historic Beaux Arts Flagg Building!

, PhD is an interdisciplinary artist, experience designer, creative technologist, and academic researcher who interrogates the neurobiological and socio-cultural effects of media and technology. She studies the role of the body, the senses, and emotion in human perception and social change. Boisvert is mapping the world’s first media genome, while taking great care with its far-reaching ethical implications. She founded futurePerfect lab, a creative agency and thinktank that works with social justice organizations to design playful emerging media campaigns to transform the public imagination. She also co-founded XTH, a company creating novel modes of expression through biotechnology and the human body. She worked with David Byrne on Theater of the Mind, an immersive theater piece. Boisvert is Associate Professor of AI & the Arts at the University of Florida, a Senior Research Fellow at the Norman Lear Center, and a research affiliate in the Open Documentary Lab at MIT.

This talk is a part of the Studio Arts and Design Research + Practice lecture and conversation series, occurring on Wednesdays. Remaining dates for the Research + Practice series are listed below:

3/5/2025: Larry Cook

3/19/2025: Kara Braciale

4/2/2025: Holly Bass

* All events will be Wednesday nights, 6:30pm-8:00pm in Hammer Auditorium.

Host or Publisher Corcoran Art History Program