The Wende Museum is proud to support Stanford School of Medicine in presenting a new, collaborative guest speaker series entitled “Art Across Boundaries” which examines the overlap between visual arts and science and how the two areas can inspire and enrich each other.

Liat Segal is a contemporary media artist who fuses art, science, and technology. Segal observes human existence in an age of Big Data by materializing the digital through software, electronics, mechanics, and information as her artistic mediums. In her works, she questions identity, autonomy, intimacy, privacy, control, memory, presence, communication, and originality.

Segal’s artworks have been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, on Earth and in Outer Space, including the Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Israel Museum, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, Gwangju Cultural Foundation, South Korea, and onboard the International Space Station. Segal holds an M.Sc. in Decision Analysis from Minerva Schools KGI, San Francisco, an M.Sc. in Bioinformatics and Machine Learning from Tel Aviv University, and is a graduate of the Adi Lautman Interdisciplinary Program for Fostering Excellence, Tel Aviv University. She is a public speaker and a faculty member at the Bezalel School of Arts and Design, and previously worked as a researcher at Microsoft Innovation Labs. Liat is the recipient of the 2019 Minister of Culture and Sports Award for Plastic Arts, Israel, as well as the Jury Selection at the Japan Media Arts Festival, 2020, and her works are part of prominent public and private collections. Represented by Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles.