Virgil Wong's neuro-interfaced transgenic mouse Clyven is waiting to chat with you. Do you dare challenge this remarkable creature to a game of cheese maze?
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Virgil Wong

Virgil Wong has studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Pont-Aven School of Art in France, and the Institute of Human Anatomy at the University of Rome Medical School. His work has been shown around the world, most recently at the Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art; the 2002 Sundance Film Festival; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Yucatan, Mexico; the Museum of Image and Sound in San Paolo, Brazil; and the PaperVeins Museum of Art in New York City.

Wong received a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and he was a recipient of the JGS Foundation's arts and genetics award. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Daily News, U.S.News and World Report, and Yahoo! Internet Life Magazine as well as other print publications worldwide. He is currently a graduate faculty member in the MFA media studies program at The New School University, and he is head of Web design and development at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

Virgil Wong is best known for his Internet art that explores themes of human reproduction and advanced biotechnology. Investigating questions arising from contemporary medicine, Wong creates both physical and virtual work embedded in the traditions of European art and anatomy.

For more information about Mr. Wong, please visit:
http://www.virgilwong.com