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Natalie Jeremijenko, New York - Vortrag in englischer Sprache
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Natalie Jeremijenko
teaches visual arts, computer science and environmental studies at NYU and directs the university’s Environmental Health Clinic. An artist/experimenter and information engineer, she is one of the founders of the field of tangible media (also known as physical computing). Her work centers on structures of participation in the information age and the political and social possibilities (and limitations) of information technologies - mostly through large-scale public experiments. In this vein, her work spans a range of media from statistical indices (such as the Despondency Index, which linked the Dow Jones Industrial Average to the suicide rate at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge), to biological substrates (such as the installations of pairs of cloned trees in various urban micro-climates), as well as to robotics (such as the development of feral robotic dog packs for the purpose of investigating environmental hazards). Her graduate work at Stanford and the University of Queensland was in the fields of design engineering and information science. She has taught at Yale University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Department of Visual Art at the University of California/San Diego, and was the McPherson Visiting Professor for the Understanding of Science at Michigan State University.