The Forum
Natalie Jeremijenko
The Climate Crisis and the Crisis of Agency
What To Do in the Face of Uncertain Threats
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Schofield Auditorium | 7:30 P.M.
Natalie Jeremijenko is a conceptual artist who works at the
nexus
of art and science. She couples art and environmental
activism - “creating interfaces that draw people into the
environment and get them to reimagine collective action,”
as she told Salon.com. Her experimental design centers on
political and social possibilities,
and limitations, of information
and emerging technologies. Much
of it involves biochemistry,
physics, neuroscience and precision engineering, and almost all
of it is carried out through public experiments.
One example
is the xDesign Environmental Health Clinic created
last year at
New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education
and Human Development, where Jeremijenko is an associate
professor of art. Another work, designed for a museum
in her
native Australia, is a self-sustaining carbon neutral sculpture that
doubles as an indoor air purification system. MIT’s Technology
Review named
Jeremijenko one of the country’s top 100 young
innovators, and I.D. (International
Design) magazine named her
one of the top 40 most influential designers.
Interpreted for the deaf and hard of hearing.
More information: www.environmentalhealthclinic.net | wikipedia: Natalie Jeremijenko
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