Natalie Jeremijenko

Thanks to the University of Oregon Digital Arts Department and Architecture and Allied Arts Department, we are honored to present Natalie Jeremijenko. Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist with a background in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering. Her projects explore socio-technical change and seek to apply abstract technology to the complexities of our social and physical world. Her work is at once artistic and scientific.

Natalie Jeremijenko will speak on her how her work explores technology to promote and instigate non-violent social change. As the director of the NYU’s xDesign Environmental Health Clinic, Natalie will speak about her social experiments to test the possibilities of technology in our social and political world.

A 1999 Rockefeller Fellow, Jeremijenko’s work has been exhibited all over the world including the 2006 Whitney Biennial of American Art and the Cooper Hewit Smithsonian Design Triennial 2006-7. I.D. Magazine has recently honored Jeremijenko as one of the 40 most influential designers, and the MIT Technology Review has included her as one of the inaugural Top Young Innovators.

Jeremijenko is the director of xDesign Environmental Health Clinic at NYU. xDesign develops strategies for the remediation of environmental systems. For example, in one project Jeremijenko works with students to track how everyday products are made. Students represent the energy and resources involved in the manufacture and delivery of common products through graphic abstracts and essays.

Natalie Jeremijenko’s work explores how technology can promote and be utilized to instigate non-violent social change. She designs social experiments to test the possibilities of technology in our social and political world.