Bio
Natalie Jeremijenko is a new media artist who works at the
intersection of contemporary art, science, and engineering.
Her work takes the form of large-scale public art works,
tangible media installations, single channel tapes, and critical
writing. It investigates the theme of the transformative
potential of new technologies - particularly information
technologies. Specific issues addressed in her work include
information politics, the examination and development of
new modes of particulation in the production of knowledge,
tangible media, and distributed (or ubiquitous) computing
elements. She has recently held positions of Lecturer Convertible
in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Yale; Consultant
to the Advanced Computer Graphics Center/Media Research Lab,
Department of Computer Science, at NYU; and Distinguished
Visiting Critic in the Department of Art, Virginia Commonwealth
University.
Jeremijenko's work has been exhibited and screened internationally
at prestigious venues that include Dokumenta, Kassel, Germany,
and the Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, two of the most important regularly scheduled
exhibitions in the world; Art Space, Sydney; ZKM, Karlsruhe;
P.S. 1, New York (perhaps the most cutting edge venue for media
art in New York); the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Dutch Electronic
Arts Festival, Rotterdam; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Her work has been discussed in both mainstream media such as
The New York Times and in the art press. She has presented
papers, spoken on panels and at symposia, and given lectures
at dozens of international at venues that include the Museum
of Modern Art, New York (New Technology Talk Series); Ars Electronica,
Linz, Austria; the International Symposium on Electronic Art,
Montreal; the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton; Artist
Space, New York; the American Anthropological Association;
the Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins;
the MIT Conference on Research and Design Thinking; and many
others. Several of her conference papers have been published.
In recognition of her outstanding achievements, she has received
prestigious awards and grants from agencies that include the
Rockefeller Foundation and the National Academy of Science.
In 2002, she received a Public Space Commission for a work Private
Reveries from the Royal College of Art, London.
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