Natalie Jeremijenko#XEROX PARC

Jeremijenko was born in Mackay, Queensland, and raised in Brisbane, the second of ten children to a physician and a schoolteacher. Her parents were champions of domestic technology, and Jeremijenko claims that her mother was the first woman in Australia to own a microwave.{{Cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/2006/06/22/natalie/ |title=The artist as mad scientist |last=Kevin |first=Berger |date=January 2006 |work=salon.com |access-date=19 October 2012 |archive-date=21 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021110857/http://www.salon.com/2006/06/22/natalie/ |url-status=live }}

She has a PhD in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of Queensland, and additionally did coursework for a PhD in mechanical engineering at Stanford University, without completing the degree.

She was previously married to the sociologist Dalton Conley{{Cite web |title=Dalton Conley: Biography |url=https://files.nyu.edu/dc66/public/long_bio.doc |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110816224341/https://files.nyu.edu/dc66/public/long_bio.doc |archive-date=16 August 2011 |access-date=26 October 2012 |publisher=New York University}} with whom she had two children: E and Yo.{{Cite news |last=Bahrampour |first=Tara |date=25 September 2003 |title=A Boy Named Yo, Etc.; Name Changes, Both Practical and Fanciful, Are on the Rise |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/25/nyregion/a-boy-named-yo-etc-name-changes-both-practical-and-fanciful-are-on-the-rise.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |access-date=12 March 2018 |work=New York Times}}{{Cite news |last=Conley |first=Dalton |date=1 March 2010 |title=Raising E and Yo... |url=http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201003/raising-e-and-yo |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230908212740/https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/articles/201003/raising-e-and-yo |archive-date=8 September 2023 |access-date=26 October 2012 |work=Psychology Today magazine}} Jeremijenko also has a daughter, Jamba, from a previous relationship.

In the 1990s, Jeremijenko worked as an artist-in-residence at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto.{{Cite web |title=Natalie Jeremijenko on feral robotic dogs, texting fish and inverted trees |url=https://www.andrewleigh.com/natalie_jeremijenko_tgl |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=Andrew Leigh MP}}

In 2018, she was Artist in Residence at Dartmouth College,{{Cite web |date=27 March 2018 |title=Natalie Jeremijenko: Artist-in-Residence | Dartmouth Studio Art Department |url=https://studioart.dartmouth.edu/news/2018/03/natalie-jeremijenko-artist-residence |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190530201945/https://studioart.dartmouth.edu/news/2018/03/natalie-jeremijenko-artist-residence |archive-date=30 May 2019 |access-date=30 May 2019 |website=Natalie Jeremijenko: Artist-in-Residence}} and is currently an associate professor at New York University in the Visual Art Department and has affiliated faculty appointments in the school's Computer Science and Environmental Studies.

Jeremijenko created and published art under the Bureau of Inverse Technology (BIT).{{Cite web |title=Natalie Jeremijenko |url=https://www.technologyreview.com/innovator/natalie-jeremijenko/ |access-date=2025-04-04 |website=MIT Technology Review |language=en}} This group of anonymous artists started in the early 1990s and worked in both art and technology. BIT is based in Melbourne, Australia; San Francisco, California; and Berlin, Germany.{{Cite web |title=Security Theatre |url=https://ahva.ubc.ca/events/event/security-theatre/ |access-date=2025-04-04 |website=Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory |language=en-US}}

Suicide Box consists of motion sensor cameras, placed on the Golden Gate Bridge for an initial 100 day period. The name is a reference to the location, the Golden Gate Bridge ranking amongst the most popular suicide spots in the United States. Cameras were installed without permission from local municipal authorities. Data recorded by the footage, vertical motions assumed to be suicides, came out to an average of .68 suicides per day over the duration of the project.{{Cite journal |last=Novakov |first=Anna |date=1999 |title=Public Spectacles: Some Recent San Francisco Projects by Natalie Jeremijenko and the Bureau of Inverse Technology |department=Artworks |journal=Public Culture |volume=11 |pages=313–317 |doi=10.1215/08992363-11-1-313}} Footage was later compared against information about fluctuations in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the average being popularly held as an indicator of the economy's health. A commonly held conception is that suicides increase during times of economic downturn, though the comparison of data from "Suicide Box" when compared to DOW fluctuations indicated no correlations.

Controversies surrounding the work related to its subject matter and authenticity. Questions have been raised with regards to the authenticity of the footage (whether or not what are depicted are actually suicides) and the subject matter (the depiction of actual suicides as part of an art piece).

The BIT plane is a radio-controlled model aircraft, designed by the Bureau of Inverse Technology and equipped with a micro-video camera and transmitter.{{Cite web |title=BUREAU OF INVERSE TECHNOLOGY: THE DECADE REPORT, THE BUREAU THE EVIDENCE THE FIRST 10 YEARS |url=http://bureauit.org/decade/index.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150416060958/http://www.bureauit.org/decade/index.html |archive-date=16 April 2015 |access-date=7 March 2015}} Its name could be a reference to bit plane, a set of digital discrete signals. In 1997, it was launched on a series of sorties over the Silicon Valley to capture an aerial rendering.

Guided by the live control-view video feed from the plane, the pilot on the ground could steer the unit deep into the heartlands of the Information Age. Most of the corporate research parks in Silicon Valley are no-camera zones and require US citizen status or special clearance for entry. The bit plane (with an undisclosed citizenship) flew covertly through this rarified information-space, buzzing over the largest concentration of venture capital in the world, returning with several hours of aerial footage.

Jeremijenko gave a TED Talk in October 2009. Here she discussed her various projects and what she was currently working on with the Environmental Health Clinic. In the TED Talk she also discusses what her plans are to improve the environment in industrious areas like New York City.

{{Cite web |date=14 October 2010 |title=Transcript of "The art of the eco-mindshift" |url=https://www.ted.com/talks/natalie_jeremijenko_the_art_of_the_eco_mindshift/transcript?language=en |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415005005/https://www.ted.com/talks/natalie_jeremijenko_the_art_of_the_eco_mindshift/transcript?language=en |archive-date=15 April 2015 |access-date=14 April 2015}}

In 1988, Jeremijenko co-founded the Livid rock festival in Brisbane.{{Cite web |url=http://www.livid.com.au/livid1999/brief.html |title=A Brief History of Livid |last=Walsh |first=Peter |access-date=7 March 2015 |archive-date=26 August 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030826185400/http://www.livid.com.au/livid1999/brief.html |url-status=dead }} She credits her involvement in helping her move towards public art as she created installations that would appeal to the young crowd.

A catalogue of devices and strategies for political engagement and direct action developed by the Bureau of Inverse Technology and others.{{Cite web |url=http://bureauit.org/decade/projects.html#bitradio |title=BUREAU OF INVERSE TECHNOLOGY: THE DECADE REPORT, THE BUREAU THE EVIDENCE THE FIRST 10 YEARS}} Described by Wired Magazine as "the DARPA of dissent".{{Cite web |url=http://xdesign.ucsd.edu/d4pa/ |title=D4pa:streetweapons |access-date=19 October 2007 |archive-date=1 January 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070101055840/http://xdesign.ucsd.edu/d4pa/ |url-status=dead }}

In 1995,{{Cite web |url=http://mediaartists.org/content.php?sec=artist&sub=detail&artist_id=216 |title=Natalie Jeremijenko |publisher=Media Artists |access-date=19 October 2012 |archive-date=26 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526023949/http://www.mediaartists.org/content.php?sec=artist&sub=detail&artist_id=216 |url-status=live }} as an artist-in-residence at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, California under the guidance of Mark Weiser, she created an art installation made up of spinning strings that changed speed relative to the amount of internet traffic. The work is now seen as one of the first examples of ambient or "calm" technology.{{Cite web |url=http://iu.berkeley.edu/IU/stories/storyReader$397 |title=Calm Technology |publisher=Berkeley |access-date=19 October 2012}}{{Cite web |url=http://ipv6.com/articles/sensors/Ubiquitous-Computing.htm |title=Ubicomp |date=15 September 2006 |publisher=IPV6 |access-date=19 October 2012}} This was installed in an office setting, "ultimately opening up a space for different narratives around, and reconfigurations of, the ubiquitous interface and ubicomp to emerge."{{cite thesis |last= Shanbaum|first= Phaedra|date= 2017|title= The Interface Is Obsolete: A Critical Investigation of the Digital Interface in Interactive New Media Installations.|url= https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/20634/1/MED_thesis_ShanbaumP_2017.pdf|degree= PhD, Department of Media and Communications |location= Goldsmiths, University of London |access-date= 2025-04-02}}

One Tree(s) was a public experiment that provided material and scientific evidence on environmental and cultural issues. Jeremijenko raised one hundred trees that were cloned from a single origin tree.{{Cite journal |last=Munster |first=Anna |date=2003 |title=This Fanciful and Colorful Image: The Image of New Media Within the Contemporary Art Scene |url=https://culturemachine.net/the-e-issue/this-fanciful-and-colorful-image/ |journal=Culture Machine: E Issue |volume=5}} This project explored issues such as global warming, air quality and genetically modified organisms. This art installation facilitates personal interpretation. It brilliantly uses the concept of information and conceptual art to communicate science. It removes the use of documentation like charts and graphs and challenges the concept of pure visualization in presenting information to its audience.{{Cite web |url=https://www.deviantart.com/scicomm2012/art/One-Tree-s-by-Natalie-Jeremijenko-305612214 |title=One Tree(s) by Natalie Jeremijenko |website=DeviantArt |date=June 2012 |language=en |access-date=2019-02-19 |archive-date=20 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220153058/https://www.deviantart.com/scicomm2012/art/One-Tree-s-by-Natalie-Jeremijenko-305612214 |url-status=live }}

OOZ was a series of exhibitions where animals pressed buttons to produce human speech.{{Cite web |last=Regine |date=2005-07-21 |title=OOZ, the cage-less zoo |url=https://we-make-money-not-art.com/the_work_is_par/ |access-date=2025-04-04 |website=We Make Money Not Art |language=en-US}} The series ran in 2006 at Mass MoCA.

An open source robotics project providing resources and support for upgrading the raison d'etre of commercially available robotic dog toys; and facilitating mediagenic Feral Robotic Dog Pack Release events. Because the dogs follow concentration gradients of the contaminants they are equipped to sniff, their release renders information legible to diverse participants, provides the opportunity for evidence-driven discussion, and facilitates public participation in environmental monitoring and remediation.{{cite magazine |title=Robot Dogs and Other Weird Creatures Bring Nature to the City |last=Pompilio |first=Natalie |date=4 January 2013 |url=https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/nature/2013/01/04/shocking-the-big-city-with-a-little-green-grass |magazine=Yes!}}

For Tree Logic, Jeremijenko suspended six live flame maple trees from a truss in courtyard A at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). Although the trees were hung upside down, they still grew towards the sun, producing unnatural shapes, and "raising questions about what the nature of the natural is."

(1st issue) An online magazine with kits and resources to bring biotech to the garage, bedroom, and everyman, to raise the standards of evidence and capacity for public involvement in the political decisions on the biotechnological future.{{Cite web |url=https://www.irational.org/biotech/issue01/index.shtml |date=Summer 1998 |website=irational.org |title= Biotech Hobbyist Magazine}}

Created in 2008, this project's goal was to dispel misinformation, as well as educate people on bats, their habitat, and activities. The billboard was an interactive home for bats that would display written messages based on the sonar messages the bats were sending. This work was showcased at MoMA's 2011 exhibit "Talk to Me".{{Cite web | url=http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/talktome/objects/ | title=MoMA | Talk to Me | Works | access-date=8 October 2011 | archive-date=2 February 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210202005153/https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/talktome/objects/ | url-status=live }}

This clinic addressed peoples concerns with the environment by prescribing design interventions to "impatients" (rather than patients, as people are " too impatient to wait for legislative change."{{Cite web |last=Rettner |first=Rachael |date=2009-01-26 |title=An Artist, Engineer and Environmental Activist |url=https://scienceline.org/2009/01/profiles-rettner-jeremijenko-environmental-health-clinic-art/ |access-date=2025-04-04 |website=Scienceline |language=en-US}} For example, people concerned about water quality were instructed to put tadpoles (which are sensitive to contaminants) into water samples for monitoring and to name each tadpole after a bureaucrat whose decisions could affect water quality.

Designed with Fletcher Studio,{{Cite web |title=xAirport |url=https://www.fletcher.studio/xairport |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=Fletcher Studio |language=en-US}} this wetland airport was a temporary installation at the San Jose Biennal in September 2010 to "reimagine" how we fly.{{Cite web |title=xAirport Flight Simulator Restores the Wetlands (and the Wonder of Flying) - GOOD |url=https://www.good.is/articles/xairport-concept-restores-the-wetlands-and-the-wonder-of-flight |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=www.good.is |language=en}} This worked with the xAirport team and ICON A5 to develop a light aircraft to make wet landings.

How Stuff is Made (HSIM) is a visual encyclopedia documenting the manufacturing processes, environmental costs and labor conditions involved in the production of contemporary products.{{Cite web |title=How Stuff Is Made |url=http://howstuffismade.org/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100409075519/http://howstuffismade.org/ |archive-date=9 April 2010 |access-date=19 October 2012}} This is a wiki-based student-authored{{Cite web |title=next\text: How Stuff Is Made: Using Wikis to Structure New Paradigms for Participation |url=https://www.futureofthebook.org/next/text/2005/06/how_stuff_is_made_using_wikis.html |access-date=2025-04-04 |website=www.futureofthebook.org}} academic project to change the information available on and about producing materials. Each semester, students in Jeremijenko 's course in NYU researched products and created photo essays for this wiki. The work was shown in the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) in 2006.{{Cite web |title=Natalie Jeremijenko, Chris Dierks, Jesse Arnold, Robert Twomey: How Stuff Is Made IB – ISEA Symposium Archives |url=https://isea-archives.siggraph.org/art-events/natalie-jeremijenko-chris-dierks-jesse-arnold-robert-twomey-how-stuff-is-made-ib/ |access-date=2025-04-04 |website=isea-archives.siggraph.org}}

• 2013 Creative Capital Emerging Fields Award {{Cite web |url=https://creative-capital.org/2013/01/10/meet-our-2013-grantees-in-emerging-fields-literature-and-performing-arts/ |title=Meet Our 2013 Grantees in Emerging Fields, Literature and Performing Arts! |access-date=29 April 2024 |archive-date=4 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240104113655/https://creative-capital.org/2013/01/10/meet-our-2013-grantees-in-emerging-fields-literature-and-performing-arts/ |url-status=live }}
• 2011 Fast Company's Most Influential Women in Technology{{Cite news |url=http://www.fastcompany.com/women-in-tech/2011/brainiacs/natalie-jeremijenko |title=Most Influential Women in Tech: Natalie Jeremijenko |date=10 January 2011 |newspaper=Fast Company |access-date=19 October 2012}}
• 2005 I.D. magazine annual Forty (#37){{Cite news |last=Poynor |first=Rick |url=http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=2907 |title=The I.D. Forty: What Are Lists For? |date=9 January 2005 |work=Design Observer |access-date=19 October 2012 |archive-date=26 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140626131305/http://observatory.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=2907 |url-status=dead }}
• 1999 Rockefeller Fellow
• 1999 Technology Review's Top 100 Young Innovators{{Cite web |url=http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?trid=526 |title=Technology Review's annual list of 35 INNOVATORS UNDER 35: Natalie Jeremijenko, 32 |publisher=Technology Review |access-date=19 October 2012 |archive-date=12 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181112115340/http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr35/profile.aspx?trid=526 |url-status=dead }}

• Bureau of Inverse Technology{{Cite web |title=Bureau of Inverse Technology (BIT) |url=https://bureauit.org/ |access-date=2025-04-04 |website=bureauit.org}}
• Critical technical practice

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• {{Cite book |last=Perini |first=Julie |title=Uses of a Whirlwind: Movement, Movements, and Contemporary Radical Currents in the United States |publisher=AK Press |year=2010 |isbn=9781849350167 |editor-last=Team Colors Collective |chapter=Art as Intervention: A Guide to Today's Radical Art Practices}}

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• [http://xdesign.nyu.edu/ Natalie Jeremijenko's home page] with info about projects
• [http://www.nyu.edu/projects/xdesign/ xDesign Environmental Health Clinic]
• [http://www.socratessculpturepark.org/exhibitions/artist/jeremijenko-natalie 2012 outdoor work] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407070757/http://www.socratessculpturepark.org/exhibitions/artist/jeremijenko-natalie |date=7 April 2014 }} at Socrates Sculpture Park
• [http://entity.eng.yale.edu/nat/ Info from Yale University] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060619185110/http://entity.eng.yale.edu/nat/ |date=19 June 2006 }}
• [http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2006/06/22/natalie/ Profile of artist with descriptions of her work]
• [http://softwareandart.com/?p=266 video interview at Connected Environments exhibit at the Neuberger Museum of Art]
• [http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2011/talktome/objects/ MoMA Talk To Me Exhibition Site]
• [https://www.ted.com/talks/natalie_jeremijenko_the_art_of_the_eco_mindshift/transcript?language=en/ Natalie Jeremijenko TED Talk]

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