Designing Technology for Social Change

Natalie Jeremijenko

11 January 2007 11 -4pm Education Workshop, The Lighthouse

Cost: £40 plus VAT

Workshop

Natalie Jeremijenko is a design engineer and techno-artist who has built digital, electromechanical and interactive systems. Specific issues addressed in her work include information politics, the examination and development of new modes of knowledge, tangible media and distributed (or ubiquitous) computing elements. Her work has been exhibited in museums in New York, Frankfurt and London. Within this event, Natalie showed how she creates such innovative and unique projects: from the process of idea generation to assembling a collaborative team, with the aim of the transformative potential of new technologies, particularly information technology, for social change.

Biography

Currently Assistant Professor in the University of California’s Department of Visual Arts, Natalie was previously Lecturer Convertible in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Yale University, Consultant to the Advanced Computer Graphics Center, NYU, and Distinguished Critic in the Department of Art, Virginia Commonwealth University. One of America's top young digital pioneers, she has been named one of the top 100 young innovators by the MIT Technology Review and was a 1999 Rockefeller Fellow.