SFWF | Natalie Jeremijenko

Natalie Jeremijenko

Natalie Jeremijenko is a design engineer and technoartist. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology at the University of California, San Diego, where she runs the experimental design lab. Recently she was named one of the 40 most influential designers by I.D. Magazine and one of the top 100 young innovators by the MIT Technology Review. Her work was featured in the Tate Gallery Cream 2, and a large project was commissioned for the opening of the MASS MoCA. Her work includes digital, electromechanical, and interactive systems in addition to biotechnological works that have been included in the Rotterdam Film Festival (2000); Guggenheim Museum, New York (1999); Museum Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; LUX Gallery, London (1999); Whitney Biennial (1997); Documenta (1997); Ars Electronica Prix (1996), presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She was a 1999 Rockefeller fellow and attended graduate studies at Stanford University in mechanical engineering, and at the University of Melbourne in the History and Philosophy of Science Department. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland. As the director of the engineering design studio at Yale University she is developing and implementing new courses in technological innovation. She is also affiliated with the Media Research Lab/Center for Advanced Technology in the Computer Science Department at NYU, where she did postdoctoral studies. Other research positions include several years at Xerox PARC in the computer science lab, and the advanced computer graphics lab, RMIT. She has also been on faculty in digital media and computer art at the School of Visual Arts, New York and the San Francisco Art Institute. In addition, she has worked for the Bureau of Inverse Technology. Jeremijenko is the McPherson Visiting Professor in Public Understanding of Science at Michigan State University and was the Mildred C. Brinn Endowed Chair at Skowhegan in 2005.

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