User:Natalie HM Jeremijenko

Natalie Jeremijenko is a Global Distinguished Professor at NYU. An artist/experimenter and information engineer, she is one of the founders of the field of tangible media (also known as physical computing). Her work centers on structures of participation in the information age and the political and social possibilities (and limitations) of information technologies -- mostly through large-scale public experiments. In this vein, her work spans a range of media from statistical indices (such as the Despondency Index, which linked the Dow Jones to the suicide rate at San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge) to biological substrates (such as the installations of cloned trees in pairs in various urban micro-climates) to robotics (such as the development of feral robotic dog packs to investigate environmental hazards). Her graduate work at Stanford and the University of Queensland was in the fields of design engineering and information science. Previous faculty positions have included appointments in Yale University's Department of Mechanical Engineering, in the Department of Visual Art at the University of California at San Diego, and as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Public Understanding of Science at Michigan State University.