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Annual Landis lecture will combine elements of art and engineering
Experimental artist Natalie Jeremijenko will present the 2008 John and Muriel Landis lecture at 8 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, in Kirby Hall of Civil Rights room 104.
Jeremijenko is an associate professor of visual art at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, and director of the school’s xDesign Environmental Health Clinic. She previously served on the visual arts faculty at University of California, San Diego, and the faculty of engineering at Yale.
Established by Trustee Emeritus John Landis ’39, the Landis Lectureship focuses on topics related to international aspects of technology and engineering. Landis lecturers have included aviation pioneer Burt Rutan; New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas L. Friedman; Alden Meyer, director of government relations for the Union of Concerned Scientists; and the late author Isaac Asimov.
Jeremijenko’s residency also will include two workshops with art, mechanical engineering, and electrical and computer engineering majors.
Jeremijenko is an artist whose background includes studies in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience, and precision engineering. Her projects—which explore socio-technical change—have been exhibited by several museums and galleries, including the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Musuem. A 1999 Rockefeller Fellow, she was recently named one of the 40 most influential designers by I.D. Magazine.
Her work is described as experimental design, hence xDesign, as it explores opportunities presented by new technologies for non-violent social change. Her research centers on structures of participation in the production of knowledge and information, and the political and social possibilities (and limitations) of information and emerging technologies — mostly through public experiments.