ATC@UCSC in conjunction with the Art Technology, and Culture Colloquium of the Berkeley Center for New Media presents:

Redesigning our Relationship to Natural Systems, Wrestling Rhinoceros Beetles, Launching the Urban Space Station, and Other Cross(x)Species Adventures

Natalie Jeremijenko, Artist, NY

Free and open to the public

Natalie Jermijenko suggests that the climate crisis reveals a more insidious and widespread crisis: the "crisis of agency" -- a sense of helplessness in the face of uncertain threats that challenge our cultural imagination and our scientific, political, and economic expectations. Her presentation will consider how our shared pleasures and fascinations might become a force of social and environmental transformation.

She will describe art projects including her recent survey exhibition, BiodiverCITY, 47: important ideas and technologies for the urban future. These include Jeremijenko's Cross(X)Species Adventure Club that highlights foods that improve environmental health and augment biodiversity, and xAirport, which explores the wonder of air travel and proposed a new form of urban mobility that reconstructions ecolocial systems. During the course of the lecture she will propose some gentlemanly wagers on the possibilities and strategies for producing a bio-diverse, tasty, and healthy urban future.

Named one of the inaugural top young innovators by MIT Technology Review, Natalie Jeremijenko directs the NYU Environmental Health Clinic, and is an Associate Professor in the Visual Art Department, with affiliations in the Computer Science Dept and Environmental Studies program. Previously she was on the Visual Arts faculty at UCSD, and Faculty of Engineering at Yale University. She came to NYU as a Global Distinguished Professor, was recently a visiting professor at Royal College of Art in London, and as a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Public Understanding of Science at Michigan State University. Her work was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennial of American Art (also in 1997) and the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Triennial 2006-7. In 2010 Neuberger Museum produced a solo exhibition surveying recent work, entitled Connected Environments. A second solo exhibition entitled X opened in November, 2010 at the University of Technology Sydney. Current exhibitions include: Alter Nature: Designing Nature - Designing Human Life - Owning Life at Z33 in Hasselt; EXPOSED Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 187 at SFMOMA/TATE Modern; Certified Copy at the VERBEKE FOUNDATION; Eat Me! at Postmasters Gallery, New York, and (Re)designing Nature at Kuenstlerhaus Vienna, and Mortality at Australian Center for Contemporary Art.

ATC@Berkeley Director: Ken Goldberg

ATC@UCSC Director: Warren Sack

Primary Sponsors:

* Office of the Dean of the Arts, UC Santa Cruz

* Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society (CITRIS)