Dr. Natalie Jeremijenko
Professor of Visual Art
University of California San Diego

Re-Imagining Animals: 
On Transforming Our
Relationships to Animals

Friday, April 6th, 2007
12:00 to 1:30 pm

Student Commons, 907 Floyd Avenue
Commonwealth Ballroom B

Natalie Jeremijenko is a new media artist who holds a B.S. in Neuroscience and Biochemistry, a B.F.A. and a PhD in electrical engineering.  She currently teaches design at the UCSD but prior to this she was on the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Yale University. Her work has been featured in the Tate Gallery Cream 2 and at the Whitney Museum’s Biennial, and a large project was commissioned for the opening of the museum MASSMoCA.  She was named one of the top one hundred young innovators by the MIT Technology Review, and has received prestigious awards and grants from agencies including the Rockefeller Foundation and the National Academy of Science.  In this lecture she will speak on several recent interactive installation projects that investigate the why, how, and where of the human-animal boundary: “Amphibious Architecture,” “Feral Robotic Dog Pack,” and RICE (NY Rats and Mice as Model Organisms for industrial contamination.

For additional information, please contact: Dr. Karen Rader, 828-9642 or karader@vcu.edu
Light lunch will be provided on a first-come, first served basis.