We Make Money Not Art's Regine DeBatty took really comprehensive notes from a talk by Natalie Jeremijenko at the New Cultural Networks conference in Amsterdam. Natalie is one of my favorite scientist-provocateurs, who has spun out so many infinitely cool projects that it's hard to believe it's all the work of just one person. — Read the rest

In Make Vol. 2, Dale Dougherty profiled roboticist Natalie Jeremijenko. Here's an MP3 of Dale reading the profile.
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Natalie Jeremijenko's new "One Tree(s)" art/tech/science/culture project involves planting 1,000 clones of the same tree in various places and monitoring what happens. She's now accepting proposals from interested potential participants. Got a cool place to plant a clone? Let her know. — Read the rest

I first encountered the idea of technological "legibility" in the work of Natalie Jeremijenko (previously) who insists on the importance of humans being able to know why a computer is doing what it does.

"'Disobedient Electronics' is a zine-oriented publishing project that seeks submissions from industrial designers, electronic artists, hackers and makers that disobey conventions, especially work that is used to highlight injustices, discrimination or abuses of power."

NYU associate professor Natalie Jeremijenko brought her Feral Robot Dogs project to twenty-nine of our gifted and special-needs students at New York City's PS 153.

Here are my notes from Natalie Jeremijenko's Social Robotics, Scmocial Robotics: Feral Robotics and Some Other Quacking, Shaking, Bubbling (what would the opposite of feral be?) Robots, at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

Natalie is a genuine cyberpunk heroine, whose hacks include hacking robot toy dogs into feral volatile organic compound sensors; setting up voicemail boxes you can call when you want to record your interactions with Homeland Security coppers, and surreptitiously filming jumpers off the Golden Gate bridge. — Read the rest

Howard Rheingold writes about a new proposal from technoartist, activist, and educator Natalie Jeremijenko:

What if owners of Superfund sitde politicked their way out of responsibility, then sold or leased their property without removing unhealthy amounts of toxic waste?

Matt "Blackbelt" Jones has posted three days' worth of terse notes from Doors of Perception, the wicked-leet pontifi-con in Amsterdam. That no one invited me to. Not that I mind. Honestly.

Day 1: John Thackara, Janine Benyus, Louis Fernandez-Galliano, David Rokeby, Lars Eric Lundquist, Marko, Axel, Ben Van Berkel and Caroline Bos

Day 2, Part 1: Bruce Sterling, Michael/Toke, Aditya Dev Sood, Felice Frankel and Marco Susani

Day 2, Part 2: Philip Tabor and Patricia De Martlaere

Day 3, Part 1: Stefano Boeri, Malcolm Macullough, J.C. — Read the rest