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A very short excerpt from an amazing LONG interview!

By EMILY GERTZ, 22 OCT 04

"From releasing packs of Feral Robot Dogs that sniff out chemical contamination, to teaching Yale engineering students socially responsible design, from creating pollution-detecting Clear Skies Masks for bicycle riders, to co-authoring Biotech Hobbyist Magazine, Natalie Jeremijenko's work merges engineering, biology and art to explore socio-political hot spots along the fault line where design meets information meets society.

As reported in the technogeek press in August, Jeremijenko was one of several artist-engineers developing and deploying protest technology during the Republican National Convention in New York City. She collaborated with activists to devise a number of devices that were both media-savvy and functional, designed to undercut surveillance, create accurate crowd counts, and protect activists--gestures that highlighted the growing technological arsenal being aimed on political speech and action.

I interviewed Jeremijenko for Worldchanging last month, over a vegan takeout dinner in her West Village apartment in New York City. We began by discussing her Republican National Convention protest tech.

Natalie Jeremijenko: The statement I'm going for is about illegitimate use of force, the militarization of the police force around legal political protest.

Can you imagine if they militarized around lobbyists visiting Washington?..."

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http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/001450.html

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Fri, 12 Nov 2010 07:09:00 -0800 Natalie Jeremijenko's Zoo without Cages: WHAT IS OOZ? « OOZ #DIY10 http://1001tales.posterous.com/natalie-jeremijenkos-zoo-without-cages-what-i http://1001tales.posterous.com/natalie-jeremijenkos-zoo-without-cages-what-i

Description from the site:

"WHAT IS OOZ?

BRONX OOZ provides technological interfaces to facilitate interaction with nonhumans. Computer games and online communities are now popular ways to interact with virtual and simulated environments. By contrast OOZ —ZOO backwards and without cages—involves interfaces to facilitate interaction with natural systems, local environments and particularly with nonhuman urban inhabitants. The distributed OOZ interfaces are designed to script playful and generative interactions that demonstrate and explore the interconnections in urban ecosystems; that concretize new ideals and formulations of human/non-human interaction; explicating the environmental services these organisms provide; and augmenting nutritional and habitat resources for these human cohabitants.
Implemented interfaces included robotic water strider, geese, ducks for interacting with biological counterparts.

The BRONX OOZ is a cultural and ecological program in development, supported and hosted by the Bronx River Arts Center (BRAC). Support has also been secured by Van Allen Institute awarding The New York Prize Fellowship in Sustainable Cities and the Social Sciences (jointly with the Social Science Research Council): A fellowship supporting critical inquiry and experimental practices that explore, challenge and expand conventional definitions of public architecture. Additionally, it’s supported by the Architectural League of New York – as a finalist in their recent commission architects, artists, designers, technologists, engineers and related practitioners to produce urban interventions that demonstrate alternative trajectories for imagining this near future Sentient City. Situated Technologies."

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