Collaboration: Environmental Health Clinic (New York) x LAByrinth (New York, Hong Kong) x Ark Eden (Hong Kong) for the International Symposium of Electronic Art [ISEA]
2016 Symposium: Cultural R>evolution [Hong Kong]
Description: ISEA International (formerly Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts) was founded in the Netherlands, 1990. ISEA is a non-profit organization that fosters and promotes high quality interdisciplinary creative practice, education, learning and research in art, science, design, the creative industries and emergent technologies through its nomadic, annual international symposia.
ISEA2016 topics: The New Geopolics of Art-Making, The Animal and the Technological, Code-Language-Network-Politics, Biopolitics/biopower (Genetics, Nanotechnology, Robotics), Crypto-Finance, TechnoSex.
Natalie Jeremijenko is an artist, engineer and inventor based in New York. She directs the Environmental Health Clinic and is also an associate professor in the Visual Art Department at NYU, affiliated with their Computer Science Department and Environmental Studies program. Natalie’s practice develops the emerging field of socio-ecological systems design, or xDesign, crucial in the Anthropocene, using participatory research spectacles that address the 21st Century challenge to reimagine our collective relationship to natural systems.
“Health is the only and best metric for the common good.”
Natalie’s TED talk: The art of the eco-mindshift