Art and engineering combine for interesting evening at CU Cinema

Tonight, April 29, at 7 in Willard Straight Theatre, Cornell Cinema will welcome design engineer/artist Natalie Jeremijenko from Yale and New York University, and Cornell engineer/filmmaker Park Doing for a remarkable evening combining contemporary art, science and engineering. Tickets for this program are $6 general; $5 students and seniors; and $4 Cornell graduate students. For more information call 255-3522 or visit http://cinema.cornell.edu.

Jeremijenko's work takes the form of large-scale public art works, tangible media installations, single channel tapes and critical writing. Recently named one of the top 100 young innovators by MIT Technology Review, she investigates the theme of the transformative potential of new technologies -- particularly information technologies. She also works for the Bureau of Inverse Technology and will represent the organization this evening. Its projects include "SuicideBox" [SBX], a motion detection video capture system designed for the Golden Gate bridge (the system watches the bridge constantly and when there is vertical motion captures it to a permanent video record) and "Bitplane" (an undetectable arial observation device).

Jeremijenko also will talk about the project that brings her to campus, a presentation to Doing's engineering/philosophy class that will result in the release of a pack of "feral robotic dogs" into the streets of Ithaca. For more information visit: http://www.proboscis.org.uk/prps/docs/p_jeremijenko.html.

The program will open with works from Doing's television series, including "Transmission 01" and "Guru/Hearing."