<nettime> Viridian Note 00110: Computers and Trees

[Bruce Sterling <bruces@well.com>]

Key concepts:  Natalie Jeremijenko, "Stump" program, 
"OneTree" project, Bureau of Inverse Technology, tangible 
cyberspace

Attention Conservation Notice:  It's about techno-art.

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This contest ends very soon:  November 20, 01999.

Link:  http://www.looksmartradio.com
A recent Viridian interview with Bruce Sterling on grainy, 
halting, herky-jerky net.radio.

Profiles:  Natalie Jeremijenko
Link: 
http://www.techreview.com/tr100/profile.php3?Jeremijenko
From: "MIT's Magazine of Innovation: Technology Review"

       "Are you a knowledge worker? If so, Natalie 
Jeremijenko would like you to install 'Stump' on your 
computer. Every time you print out a tree's worth of 
paper, Stump prints a  picture of a tree ring. With enough 
rings, you can reconstruct the stump of a tree.

      "For Australian-born Jeremijenko, who is director of 
the Yale University Engineering Design Lab and an 
acclaimed technoartist, Stump is a way to make 'a tangible 
version of the Internet world.' Jeremijenko says her aim 
is to pierce the 'shared hallucination' that cyberspace is 
somehow clean and immaterial. 

    "In reality, she points out, the digital domain is a 
world of hardware and some hard truths. Jeremijenko makes 
the latter difficult to ignore with projects like 
'OneTree,' in which 2,000 walnut trees will be placed in 
sensor-equipped planters around the San Francisco Bay area 
next year. As the trees grow, their condition will record 
the region's climatic, socioeconomic and environmental 
extremes.(...)

    "Jeremijenko, who produces much of her art under the 
auspices of a fictional institution she calls the 'Bureau 
of Inverse Technology,' makes novel use of technologies to 
record social phenomena. She shot a documentary of Silicon 
Valley from a remote-controlled spy plane, concealed 
cameras in teddy bears to record children's expressions, 
and installed a motion detector near the Golden Gate 
Bridge to count suicides (17 in 100 days)."

(((I've said it before and I'll say it again:
Natalie Jeremijenko is the cat's pyjamas.)))

O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O
I'M SUCKING COAL THROUGH ONE END
AND KILLING TREES WITH THE OTHER!
O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O



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