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For the Feral Dogs project, Dr. Natalie Jeremijenko has worked with numerous student groups to develop robotic dog ‘packs’ to investigate environmental hazards. These robo-dogs are ‘released’ en masse into a community space to sniff out harmful VOCs, ozone, and other environmental toxins. The feral robotic dogs are designed to monitor sites of public interest like schools, parks, and industrial sites, in order to generate community and media attention on the issue of contaminants in the environment. Dr. Jeremijenko investigates the transformative potential of new technologies. She is a design engineer and techno-artist who has built digital, electro-mechanical and interactive systems, and whose work has been exhibited in museums in New York, Frankfurt and London. Jeremijenko is currently a faculty member at University of California San Diego and is a New York University Global Distinguished Professor. One of America’s top young digital pioneers, she has been named one of the top 100 young innovators by the MIT Technology Review, was a 1999 Rockefeller Fellow, and was also the director of Yale University’s Engineering Design Studio. Using her award-winning projects, Ms. Jeremijenko re-scripts our interaction with technology, constantly exploring and expanding how we can seize technological innovation for social and cultural good. Professor Jeremijenko’s work explores the political, social and environmental possibilities, and limitations, of technological change - mostly through large-scale public experiments and the analysis of structures of participation in the information age.
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