The 2014 Fine Arts Wendy Michener Lecture will be presented by Natalie Jeremijenko from the Visual Art Department and the Environmental Health Clinic at New York University. 

Jeremijenko’s talk will be titled xLECTURE on the xCLINIC. Her talk will touch on a number of dynamic and engaging questions:

• What is an Environmental Health Clinic (xCLINIC) and why would they pay me to ride my bike?
• Why is CHILDxLABOR in my future?
• How do I get a tree as my landlord?
• Will I get hurt wrestling rhinoceros beetles and why do I have to wear the helmet?
• What is smarter than a smart city?
• Why do I bring my junk mail to the BIOCHAR BBQ and what if I don’t know how to salsa?
• How do I become a certified FLORISTA and why do pollinators care if I hula-hoop?
• How do I co-produce a delicious, bio-diverse and healthy urban future? 
• What would Toronto look like with an xCLINIC, FARMACY and OOZ?

Jeremijenko works at the interface of culture and technology, specializing in environmental and urban issues. Bridging biochemistry, physics, digital media and neuroscience, her experimental design (xDesign) projects explore opportunities presented by new technologies for social change –most often in the form of public experiments and experiences.

Jeremijenko is an associate professor of art and affiliated professor in computer science and environmental studies at New York University. She directs NYU’s xDesign Environmental Health Clinic, which approaches health from an understanding of its dependence on external local environments rather than an individual’s internal biology and genetic predispositions. The clinic develops and prescribes locally optimized, often playful strategies to remediate environmental systems and bring about material change.

When: March 5, 2014, 5:00-6:30pm

Where: Tribute Communities Recital Hall (Accolade East Building)