Natalie Jeremijenko: "Use your Technology before it Abuses You: Designing Technologies with Social Value"

Natalie Jeremijenko is a design engineer and internationally renowned technoartist interested in the sociotechnical aspects of product design. Her works include electomechanical and interactive systems that have most recently been included in the Whitney Biennial ë97, Documenta ë97, Ars Electronic Prix ë96 and presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

She is known to work for the Bureau of Inverse technology.

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The bit Suicide Box is a motion detection video system designed to capture vertical activity. Unit includes BITcamera, motion capture card, analysis software and utility concealment casing. In standard operation any vertical motion in frame will trigger the camera to record to disk.

Bureau installed the Suicide Box for trial application in range of the Golden Gate Bridge California 1996; an initial deployment period [100 days] metered 17 bridge events. System efficacy: Suicide Box system supplied public, frame-accurate data of a social phenomenon not previously accurately quantified. Box placement was determined to exploit cultural climate and BIT agent proximity; San Francisco is gateway to the Silicon Valley and both Information capital and Suicide capital of the USA.

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