Natalie Jeremijenko

Natalie Jeremijenko AO (born 1966) is an Australian environmental artist and engineer whose background includes studies in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering. She is an active member of the net.art movement, and her work primarily explores the interface between society, the environment and technology. She has alternatively described her work as "X Design" (short for experimental design) and herself as a "thingker", a combination of thing-maker and thinker. She is also described as an "artist-experimenter."

Jeremijenko describes her work as "socio-ecological systems design." As Rachael Rettner summarized, "She uses her engineering skills to set up public art projects that highlight social issues and focus on the relationship between humans and our environment."

Jeremijenko was born in Mackay, Queensland, and raised in Brisbane, the second of ten children to a physician and a schoolteacher. Her parents were champions of domestic technology, and Jeremijenko claims that her mother was the first woman in Australia to own a microwave.

She has a PhD in computer science and electrical engineering from the University of Queensland, and additionally did coursework for a PhD in mechanical engineering at Stanford University, without completing the degree.

She was previously married to the sociologist Dalton Conley with whom she had two children: E and Yo. Jeremijenko also has a daughter, Jamba, from a previous relationship.

In the 1990s, Jeremijenko worked as an artist-in-residence at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto.

In 2018, she was Artist in Residence at Dartmouth College, and is currently an associate professor at New York University in the Visual Art Department and has affiliated faculty appointments in the school's Computer Science and Environmental Studies.

Jeremijenko created and published art under the Bureau of Inverse Technology (BIT). This group of anonymous artists started in the early 1990s and worked in both art and technology. BIT is based in Melbourne, Australia; San Francisco, California; and Berlin, Germany.