March 4, 2005: Volume 63, Number 9

'High Voltage' explores technology, humanity

Design engineer and technoartist Natalie Jeremijenko will tackle questions about technology serving humanity in a conference, "High Voltage Fields," on Saturday, March 5, at College Park Hall and Schenectady Museum.

The day-long symposium which will explore the increasingly porous boundaries between the arts, science and technology. Participants will address the need for interdisciplinary communication among an increasingly fractious culture. 

Jeremijenko will give the keynote presentation, "Who knows? How and Why to Get Public Involvement in Technological Futures?" and moderate a panel at 11:15 a.m. in College Park Hall titled "Why & How? Artist, Scientists and Technologists Borrow From Each Other to Carry Their Message?"

The other panel, "What Does the Creative Class Mean to the Capital Region?" is at 2 p.m. at the Museum. It will include panelist J. Douglass Klein, director of Converging Technologies and professor of economics at Union. Stephanie Przybylek, director of exhibitions, Schenectady Museum, will moderate.

Jeremijenko is a 1999 Rockefeller Fellow. Her work includes digital, electromechanical and interactive systems as well as biotechnology. It has been exhibited throughout the world, including the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, Museum Moderne Kunst in Germany and LUX in London. She is known for her creation of the "upside-down trees" sculpture at MASSMoCA.

A reception at the Schenectady Museum & Planetarium at 4 p.m. will include a performance by Bob Gluck, director of the Department of Electronic Music at the University at Albany.

Walkup registration begins at 9 a.m. at College Park Hall. Admission is $30 for the full day, $20 for members, $15 for students, $10 for half-day and $5 for the performance only. For more information, contact: 518-382-7890 or visit http://www.schenectadymuseum.org.

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