Natalie Jeremienko


"do geese see god" tasting menu, images and recipes by Debra Solomon 2003-2004
for Natalie Jeremijenko's Project 00Z

TASTING MENU FOR GEESE AND PEOPLE

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A PROJECT FROM OOZ: TASTING MENU FOR GEESE AND PEOPLE

When I came across the "Tasting Menu for Geese and People," I was quite taken by its gastric audacity. Like Bigtwin's exploration of human-dolphin communication, this is a project which doesn't quite fit into any professional niche and draws many different forces around itself. Neither art nor zoology nor cordon bleu, the geese/human goo, divised and vividly photographed by Debra Solomon, triggers into being a hybrid ecosystem. If I'm not mistaken there's a Hyper-Runt scurrying around in there somewhere.

This tender interspecies menu (and it's delicious) was concocted by Debra Solomon for Natalie Jeremienko's inverse Zoo creation, Ooz. Debra Solomon's commitment to exploring "connective networks" is indicative of an emerging media practice which literally re-routes the industrial and cultural status quo. Her work can be found at http://www.the-living.org

Natalie Jeremijenko, whose Ooz project provided a kind of nest for Debra's culinary interface, also does a lot of unusual things with technology and information --from hacking robot dogs to automating reports of sparrow sitings. But if she were running for president in today's climate of extreme cartoon posturing (swagger beats intelligence*) she would be lost. However, Natalie's a coy organizer of information and she has created a very defined box in which to place all her remarkable endeavours: The Bureau of Inverse Technology. This virtual organization allows her to turn corporate-driven technology back on the big boys, jiggling it strangely about in the process.

Like the sci fi filmmaker, David Cronenberg, Natalie and Debra have been able to take a popular genre (science and technology) and use it to showcase twisted ruminations on the babble of human and animal affairs. Like Ken Goldberg and Shawn Brixey, they often hide out in engineering circles, spinning their unlikely webs.

--Ebon Fisher
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* In the long run, this is a self-defeating meme.


For Hyper-Runt Natalie Jeremijenko will present Tasting Menu for Geese and People, a menu of dishes edible by both humans and geese, developed with the aid of culinary advisor Debra Solomon. Tasting Menu for Geese and People was originally created as part of the project OOZ, zoo spelled backwards. OOZ, unlike the traditional zoo is a place where the animals remain by choice, a zoo without cages. Like a traditional zoo, it is a series of sites where animals and humans interact.



Bio

Natalie Jeremijenko, 1999 Rockefeller fellow, is a design engineer and technoartist. She was recently named one of the top one hundred young innovators by the MIT Technology Review. Her work includes digital, electromechanical, and interactive systems in addition to biotechnological work that have recently been included in the Rotterdam Film Festival (2000), the Guggenheim Museum, New York (1999), the Museum Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, the LUX Gallery, London (1999), the Whitney Biennial ‘97, Documenta ‘97, Ars Electronic prix ‘96, presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the Media Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

For more information: http://cat.nyu.edu/natalie/