Adriene Jenik - Alumni

Adriene Jenik is a telecommunications media artist who lives in Southern California. Her works combine "high" technology and human desire to propose new forms of literature, cinema, and performance. Career highlights include works in live television like EL NAFTAZTECA (w/Guillermo Gomez-Pena), interactive cinema as in MAUVE DESERT: A CD-ROM Translation and the internet street theater of DESKTOP THEATER (w/Lisa Brenneis and the DT troupe). Her current research continues her interest in wireless community media and new storytelling forms. Dubbed distributed social cinema, SPECFLIC layers media & technology forms to create a story event that unfolds over time and space. SPECFLIC 2.0, hosted by the San Jose Public Library, was a featured event at ISEA06/ZeroOne San Jose.

http://www.specflic.net

Jenik is currently serving as Associate Professor of Computer & Media Arts in the Visual Arts Dept. at University of California, San Diego. She is an affiliated researcher with the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology.