Adriene Jenik is an artist and educator who resides in the desert. Her computer and media art spans several decades including pioneering work in interactive cinema and live telematic performance.
Jenik's artistic projects straddle and trouble the borders between art, science, engineering and popular culture and have been written about in The New York Times, published in The Drama Review, and recognized by the Rockefeller Foundation. She was an early member of the Paper Tiger Television collective (1985-91) and a founding member of the Deep Dish TV Alternative Satellite network. Her video productions include the video short, "What's the Difference Between a Yam & a Sweet Potato?" (with J. Evan Dunlap), and the award-winning live satellite TV broadcast, "EL NAFTAZTECA: Cyber-Aztec TV for 2000 A.D." (with Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes). "MAUVE DESERT: A CD-ROM Translation" is Jenik's internationally acclaimed interactive road movie based on the novel Le Désert mauve by French Canadian author Nicole Brossard. Her creative research project, DESKTOP THEATER was a series of live theatrical interventions and activities in public visual chat rooms developed with multi-media maven Lisa Brenneis.
In 2014, she shifted her creative practice to focus on issues related to the US desert: environmental resilience, military testing and training, and indigenous values. Her ongoing series of DATA HUMANIZATION performances recast endurance work for our time. DRYLAB2023 (with co-director Marco Janssen and 8 participants) imagined a near future of water scarcity that was enacted over 30 days in an experiment in extreme experiential learning. Most weekends she can be found in a public space offering her performance of CLIMATE FUTURE READINGS with her ECOtarot deck. She is also a singer/songwriter and published poet.
Jenik received her BA in English from Douglass College, Rutgers University and her MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. A founding professor of the Interdisciplinary Computer Arts Major at the University of California, San Diego and the Digital Culture program at Arizona State University, Jenik has taught electronic and digital media to generations of students. She currently serves as Professor of Intermedia in the School of Art at ASU, affiliate faculty in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and a senior sustainability scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability.
Keywords: telematics performance, interactive media, media policy, freedom of expression, art.tech, desert, water scarcity, ECOtarot
Jenik, Adriene, "Speculative Performance Meets Immersive Learning: Lessons of Drylab2023" (MS #1043) in PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research
Janssen, M. A., A. Jenik, S. Z. Tekola, K. L. Davis, S. Flores, W. Gibbs, M. Koehn, V. Lyons, C. Mallory, S. Rood, S. Guelpa, and L.-A. Pfister. 2018. Drylab 2023: living a possible future with resource scarcity. Ecology and Society 23(4):8. https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol23/iss4/art8/
Jenik, Adriene, “Border/Body/Technology” in The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisational Studies, Volume II, eds. Lewis, George and Piekut, Ben, Oxford University Press
Jenik, Adriene, “A book can change your life: reflections on the making of MAUVE DESERT: A CD-ROM Translation,” chapter in Nicole Brossard: L’inedit de sens, eds. Janine Ricouart and Roseanna Dufault, Les Editions du remue-menage, pps. 273-292
Jenik, Adriene and Sarah Lewison, “Moving In Place: The Question of Distributed Social Cinema,” Third Person: Authoring and Exploring Vast Narratives, Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin eds., The MIT Press, pp.179-191
Jenik, Adriene, “Santaman’s Harvest Yields Questions, or Does a Performance Happen If It Exists in a Virtual Forest?” Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, eds., The MIT Press, pp. 289-296
Jenik, Adriene, “Desktop Theater: Keyboard Catharsis and the Masking of Roundheads,” featured cover article, The Drama Review, pp.95-112, 45:3, published by NYU and MIT, Fall 2001
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ARA 330 | Issues in Intermedia |
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ARS 590 | Reading and Conference |
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ARS 599 | Thesis |
ART 680 | Practicum |
ARS 690 | Reading and Conference |
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ART 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ARS 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ART 493 | Honors Thesis |
ARS 493 | Honors Thesis |
ARA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ARS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ARA 584 | Internship |
ART 584 | Internship |
ARS 590 | Reading and Conference |
ARA 592 | Research |
ARS 592 | Research |
ART 595 | Continuing Registration |
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ARE 595 | Continuing Registration |
ARS 599 | Thesis |
ART 680 | Practicum |
ARS 690 | Reading and Conference |
ARS 692 | Research |
ARE 695 | Continuing Registration |
ARS 790 | Reading and Conference |
ARS 792 | Research |
ARS 795 | Continuing Registration |
ARE 795 | Continuing Registration |
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ART 394 | Special Topics |
ARA 484 | Internship |
ARE 484 | Internship |
ART 484 | Internship |
ARS 484 | Internship |
ART 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ARS 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ARA 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ARE 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ARS 584 | Internship |
ARA 584 | Internship |
ART 584 | Internship |
ARS 590 | Reading and Conference |
ARE 590 | Reading and Conference |
ARS 592 | Research |
ARE 592 | Research |
ART 592 | Research |
ART 595 | Continuing Registration |
ARE 599 | Thesis |
ARS 599 | Thesis |
ART 680 | Practicum |
ARE 690 | Reading and Conference |
ARE 692 | Research |
ARS 692 | Research |
ARE 790 | Reading and Conference |
ARS 790 | Reading and Conference |
ARE 792 | Research |
ARS 792 | Research |
ARE 795 | Continuing Registration |
ARS 795 | Continuing Registration |
ARE 799 | Dissertation |
ARS 799 | Dissertation |