Adriene Jenik

Committed to using and abusing new technologies, Adriene Jenik is an award-winning media artist, filmmaker, and educator, and is currently Director of the School of Art at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, part of Arizona State University.

She has been an active member of the Paper Tiger TV collective and Deep Dish TV. Her previous directorial credits include What’s the Difference Between a Yam and A Sweet Potato? (1992) and El Naftazteca: Cyber-Aztec TV for 2000 A.D. (1994).

“Jenik’s project is... about the state of translation: between film, video, and the digital medium, between languages and landscapes, and between fact and fiction.”

—Julia Meltzer