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Not So Micro-Plastic, ICRA 2025
James Bern*, J. Diego Caporale, Diedra Krieger. “Not So Micro Plastic”, a peer reviewed work accepted and exhibited, Arts in Robotics, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2025, Atlanta, GA.
Sustainability Award: James Bern*, J. Diego Caporale, Diedra Krieger. “Not-So-Micro Plastic”
Photodegradation causes plastic to break into smaller and smaller pieces; infiltrating our water, our food and our bodies. Plastic has an agency of its own. In Not-So-Micro Plastic, we viscerally communicate the idea of Plastic as Monster, re-envisioning discarded plastic water bottles as modular robots that break apart, writhe, and scatter into the world. We apply modular robotics to construct a kinetic installation piece that reckons with the ongoing proliferation of micro- and nano-plastics
Plastic Fantastic at New Paltz High School, June 2025
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After/Time Gallery, Portland, Oregon (Aug 2 – 30, 2025)
Group show with Grizzly Grizzly members
Grid Lattice Chaos v2, close up
Grid Lattice Chaos v2 (mirrors by Oliver Greenberg). Studio Assistant: Ella Fritz. Post-consumer water bottles; 3D pen, 3’ x 4’ x 3”, 2025.
right: Triangles on Triangles v2, Post-consumer water bottles; 3D pen, 3’ x 3’ x 1”, 2025
Triangles on Triangles v2, Close up
Publications and Conferences
Topic Coordinator for Speed-dating to long-term relationships: Art-robot Residencies Enabled by Common Language, Frontiers in Robotics.
Program Committee, Arts in Robotics, ICRA 2025, Atlanta, GA, https://roboticart.org/icra2025/
Feshbach, Daniel; Chi, Alex; Huang, Eric; Krieger, Diedra; Sung, Cynthia
Artistic Non-Inertial Tracer (ANT): an Educational Kit for a 3-Link Origami Slithering Robot (Conference) 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, American Society for Engineering Education 2025. Read more here.