Three video sketches at Screws and Glue: 1. Crunch Crunch Flick; 2. Mountain of Play joins Icosahedron – Stop motion; 3. Encounter with Grid Lattice Chaos Hexagon, 2024. Performance explorations in my installations at my exhibition Screws and Glue. Movement scale for Crunch Crunch Flick was developed with Maleen Jayasuriya at Speed-dating to long-term relationships: Art-robot Residencies Enabled by Common Language, Workshop at ICRA 2024, Yokohama, Japan, May 2024.

Icosahedron, Screws and Glue, The Arts League, Philadelphia, PA, 2024. Materials: water bottles, conduit approximately 8′ x 8′ x 8′
Bow, 2023-24 Water bottles, servos, Arduino, power booster, acrylic, wood, big red button
24” x 18” x 10”
Video link: https://vimeo.com/1038416078, video credit: Yoko Takahashi
Technical advisors: Diego Caporale (gifted button too), Rongqian Chen, Wei-Hsi Chen, Andrew Katz, Britny Major, and Jeremy Wang
Play, 2022 Legos, foam core, glue 2.5’ x 2’
Grid Lattice Chaos Hexagon 2023-24 Installation – Postconsumer water bottles, mylar, acrylic 8’ x 8’
Studio assistant: Pearl McShane.
Close up, Grid Lattice Chaos Hexagon, Screws and Glue, The Arts League, Philadelphia, PA, 2024
Triptych, Inside the Icosahedron at Screws and Glue, The Arts League, Philadelphia, PA, 2024
Folding triangles, process video
Plastic Fantastic at Powel School, Earth Day 2024
Video link: https://vimeo.com/1028289308, video credit: Art Teacher Laurie Doran
Mini-dome Acrylic and bottle caps 12” x 12” x 6”

Screws and Glue: Diedra Krieger with Plastic Fantastic at Powel and Art Teacher Laurie Doran
Photographs by Benjamin Koditschek
On view: June 6 – July 6, 2024
The Arts League, 4226 Spruce Street, Phila. PA 19104
Reception: 4-7pm Saturday, June 15 // Put a bottle on an Icosahedron panel. Enjoy a snack and beverage.
Hours: Mon-Fri from 1-6 pm, Sat + Sun by appointment
https://www.artsleaguephl.org/article/arts-league-news/new-exhibition-screws-and-glue-diedra-krieger

Screws and Glue is the first iteration of bringing mechatronics, developed over a year and a half in Kod*lab, into a Plastic Fantastic inspired immersive environment. The exhibition is comprised of interactive sculpture, large wall pieces, 2D work, video performance, a look into Kod*lab, and thousands of postconsumer water bottles as the primary materials. Earth Day 2024’s Plastic Fantastic at Powel School, a 16 foot geodesic dome covered in over 6000 water bottles collected and constructed by Powel’s elementary students, is reimagined into an immersive Icosahedron.

The small front gallery features work from Kod*lab. An early robotic research video, “Juggler”, 1992, and a researcher portrait video “Can I Have a Pet T.rex”, 2023, loop on a flat screen monitor. The photographs include a portrait of Dan Koditschek, director of Kod*lab, in his office environment with the robots, taken by his son and artist Ben Koditschek.

List of Works – link

Workshop organizer: Speed-dating to long-term relationships: Art-robot Residencies Enabled by Common Language, Friday 17th May 2024, ICRA, https://roboticart.org/icra-2024-workshop.

Through: an exhibition with the artists of Grizzly Grizzly, The Arts League, 4226 Spruce St, Philadelphia, PA, April 11- May 31, 2024
“Bow”, 2023-24, two water bottles, two servos, big red button, front view
Jaggedy Learning Curve documents the first five months of my experience bringing mechatronics into my artwork. It was exhibited at Collected Detroit and the Ford Robotics Building in 2023 as part of  Artificial Horizons: Exploring Alternative Robotic Futures,  IROS 2023.

Curating

We Found A Well: Feather Chiaverini & Natasha Fortson, Grizzly Grizzly, 319 N. 11th Street, 2nd Fl, Philadelphia, PA, March 1 – April 28, 2024.