About the Work
Creating and engaging immersive environments for play, whether found or created, is the operative force driving Diedra’s cultural production. This may take the form of video, photography, digital art, a collaboration, a dance, cartwheels, a participative art project like Plastic Fantastic, or robotics and art projects. Immersive environments, unlike anything found in the everyday, may be created from everyday materials like post-consumer water bottles or within a video. Play is unscripted, a diversion and spontaneous.
About the Artist
Diedra Krieger is an artist and curator working at the intersection of art and technology. Her work has been juried into international robotics art competitions, RSS in 2021 and IROS in 2023. In 2022, Krieger directed the Robotics Art Residency at GRASP at PERCH, co-coceptualized with Orkan Telan, and awarded a 2020 Sachs Collaborative Provosts Interdisciplinary Grant. In 2018, posters of her work were accepted to the Science Through Narrative Symposium, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology and Women in Computing Conference. Reviews of Krieger’s work have appeared in The Art Blog, Philadelphia Inquirer, Hyperallergic and Salisbury’s The Daily Times. Krieger’s ongoing project Plastic Fantastic, a 16 ft geodesic dome built from post-consumer water bottles, has been exhibited across the country, including the National Folk Festival (2019), Anchorage Museum (2014), Governor’s Island (2011) and the banks of the Schuylkill River (Art in the Open, 2010). Krieger’s performance video art has been exhibited at Vox Populi, Projects Gallery, and Video Snacks. Krieger received the 2020 Honorable Mention, The Art Blog Writing Challenge. She was a 2012-13 Artist-in-Residence at 40th Street AirSpace in West Philadelphia. In 2023 Diedra Krieger became the Lab Manager for EPM Lab at Penn Engineering. From 2012 – 2023, she was Lab Coordinator for Kod*lab, a legged robotics research lab. Since February 2021, Krieger is an active member of the artist-run curatorial collective, Grizzly Grizzly. Previously, she was a member of Art in City Hall Committee, Philadelphia. In May 2024, she is co-organizing a robotics art workshop that has been accepted for ICRA 2024, Yokohama, Japan. Diedra earned an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Art and an MA from Monash University in Development Studies and a BA from New York University.
Contact
diedrak at gmail
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