Factory Media Centre is pleased to share that Katherine Diemert will be joining FMC as our April – May 2020 Resident Artist. FMC’s Production Residency is an opportunity for artists and creators to utilize the space and resources at FMC to produce a new work or continue a developing body of work.
Throughout this residency Katherine will be testing video projection manipulations using a variety of analog materials, documenting these effects through notes, photographs, and videos.
About Katherine Diemert:
I am an artist based in Toronto, Canada making visual and interactive mixed media work inspired by natural forms and artificial processes. Originally from Hamilton, Ontario, I studied Illustration at Sheridan College (BA, Honors, 2015), later working in the interactive digital media industry. Recently I completed an intensive eleven-week program at the School for Poetic Computation in New York, a hybrid residency/school/research program. While there I learned programming and physical computing with a focus on creative applications, while also examining technology from a socially and culturally critical perspective.
In my creative practise, I often begin with drawing or collage, developing my work through a process of translation and iteration between mediums. I layer software, motion, assemblage, and installation to transform my work; a pen and ink drawing will become a pattern on a digital simulation of cloth. Virtual space opens up the possibility of movement. The picture plane becomes a screen, and the screen becomes a picture plane. With each new framing comes an added dimension.
Oscillating between digital and physical media leaves trace marks on the work in imperfections, warps, and glitches. I study these transformations to learn more about the unique qualities of the altered subject. My interest is in how the process of transformation makes room for modified meaning. I want to create alternate ways of seeing, and thus understanding, our world.
About the residency:
FMC’s Production Residency is an opportunity for artists and creators to utilize the space and resources at FMC to produce a new work or continue a developing body of work.
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