Katherine Rae Diemert is a visual artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia making interactive mixed media work exploring our relationship with natural and digital environments. Katherine completed her BA Honours Illustration in 2015 at Sheridan College, and later returned as an instructor to teach Illustration Concepts and Disciplines and Contemporary Illustration and Commentary among others. In 2019 Katherine attended The School for Poetic Computation in New York where she studied art, code, hardware and critical theory. Katherine recently graduated from NSCAD University's MFA program, with a focus in Expanded Media. She has been artist-in-residence at Factory Media Centre, Roundtable Residency, and exhibited across North America. In her research and studio practice, Katherine is interested in material experiments, art with science, and reimagining our relationship with technology.
Sessions in which Katherine Diemert participates
Friday 2 May, 2025
The internet is often described in abstract, intangible ways, yet is actually facilitated largely by physical infrastructure, particularly the submarine cables that wrap around the world, carrying our messages between continents. These systems are both built in and with materials from the environment, within ecosystems where more-than-human kin that are affected. The media used to capture and document these ecosystems influences how we...