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Kristine
Diekman Professor Video and New Media Art and Technology Track Visual and Performing Arts Department California State University, San Marcos kdiekman@csusm.edu |
2008 Recent Projects United & Severed Drawing in the Media Stream: "Not Too Early, Never Too Late" |
| Kristine Diekman is a media artist whose work is shown internationally. She is committed to making socially integrated work while exploring issues on a personal level. Her work addresses institutionalization, language, mental illness, somatic experience and feminist identity through documentary, narrative and poetic strategies. She is recipient of grants from New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for Arts, Paul Robison Foundation, Rhode Island State Arts Council, City of San Diego, and California State Council on the Arts. She is Professor of Video at California State University, San Marcos, where she has developed the Community Video Project which works with community members to produce videos to solve problems affecting the region. She serves on the Board of Directors of Media Arts Center, San Diego. She received her M.F.A. in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design, and B.S.S. from Cornell College with an emphasis in Literature and Chinese Studies. | |
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Mother on Trial. Her video and new media project addresses infanticide and the institution of motherhood in the United States. The title suggests that when women who kill their children go to trial, in the courtroom and in the national eye, they are first and foremost on trial as mothers, and not murderers. The program investigates the contemporary and historical myths and practices of motherhood, provides an analysis of journalistic practices which touch on these issues, critically evaluates the legal, criminal and medical systems which define and pathologize women's behavior, seeks to understand the socio-economic factors surrounding motherhood and child abuse, and examines the public's desire for retribution when mother's kill. DOWNSTREAM::MEDIA |
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