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Rebecca us 2025 NSA Fellowship at the Library of Congress
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Rebecca’s new book - If outside of the US, order here, in US order here!
Published by Intellect London / University of Chicago Press.
“Life is a continued journey of learning. If we do not learn, read, think and evolve we are not alive and we will become stagnant in all areas, in life and as artists.”
Rebecca Hackemann, PhD
Rebecca Hackemann is a visual conceptual artist and scholar. Her work frequently employs optical mediators like mirrors, stereoscopes or text that force the viewer to grapple with the work in both physical and mindful ways. In her work substrates, that is the materiality of the work are part of the meaning(s) evoked - such as the use of polaroid or wet collodion.
Photography exists in a system of dissemination, or meaning bound by culture, time and place. Much of her work is about the very medium of photography and its power to persuade (advertising, capitalism), mislead (social media, advertising and fake news), misrepresent (stereotyping) and also to question (art practices). Hackemann makes artist books, stereoscopic 3-D sculptural phtoogrpahic works, public art that is intertactive (using sound and stereo 3-D), anamorphic drawings with mirrors, polaroid and alternative process photogrophy and has written her first scholarly book listed below and available here from University of Chicago Press / Intellect Books in UK.
Hackemann grew up in Europe in the early 1970s and lived in Germany as a British person until a teenager. Having lived as an immigrant in Germany, then in London, the nomadic life full of wonders began. She is an alumn of the Whitney Museum of American Art ISP Program in New York (2000), lived in New York City for 10 yrs (1996-2006) where she worked in many capacitie as a freelancer, as archivist, commercial fashion photography assistant and artist assistant to prominent artists (for ex. Adam Fuss, Andres Serrano and the late Aaron Rose). Hackemann has also lived in Philadelphia, the midwest (Iowa, MN, KS), London and San Francisco and currently maintains a studio in Kansas City, where she has worked for 10 years.
RH holds an MFA from Stanford University, California (1996) and a PhD from Chelsea College of Art London (now UAL) 2019. Her work has been exhibited steadily in the last 30 years both in Europe and the United States and she has completed prestigious residencies such as Yaddo, Light Work, Headlands Center for the Arts and The Banff Center for the Arts. She is currently a tenured full professor at Kansas State University on a research appointment. Hackemann has published with MIT press and (a new mode of operating in the US) and has written her first book 3-D Experimental VR and Art Practices, available from the University of Chicago Press webpage published by Intellect London / University of Chicago Press here. Presenting at over 15 conferencs, she is an advocate for the arts in general, the artist as scholar, and advocates to dispell prominent myths about the artist in society. In 2022 she became a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts London (RSA). She is foudner of the Association for the PhD in the Visual Arts, an advocacy group in the united States - phdart.net.
Book: 3-D Experimental VR and Art Practices,(forthcoming) authored by Rebecca Hackemann, published by Intellect Books London and distributed by University of Chicago Press. This book includes work by the following artists: Alfons Schillings, Salvador Dali, Zoe Beloff, William Kentridge, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, Perry Hoberman, Lygia Clark, Rebecca Hackemann, Chris Schneberger and many more.
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/Other/bo196843995.html people
2nd Book: Mind Over Matter, published by Hatje Kantz, contributor (3 pages, images and text), other artists include the world renown photographer Cindy Sherman and Katharina Bosse, Publisher: Hatje Cantz, Femexphographers Collective, editor: Editor: Roula Seikaly, Fa; 2022,
https://femalephotographers.org/
3rd Book: Thingstätten book chapter containing public project, now out in English, distributed by DAP, Geymueller, 2022
Current Exhibitions
Permanent Public Art Project in Waverly IA
Permanent Public Art Project in Spingfield Art Museum
RECENT
Panel chair, Society for Photographic Education, Denver, 2023
Photo History Lecture at 3-D con in Seattle Friday August 5th, 2022: Virtual Public Space Contested - Will the plaza survive in VR?
Speaker at University of Applied Science, International Week, Bielefeld, Germany