about
Rebecca Hackemann, PhD grew up in Bavaria Germany, spent a short time in a British Boarding School (where she got a key to the darkroom) until going to Art School in England. Schooled by Laura Mulvey and Victor Burgin, she holds a PhD from Chelsea College of Art (2019), an MFA from Stanford University in California and received her BFA (Hons) in Film Video and Photographic Arts from the University of Westminster, London, UK. (1994). She lived in New York City for 11 years where she was a Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program Fellow. Hackemann is now based in Kansas City and London. Dr Hackemann is Professor of Art/Photography at Kansas State University and divides her time between KS and Palm Springs, CA.
Hackemann's recent book published in 2022 as hardcover and 2023 as soft cover, "3-D Experimental VR and Art Practices
Untangling Another Dimension" is available from University of Chicago Press (pls contact her for a discount code).
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/Other/bo196843995.html
In 2025 Hackemann is completing the NSA fellowship at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Hackemann's art practice consists of photographic / optical work, social practice and public art in cities and Drawing / installation. Her works commonly challenge existing media categories and formats, such as the flat photographic image on the wall, the flat drawing or the static aesthetic object as public work. Her interest in philosophy and theory have been a steady influence in her works, which are concerned with issues of perception, representation, and the intersection between language and image, public and private space.