Catherine Richards

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Catherine Richards
Born1952 (age 7172)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Alma mater York University, University of Ottawa
Known for New Media, Virtual reality artist
Notable workCharged Hearts
Website catherinerichards.ca

Catherine Richards (born 1952) is a Canadian new media artist. [1] [2] Richards is known for her work with early virtual reality technologies. [3] She was the first artist to use VR technology in a work of art in Canada, which was incorporated in her 1991 artwork Spectral Bodies. [4]

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Richards is Professor of Media Arts at the University of Ottawa. [5]

Career

Catherine Richards' work explores the spectator and information technology relationship, which she sees as the "jam in the electro-magnetic sandwich." [6] She deals with both old and new types of technology, exploring the volatile sense of self as we shift our boundaries, a process in which new technologies play a starring role.

Richards has exhibited internationally at major venues including the 2004 Sydney Biennale. Her work has been discussed in publications by major theorists in the field including Katherine Hayles and Frances Dyson, and has been included in key surveys such as Art & Science Now, edited by Stephen Wilson. Richards is well known for collaborating with scientists and won the Artist in Residence for Research Fellowship (AIRes) at the National Research Council of Canada, 2002–2005, and is a 1993 recipient of the Petro Canada Media Arts prize from Canada Council for the Arts for Spectral Bodies. Her work on virtuality and new media is considered groundbreaking in setting the aesthetic terrain, realm of artistic intervention and substantive issues. [7]

Richards was the first and sole artist to be awarded University Research Chair at the University of Ottawa. As a model for other universities, it is part of an on-going movement across North America to accept art as research within universities, a goal in which Richards has played a significant pioneering role.

Selected exhibitions

Richards' work was featured in the 2005 group exhibition Resonances at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe, Germany. [8] She was included in the 2004 Biennale of Sydney. [9]

Published and video artworks

Spectral Bodies (1991) video artwork utilizes the juxtaposition of short narratives to reveal how the self can be lost if the body is lost. [10]

Body in Ruins (1986) published in Body invaders: panic sex in America [11] is a photo piece, composed of video stills and text, which explores the uncertainty of the body in virtual reality.

Awards and fellowships

YearEvent
2003–PresentUniversity Research Chair, University of Ottawa
2003AIRes at NRC Institute for Information Technology [12]
2002–PresentAcademician, Royal Academy of the Arts
1994-1995Claudia De Hueck Fellowship in Art and Science
1993-1994Canadian Centre for the Visual Arts Fellowship at the National Gallery of Canada
1993Petro-Canada Award in Media Arts
1992Corel Prize from the Canadian Conference of the Arts [4]

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