ABOUT THE ARTIST

Catherine Richards is a visual artist working in old and new media art.

Her work explores the volatile sense of ourselves as we are shifting our boundaries - a process in which new information technologies play a staring role.

The Canada Council for the Arts awarded the Media Arts prize [Petro Canada 1993] to her work "Spectral Bodies" using virtual reality technology, as an "outstanding and innovative use of new technologies in media arts." She received a Canadian Centre for the Visual Arts Fellowship (1993-94) at the National Gallery of Canada who subsequently commissioned her piece "Charged Hearts." She co-directed "BIOAPPARATUS," an interdisciplinary residency on art, intimacy and new technologies at the Banff Centre for the Arts.

She considers new technologies as art material. Her work explores the spectator's role in these technologies like "jam in the electro-magnetic sandwich."    >>>>