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Catherine Richards

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Catherine Richards
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Richards with her work "Virtual Body"
Born1947 (age 78–79)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
EducationHonours Bachelor of Arts in English (York University), Honours Bachelor of Arts in Visual Arts (University of Ottawa)
Alma mater York University, University of Ottawa
Known for New Media, Virtual reality artist
Notable workVirtual Body, Shroud/Chrysalis, L'Intrus, Curiosity Cabinet at the end of the Millennium, Charged Hearts
MovementNew Media Arts
AwardsIndividual Fellow Award, World Technology Network (2006), Canada Council for the Arts, Petro-Canada Media Biennial Arts award for outstanding and innovative use of new technologies in media arts (1993), Canadian Conference of the Arts Corel Prize for innovative projects in arts and new technologies (1992), High End Computer Graphics and Grand Prize Computer Graphics prize (1987)
ElectedInvited member of a Selection Committee, 2018 National Doctoral Awards competition, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
Website catherinerichards.ca

Catherine Richards (born August 4, 1947) is a Canadian visual artist who uses information technologies and electronic media in mixed-media installations and performances. Her work centers on the "archaeology" of media, [1] and explore ideas such as virtuality, electronic media as metaphor, and the "separation of the senses". [2] [3] Richards also investigates the boundaries of the human body and its volatility, particularly in relation to electromagnetic fields, with networked technologies rendering these boundaries increasingly permeable and uncertain. Her work makes visible the invisible infrastructures that surround contemporary bodies visible, from wireless signals to high-voltage currents.

Contents

Richards' practice is rooted in collaborative, interdisciplinary projects that investigate the relationship between the human body and technology. Her work addresses themes such as perception, immersion, and isolation. Richards has been identified as one of the first artists in Canada to work with virtual reality. [4]

Her practice is informed by early influences in media theory, philosophies of technology, and the ways that the body is visualized through scientific metaphors. [5] She is influenced by Marshall McLuhan (and his use of William Blake's philosophy on technology and the senses), Harold Innis, and George Grant. [6] [7] Paul Virilio's writing on the philosophy of technology and aesthetics has also played a role, along with the work of Jean Baudrillard and Gilles Deleuze. [7] Richards notes the historical Russian avant-garde as an influence. [6]

Education

Born and raised in Ottawa, Catherine Richards earned a B.A. (Honours) in English from York University in 1971 and a B.A. (Honours) in Visual Arts from the University of Ottawa in 1980. In 1997, she was granted doctoral equivalency by the University of Ottawa under Article 23.4.2.3. [8] [9]

Practice

Richards' practice is rooted in collaborative projects that bring together interdisciplinary teams to investigate the human body in relation to science and technology. She is concerned with agency and connection, as well as immersion and isolation. Richards also explores human emotions, attempting to model the slippage between physiology and emotions in her work. [10]

Her practice is informed by her earliest influences in media theory, philosophies of technology, the technologized body, and early concepts of posthumanism. The philosophical grounding of her work draws on the scholarship of Marshall McLuhan, Harold Innis, and George Grant. [2] [8] During her tenure with the Canadian Government, she worked in various positions at the Canadian Radio and Television Commission, Federal Department of Communications, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, providing access to some of the earliest developments in computer graphics. [11] She also worked with the National Film Board of Canada under the leadership of Pierre Trudeau. Paul Virilio's writing on the philosophy of technology and aesthetics played an important role in her practice. [2]

Notable works

Curiosity Cabinet at the End of the Millennium

Curiosity Cabinet at the End of the Millennium (1995) inverts the historical logic of the curiosity cabinet, transforming the viewing subject into the viewed object. Rather than containing fragments of the world as demonstration of imperial mastery, Richards' copper mesh cabinet contains the human participant, offering temporary sanctuary from the invisible electromagnetic spectrum. The participant climbs inside and closes the door, completing a circuit that transforms the cabinet into what Richards terms a 'safe house', a Faraday cage that conducts radio frequencies, microwaves, television signals, cellular transmissions, and other elements of the upper RF spectrum through its copper surfaces and into the earth via a thick braided ground wire. Inside this refuge, the participant becomes simultaneously protected and displayed: visible through the copper screening to outside viewers, yet electromagnetically isolated, unplugged from the perpetual bath of human-generated frequencies." [8]

Curiosity Cabinet at the End of the Millennium (1995), Commissioned for Self Determination/Body Politic at the Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem, Holland. CuriosityCabinet 01.jpg
Curiosity Cabinet at the End of the Millennium (1995), Commissioned for Self Determination/Body Politic at the Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem, Holland.

Charged Hearts

Charged Hearts (1997) consists of three principal types of objects: the central Terrella orb, two anatomically correct glass hearts, and an online game. The Terrella orb contains phosphorescent charged gases, alluding to the original use in the nineteenth century to replicate Aurora Borealis, while also simulating the earth’s magnetic poles. Within the Terrella is a cathode ray, the technological basis for television and computer screens. The pair of glass hearts glow within their bell jars (themselves classic vessels that allow observation), being electrically charged by the Terrella. For viewers to safely handle the hearts and lift them up, the organs are encased in glass and loosely tethered by a copper coil at their bases. Embracing the domes evokes changes in the Terrella and hearts, prompting pulsations in light intensity, as viewers become material participants in the electrical current. The fragile components elicit greater carefulness with proximity, paralleling human vulnerability to desire systems, affect, and intimacy. The glass hearts are charged both literally and figuratively; the human heart remains the symbolic seat of emotions and is also a very real electromagnetic field. The excited electrons flutter and pulse within the vacuum sealed hearts and activate changes in the Terrella. When touched, a shadowy heart appears in the phosphorescent gases." [8]

Charged Hearts (1997), Commissioned by the National Gallery of Canada. ChargedHearts.jpg
Charged Hearts (1997), Commissioned by the National Gallery of Canada.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Source unless otherwise cited: [11]

2014

2007

2000

1999

Shroud / Chrysalis II (2006), Resonance: The Electromagnetic Bodies Project. Ludwig Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art. REB DOC 001.jpg
Shroud / Chrysalis II (2006), Resonance: The Electromagnetic Bodies Project. Ludwig Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art.

1998

1997

1980

c1970s

Group Exhibitions

Source unless otherwise cited: [11]

2024

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

L'intrus (2012), YYZ Gallery, Toronto, ON L'Intrus.jpg
L’intrus (2012), YYZ Gallery, Toronto, ON

2013

2010

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2000

1998

1995

1994

1993

1981

1979

1973

Selected publications by the artist

Selected bibliography

2025

2024

2023

2022

2019

2018

2016

2015

2011

2009

2005

2003

2001

1998

1996

1995

Selected awards, fellowships, residencies, and research-creation projects

Year [8] Event
1987High End Computer Graphics and Grand Prize Computer Graphics prize, Video Culture International Festival
1990–1991Artist in Residence, The BIOAPPARATUS. Visual Arts / Media Arts, Banff Centre for the Arts [49]
1990Ontario Arts Council Electronic Media Art Grant, Principal Investigator
1990Canada Council for the Arts New Media and Audio Artists Grant, Principal Investigator
1991Artist in Residence, Media Arts, Banff Centre for the Arts
1991Canada Council for the Arts New Media and Audio Artists Grant, Principal Investigator
1992 Canadian Conference of the Arts [50] [49] Corel Prize for innovative projects in arts and new technologies
1993Ontario Arts Council Electronic Media Art Grant, Principal Investigator
1993 Canada Council for the Arts, Petro-Canada Media Biennial Arts award for outstanding and innovative use of new technologies in media arts
1993Fellowship in Contemporary Canadian Art, Canadian Centre for the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Canada
1994 Prix ARS Electronica, Interactive Art, Honourable Mention, Linz Austria
1994The Claudia De Hueck Fellowship in Art and Technology, Canadian Centre for the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Canada
1995Ontario Arts Council Electronic Media Art Grant, Principal Investigator
1995Canada Council for the Arts Computer Integrated Media Art Grant, Principal Investigator
1996–1997Artist in Residence, Media Art, National Gallery of Canada
1997AT&T Foundation Research and Production Grant, Principal Investigator
1998Canada Council for the Arts New Media and Audio Artists Grant, Principal Investigator
1999DAÏMON Centre Grant to Media Arts Production Organizations, Department of Visual Arts University of Ottawa
1999Langlois Foundation for the Arts, Science and Technology Research and Production Grant
1999Canada Council for the Arts, Millennium Arts Fund, Principal Investigator
2000Artist in Residence, National Research Council of Canada, Principal Investigator, New Media and Audio Artists
2001Artist in Residence, National Research Council of Canada, Principal Investigator, In-kind funding
2002–2005Artist in Residence for Research Fellowship (AIRes), The Canada Council for the Arts / National Research Council of Canada
2004Canada Council for the Arts with the Saidye Bronfman Centre, Media Arts production grant
2004Canada Council for the Arts with the Saidye Bronfman Centre, Visual Arts production grant
2004Banff New Media Residency, rapid prototyping
2006Canada Council for the Arts New Media and Audio Production Grant, "Excruciatingly Slow, Exceedingly Fast"
2006Individual Fellow Award, World Technology Network
2008–2013Research-Creation, PITH, "Hybrid Bodies" SSHRC Project, Toronto
2009Canadian Foundation for Innovation co-investigator, high resolution still, moving and stereo image capture, IMG lab
2009–2019University Research Chair, University of Ottawa
2011–2013Research-Creation, SSHRC Research and Creation in Fine Arts Grant, Principal Investigator, "Hybrid Bodies"
2011–2013Research-Creation, SSHRC Research and Creation in Fine Arts Grant, Principal Investigator, "Shivering"
2012–2013Research-Creation, "Hybrid Bodies" SSHRC Project, Toronto and Montreal
2012–2014GRAND (Graphics, Animation and New Media), Investigator, 3D Stereo Imaging, "MOTIVA"
2016–2026Research-Creation, SSHRC Insight Grant, Principal Investigator, "ObjectACTS"
2002–presentAcademician, Royal Canadian Academy of Arts

References

  1. ↑ Heeyoung, Kim (2023). "Media Archaeology and Artistic Practice". Public Art. 20: 38.
  2. 1 2 3 Richards, C.; Tenhaaf, N., eds. (1991). Virtual Seminar on the Bioapparatus. Banff, Alberta: Banff Centre for the Arts.
  3. ↑ Langill, Caroline (2009). "Shifting Polarities: Canadian Electronic Media Art and Institutional Space" (PDF).
  4. ↑ Net, Media Art (2026-02-03). "Media Art Net | Richards, Catherine: Biography". www.medienkunstnetz.de. Retrieved 2026-02-03.
  5. ↑ Net, Media Art (2026-02-03). "Media Art Net | Richards, Catherine: Biography". www.medienkunstnetz.de. Retrieved 2026-02-03.
  6. 1 2 "Catherine Richards | Home". www.catherinerichards.ca. Retrieved 2026-01-16.
  7. 1 2 Richards, C.; Tenhaaf, N., eds. (1991). Virtual Seminar on the Bioapparatus. Banff, Alberta: Banff Centre for the Arts.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 "Catherine Richards | Home". www.catherinerichards.ca. Retrieved 2026-01-16.
  9. ↑ "Catherine Richards (biography)". www.fondation-langlois.org. Retrieved 19 June 2019.
  10. ↑ Richards, Catherine (2024). "Catherine Richards - biography". catherinerichards.ca. Retrieved December 13, 2024.
  11. 1 2 3 "Catherine Richards | CV". www.catherinerichards.ca. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
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  13. ↑ "Curiosities". www.reginalibrary.ca. Retrieved 2026-01-26.
  14. ↑ University, Wayne State (2018-05-15). "'Charged Hearts' exhibition celebrates WSU President's Inauguration, opens Jacob Gallery season and Detroit Festival of the Arts, Sept. 18". Today@Wayne. Archived from the original on 2025-01-30. Retrieved 2026-01-26.
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  24. ↑ "Hearts & Minds - Exhibition at LifeSpace in Dundee". ArtRabbit. Retrieved 2026-01-26.
  25. ↑ "Catherine Richards: Shroud Chrysalis I". Art Museum at the University of Toronto. Retrieved 2026-01-26.
  26. ↑ "Patent Pending - Announcements". e-flux. Retrieved 2026-01-26.
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  34. ↑ "Global Eyes".
  35. ↑ "La science dans l'art". Galerie de l'UQAM. Retrieved 2026-01-26.
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  38. ↑ "Resonance, The Electromagnetic Bodies Project". Nina Czegledy. Retrieved 2026-01-26.
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  41. ↑ College, Bard. "Bard Press Releases". www.bard.edu. Retrieved 2026-01-26.
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  43. ↑ "Engaging the Virtual | Dalhousie Art Gallery". artgallery.dal.ca. Retrieved 2026-01-26.
  44. ↑ "Catherine Richards: Curiosity Cabinet at the End of the Millenium – ISEA Symposium Archives". www.isea-symposium-archives.org. Retrieved 2026-01-27.
  45. ↑ Marks, Laura U.; Clark, Joseph; Livingston, Jason; Oleksijczuk, Denise; Hilderbrand, Lucas (2020-10-15). "Streaming Media's Environmental Impact". Media+Environment. 2 (1). doi: 10.1525/001c.17242 .
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  47. ↑ "Virtual Reality and Virtual Bodies" (PDF).
  48. ↑ "A Feminist Lens: The 1973 Women & Film International Festival".
  49. 1 2 "Paul Petro Contemporary Art -- Nell Tenhaaf". www.paulpetro.com. Retrieved 2026-01-19.
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