Catherine Richards, Method and Apparatus for Finding Love, 2000.
Work in progress in collaboration with Martin Snelgrove. Reception desk, receptionist, non-disclosure agreement forms, four wall-mounted stainless-steel shelves, four copies of the patent application. Dimensions variable. Installation as part of the exhibition Excitable Tissues, Ottawa Art Gallery, 2000.
Detail view of patent application on shelf.
Photo: Tim Wickens. Courtesy of the artist.
Catherine Richards, Shroud/Chrysalis 1, 2000.
Performance, interactive new media installation. Glass table, copper taffeta, two female attendants. Dimensions variable. Installation as part of the exhibition Excitable Tissues, Ottawa Art Gallery, 2000. General view of installation with wrapped shroud/chrysalis.
Photo: Tim Wickens. Courtesy of the artist.
Usman Haque, Sky Ear, 2004.
The artist testing part of the structure, March 2004.
This non-rigid "cloud" is embedded with mobile phones. The balloons contain miniature sensor circuits that detect levels of electromagnetic radiation at a variety of frequencies. When activated, the sensor circuits cause ultra-bright coloured LEDs to illuminate. The cloud glows and flickers brightly as it passes through varying radio and microwave spaces. As visitors to the event call into the cloud to listen to the distant electromagnetic sounds of the sky, their mobile phone calls change the local hertzian topography; these disturbances in the electromagnetic fields inside the cloud alter the glow intensity of that part of the balloon cloud.
Courtesy of Usman Haque.
Usman Haque, Sky Ear, 2004.
On September 15, 2004 at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich Park, London, England.
Courtesy of Usman Haque.
Catherine Richards, Shroud/Chrysalis 1, 2000.
Performance, interactive new media installation. Glass table, copper taffeta, two female attendants. Dimensions variable. Installation as part of the exhibition Excitable Tissues, Ottawa Art Gallery, 2000. Partial view of wrapped shroud/chrysalis.
Photo: Lawrence Cook. Courtesy of the artist.
Catherine Richards, Shroud/Chrysalis 1, 2000.
Performance, interactive new media installation. Glass table, copper taffeta, two female attendants. Dimensions variable. Installation as part of the exhibition Excitable Tissues, Ottawa Art Gallery, 2000. Detail view of spectator being unwrapped by attendants.
Photo: Tim Wickens. Courtesy of the artist.
Catherine Richards, I Was Scared to Death; I Could Have Died of Joy, 2000.
Interactive new technology installation. Stainless steel, glass, electronics, electrodes, electron guns, luminescent gases, fibre-optic lights. Dimensions variable. Installation as part of the exhibition Excitable Tissues, Ottawa Art Gallery, 2000.
Detail view of glass brain in tube (pulsating).
Photo: Tim Wickens.
Courtesy of the artist.
Catherine Richards, I Was Scared to Death; I Could Have Died of Joy, 2000.
Interactive new technology installation. Stainless steel, glass, electronics, electrodes, electron guns, luminescent gases, fibre-optic lights. Dimensions variable. Installation as part of the exhibition Excitable Tissues, Ottawa Art Gallery, 2000.
Detail view of glass brain and spinal cord in tube.
Photo: Tim Wickens.
Courtesy of the artist.
Catherine Richards, I Was Scared to Death; I Could Have Died of Joy, 2000.
Interactive new technology installation. Stainless steel, glass, electronics, electrodes, electron guns, luminescent gases, fibre-optic lights. Dimensions variable. Installation as part of the exhibition Excitable Tissues, Ottawa Art Gallery, 2000.
Detail view of glass brain and spinal cord in tube.
Photo: Mitch Lenet.
Courtesy of the artist.
Catherine Richards, I Was Scared to Death; I Could Have Died of Joy (2000). Courtesy of the artist.
Catherine Richards, Shroud/Chrysalis 1, 2000.
Performance, interactive new media installation. Glass table, copper taffeta, two female attendants. Dimensions variable. Installation as part of the exhibition Excitable Tissues, Ottawa Art Gallery, 2000. View of attendants wrapping spectator.
Photo: Lawrence Cook. Courtesy of the artist.
Usman Haque, Sky Ear, 2004.
On September 15, 2004 at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich Park, London, England.
Courtesy of Usman Haque.