Colby Richardson

It is our pleasure to announce Colby Richardson as the 2019 recipient of the Scott Leroux Fund for Media Arts Exploration. Colby will inhabit Poolside Gallery for the month of March and has some ambitious plans for our legacy video equipment that has been faithfully stored and maintained over the years. In addition to employing use of this equipment to develop new work, Colby will host a number of open-studio days and a presentation on the First Friday of April. We’ll keep you posted for further details and dates related to these.

Here’s Colby:

Colby Richardson is a media artist and experimental filmmaker currently based in Winnipeg MB, Canada. Driven by a fascination with obsolete technologies and underused consumer electronics, his work examines the relationship between technology and progress and explores the artistic potentiality of technological systems and functions left behind, or deemed undesirable by such progress. By utilizing and re-contextualizing historic video equipment and other out-of-date technologies, Richardson creates dynamic and textural visual works, taking the form of video sculptures, installations, and performances, as well as single-channel film and video. His work embraces the potential meditative qualities of abrasive and jarring stimulus and investigates themes of transformation, progress and death. Throughout the residency Richardson will focus his experimentation on the Video Toaster 4000, a powerful video system built for the Amiga 4000 computer in 1993. The Video Toaster is renowned for creating some of the most excessive, outlandish and asinine video effects and video transitions of the era. Colby Richardson will conclude the residency with a performance and screening of works in progress on Friday April 5th.

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