Unstable Connection
New Performance Works on Disconnectivity
Unstable Connection is a 12-month research and creation project which aims to examine the unintentional aesthetics of digital connectivity, and explore unique artistic opportunities offered by the inherent imperfections, limitations, and defects found within the rapidly developing technologies that connect us and our devices.
Support provided by the Canada Council for the Arts Research + Creation Grant.
New Performance Works on Disconnectivity
Unstable Connection is a 12-month research and creation project which aims to examine the unintentional aesthetics of digital connectivity, and explore unique artistic opportunities offered by the inherent imperfections, limitations, and defects found within the rapidly developing technologies that connect us and our devices.
Support provided by the Canada Council for the Arts Research + Creation Grant.
2021-2022
Performance Series
Performance Series
Performance for Aging Apple Devices
Performance for aging Apple devices is a audio and video composition and performance which uses facetime video calls between damaged and discarded iPads, iPhones, and iMacs - and the nuances and limitations they produce - as a catalyst for new expanded cinema.
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Performance for aging Apple devices is a audio and video composition and performance which uses facetime video calls between damaged and discarded iPads, iPhones, and iMacs - and the nuances and limitations they produce - as a catalyst for new expanded cinema.
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2020, 2021A/V Performance
DIMMER SWITCH
DIMMER SWITCH is a performance for sound (and light) which takes advantage of the inability of compact fluorescent light bulbs to properly dim. The electrical bursts are sonified into a syncopated and percussive barrage.
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DIMMER SWITCH is a performance for sound (and light) which takes advantage of the inability of compact fluorescent light bulbs to properly dim. The electrical bursts are sonified into a syncopated and percussive barrage.
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2019, 2020, 2021
A/V Performance
A/V Performance
Composition for PowerPoint
Composition for Powerpoint is a 3-channel expanded cinema performance that uses Microsoft PowerPoint to animate both light and sound. At times playful, at times self-referencing, and at times brutally structuralist, Richardson re-examines the familiar tools and motifs of a PowerPoint presentation as a instrument for new experimental animation.
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Composition for Powerpoint is a 3-channel expanded cinema performance that uses Microsoft PowerPoint to animate both light and sound. At times playful, at times self-referencing, and at times brutally structuralist, Richardson re-examines the familiar tools and motifs of a PowerPoint presentation as a instrument for new experimental animation.
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2019
3-Channel
A/V Performance
3-Channel
A/V Performance
HEAD
Filmed on super 8 in an underground concourse located directly beneath Winnipeg's famous Portage and Main intersection. HEAD takes a structualist examination of the often overlooked 360 degree concrete relief mural that spans the entirety of the underground passageway.
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Filmed on super 8 in an underground concourse located directly beneath Winnipeg's famous Portage and Main intersection. HEAD takes a structualist examination of the often overlooked 360 degree concrete relief mural that spans the entirety of the underground passageway.
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2019
Super8 Film
Super8 Film
DE/GEN
DE/GEN is an audio-visual performance which uses analog-video feedback, and video>as>audio to create tones directly from a video signal. At times playful and at times jarring, the piece undulates between rhythm and noise, beat and shriek, generating and degenerating a constantly mutating soundscape.
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DE/GEN is an audio-visual performance which uses analog-video feedback, and video>as>audio to create tones directly from a video signal. At times playful and at times jarring, the piece undulates between rhythm and noise, beat and shriek, generating and degenerating a constantly mutating soundscape.
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2018, 2019
A/V Performance
A/V Performance
Smear
Smear is a performance which uses finger grease and accidental pocket recordings to animate and transform the idiosyncrasies of smart devices and their pitfalls.
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Smear is a performance which uses finger grease and accidental pocket recordings to animate and transform the idiosyncrasies of smart devices and their pitfalls.
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2019
Performance
Performance
Poolside Hybrid Artist Residency
Video Pool Media Arts Centre
Utilizing Video Pool’s largely unused legacy video equipment and Amiga consoles, the gallery space was transformed into a hybrid Analog-Digital video production studio and experimental laboratory for the month long duration of the residency. Focussing on the functions of the once cutting-edge Video Toaster 4000, I aimed to deconstruct the comparatively ‘primitive’ digital effects, transitions, and 3D renderer.
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Utilizing Video Pool’s largely unused legacy video equipment and Amiga consoles, the gallery space was transformed into a hybrid Analog-Digital video production studio and experimental laboratory for the month long duration of the residency. Focussing on the functions of the once cutting-edge Video Toaster 4000, I aimed to deconstruct the comparatively ‘primitive’ digital effects, transitions, and 3D renderer.
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2019
Residency
Residency
MELLOTRAUMA
Mellotrauma is an audio/visual collaboration with experimental musician and artist Jon Vaughn. Richardson and Vaughn utilize audio and video feedback and no-input mixing to blur the lines between between the two mediums and while both overwhelming and subduing the senses.
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Mellotrauma is an audio/visual collaboration with experimental musician and artist Jon Vaughn. Richardson and Vaughn utilize audio and video feedback and no-input mixing to blur the lines between between the two mediums and while both overwhelming and subduing the senses.
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2016, 2017
A/V Collaboration
Performance
Convolve
Shot on Super 8 using in-camera edits and single-frame animation, Convolve transforms pages from Greg Bright’s ‘Fontana Mazes’ into a convoluted passage, using prisms, water refractions and warped chrome to obscure the already concealed path of The Maze.
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Shot on Super 8 using in-camera edits and single-frame animation, Convolve transforms pages from Greg Bright’s ‘Fontana Mazes’ into a convoluted passage, using prisms, water refractions and warped chrome to obscure the already concealed path of The Maze.
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2016
Super8 Film
Super8 Film
Innervision
Innervision is an re-occuring project utilizing a variety of CRT monitors in various arrangments with monitor-specific video works portraying an introspective purgatory for the cathode ray tube television.
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Innervision is an re-occuring project utilizing a variety of CRT monitors in various arrangments with monitor-specific video works portraying an introspective purgatory for the cathode ray tube television.
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2016, 2017, 2018
Installation
Installation
Channelers
Channelers' is a series of video-sculptures that act as a medium between the living observer and the dead radio waves left behind by the abandonment of analog television broadcasting.
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Channelers' is a series of video-sculptures that act as a medium between the living observer and the dead radio waves left behind by the abandonment of analog television broadcasting.
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2017
Installation /
Video Sculpture
Video Sculpture
Portal Voyager
Portal Voyager is a meditation on technological progress, which uses obsolete consumer electronics and low-tech optics, to simulate the act of traveling through a wormhole.
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Portal Voyager is a meditation on technological progress, which uses obsolete consumer electronics and low-tech optics, to simulate the act of traveling through a wormhole.
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2017
Interactive Video Sculpture
Peter Grier + Pulsewidth + Colby Richardson
LUGO 2016
An audio improvisation between Peter Grier and Pulsewidth (Ernie Dulanowsky) with live camera and analog video manipulation by Colby Richardson.
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LUGO 2016
An audio improvisation between Peter Grier and Pulsewidth (Ernie Dulanowsky) with live camera and analog video manipulation by Colby Richardson.
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2017
A/V Collaboration
A/V Collaboration
Infinity Rift
Utilizing Video Pool’s largely unused legacy video equipment and Amiga consoles, the gallery space was transformed into a hybrid Analog-Digital video production studio and experimental laboratory for the month long duration of the residency. Focussing on the functions of the once cutting-edge Video Toaster 4000, I aimed to deconstruct the comparatively ‘primitive’ digital effects, transitions, and 3D renderer.
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Utilizing Video Pool’s largely unused legacy video equipment and Amiga consoles, the gallery space was transformed into a hybrid Analog-Digital video production studio and experimental laboratory for the month long duration of the residency. Focussing on the functions of the once cutting-edge Video Toaster 4000, I aimed to deconstruct the comparatively ‘primitive’ digital effects, transitions, and 3D renderer.
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2015, 2016
Interactive Video Sculp
Interactive Video Sculp
Warp Hole
'Warp Hole' is a vague simulation of a wormhole. Created through live analog video feedback, Warp Hole generated a dynamic, evolving, image. Throughout the duration of the exhibition, the patterns of light were burned into the television screen, picked up by the camera, and reincorporated into the feedback.
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'Warp Hole' is a vague simulation of a wormhole. Created through live analog video feedback, Warp Hole generated a dynamic, evolving, image. Throughout the duration of the exhibition, the patterns of light were burned into the television screen, picked up by the camera, and reincorporated into the feedback.
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2015
Installation
Installation
PHOMOHOBES
Phomohobes are Jason Cawood and Colby Richardson, collaborating primarily in the medium of paper collage since 2012.
When combined together as collages, the cut-out images present an ambiguous, cryptic agenda, but they do so assertively. The collages often take shape as garish, ornate and perverse juxtapositions of mid-20th century interiors, ancient Egypt, astronomy, dated glamour, beauty products, decontextualized body parts, and hypermasculinity.
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Phomohobes are Jason Cawood and Colby Richardson, collaborating primarily in the medium of paper collage since 2012.
When combined together as collages, the cut-out images present an ambiguous, cryptic agenda, but they do so assertively. The collages often take shape as garish, ornate and perverse juxtapositions of mid-20th century interiors, ancient Egypt, astronomy, dated glamour, beauty products, decontextualized body parts, and hypermasculinity.
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2012 - PresentCollage