Kate Richards

Aboriginal Australia

kate — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:45:35 +0000

I am humbled to say I have some professional and personal experience of Aboriginal Australia. I’ve worked in several communities teaching media production for the AFTRS and MetroScreen, and mentoring people. For the most part I have eschewed making Aboriginal media, seeing it as the right of indigenous people to tell their own stories. I did however direct a video for the NPWS NSW in 1999, ‘Inard Oongali’ about seven female elders from Toomelah working with the late Carol Kendall, OAM who was one of the original authors of the ‘Bringing Them Home’ report. During my time at the Museum of Sydney I interviewed and edited extensive oral history interviews of local Aboriginal people who identify with original Sydney tribal groups. This video is installed in the museum; and I worked collaboratively with the photographer Michael Riley on a video about Redfern called ‘Guwanyi’.

Jurlique multimedia design

kate — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:03:06 +0000

For this project I worked with repeat clients Landini Associates of Sydney’s Surry Hills. An architectural firm who do branding, Landini worked with my team and I to deliver an all round package of print, web and instore multimedia to biodynamic cosmetic company Jurlique. My brief included creative production and technical design for instore projection, flat screen and audio installation.

Software development

kate — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:48:19 +0000

I have designed and produced several databases, websites and end-user softwares. These are characterised by inventive interaction design, solid information architecture and appropriate aesthetics. I form a development team specifically for each client’s brief. Select projects are illustrated here.

Crying Man 4

kate — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:42:42 +0000

Crying Man 4 was a collaboration with Melbourne artist Lyndal Jones, and an extension of Lyndal’s Crying Man series. Installed at Artspace Sydney, Crying Man 4 was developed during a residency at the Artspace studios.Media: 3 channels of video; sync sound; flown double sided screens

The Uncertainty Principle

kate — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:23:38 +0000

This solo photographic show at Australian Centre for Photography explores the metaphysical conundrum of ‘nature’ in a post nature age. Examining our sifting relationships to the natural world, The Uncertainty Principle references Heisenberg’s early 20Cth axiom in a meditation on movement, perception and the annihilation of time and space in our current technological age. The photos are semi transparent when seen front on and opaque when viewed from the side, creating an affect that embodies the theme. Media: digital photographs on voile; wall painting.

sub_scape

kate — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:21:47 +0000

sub_scape is a real-time generative system for manipulating data streams. The system samples, folds and re maps one data set onto another. The data sets comprise numerical data, and data streams of video and audio. Using elegant rules, sub_scape generates poetic ecologies of sound and image. What emerge from the system are aesthetic complexes and evolving patterns, along with anomalies, turbulence and recursive effects. The system exhibits confluence, paradox, metaphor and commentary, arising from the intriguing combinations of source data and formal strategies. sub_scape is housed in a periscope object for single visitor use. The periscope has an in-built screen. The visitor sits to view the display. By turning the periscope horizontally, the visitor changes the data flows and effects. There have been 3 iterations of sub_scape - sub_scapeBALTIC at ISEA2004 Helsinki; sub_scapePROOF at Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) 2005 for PROOF: the act of seeing with one’s own eyes; and sub_scapeMACHINIMA. Media: subscape software; video/audio feed; real time effects; aluminium periscope with audience interactivity. DOWNLOAD sub_scape.pdf www.subscape.net

Museum installations

kate — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:51:03 +0000

Between 2000 and 2003 at the Historic Houses Trust of NSW, and their flagship site Museum of Sydney, I designed and produced many multimedia displays. Design challenges involved working with historical and archival content; synthesising modern technologies with old; interaction design for public places, and integrating timebased media into museum displays.

Video Wall for the Museum of Sydney

kate — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:44:00 +0000

The video wall is the architectural and conceptual backbone of the Museum of Sydney. In 2002 the Museum undertook the creative refurbishment of the wall, basing 4 sequences on the theme of ’sandstone’. I was the creative producer on the project . The enitre wall was also refurbished technically and I worked with a contract technical producer and project managers from Root Projects Australia to achieve this. Media: 4 x channels of synchronised rear projected video; custom control system AMX; custom rear projection screens.

Beautiful Minds

kate — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:17:10 +0000

This extensive exhibition was developed by the Nobel Museum in Stockholm, Sweden on the centenary of the Nobel Prize in 2001 and has since travelled to 12 countries including Sweden, Japan, Korea, America, Britain and Singapore. UTS was its only Australian destination. ‘Beautiful Minds’ explores the creativity of the scientists, writers, economists and peacemakers who have been recognised by the Nobel Foundation, posing questions such as, ‘What is creativity and how can creative activity best be encouraged? Does creativity rest with an individual or a creative milieux?’ Sponsored by the Nobel museum, UTS and Volvo. Media: Over 20 displays, some comprising up to 10 showcases containing multimedia and object displays; 2 x theatrettes; interactive software and 6 online kiosks; web presence; branding (video trailer etc); public program.

Life After Wartime

kate — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:44:04 +0000

Life After Wartime is a suite of multimedia artworks by Kate Richards and Ross Gibson. Based on 3000 archival scene-of-crime images from Sydney and thousands of evocative texts by Gibson, each iteration within the suite uses various design and interaction techniques to engage its audience.The suite comprises: Crime Scene - 1999-2000 - Justice & Police Museum Sydney and touring; Darkness Loiters - 2000 - an interactive story engine; Life After Wartime CD-ROM - 2003 - exhibited nationally and internationally, for sale through the artists, funded by the Australian Film Commission. Life After Wartime live with The Necks - Adelaide Fringe Festival 2001 and Sydney Opera House 2003 - a live improvised event with world renowned jazz trio The Necks; Street XRays - 2005 - Gibson’s re-photography installation at ACMI. Bystander - 2007 - a 5 channel interactive and immersive video installation at The Performance Space@CarriageWorks Sydney 2007. For more information on the projects www.lifeafterwartime.com DOWNLOADarticle.pdf