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Catherine Richards

Catherine Richards (born 1952) is a Canadian visual artist working in both old and new media. She was a leading figure in early virtual reality technologies, and became the first artist in Canada to incorporate them into her artworks - famously using it in her 1991 artwork ''Spectral Bodies''.

Born and raised in the country's capital, Ottawa, she began her career in various research positions within the field of Canadian broadcasting and communications. In 1993 Richards became a part-time professor with the School of Architecture at Carleton University, before she began teaching at the University of Ottawa and eventually becoming the University Research Chair in 2003. By 2010 she had reached full professor status and after teaching as a Professor of Media Arts for nearly a decade, Richards was granted Emerita status by the Department of Visual Arts.

She considers new technologies as art material, using them within her work to explore our volatile sense of ourselves as we continuously shift boundaries - a process in which she believes new information technologies play a starring role. Additionally, she explores the spectator's role in these technologies like "jam in the electro-magnetic sandwich." Provided by Wikipedia