Bio

Colby Richardson is a media artist and experimental filmmaker based in Toronto ON, Canada. Driven by a fascination with underused and ubiquitous media technologies, Richardson’s work examines the artistic capabilities of tools and devices often unconsidered and dismissed. By utilizing and re-contextualising historic video equipment, everyday software, and everyday-electronics, Richardson creates dynamic and textural visual and auditory works, taking the form of; performances, expanded cinema, installation, and sound art.

Works

HEAD

  • 2020
  • Colby Richardson

Filmed on super 8 in an underground concourse located directly beneath Winnipeg's famous Portage and Main intersection. HEAD takes a structuralist examination of the often overlooked 360 degree concrete relief mural that spans the entirety of the underground passageway.

HEAD

Convolve

  • 2016
  • Colby Richardson

A frantic and hypnotic journey through the pages of Greg Bright’s Fontana Mazes. Utilizing single frame animation, prisms, warped mirrors, and water to further distort the already convoluted path of the labyrinth.

Convolve