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Kate Rich is an Australian-born artist and trader, currently living in Bristol, United Kingdom. Her practice includes sound art, video art, social practice, hospitality, and sport art.
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Work
editIn the 1990s Rich co-founded the Bureau of Inverse Technology (BIT) as an artist-engineer with Natalie Jeremijenko. Notable works include Feral Trade, The 'virtual' grocery business and public experiment is based trading goods over social networks. The word 'feral' describes a process which is "willfully wild (as in pigeon) as opposed to romantically or nature-wild (wolf)". According to the artist, the passage of goods can open up wormholes between diverse social settings, routes along which other information, techniques or individuals can potentially travel. Her collaborative projects include Cube Cola,[1] an open source cola laboratory, in collaboration with Bristol-based artist Kayle Brandon. Her work as part of the BIT was included in the 1997 Whitney Biennial.
Rich was a 2002 Artist-in-Residence at the McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte, NC.[2] In 2007, she won the netarts.org grand prize from the Machida City Feral TradeMuseum of Graphic Arts, Machida, Japan. In 2008–2012 Kate Rich collaborated with FoAM on Food, Disaster Culture a cultural laboratory across European cities, in Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the U.K.
Articles
edit- "Overview of Media Art – Society". A short article discussing various artistic initiatives utilizing consumer electronics for surveillance purposes. Media Art Net.
- "Public Lecture". A statement from BIT co-founder Kate Rich, describing her three-month research fellowship at the Instituut. Piet Zwart Instituut.
- "Videos of BIT Plane and Suicide Box". Descriptions of BIT and videos of some of their work, including a flight on the BIT Plane. Video Date Bank.
- "A Ken Johnson review from 1999 describing BIT and their Suicide Box and Despondency Index". The New York Times. 9 July 1999. Retrieved 7 May 2010.
- "What's New with Kate Rich and Feral Trade". An interview with Kate Rich discussing her work Feral Trade. Wired Magazine. 28 July 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
References
edit- ^ Flint, James (28 July 2006). "The real thing. Or is it? Cracking the Coca-Cola code". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
- ^ "Artists-in-Residence". McColl Center. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
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