Kate Rich is an Australian-born artist and trader, currently living in
Bristol
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,
United Kingdom
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. Her practice includes
sound art
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,
video art
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, social practice, hospitality, and sport art.
Work
In the 1990s Rich co-founded the Bureau of Inverse Technology (BIT) as an artist-engineer with
Natalie Jeremijenko
Natalie Jeremijenko (born 1966) is an artist and engineer whose background includes studies in biochemistry, physics, neuroscience and precision engineering. She is an active member of the net.art movement, and her work primarily explores t ...
. 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
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, 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
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.
Rich was a 2002 Artist-in-Residence at the
McColl Center for Visual Art
McColl Center (formerly McColl Center for Art + Innovation) is an artist residency and contemporary art space located at 721 North Tryon Street in Charlotte, North Carolina.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.