Artist

Tasman Richardson

Tasman Richardson is a multidisciplinary media artist exploring synthetic synesthesia and technological failure since 1996. His practice spans video art, immersive installations, and live audio-visual performances using MIDI-triggered samples. Co-founder of FAMEFAME collective and pioneer of the Jawa method of sight/sound video cut up, Richardson critiques "contemporary necromancy" through works like Necropolis (2012) and Kali Yuga (2019). His work is held by the National Gallery of Canada. Richardson has had solo exhibitions at The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art - Toronto, Karsh-Masson - Ottawa, and Arsenal Contemporary -Toronto and Montreal.

Artist Code: 575

Videography

Echo Chambers

2025, 25:33 minutes, Multi-lingual (with English subtitles)

Never Not Nothing

2025, 05:55 minutes, colour, sound (no dialogue)

Wish you were here

2022, 04:07 minutes, colour, no dialogue

Twenty-one Improvised Extinctions

2020, 01:20 minutes, colour, no dialogue

A Line Has Two Sides

2020, 18:00 minutes, colour, no dialogue

Darkness Is to Space As Silence Is to Sound

2018, 16:00 minutes, colour, no dialogue

Timelords

2015, 11:19 minutes, colour, English

Memorial

2012, 02:10 minutes, colour, English

Temple

2012, 12:58 minutes

Firing Squad

2011, 17:00 minutes

Paradise Disko

2010, 05:15 minutes, B&W

Omega Generation

2010, 04:25 minutes, colour, English

The Life of Death

2010, 05:38 minutes, colour, English

The Vision, the Voice, and the Void

2009, 03:00 minutes, B&W

Weird War Tales (re-edited condensed version)

2007, 09:11 minutes, colour, English

Pirates of Breakcore Island

2007, 20:23 minutes, colour, English

Modern Problems

2007, 11:48 minutes, colour, English

The Game

2007, 03:52 minutes, colour, English

In The Eye

2006, 02:39 minutes, colour, English

Shadowplay

2006, 17:05 minutes, colour/B&W, English

I Stole The Soul of Rock n Roll

2005, 06:28 minutes, colour, English

Fantasycore

2005, 03:46 minutes, colour, English

Eyecandy

2005, 03:56 minutes, colour, English

THE BASEMENT BOY HARDCORE SERIES: Goin' Back to Kali

2004, 04:00 minutes, Colour, English

THE BASEMENT BOY HARDCORE SERIES: Delete Yourself

2004, 01:00 minutes, Colour, English

THE BASEMENT BOY HARDCORE SERIES: Destro My Tokyo

2004, 05:22 minutes, colour, English

THE BASEMENT BOY HARDCORE SERIES: Blackest Sabbath

2003, 06:00 minutes, colour & B/W, English

The Adversary

2002, 01:30 minutes

Mercury

2002, 02:50 minutes, colour, English

THE BASEMENT BOY HARDCORE SERIES: Vader Lives

2002, 03:00 minutes, B & W, English

Leibensraum

2001, 03:00 minutes, colour

Apollo Shrapnel: Part 4

2001, 02:14 minutes, colour

Apollo Shrapnel: Part 3

2001, 05:01 minutes, colour

Apollo Shrapnel: Part 1

2001, 04:33 minutes, colour

Mother May I Sleep with Danger?

2001, 01:03 minutes

Architecture of Doom

2001, 01:40 minutes

Restless < Wrath

2000, 05:06 minutes, colour

ATARI 2600 REMIXES

2000, 17:45 minutes, colour

Collapse

1999, 01:22 minutes, colour

Happy Lucky Fun

1997, 00:40 minutes, colour/B&W

Pummel

1997, 01:00 minutes, colour/B&W

Restructuring AB

1997, 01:54 minutes, colour/B&W

Wonton

1996, 01:00 minutes, colour/B&W

Critical Writing

what makes a music video: the video or the music?
by Leah Sandals. The Globe and Mail, May 2, 2009.
Made You Look: While feast of moving imagery is many things, it's...
by Peter Goddard. The Toronto Star, Apr. 3, 2008.
Images Festival: Live Images Programme
by tiffreviews. TIFFReviews, Mar. 16, 2008.
At the Galleries
by Peter Goddard. The Toronto Star, Dec. 1, 2007.
Foreword: VS Program
by Jon Davies. VS (Event Program), Dec. 2004.
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained: (Vs. Program)
by Scott SØrli. VS (Event Program), Dec. 2004.
ExperiMental: (Vs. Program)
by Daniel Cockburn. Point of View, 2004, no. 54.
VS: 640 480 - original programme
by Jon Davies et al. VS, Dec. 2004.
EXHIBITION REVIEW: UK/Canadian Video Exchange 2003
by Diana Baldon. Matters, Apr. 10 Summer, 2003, no. 17.
Video Primer: A Series of 5 Video Programs
by Michelle Jacques. Video Primer, 2001. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), 2001.
Tranz<->Tech 1999 Catalogue
Toronto: Vtape, 1999.
Northern Exposure
by Catherine Elwes. Art Monthly, June 1998, no. 217.
Northern Exposure
Born Under Surveillance, 1998. Vancouver: Video in Studio, 1998.