Tasman Richardson
Tasman Richardson is a cultural composite creating cultural composites—a multidisciplinary media artist based in Tkaronto whose practice spans video art, immersive installations, and live audio-visual performances. Since pioneering his audio/visual cut-up method "Jawa" in 1996, Richardson has explored the boundaries between technology, perception, and meaning. Co-founder of FAMEFAME media arts collective (2002) and creator of international A/V tournament Videodrome, he established himself as an innovative force in media arts.
After graduating with honours from OCAD's Integrated Media Program (1997), his trajectory expanded to large-scale installations including Necropolis (MOCCA, 2012) and Kali Yuga (Arsenal Contemporary, 2019). Recent VR explorations like The Harvest (2024) continue investigating how we see through technological surrogates. His collected observations spanning over two decades of media art experimentation are published by Impulse(b) as autobiographical anecdotes in Objects In Mirror, launched internationally in Toronto, Berlin, and Izmir in 2023. Richardson's work is held by the National Gallery of Canada.
Artist Code: 575
Videography
Work Hard Have Fun Make History
2025, 04:00 minutes, colour, English, French (with English subtitles)
2025, 25:33 minutes, Multi-lingual (with English subtitles)
2025, 05:55 minutes, colour, sound (no dialogue)
2022, 04:07 minutes, colour, no dialogue
Twenty-one Improvised Extinctions
2020, 01:20 minutes, colour, no dialogue
2020, 18:00 minutes, colour, no dialogue
Darkness Is to Space As Silence Is to Sound
2018, 16:00 minutes, colour, no dialogue
2015, 11:19 minutes, colour, English
2012, 02:10 minutes, colour, English
2012, 12:58 minutes
2011, 17:00 minutes
2010, 05:15 minutes, B&W
2010, 04:25 minutes, colour, English
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
2007, 20:23 minutes, colour, English
2007, 11:48 minutes, colour, English
2007, 03:52 minutes, colour, English
2006, 02:39 minutes, colour, English
2006, 17:05 minutes, colour/B&W, English
I Stole The Soul of Rock n Roll
2005, 06:28 minutes, colour, English
2005, 03:46 minutes, colour, English
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
2002, 01:30 minutes
2002, 02:50 minutes, colour, English
THE BASEMENT BOY HARDCORE SERIES: And They Shall Know Us by the Trail of Kung Fu
2002, 02:00 minutes, colour, English
THE BASEMENT BOY HARDCORE SERIES: Vader Lives
2002, 03:00 minutes, B & W, English
2001, 03:00 minutes, colour
2001, 02:14 minutes, colour
2001, 05:01 minutes, colour
2001, 04:33 minutes, colour
Mother May I Sleep with Danger?
2001, 01:03 minutes
2001, 01:40 minutes
2000, 05:06 minutes, colour
2000, 17:45 minutes, colour
1999, 01:22 minutes, colour
1997, 00:40 minutes, colour/B&W
1997, 01:00 minutes, colour/B&W
1997, 01:54 minutes, colour/B&W
1996, 01:00 minutes, colour/B&W
Critical Writing
by . The Toronto Star, Apr. 3, 2008.
by . Toronto: Vtape, 2008.
by . Video Primer, 2001. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), 2001.
by . Toronto: Vtape, 2001.
Toronto: Vtape, 1999.