BIO

Kerry Richardson is a socially engaged media artist who works primarily in community-based collaborations.

In 2012 she co-founded the Plug-in Studio with Steve Ciampaglia. Their work has been exhibited at Reinberger Gallery and think[box] Gallery (Cleveland); LIKELIKE Gallery (Pittsburgh); and Hyde Park Art Center, Sullivan Galleries and Bit Bash Interactive Arts Festival (Chicago). Her solo video work has screened at the Gene Siskel Film Center, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Museum of Disability History (Buffalo), Gallery 400 (Chicago), the Chicago Cultural Center, and internationally at film festivals.

The Plug-In Studio were awarded a Blade of Grass Fellowship for Socially Engaged Art and the Fellowship in Interdisciplinary/Computer-Based Arts from the Illinois Arts Council. Solo and collaborative projects have been funded by the Paul Robeson Fund for Indepdent Media, Propeller Fund, Chicago Art Department and the Shapiro Center for Research and Collaboration.

Richardson and Ciampaglia have presented Plug-in Studio work at Pax West, SXSW, Stanford University, the University of Chicago, Columbia University and the MIT Media Lab. They published the chapter "ArtMakerSpace: Meaningful Making in a Studio Art Context" in Makers, Crafters, Educators: Working for Cultural Change (Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, Eds L. Hochtritt, E. Garber & M. Sharma).

She is currently a Full-time Lecturer at Case Western Reserve University where she teaches new media art, videogame design and video art in the Studio Art Program.

Contact: kerry@pluginstudio.net