Byron Rich


Most Recent Affiliation(s):


  • Allegheny College, Electronic Art & Intermedia, Assistant Professor

ISEA Bio(s) Available:


  • ISEA2020

    Byron Rich is an artist, professor and lecturer born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His work exploring speculative design, biology futures and tactical media has been widely shown and spoken about internationally. He pursued a degree in New-Media at The University of Calgary before relocating to Buffalo, New York where he obtained an MFA in Emerging Practices at The University at Buffalo. He was the runner up for the 2016 BioArt & Design Award, and the recipient of an Honorary Mention at the 2017 Prix Ars Electronica. He serves as Assistant Professor of Art, Director of Art+Science & Innovation, and Director of the Allegheny College Lab for Creativity at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania.

    ISEA2018

    Assistant Professor of Electronic Art & Intermedia, Allegheny College. Having grown up on the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains in western Canada, where a seemingly endless wild gives way to the rapidly expanding influence of human hubris, Byron was compelled to make things that ask unanswerable questions. He now teaches Electronic Art, Intermedia and Painting at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, US.

    ISEA2017

    Byron Rich, Assistant Professor, Allegheny College, Meadville PA, USA.

    ISEA2016

    Byron Rich, Assistant Professor of Electronic Art & Intermedia, Allegheny College, USA.  Having grown up on the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains in western Canada, where a seemingly endless wild gives way to the rapidly expanding influence of human hubris, Byron was compelled to make things that ask unanswerable questions. He now teaches Electronic Art, Intermedia and Painting at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, US.

    ISEA2015

    Byron Rich, Assistant Professor, Allegheny College, Meadville PA, USA.

    ISEA2014

    Born in Calgary, Alberta, in 1984, Byron Rich studied new-media art at The University of Calgary between 2003 and 2007, then earned an MFA from The State University of New York at Buffalo in Emerging Practices in 2013. His research investigates the interrelationship between technological interfaces and intrinsic human connections to the natural world. Although the technology Byron employs is operational and proven, its utilization in a fanciful manor allows the work to exist on the boundary of fiction and reality resonating with the hyper-real plane emblematic of contemporary techno-culture. Operating in this liminal space allows the work to raise questions pertaining to the effect on identity politics and the natural environment when the boundary between the material world of physical bodies, objects, and experiences becomes intertwined with the immaterial world of the information-focused techno-sphere.



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Last Known Location:


  • Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States of America