Kate Richards is a Sydney based media artist and producer working across multimedia, interactivity and visualisation software and time-based media.
Kate has a background in experimental film and video art. In the mid 1990s she made the move into interactive multimedia, exhibiting work both nationally and internationally. Recent interactive art projects include the Life After Wartime suite with Ross Gibson (CDROMS, live performance and exhibtion). Kate also works as a multimedia designer and producer in the cultural sectors, recent clients include the Historic Houses Trust NSW, Sydney Olympic Park Authority and Jacob Allom and Wade, architects. Between 2001 and 2003 Richards was the multimedia producer for the Historic Houses trust at the Museum of Sydney. Richards wrote and directed the CD-ROM Elementia, a fictive set of 11 maps; she was multimedia producer on the large scale virtual mapping project TimeMap Distributed for the Museum of Sydney in collaboration with the Archaeological Computing Lab, University of Sydney (funded by ARC).

Kate's recent interactive electronic installations have included: subscapePROOF (collaboration with Sarah Waterson, Australian Centre for the Moving Image 04), subscapeBALTIC (collaboration with Sarah Waterson, ISEA2004)