Derek Richards

Derek Richards works as a creative technologist, designer, artist, filmmaker, and producer across a range of platforms. He began his artistic career as a musician, and has recorded and performed with Cleveland Watkiss, Courtney Pine, Tunde Jegede, Byron Wallen, Orphy Robinson and members of Chicago's AACM among others and has scored for theatre, radio drama and film. 

In the 1990s Derek co-founded Artec, the UK’s first "media lab" and learning centre for digital creativity. He pioneered teleconferencing for trans-national live collaborative performance with the "Digital Slam” for Digital Diaspora in 1995. With his company Hyperjam, founded in 1997, Derek went on to produce four more events linking artists from a range of disciplines in real-time across venues in London, Detroit, Dublin, Paris and Berlin. As a visual artist working with digital and interactive media, Derek has exhibited installation work in London, Paris, New York, Budapest, Seoul, Barcelona and Australia and has won 11 awards for his digital and interactive media work. 

Other Theatre: Running Dream (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Catwalk (Nitro/tour); Macbeth (NT / The Albany); The Wheel (Barbican). 

Opera: African Messiah (Royal Opera House); Cage Street Memorial (tour). 

Dance: Imaging the Invisible, Permanent Revolution V2R, Sensing Change (Union Dance / tours); Aisha and Abhaya (Rambert / international tour). 

Film: Ama (Film Four); More Earth Will Fall. 

Television: Draw From Within, Rooms, Eye Candy, Rouge, Note to Self (Rambert / Marquee TV / BBC).

In addition, Derek has created video and projection design for a range of mid to large scale music events and concerts.