Don Ritter

Don Ritter (born 1959) is a visual, sound and media artist known for his interactive electronic installation works. His works of art use digital media in architectural projections, immersive video-sound installations, performances and prints. He currently lives in Montréal, Quebec.

Ritter worked abroad for 23 years as an artist and academic in Boston, New York City, Berlin, Seoul and Hong Kong.

Work Ritter's work brings together computers, sensors, and the human body to create interactive experiences for audiences. Ritter has said that "the experience of interactive art should be an aesthetically pleasing experience not only for the mind but also for the body". His software Orpheus (1987), which enabled an improvising musician to control the narrative projection of video, is an early example of an interactive video installation. In his 1993 interactive installation Intersection, viewers cross a virtual highway in a large darkroom . The highway is represented by the computer-controlled sound of cars passing and coming to a screeching halt.

Ritter has exhibited internationally since 1988 at museums, festivals and galleries in 23 countries, including the 2010 Winter Olympics (in Vancouver) and the Ars Electronica Festival (in Linz).