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Staff profile / Professor Robert Pepperell

Reader in Fine Art
Head of Fine Art/Subject Leader Painting
Room 412
Cardiff School of Art and Design
University of Wales Institute Cardiff
Howard Gardens
Cardiff CF24 0SP
Tel. 02920 416669

Email: rpepperell@uwic.ac.uk
Fine Art web site: www.csad.uwic.ac.uk/fineart
Personal homepage: www.robertpepperell.com

Robert Pepperell is an artist and writer. He studied at the Slade School of Art and went on work with a number of influential multimedia collaborations including Hex, Coldcut and Hexstatic. As well as producing experimental computer art and computer games he has published several interactive CD-Roms and exhibited numerous digital installations including at Ars Electronica. Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, the ICA, London, the Barbican Gallery, London and the Millennium Dome, London. His book The Post-Human Condition was first published in 1995 and a new version published in 2003 with the subtitle, Consciousness beyond the brain.

His second book The Postdigital Membrane, published in 2000, was a collaboration with Michael Punt, with whom he has recently co-edited further volume, Screen Consciousness: Cinema, Mind and World. He has spoken and lectured widely on philosophy, new technology and the relationship between art and consciousness. He is Associate Editor for Leonardo Reviews for the journal of the International Society for Arts, Science and Technology.

Robert Pepperell is a member of the Centre for Fine Art Research (http://www.wirad.ac.uk/research-themes/centre-for-fine-art/), part of the Fine Art & Ceramics theme within WIRAD.

Research Awards

2006 Swiss National Science Foundation grant for Neurobiological response to visual indeterminacy in collaboration with Alumit Ishai, Scott Fairhall, University of Zurich
2006 – on Testing perceptual responses to indeterminate artworks in collaboration with Christian Wallraven, Max Planck Institute, Teubingen
2004 Research Fellow, Newport School of Art, Media and Design

Edited Books

(2006) Pepperell, R and Punt, M., (eds), Screen Consciousness: Mind, World and Cinema, Amsterdam/New York, Rodopi
(2003) The Posthuman Condition: Consciousness beyond the brain, Bristol: Intellect Books
(2000 and 2003) The Postdigital Membrane: Imagination Technology and Desire, Bristol: Intellect Books.

Book Chapters / Essays

(2005), ‘Towards a Conscious Art’ in Ascott, R. (ed.) (2005) Engineering Nature: Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era, Bristol: Intellect Books.
(2003), ‘Art at the Boundary of Science and Consciousness’ in: Posey, E. (ed)
(2003), Remote. Cardiff: Bloc Press.

Editorship of Journals

2000 – on: Leonardo Reviews, International Society for Arts, Technology and Science (Associate Editor and Web Manager)

Journal Articles

(2008). Wallraven, C., Kaulard, K., Kürner, C. and Pepperell, R. ‘In the Eye of the Beholder: The Perception of Indeterminate Art’ in: Leonardo Transactions
(2007), ‘Posthumanismi manifest’ in Vihik: Journal of the Estonian Literary Society, No. 12: 14-24. Tartu: Eesti Kirjanduse Selts.
(2007), ‘Manifesto del Posthumano’ Dopo l’umano, Kainos 2, Milano: Ediziono Punto Rosso
Ishai, A., Fairhall, S. & Pepperell, R, (2007), ‘Perception, memory and aesthetics of indeterminate art’ in Brain Research Bulletin, Volume 73, Issues 4-6, pp. 319-324.
(2007), ‘Art, Perception and Indeterminacy’ in Journal of Contemporary Aesthetics, Volume 5.
(2007), ‘Putting Art to the Test’ in Dialogue, Issue 2. Axis Publications.
(2007), ‘Applications for Conscious Systems’ in AI & Society, Vol. 21:3.
(2007), ‘Seeing Without Objects: Visual Indeterminacy and Art’ in Leonardo, Vol. 39:5.
(2005), ‘Posthumans and Extended Experience’ in Journal of Evolution and Technology, Volume 4, 1.
(2004), ‘Towards a Self-Aware Art’ in Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Volume 5, 4
(2003), ‘Towards a Conscious Art’ in Technoetic Arts, Volume 1,2

Academic reviews

(2006), Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 10th International Conference, University of Oxford. Leonardo Vol. 40 No. 1. MIT Press.
(2006), Paradise: A Turn to the Left, More Front/Tactile Bosch, Cardiff.
(2006), Seeing Without Objects, Riverfront Arts Centre, Newport
(2006), Endless Forms: Engaging Evolution, Group show. Slusser Gallery, Michigan, USA.
(2006), Faith, Tactile Bosch Gallery, Cardiff.
Solso, R. (2005), ‘The Psychology of Art and the Evolution of the Conscious Brain’ in Leonardo, Vol. 38 No. 5. MIT Press.
Priest, G. (2005), ‘Beyond the Limits of Thought by’ in Leonardo, Vol. 38 No. 4. MIT Press
Baars, B. (ed) (2005), ‘Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness’ in Leonardo, Vol. 38 No. 1. MIT Press

Conference Papers / Presentations

2008 ‘Art and the Fractured Unity of Consciousness’, Consciousness Reframed, Vienna.
2008 Zurich, in Fairhall, S L; Ishai, Pepperell, R. ‘A Neural correlates of object indeterminacy in art compositions’ in: Consciousness and Cognition, 17(3):923-32.
2008 Art & Consciousness Conference, University of Plymouth (speaker)
2007 Art and Science Week, University of Exeter
2007 The Future of Art, Kinetica, London
2007 International Symposium on Computational Aesthetics in Graphic, Visualization, Canada
2007 Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualisation Symposium, Max Planck Institute, Germany
2007 Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness Annual Conference, 11th Annual Conference of the Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, Oxford.
2007 From the Human to the Posthuman. Conference of the Science, Technology & Culture Research Group, University of Nottingham
2006 Inaugural lecture, Kinetica Museum
2006 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Atlanta
2006 European Conference on Visual Perception, St Petersburg
2006 The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness 10 International Conference, Oxford University
2006 Science in the Dock – Art in the Stocks, National Science Week, University of Exeter
2005 British Psychological Society, University of Oxford
2005 Altered States Conference, University of Plymouth
2005 Consciousness, Literature and the Arts Conference, University of Aberystwyth
2005 Interfacing Theory and Practice, University of Exeter
2004 The Applications of Self-Aware Systems. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Usability and Engagability, Birmingham: University of Central England.

Exhibitions / Events

2008 Perception, solo show, Terracina Gallery, Exeter
2008 Bossanova, tactileBOSCH, Cardiff

Supervision

The Military Aspects of Duchamp's career
Bergson, Cinema and the Spiritual
Mind-body interfaces in art and technology
The open text in multimedia
Biotechnology and Industrial Design
Consciousness and New Media Art
Shamanism and Performance
The transgressive in contemporary art and science Full

Enterprise / Consultancy

2005 – on: Advisory panel member, Kinetica Museum is the UK’s first museum of interactive, electronic and experimental art.

Membership of Professional Bodies

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
British Psychological Society
International Society for Arts Technology and Science
International Association of Empirical Aesthetics
Performing Rights Society

Gaynor Kavanagh At Cardiff School of Art & Design, we believe in being at the top of our game and that includes being able to deliver programmes that really make a difference. We give our students every opportunity to explore all kinds of creative and professional possibilities, in an environment that recognises the importance of taking risks and seizing the initiative. We are interested in ideas and how these are examined through practice.