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Images,
Animations, Engines
1986-2006
A5,
40 pages, black and white and colour illustrations
This is
a monograph published to coincide with my show "How to Talk
to Images" at the HTTP (now Furtherfield) Gallery in London
in 2008. It turned out to be quite a Baroque affair, with Sean
Cubitt contributing a dazzling essay and an interview between me
and Charlie Gere.
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Richard
Wright is a visual artist working in animation, moving image and
computational media including many early pioneering digital
animated films and interactive installations. He holds a PhD in
the aesthetics of digital cinema and has published nearly forty
papers, articles and book chapters.
Key works include the
animate! commissioned “Heliocentrum”
(1995) - an animation about Louis XIV which was described by
writer Hari Kunzru as “…both fun and an amazingly
effective way of showing how a sovereign manipulated power”
and "LMX Spiral", a
conceptual music video about the eighties. “The
Bank of Time” was a “vanitas” screensaver
which was nominated for a BAFTA award in 2001. His last short film
was “Foreplay”
(2004), described as “a porn film without the sex”.
His online project “How to Talk to Images” consisted
of "The Internet
Speaks" and "The
Mimeticon" – a search engine that finds images by
visual similarity and an artwork about the visual history of
writing.
Richard helped set up the MA in Digital Art and
Animation at London Metropolitan University and was postproduction
and animation tutor at the National Film and Television School for
three years.
From
2004 to 2009 he collaborated with Graham Harwood and Matsuko
Yokokoji, initially as the artists group Mongrel and then as
Harwood, Wright, Yokokoji. With
them
he set up their “social telephony” programme, the
MediaShed “free-media” space in Southend-on-Sea and
the “Cross Talk” eco-media project. Their last project
“Tantalum
Memorial” won the transmediale 09 award.
In
2015-16 he was artist-in-residence at the British Library and
created a portrait of the early C19th
librarian Thomas Watts that also functions as a live visual
catalogue (www.elasticSystem.net).
He is currently researching an essay film series and a book
exploring the history of animation as an art form and as a
contemporary media practice.
Download
a copy of my list cv here
Most of my films are
distributed through LUX
Distribution in London or the British
Council.
I also have a DVD compilation which you can
contact me about.
Contact me at: richard at futurenatural
dot net.
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INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD
WRIGHT, Gary Thomas 2009
AURORA
Festival: Social Networks & Campfire Stories / AP Engine
An
interview by Gary Thomas for the Aurora Festival on the subject of
networks and the moving image. I talk about the relation between
the internet, what to do with a lot of images and "animated
media".
Down load
the text here (.pdf 751K)
THE BANK OF TIME, Geoff Cox
2004
Read_Me: Software Art and Cultures, (ed.) edited by Olga
Goriunova & Alexei Shulgin, University of Aarhus Press,
Denmark, 2004.
This is a very nice write up that Geoff did for
this book from the University of Aarhus. I couldn't have put it
better myself.
Down load the
text here (.doc 166K)
INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD WRIGHT /
BANK OF TIME 2002
An interview that Matthew Fuller did on the
occassion of The Bank of Time
getting popular. Distributed over mailing lists like Nettime
during 2002.
Download
the text here (.txt 18K)
FLAME WARS WITH LOUIS XIV,
Hari Kunzru 1997
WIRED magazine, July 1997, p 154.
A glowing
review that Hari Kunzru wrote about Heliocentrum
for WIRED magazine that generarted many requests for the
video.
Download the text here
(.doc 38K)
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