Robert Pepperell
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Articles
My primary areas of interest are in
consciousness studies and certain metaphysical
questions about the nature of mind and its
relationship to the body and the world. These I
investigate through both art practice and
theoretical inquiry, trying (not always
successfully) to integrate both.
My long-standing interest in the human relationship
to technology has led me to propose a model of the
posthuman as a way of describing what it is to exist
in an intensely technological culture. This
posthuman model, however, is also informed by very
ancient beliefs concerning the nature of self, mind
and reality such as those to be found in some
eastern traditions
Current topics of research include:
• visual indeterminacy and visual perception
• non-classical logics, such as dialethics,
• paradoxes and contradictions,
• conscious art and creative technology,
• experimental aesthetics
Included here is a selection of academic
papers written and published since 2000. All are
presented in PDF format. Most are pre-press versions,
so if you wish to reference any of these documents
please refer to the original source of publication.
Academic details:
Robert
Pepperell, PhD
Professor of Fine Art
Cardiff School of Art & Design
Cardiff CF24 0SP, UK
rpepperell@uwic.ac.uk
The New Mind,
co-author Riccardo Manzotti, in AI & Society,
2012.
Art and Externalism, in Journal of Consciousness Studies (in press) (abstract only).
Indeterminism and Realism
in Cinema and Art, in Tagungsband Realismus nach
den europäischen Avantgarden, Verlag
für Kommunikation, Kultur and Soziale Praxis,
Bielefeld, 2012.
Connecting Art and the Brain, in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2011.
Art and Extensionism, in Situated Aesthetics: Art Beyond the Skin, Imprint 2011, edited by Riccardo Manzotti.
Art Connections to Literature and Science, in The Routledge Companion to Literature and Science, Routledge 2010, edited by Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini.
Training facilitates object recognition in cubist paintings (Weismann et al) Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Volume 4, Article 11, February 2010
The Posthuman
View: Embodied Minds, Extensionism and Visual
Indeterminacy.
Summary chapter of PhD, 2009.
An Information
Sublime: Knowledge after The Postmodern Condition.
Editorial for Leonardo, Volume
42, No. 5, 2009.
The Conscious Act
of Looking at a Painting.
Consciousness,
Literature and the Arts, Volume
10, No. 2, 2009.
Posthumanism and
the challenge of new ideas.
Catalogue text for Hylozoic Soil exhibition by
Phillip Beesley, e-art: New
Technologies and Contemporary Art, Montreal
Museum of Fine Art, 2007.
Art, Perception
and Indeterminacy. Contemporary
Aesthetics, Volume 5, September 2007.
Neural correlates
of object indeterminacy in art compositions,
A. Ishai & S. Fairhall. Consciousness and
Cognition, 2008
Applications for
Conscious Systems
in AI & Society,
Volume 22:1, September, 2007.
In the Eye of the
Beholder—Perception of Indeterminate Art.
Wallraven, C., Kaulard, K., Kürner, C., Pepperell,
R and Bülthoff, H. International Symposium on
Computational Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and
Imaging. Canada, 2007.
Psychophysics for
Perception of (In)determinate Art.
Wallraven, C., Kaulard, K., Kürner, C., Pepperell,
R and Bülthoff, H.. Applied Perception in Graphics
and Visualisation Symposium, Max Planck Institute, 2007.
Conscious
Awareness of Objects in Indeterminate Art.
Poster for ASSC11, (Scott Fairhall, Robert Pepperell and
Alumit Ishai). Las Vegas, 2007.
In the Eye of the Beholder: The Perception of Indeterminate Art (Christian Wallraven, Kathrin Kaulard, Cora Kürner, Robert Pepperell) Leonardo Transactions, 2008
Perception, memory and
aesthetics of indeterminate art.
(Ishai, A., Fairhall, S.L., Pepperell, R.) Brain Research Bulletin
73, 2007.pp. 319-324.
Seeing Without Objects: Visual Indeterminacy and Art, in Leonardo, 39:5, 2006, MIT Press.
Putting Art to
the Test. Dialogue,
Issue 2. Axis Publications, 2007.
An
Interdisciplinary Study of Visual Indeterminacy. Poster
for ASSC 10, (Robert Pepperell and Alumit Ishai).Oxford,
2006.
Where's the Screen?:
The Paradoxical Relationship Between Mind and World
in Screen Consciousness:
Mind, Cinema and World Edited by Robert
Pepperell and Michael Punt Rodopi Press, 2006
Posthumans and Extended
Experience
in Journal of Evolution
and Technology
Volume 14, 2005
Edited by James Hughes
Locating the Screen:
Mind, World and Dialethic Logic in Proceedings of the
International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre,
Literature and the Arts
Edited by Daniel Meyer-Dinkegräfe
Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005
Visual Indeterminacy
and the Paradoxes of Consciousness in
Proceedings of Altered States
Conference, University of Plymouth, 2005
Edited by Roy Ascott
The Self-Aware Image in
the Wireless Obscura
delivered to New Forms International
Festival of Media Arts, Vancouver, Canada,
2004.
Applications for
Self-Aware Systems: Why Would We Need Conscious
Shoes?
in Proceedings of the 1st
International Design and Engagability Conference,
BIAD, 2004
Edited by John Knight and Marie Jefsoutine.
Towards a Self-Aware
Art in Consciousness,
Literature and the Arts Volume 5:3, 2004
Edited by Daniel Meyer-Dinkegräfe
Towards a Theory of
Conscious Art
in Technoetic Arts: A
Journal of Speculative Research Volume 1:2,
pp 117-134, 2003
Edited by Roy Ascott
Art at the Boundary of
the Science of Consciousness
Co-authored with Michael Punt
in Remote Edited
by Emma Posey
Bloc Press, 2003
Computer Aided
Creativity: Practical Experience and Theoretical
Concerns
in Creatvity and Cognition
2002 Edited by Linda Candy and Ernest
Edmonds ACM, 2002
The Posthuman
Conception of Consciousness: A 10-Point Guide
in Art, Technology, Consciousness: Mind@large
Edited by Roy Ascott
Intellect Books, 2000