Robert
Pepperell
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Articles & papers
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.
The
Posthuman Conception of Consciousness: A 10-Point Guide
in Art, Technology, Consciousness: Mind@large
Edited by Roy Ascott
Intellect Books, 2000
Computer
Aided Creativity: Practical Experience and Theoretical Concerns
in Creatvity
and Cognition 2002
Edited by Linda Candy and Ernest Edmonds
ACM, 2002
Art
at the Boundary of the Science of Consciousness
Co-authored with Michael Punt
in Remote
Edited by Emma Posey
Bloc Press, 2003
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
Towards
a Self-Aware Art
in Consciousness,
Literature and the Arts
Volume 5:3, 2004
Edited by Daniel Meyer-Dinkegräfe
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
The
Self-Aware Image in the Wireless Obscura
delivered to New
Forms International Festival of Media Arts,
Vancouver, Canada, 2004
Visual
Indeterminacy and the Paradoxes of Consciousness
in Proceedings of Altered
States Conference, University of Plymouth, 2005
Edited by Roy Ascott
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
Posthumans
and Extended Experience
in Journal
of Evolution and Technology
Volume 14, 2005
Edited by James Hughes
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
An Interdisciplinary
Study of Visual Indeterminacy. Poster
for ASSC 10, (Robert Pepperell and Alumit Ishai).Oxford, 2006.
Putting Art to the Test. Dialogue, Issue 2. Axis Publications, 2007.
Seeing
Without Objects: Visual Indeterminacy and Art, in Leonardo, 39:5,
2006, MIT
Press.
Perception,
memory and aesthetics of indeterminate art. (Ishai, A., Fairhall,
S.L., Pepperell, R.)
Brain Research
Bulletin 73, 2007.pp. 319-324.
In the Eye of
the Beholder: The Perception of Indeterminate Art (Christian
Wallraven, Kathrin Kaulard, Cora Kürner, Robert Pepperell) Leonardo 41:2, 2008.
Conscious Awareness of Objects in Indeterminate Art. Poster for ASSC11, (Scott Fairhall, Robert Pepperell and Alumit Ishai).
Las Vegas, 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.
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.
Applications
for Conscious Systems
in AI & Society,
Volume 22:1, September, 2007.
Neural
correlates of object indeterminacy in art compositions, A. Ishai &
S. Fairhall. Consciousness and Cognition (IN PRESS).
Art, Perception and Indeterminacy. Contemporary
Aesthetics, Volume 5, September
2007.
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 and the Fractured Unity of Consciousness. Consciousness Reframed 9, Vienna, 2008.