Time Waves
Artist and writer, Richard Bright, has addressed the relationship between art, science and consciousness for over 30 years. In his recent series of drawings he explores the impermanent and shifting process of time.
About Richard Bright
Artist and Writer;
Studied Fine Art (BA) and Physics (Bsc);
Editor-in-Chief: Interalia Magazine;
Founder and Director of The Interalia Centre (founded in 1990 - www,interaliacentre.org), an organisation which addresses the relationship between the Arts, Sciences and Consciousness through innovative conferences, lectures and workshops, establishing a dialogue between art and science at an accessible level. Since The Interalia Centre was founded, it has successfully run 11 International conferences, 2 art/science festivals, "Dialogues" between artists and scientists, "science-in-art" residencies, as well as taking the art/science dialogue into the business environment.
Lectured widely on the Art/Science interface, and has also given courses on colour theory and practice, geometry and art, and scientific concepts in early 20th century art.
Book publications include –
Andy Goldsworthy: Ice and Snow Drawings (Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 1992);
Susan Derges: River Taw (Michael Hue-Williams, London, 1997);
James Turrell: The Elliptic Eclipse (MJH/Cantz Publishers,1999);
Strange and Charmed: Science and the Contemporary Visual Arts -
contributing chapter: – ‘Uncertain Entanglements: Art and Physics’
(Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2000).
Shortlisted for the Arts and Business ‘Creative Britons 2000’ Award, and recipient of a Sci~art 2000 award (with Professors John D Barrow and Martin Kemp), for the project ‘Connections in Space: from the Quantum to the Cosmos’ - CD and Website.
Articles with Richard Bright
Contemplations and Neural Communications
“My art seeks to give form to those processes of thought which have yet to be fully articulated and to explore the enormous scope of the beautiful and delicately balanced neural choreographies designed to reflect what is occurring in our own minds as we think.”
Artist and writer, Richard Bright, has addressed the relationship between art, science and consciousness for over 30 years. In his recent series of drawings he explores the impermanent and shifting process of thinking.
Contemplations
“My art seeks to give form to those processes of thought which have yet to be fully articulated and to explore the enormous scope of the beautiful and delicately balanced neural choreographies designed to reflect what is occurring in our own minds as we think.
In the ‘Contemplation’ series of drawings the process of repetitive mark-making enables a heightening of concentration, acting like a visual mantra or kasina, focussing shifting thoughts and intending to settle the mind of the practitioner.
Building up in layers, the work plays with the transitory nature of light and perception. The viewer becomes a part of the process, whose eyes move across the work, creating an opportunity of awareness into the temporal nature of reality and, hopefully, stillness of the mind.”
Shift in Thought
Artist and writer, Richard Bright, has addressed the relationship between art, science and consciousness for over 30 years. In his recent series of drawings he explores the impermanent and shifting process of thinking.
Future Realities video talks blog link
Featuring: Elon Musk: The future we’re building – and boring ; Anab Jain: Why we need to imagine different futures ; Maurice Conti: The incredible inventions of intuitive AI ; Chris Milk: The birth of virtual reality as an art form ; Ray Kurzweil: Get ready for hybrid thinking
Future Realities video talks
Featuring: Elon Musk: The future we’re building – and boring ; Anab Jain: Why we need to imagine different futures ; Maurice Conti: The incredible inventions of intuitive AI ; Chris Milk: The birth of virtual reality as an art form ; Ray Kurzweil: Get ready for hybrid thinking
Maps and Mapping video talks
Featuring – Daniel Eisenstein: Mapping the Universe ; Danny Dorling: Maps that show us who we are (not just where we are) ; Monica Stephens: The Frightening Future of Digital Maps ; Aris Venetikidis: Making sense of maps ; and Amy Robinson Sterling: Play a game, map the mind.
Maps and Mapping video talks blog link
Featuring – Daniel Eisenstein: Mapping the Universe ; Danny Dorling: Maps that show us who we are (not just where we are) ; Monica Stephens: The Frightening Future of Digital Maps ; Aris Venetikidis: Making sense of maps ; and Amy Robinson Sterling: Play a game, map the mind.
Earth video talks
Featuring – Zaria Forman: Drawings that show the beauty and fragility of Earth ; Al Gore: The Case for Optimism on Climate Change ; Satish Kumar: Soil, Soul and Society ; Sam ‘Ohu Gon III: Lessons from a thousand years of island sustainability ; Tega Brain: Eccentric Engineering: Thoughts for the Anthropocene ; and Francesco Sauro: Deep Under the Earth’s Surface, Discovering Beauty and Science.
Earth video blog link
Featuring – Zaria Forman: Drawings that show the beauty and fragility of Earth ; Al Gore: The Case for Optimism on Climate Change ; Satish Kumar: Soil, Soul and Society ; Sam ‘Ohu Gon III: Lessons from a thousand years of island sustainability ; Tega Brain: Eccentric Engineering: Thoughts for the Anthropocene ; and Francesco Sauro: Deep Under the Earth’s Surface, Discovering Beauty and Science.