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Email: richard at futurenatural dot net

		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 Gallery in London in 2008. It turned out to be quite a Baroque affair, with Sean Cubitt contributing a dazzling essay describing a flaccid penis nestling like a sparrow and an interview between me and Charlie Gere where I describe how Dresden made me sick. You can click on the link above to download the PDF but you will need to email me if you want a hard copy.

		Richard Wright is a visual artist working in animated media for twenty years 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 most recently completed online project is “How to Talk to Images”, consisting 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 and the “Cross Talk” eco-media project. Their recent project “Tantalum Memorial” won the transmediale 09 award. He is currently working on “decorative surveillance” – a live video project that uses the flow of people through urban spaces as an animation tool. He is also researching a book exploring the contemporary practice of animated media, the “narrativising” of new media and data visualisation as the successor to documentary. Download a copy of by bio here 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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	Some Interviews & Reviews
		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. It generarted many requests for the video purely on this recommendation alone. Download the text here (.doc 38K) INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD WRIGHT 1996 This was an interview that Swedish artist Matts Hejm did with me when I was doing a Visiting Professorship at the Konsthogskolan in Stockholm (that's like the RCA). Very dated now - guffaw to hear me talking about how the media artist can survive as a 'maverick research scientist'. Download the document here (.doc 46K)