Richard Wright

LMX Spiral 1998
www.futurenatural.net

Richard Wright is a media artist and researcher working in the field of digital moving image and interactive techniques. Over the last twenty years his work has been exhibited and screened at numerous festivals, exhibitions and seminars and broadcast by television channels around the world. In 1998 he received a PhD in the aesthetics of digital film making and has published nearly forty essays, articles, papers and reviews.

Previous films include Heliocentrum (1995) - a cross between a political documentary and a Seventeenth century rave video and LMX Spiral (1998), a conceptual music video about the eighties. His last film was Foreplay (2004) – described as a “porn film without the sex”. In 2001 he completed the online screensaver The Bank of Time which was nominated for a BAFTA award. Since 2004 he has been a core member of the artist led organisation Mongrel which hosts the MediaShed in Southend-on-Sea.

His most recently completed project was The Mimeticon – a “Baroque search engine” that uses image recognition to create a form of visual writing. Forthcoming film projects include a skinhead film based on Stewart Homes’s novels and a feature project described as "Lost in Space set during the English civil war...".