HTTP GALLERY - LONDON
4 JULY - 3 AUGUST 2008
How to Talk to Images
by Richard Wright
No one is sure how many images there are on the Internet. Google has nearly a
billion. Some say it is hundreds of times more than that. People say that you
can find a picture of anything on the Internet, as though the entire visual
world is reflected there.
For How to Talk to Images at London's HTTP Gallery, Richard Wright has compiled
a database of 50,000 random Internet images as the raw content for two
artworks, which explore new conceptions of the image, called for by the sheer
quantity of visual information now available via the Internet.
As part of How to Talk to Images, Richard Wright's first solo exhibition in
London, a selection of Wright's animated films demonstrates the development of
his current interest in the Baroque. The exhibition is also the occasion of
publication of a limited-edition poster featuring an essay by the artist
illustrated by the entire visual history of the Western alphabet - from its
pictorial Egyptian origins 5,000 years ago to its perfected form under the
Romans, as well as a new book documenting the artists twenty year long
practice.
About the artist:
Richard Wright is a visual artist working in the fields of digital moving image
and networked interaction. During the 1990s, Richard was one of the pioneers of
digital animation as a distinct artistic form, with films being shown at
numerous festivals and exhibitions 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 book chapters, articles and reviews.
In 2004 he
joined Mongrel - an artists group internationally recognized for their work in
software art and 'free-media'. Since 2007 Richard has been Artist in Residence
at Furtherfield.org in London.
www.http.uk.net/
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