Professor Robert Pepperell
Professor of Fine Art
Cardiff School of Art & Design
- PhD
Overview
Robert Pepperell PhD is Professor at Cardiff School of Art and leader of the multidisciplinary Fovolab at Cardiff Metropolitan University. He investigates the nature of the conscious mind and visual perception through painting and drawing, scientific experimentation, and philosophical inquiry.
The Fovolab research group is attempting to measure and capture the experience of looking at objects in the world using a new form of 'natural perspective' based on the structure of human vision. The aim is not to record what is in the world, but the experience of seeing the world from an embodied point of view. This work has resulted in the development of a new form of 3D geometry for computer graphics that improves the depiction of visual space (www.fovotec.com).
As an artist he has exhibited at Ars Electronica, the Barbican Gallery, Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, the ICA, and the Millennium Dome. As an academic he has published several books, including The Posthuman Condition (1995 and 2003) and The Postdigital Membrane (with Michael Punt, 2000), as well as articles, reviews, and papers in the fields of art history, philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and perceptual psychology.
Research Publications
What Matter Feels: Consciousness, Energy and Physics (How Science can Explain Minds)
Pepperell, R., 2 Dec 2024, 1 ed. London: IRM Editions. 224 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Consciousness and Energy Processing in Neural Systems
Pepperell, R., 1 Nov 2024, In: Brain Sciences. 14, 11, p. 1112 1 p., 1112.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
`The very beautiful principles of natural philosophy': Michael Faraday, Paper Marbling and the Physics of Natural Forms
Pepperell, R., 10 Jun 2024, In: LASER Journal. 2, 1, p. 1-14 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A Plea for Picturistics: Why Do We still not Understand Pictures?
Pepperell, R., 2024, In: Art and Perception. 12, 2, p. 89-92 4 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
Being alive to the world: An artist's perspective on predictive processing
Pepperell, R., 18 Dec 2023, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 379, 1895, 20220429.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
A Computational Approach to Studying Aesthetic Judgments of Ambiguous Artworks
Wang, X., Bylinskii, Z., Hertzmann, A. & Pepperell, R., 1 Jun 2023, In: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Explaining the Curvature Effect: Perceptual and Hedonic Evaluations of Visual Contour
Clemente, A., Penacchio, O., Vila-Vidal, M., Pepperell, R. & Ruta, N., 20 Apr 2023, In: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Non-metric distance judgements are influenced by image projection geometry and field of view
Ruta, N., Ganczarek, J., Pietras, K., Burleigh, A. & Pepperell, R., 11 Mar 2023, In: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 76, 12, p. 2837-2853 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Sensorial Design—A Collaborative Approach for Architects and Engineers
Grant, P., Littlewood, J. R., Pepperell, R. & Sanna, F., 7 Jan 2023, Sustainability in Energy and Buildings 2022. Littlewood, J., Howlett, R. J., Howlett, R. J., Jain, L. C. & Jain, L. C. (eds.). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, p. 208-217 10 p. (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies; vol. 336 SIST).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Does Machine Understanding Require Consciousness?
Pepperell, R., 18 May 2022, In: Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. 16, 788486.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review