University of Wales Institute Cardiff

Faculty Member, Cardiff School of Art and Design

Professor of Fine Art

Cardiff School of Art & Design

About

My primary areas of interest are in consciousness studies and certain metaphysical questions about the nature of mind and its relationship to the body and the world. These I investigate through both art practice and theoretical inquiry, trying to integrate both.

My long-standing interest in the human relationship to technology has led me to propose a model of the posthuman as a way of describing what it is to exist in an intensely technological culture. This posthuman model, however, is also informed by very ancient beliefs concerning the nature of self, mind and reality such as those to be found in some eastern traditions

Current topics of research include:

• reconciling knowledge in art, science and philosophy
• visual indeterminacy and visual perception
• non-classical logics, such as dialethics,
• paradoxes and contradictions,
• conscious art and creative technology,
• experimental aesthetics

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