Featured Publications
A selection of book chapters, conference papers, magazine articles, and online commissions. The full list of publications is available here.
Holography: How Artists Sculpt with Light, Space, and Time
Commissioned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, to coincide with Deana Lawson’s solo exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
CFR, Kilroy and the Luminous Pencil
Commissioned text for Style is Fraud, collected writings on artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd.
Holography – A Critical Debate within Contemporary Visual Culture
Special Issue offering critical discussion, reflection, and analysis of holography in the creative arts.
No Telos
A collaborative artistic research project exploring the critical role of uncertainty, disorientation, not knowing, and open-ended activity within creative practice in uncertain times.
Ruben Nuñez Memorial
Ruben Nuñez was passionate about almost everything: the people he met, the artworks he created, the studios he occupied, the exhibitions he showed in.
Periphery
Limited to 1,000 copies, with fifty copies set aside to hold fish and chips in the borough of Great Yarmouth.
Rudie Berkhout Memorial
Rudie Berkhout’s holograms explored colour and graphically abstract imagery that pushed the boundaries of the medium in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The Perception of Reality – Looking at Looking
Exploring key historical milestones in cultural holographic imaging and the paradox of looking at, and interpreting, objects which are not actually there.
Supporting Creative Holography
TThe Shearwater Foundation was the only organisation of its type to exclusively offer grants, awards, and financial support for a wide variety of groups, individuals, and activities which furthered the art of holography worldwide.
Something in the Air – Stephen Benton
Exploring Stephen Benton’s pioneering contributions to holography, from innovative display techniques to portraiture, and his lasting influence on artists, museums, and the field as a whole.
Architectural Holography
Many artists, scientists, designers, architects, and members of the general public have long craved large-scale holography since the 1940s. This paper explores some of the key works in the field.
Building with Light: Holography, glass and architecture
In September 2000, a massive glass and holographic wall was installed in Bonn, Germany. It brought together glass technicians, holographic artists, and physicists.
Archiving a Creative History: Holography for a future generation
Acknowledging the past can stimulate the future. A presentation exploring the challenges of archiving the work of artists and producers active in creative holography.
The National Holographic Centre England
A National Holographic Centre has been proposed for construction in England. Its aim is to offer teaching facilities for creative holography to degree-level students, the design-based holography industry, the local community, school children, and members of the public.
The Art of Collaboration
A joint paper with Eric P. Krantz exploring the concept of collaboration between artists and scientists, presented at the 5th International Symposium on Display Holography.
Holography, Visual Medium or Cheap Trick?
Article published in Art Monthly examining the development of holography within the visual arts and early critical responses to the medium.
PhD Thesis Department of Fine Art, University of Reading, UK
Holograms as PhD doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Reading. An early example of a practice-based submission by an artist.
Kinetic Art: Three Dimensional Luminous Images
Pepper published his first academic paper in 1979, while still a student undertaking a Master of Fine Art degree at the University of Reading, UK.
Works with holography, projected light, installation and spatial drawing.
Publications exploring the cultural impact of holography in the visual arts.