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Artwork or Network was produced specifically for Rules of the Game, a series of overlapping exhibitions held at the Surface Gallery, Nottingham, during 2007.
Based on a single Internet connected screen and simple set of instructions, it asked the gallery visitor to "leave" the space, find an Internet connected computer and log on to a specified web address.
Once on line participants were asked whether they thought the installation they had seen in the gallery was an 'artwork' a 'network' or neither of these and to select a coloured rectangle to signify their opinion. They also had the opportunity to leave their name, location and a website they would like other people to visit. Finally they were encouraged to invite 5 of their friends to do the same.
As more people took part, so more rectangles became 'occupied'. The image changed on a daily basis and the work was complete as soon as all of the rectangles were 'occupied'.
There were three ways to take part: Visit the Surface Gallery to collect the instructions, hear about the instructions by word of mouth, or by being invited by someone who has already taken part. Much like the process involved in viewing an exhibition or particular work in a gallery.
Social connections 'spread' around the Internet - each person 'digitally' touching the next.
Invitation postcard located next to the installed screen.
One Million Points of Light was launched at the Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham, England, on 3rd February 2006 as part of a presentation given by Andrew Pepper about artists working with creative holography and his own activities in the filed.
This Internet based project invited a possible ten thousand participants to select pixels on a web page, choose a colour and then "switch" on their block of virtual light. Participants were also able to include their name, location and a link to either their own web site or one they found interesting.
The resulting 'image', made up of multiple blocks of light , developed over four years, and produced a network of connections from thousands of collaborators in over 120 locations. The abstract, online, image also constructed a 'catalogue' of links to web sites around the world and is forming the raw, visual data for a future hologram and gallery installation.
The project used software and structures normally associated with Internet advertising.
In 2005 Alex Tew, a business student in the UK, set up a web site so that he could sell each of the pixels on his page to advertisers for $1.00 each with the offer to "own a piece of Internet history"! In return those advertiser were able to place an image (often a company logo) in the pixels they purchased. Ridiculous as this appeared, each pixel being too small to make a logo visible, companies purchased multiple 'blocks' to make their corporate image visible, paying several hundred dollars each for the opportunity.
Tew made over a million dollars in 5 months and started a 'gold rush' on the internet. There were numerous sites selling advertising space and trying to duplicate Tew's success. A new 'mini' industry developed to provide 'turn-key' pixel advertising software.
One Million Points of Light took advantage of these readily available programmes to explore a visual, none advertising, model. It disrupted and adjusted the software to prohibit the inclusion of corporate or advertising images - allowing only the choice of a carefully selected palette of colours taken from one of Andrew Pepper's early reflection holograms.
Through launching this project Pepper hoped to examine if it was possible to 'sell' light and, at the same time build a collaborative visual statement produced via a global network of individuals who never actually met or communicated?
An unstated aim, but one which underpinned the project, was to begin with these very specific colours taken from an actual hologram, made up of light 'taken' from a virtual (holographic) image. After being processed by the web-based project and its many collaborators, the resulting online image would be converted back into a holographic (virtual) image completing a visual, conceptual and physical cycle.
The project was self funding and used income generated by the sale of these small blocks of coloured light to administer the site, maintain the servers on which it ran and, at a later date, produce a hologram and gallery installation.
The collection of luminous 'points' on the original website is now complete and the site has been decommissioned while its data and connections are being used in the production of the holographic element of the project.
An exhibition to support final year students on the fine art course at the University of Lincoln.
A university wide call for participation was made by third year students, who organised this fundraising project, which was shown in the university's new Project Space Plus located in the School of Fine & Performing Arts. Participants were asked to submit work no larger than 6" x 6" and make a financial donation to the degree show funding.
All pieces submitted were displayed on shelves around the Project Place Plus gallery.
Andrew Pepper showed Fragment Top Left (Shallow/Smooth), a laser cut drawing on 350gms/150lb medium cold press watercolour paper.
Exhibition dates: 8th - 14th April 2014
Ten-Year Gallery Retrospective
Saturday, 17 July 2004 Published in Group Exhibitions Be the first to comment!
Highgate Gallery opened in 1994 with two exhibitions which set the standard for future years. From the outset, the aim was to achieve quality and diversity, keeping in mind the special qualities of the Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution and the space in the Hall. A committee of volunteers - artists, gallery managers and collectors - was formed to run the Gallery.
From 1996 it has been possible to mount nine shows a year. By the end of 2004, the Highgate Gallery will have held 81 exhibitions; of these six featured the work of students ranging from primary pupils to postgraduates. Four Members’ Art Exhibitions have displayed the work of local amateur and professional artists. One of the ways in which the Gallery has fulfilled its educational remit is by staging major exhibitions of etchings by Hockney and Goya, loaned by the Arts Council. Around these loan exhibitions there were programmes of activities for the wider community.
Andrew Pepper took part in the Highgate Gallery exhibition programme during 1999.
Lighting for this installation of 'Lamp 1' was kindly supplied by Illuma Lighting Ltd. www.illuma.co.uk
Exhibition dates: 17th - 29th July 2004
Andrew Pepper spent over 25 years as a visiting lecturer in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University, moving to positions as a full-time senior lecturer and Head of First Year in Fine Art, including interim course leader.
He maintains a particular interest in the transition into university life with particular emphasis on the challenges encountered by new students starting their academic journey in fine art. He was an admissions tutor (international and non-standard applications) and trained as an advanced personal tutor.
He taught fine art for several years at the University of Lincoln and has contributed to professional development modules in Fine Art at the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University's Hive Start To.. and Summer School courses.
He has lectured on the subject of creative holography to a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the UK, Germany, Norway and the USA.
Contributions to courses included: Fine Art, Contemporary Arts, Photography, Sculpture, Mixed Media, Interactive Art, History of Art, Graphics, Foundation Studies, Glass, Optics, Architecture, Holography, Media Art, Media Design and Film & TV.
He has also developed a number of workshops on The Unsupported Mark, Spatial Mark-Making and ThereNess the results of which have been presented in International conferences and publications.
Lecturing
2012 - Present
Senior lecturer in Fine Art, Head of First Year Fine Art and advanced personal tutor, Nottingham School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, UK
2012 - 2016
Visiting lecturer, Fine Art, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK.
2011
Senior lecturer in Fine Art, School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Visiting lecturer, Fine Art, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK.
Lecturer, Summer School, The Hive, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
2010
Senior lecturer in Fine Art, School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, UK
Visiting lecturer, Fine Art, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK.
Lecturer, Summer School, The Hive, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
2009
Associate lecturer in Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
Visiting lecturer, Fine Art, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK.
2008
Visiting Studio lecturer, Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
Light workshops, Fine Art, University of Lincoln, UK.
2007
Visitor, Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK.
2006
Web Workshops, University of Nottingham, School of Education,
Professional Development in the Arts
Visitor, Fine Art, University of Lincoln, UK
Workshop for teachers in connection with the British Arts Show
Individual and group tutorial supervision for first and second-year students,
Fine Art, The Nottingham Trent University, UK.
2005
Individual and group tutorial supervision for First-year students,
Fine Art, The Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Drawing with Light workshop. Angel Row Gallery and University of Nottingham Continuing Education Department.
2004
Individual and group tutorial supervision for First and Second-year students,
Fine Art, The Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Workshops for Web design
Fine Art Department, The Nottingham Trent University, UK.
2003
Tutorial supervision for second-year students,
Fine Art Department, The Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Workshops for Web design and Light Sculpture
Fine Art Department, The Nottingham Trent University, UK.
2002
Tutor, MA course, Postgraduate School,
The Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Tutorial supervision for second-year students,
Fine Art Department, The Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Tutorials for second and third-year students,
Contemporary and Performing Arts, The Nottingham Trent University, UK.
2001
Tutorial supervision for second-year students,
Fine Art Department, The Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Light and Installation workshops and Individual student tutorials,
Contemporary and Performing Arts, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
1997-2001
Tutoring third-year degree students, working with light and cross-media installations, in the "Moving Image" area of The Nottingham Trent University’s Fine Art Department, Nottingham, UK.
1995
Team teaching, Background to creative holography, Academy of Media Arts
Cologne, Germany.
1994-95
Team-teaching, undergraduate course, Video, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany.
1991-1995
Seminars, lectures, workshops on Light as a Sculptural Medium, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany.
1990
Holography Project, Fine Art students, University of Reading.
1990
Visiting lecturer, Fine Art Dept, University of Reading.
1989
BTEC Theatre Design, thesis supervision and assessment, Croydon College.
1985-1990
Perception/holography courses, BTEC Theatre Design, Croydon College.
1984
History of Art lecturer, BTEC Theatre Design, Croydon College.
1982-1986
Visiting Lecturer, Richmond Holographic Studios.
Visiting Lecturer, Royal College of Art, Holography Unit.
Examination and Advisory
2021 External examiner, PhD, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Plymouth, UK.
2020 Internal independent Assessor, PhD, School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
2019 External examiner, PhD, Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montford University, Leicester, UK.
2017 Internal examiner, PhD, School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
2016 Internal examiner, PhD, School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
2015 Internal annual monitoring. PhD, School of Art and Design, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
2011 External examiner, PhD, School of Architecture and Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
2008 External examiner MFA, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Australia.
1994 External examiner x 2, PhD, Dept of Photography, Royal College of Art, London, UK
1993-1995
Internal examiner, project supervisor, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany.
Diploma in Audio-Visual Media (Departments of Media Art, Media Design, Film and TV).
1985 External examiner, MA, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
Educational Projects
1990
Light/sculpture workshop for children, Watermans Arts Centre, Brentford, London, UK.
1985
Light workshop for children, Tom Allen Centre, Newham, London, UK.
1985
Milton Keynes Art Gallery, Darlington Arts Centre, UK.
Nottingham Castle Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK.
1983-
Developed programme to use holography as a resource in primary schools.
Light Fantastic Gallery, London, in association with Inner London Educational Authority.
