Talk by Richard Brown 7.30 pm at the Sussex Arts Club, Brighton with two of his interactive works installed in the ballroom.

Richard Brown has a hybrid background in Computers and Cybernetics and an MA in Fine Art. He is currently a NESTA Research Fellow (National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts).

He combines ideas from alchemy, science and technology to produce interactive installations using a wide variety of media - high voltage electricity, mould, computers, software, electronics, projections, metals, glass and liquids. His talk was entitled: A Modern Day Alchemy: Mimetics, Magic, Technology and Transformation. In his presentation he gave a chronological overview of his art works. He also outlined some ideas on time, space, energy, mimetics and perception that are central in his practice, emphasising how he employs technology to create magical and transformative experiences.

Some examples of Richard's work:

The Mimetic Starfish Millennium Dome, Jan-Dec 2000
"The Mind Zone does contain the best bit of the entire dome: the Neural Net Starfish. A larger-than-life, gold, 3-D starfish has been somehow incorporated into a marble table top. It is incredibly lifelike and responds to human contact by retracting disdainfully or stretching out a tentacle in friendship when a hand approaches" The Times, Saturday, 8th January, 2000.

Biotica 2000, an immersive interactive installation that uses ideas from artificial life and explores emergent processes.

Alembic 1997, an interactive installation using ideas from alchemy and physics.