In 2020, Richard received his PhD from the Horizon CDT for his thesis Brain-Controlled Cinematic Interactions.
Richard is the founder of AlbinoMosquito Productions Limited, a creative agency that has produced and shown work on the BBC, TATE Modern, The National Gallery, The Lowry, CONTACT, RNCM, The Royal Exchange, The Roundhouse, Grand Theatre Groningen, BRIC Brooklyn, and in Sulaimani, Iraq, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and Hong Kong. He is a practicing artist-researcher working across the mediums of theatre, film and digital technologies.
Richard’s second brain-controlled film The MOMENT has been shown at festivals around the UK including Sheffield Doc Fest, BlueDot, Kendall Calling, and Leeds International Film Festival, as well as touring to Madrid, Barcelona, Geneva, Austria, Iceland and Hong Kong. The film and research have also been presented at international academic conferences. At CHI16 in San Jose, California, his research work on Brain Controlled Movies was awarded Best Art Paper.
Richard is also the primary investigator on research project Adaptive Interactive Movies, a research co-production with Horizon DER and AlbinoMosquito using AI to allow audiences to interact with cinema without narrative disruption. He is managing a research team in data privacy, machine learning, audience studies, and psychology to build a machine learning algorithm into viewing habits and personality types of a representative sample of the UK population. This will be used to build computer vision software to allow movies to adapt to an audiences’ emotional reactions and tested in a new movie called Before We Disappear written and directed by Richard.
Richard’s innovative work continues to push the boundaries of interactive cinema, blending art, technology and research to shape the future of immersive storytelling.
