Mark Peter Wright

Dr. Mark Peter Wright is the Director of CRiSAP (Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice) and Reader in Critical Sound Practice at the London College of Communication.

His research is practice-based and process-led. It combines sound, installation, performance and collaboration. Underpinning these subjects and forms is a commitment to environmental relations and affects: sounds and sites, traces and phenomena; how artefacts matter; how media becomes critical; how practice can be infused with play. He is interested in the documentary form and the ways technology, self and space perform agency, power and poetics. Fieldwork, its ethics and aesthetics, is therefore a site of ongoing research. In addition to environmental encounters, his work investigates the pedagogical scene of playback as a commons for sensing and sense-making.

His monograph "Listening After Nature: Field Recording, Ecology, Critical Practice" was published by Bloomsbury in 2022/23. 

He teaches/supervises at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has significant experience in designing and leading lectures, workshops and seminars. He has delivered extensive public events for organisations and institutes in the UK and abroad. Conference papers, keynotes and invited talks have been presented at Harvard University (USA), University of Copenhagen (DK), Critical Media Lab (CH), Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (NO), University of Stavanger (NO), Wellcome Collection (UK) and many more. His writing has been published in various anthologies (Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, DPR Barcelona, Uniform Books). Peer reviewed articles have been published with Interference Journal, Leonardo Music Journal, Evental Aesthetics Journal, Sensate Journal, the Journal of Sonic Studies and many more.

As a practitioner, Wright has exhibited and performed widely in solo and group exhibitions at IMT Gallery, Platform A, MIMA, New York Public Library, The Showroom, Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, Café Oto, Catalyst Arts, GV Art, Royal Academy of the Arts, TATE and Trinity House Square Dublin. In addition to his own practice-based research, he collaborates extensively. With Helena Hunter he works under the name Matterlurgy, combining art, science and technology projects across exhibition, performance and experimental co-labs. With Prof. Angus Carlyle he works on projects and performances that explore the relations of listening and recording, nature and aesthetics, site and studio. Between 2014-2021 he co-convened Points of Listening with Prof. Salomé Voegelin, a series of public events exploring listening and sound-making as a collaborative and artful form of pedagogy.

His practice has been recognised across various awards including being named the British Composer of the Year in Sonic Arts. He received the Outstanding Postgraduate Supervisor Award, UAL, in 2021.