Roy Ascott
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ISEA2011
Roy Ascott is an artist whose research is invested in cybernetics, technoetics, telematics, and syncretism. He is the founding president of the Planetary Collegium, an international platform for art, technology and consciousness research, based in Plymouth University (UK) with nodes in Milan and Zurich. He has held senior academic positions in San Francisco, Minneapolis, Vienna and Toronto, and is an Honorary Professor of Aalborg University Denmark,. His international exhibitions range from the Venice Biennale to Ars Electronica. A retrospective of his work was exhibited at Plymouth Art Centre in 2009, and at the Incheon International Festival of Digital Art Korea in 2010, and at Space Studios, London in 2011. His theoretical work is widely published, translated and referenced. He has advised media art institutions in Europe, Australia, South America, the USA, Japan, and Korea. He edits Technoetic Arts (Intellect) and is an Honorary Editor of Leonardo.
ISEA2010
Roy Ascott is an artist and theorist whose research is invested in cybernetics, technoetics, telematics, and syncretism. He is the founding president of the Planetary Collegium, an international platform for art, technology and consciousness research, based in Plymouth University, UK.
ISEA 2002
Roy Ascott, UK, caiia-star. CAiiA-STAR is a world-wide research community, founded and directed by Roy Ascott, whose innovative structure involves collaborative work and supervision both in cyberspace and at regular meetings in the UK and abroadISEA1997
Roy Ascott, UK, is director of the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (CAiiA), University of Wales College, Newport. Formerly: Dean of the San Francisco Art Institute and the Professor for Communications Theory at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. Since 1980 he has created many global networking projects (Museum of Modern Art, Paris, the Venice Biennale, Ars Electronica Linz, V2 Holland). He has published over 100 texts, translated into many languages. He lectures, advises and contributes to numerous festivals, juries, journals, media centres and universities throughout Europe, North and South America, Australia and Japan. Ascott has worked with the shamanic Kuikuru indians of Mato Grosso, Brazil in May,1997. He convened the 1st International CAiiA Research Conference: “Consciousness Reframed: Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era”, July 1997. Reference: Stiles, K. & P. Selz, 1996. Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art, Berkeley: University of California Press. Lovejoy, M.1996, Postmodern Currents: Art and Artists in the Age of Electronic Media (2nd Edition). New York: Random House. Popper, F. 1994. Art of the Electronic Age London:Thames & Hudson. Shanken, E. 1996. Technology and Intuition: A Love Story?
ISEA1995
Roy Ascott, UK, A pioneer of cybernetics and telematics in art, Roy Ascott has initiated many global networking projects and published over seventy texts He advises Leonardo, CEC, Ars Electronica, and IMF San Francisco. Formerly Communications Theory Professor, Vienna, and Dean of The San Francisco Art Institute, he is currently Director of CAIIA in Wales.
ISEA1994
Pioneer of telematic art, his seminal projects include “La Plissure du Texte” Electra ’83, Paris), “Planetary Network” (Venice Biennale 1986) and “Aspects of Gaia” (Ars Electronica 89, Linz). His work is widely published in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. He is a consultant to many European institutions including the C.E.C., Ars Electronica Center, CETEC, Universite Paris Dauphine, the European League of Institutes of the Arts and editorial advisor to Leonardo (MIT Press), Intermedia (Madrid) and IDEA (Paris). He is Director of CAIIA – the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts at Gwent College of Higher Education in Wales. He was Professor fuer Kommunikationstheorie, Hochschule fuer angewandte Kunst in Vienna, Austria, 1985-92 and Dean, San Francisco Art Institute, California, USA1975-78.
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Title: Art and Education in the Telematic Culture
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Title: Founding Meeting Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts
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Title: From Appearance to Apparition: Communications and Consciousness in the Cybersphere
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Title: The Network Without Walls
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Title: The Architecture of Cyberception
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Title: The Planetary Collegium
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Title: Wormholing in Cyburbia and other Paranatural Pleasures
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Title: Artificial Gender, Natural Technology, and Emergent Mind
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Title: Emerging Architectures Panel Introduction
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Title: Sensuous City
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Title: Artists Teaching Artists: Case Studies of the Masterclass paradigm
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Title: Emergent Mind: Art in the Technoetic Dimension
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Title: The Past, Present, and Future of Publishing in Electronic Arts
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Title: Moistmedia, Technoetics and the Three V.R.s
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Title: Art In The Post-Biological Era
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Title: CAiiASTAR
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Title: Making Sense of Orai
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Title: MIND-LAUNCH: Reflections / Projections on Education as Art
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Title: Distance Makes the Art Grow Further: Distributed Authorship and Telematic Textuality in La Plissure du Texte
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Title: Technoetic Architecture
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Title: Networking in the Arts Symposium: | Organiser/Presenter(s):
- Raymond Lauzzana
- Roy Ascott
- Fred Truck
- Carl Eugene Loeffler
- Derek Dowden
- Jeanelle Hurst
- Mits Mitroupolis
Title: Novel Incentives, Emerging Trends & Hybrid Practice. The Future of Education? Symposium: | Organiser/Presenter(s):- Roy Ascott
- Nina Czegledy
- Peter F. Stephan
- Bernd Robben
- Bettina Schülke
- Dieter Daniels
- Attila Nemes
- Barnabas Malnay
