Roy Ascott

Most Recent Affiliation(s):

Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, Roy Ascott Studio and DeTao Masters Academy, _Professor and _Director

Other Affiliation(s):

University of Wales
University of Plymouth

ISEA Bio(s) Available:

ISEA2024

Roy Ascott, recipient of the first Ars Electronica Golden Nica award for Visionary Pioneers of Media Art, focuses on the impact of digital and telecommunications networks on consciousness. His work has been shown at the Shanghai Biennale, Venice Biennale, Milan Triennale, Biennale do Mercosul Brazil, European Media Festival, INDAF 2010 Korea, and the Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris. His work is in the permanent collection of the Tate Gallery, London and other notable collections. He has advised universities, arts councils, media centers, and festivals in Europe, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, Korea, USA and UNESCO. He is the founding President of the Planetary Collegium, an international network for doctoral research. In 2012, Roy Ascott became DeTao Master of Technoetic Arts at the DeTao Masters Academy, to promote the development of teaching and research in art, science, technology and consciousness in China. Since 2017, he has also been the Chief Specialist of the Visual Art Innovation Institute at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.

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 abroad

ISEA1997

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.

FISEA 1988

Roy Ascott, 1934, Bristol, UK