Roy Ascott (b.1934, Bath, England)
Artist, researcher, art theorist. He is one of the pioneers of European cybernetic and telematic trends in contemporary art. Initiated a number of telematic, net and interactive projects, among them:
«Terminal Art»
(USA-Great Britain, 1980),
«La Plissure du Texte»
(Mus?e d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1983),
«Planetary Network»
(XLII Venice Biennale, Venice, 1986),
«Aspects of Gaia»
(Ars Electronica, Linz, 1989),
«Art-ID/Cyb-ID»
(Biennal do Mercosul, Portu-Alegri, 1999),
«The Moistmedia Manifesto»
(gr2000az, Graz, 2000) and many others. His publications are translated into many languages and include the books:
«Art & Telematics: Toward the Construction of New Aesthetics»
(1998),
«Reframing Consciousness»
(1999),
«Art Technology Consciousness»
(2000),
«Art Technology Consciousness»
(2000),
«Technoetic Arts»
(2002),
«Telematic Embrace»
(2003),
«Engineering Nature»
(2006). Has taught for more than 40 years in different educational institutions around the world. Amongst many senior academic and advisory appointments he was the Founding Director of CAiiA-STAR at the University of Wales College Newport and Plymouth University
(which has evolved into the Planetary Collegium); Vice-President and Dean of the San Francisco Art Institute; Professor of Communications Theory, University of Applied Arts, Vienna; Professor and Chair of Fine Art, Minneapolis College of Art & Design; and President of the Ontario College of Art. He has served on the Art and Media Panel of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and the Arts Council of England. He is the founding editor of the magazine
«Technoetic Arts» and on the editorial boards of such magazines as
«Leonardo»,
«Convergence»,
«Digital Creativity». He also advises new media centres in Japan, Korea, Brazil, North America and Europe. Currently he is President of The Planetary Collegium and Professor in the Faculty of Technology at the University of Plymouth
(Plymouth, UK).
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