Roy Ascott

Professor Roy Ascott ist ein Pionier auf dem Gebiet der telematischen und interaktiven Medienkunst. Seine wichtigsten Projekte sind u.a. Terminal Art 1980; La Plissure du Texte, Electra, Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, 1983; Aspects of Gaia, Ars Electronica Linz, 1989; Planetary Network, Venice Biennale, 1986; Telenoia, V2 Holland, 1992.

Er ist Gründungs-Direktor von CAiiA-STAR (Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts, University of Wales, Newport, and the Science & Technology and Art Research Centre, in the School of Computing, University of Plymouth).

Er war u.a. Dekan des San Francisco Art Institute, und Professor für Kommunikationstheorie an der Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Wien.

Publikationen
Roy Ascott hat zahlreiche Texte publiziert, u.a.
The Architecture of Cyberception, Architects in Cyberspace, 1995
Technoetic Structures, Architects in Cyberspace II, 1998, published by Academy Editions, London
Art & Telematics: Toward the Construction of New Aesthetics. (Japanese trans. E. Fujihara). Tokyo: NTT, 1998
Reframing Consciousness: the technoetic paradigm. Exeter: Intellect Ltd, 1999
Im April 2003 wird sein neustes Buch erscheinen: Telematic Embrace - Visionary Theories of Art Technology, and Consciousness, The University of California Press.

Links
http://www.caiia-star.net/
http://eda.ucla.edu/archive/
http://www.rhizome.org/ds/pages/ascott.html
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/articles/shanken.html
http://www.artmuseum.net/w2vr/timeline/Ascott.html
http://www.ntticc.or.jp/pub/ic_mag/ic015/ascott/ascott_e.html
http://www.heise.de/tp/deutsch/special/arch/6077/1.html
http://www.swr.de/swr2/audiohyperspace/ger_version/interview/ascott.html#bio

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Roy Ascott is an artist and theorist who has shown at the Venice Biennale, Electra Paris, Ars Electronica Linz, V2 Holland, Milan Triennale, Biennale do Mercosul, Brazil, European Media Festival, and gr2000az at Graz, Austria. His research is in art and the technology of consciousness. He is the founding editor of the journal Technoetic Arts http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk, and he serves on the editorial boards of Leonardo. LEA, Convergence, Digital Creativity, and the Chinese journal Tom.Com. He has advised new media centres and festivals in North and South America, Europe, and the Far East, as well as the CEC and UNESCO, and convenes the annual international Consciousness Reframed conferences. His publications are translated into many languages and include the books: Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art Technology and Consciousness.2003 http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8867.html. Technoetic Arts . (Korean trans. & ed. Won-Kon Yi). Yonsei: Yonsei University Press, 2002 Art Technology Consciousness. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2000. Reframing Consciousness. Exeter: Intellect Books.1999. Art & Telematics: toward the Construction of New Aesthetics. (Japanese trans. & ed. E. Fujihara). Tokyo: NTT Publishing.1998

Roy Ascott is the founding director of the Planetary Collegium (a development of CAiiA-STAR which he established in 1994) an international research community which seeks the integration of art , science, technology, and consciousness research within a post-biological culture. It is a community of high level professionals committed, through collaboration and shared discourse, to pushing the boundaries of their art. It provides for doctoral and post-doctoral research. The Planetary Collegium‚s evolving network currently includes nodes supported by the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, and the Media Lab of the University of Art and Design Helsinki, UIAH, Finland. The Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Zürich is in the process of joining. The Collegium has plans to incorporate nodes located in Brazil, the U.S., Europe and the Far East, over the next five years.

Roy Ascott is Professor of Technoetics in the University of Plymouth, England and Adjunct Professor in Design|Media Arts at the University of California Los Angeles. Amongst many senior academic and advisory appointments he has been Founding Director of CAiiA-STAR (University of Wales College Newport and Plymouth University); Vice-President and Dean of the San Francisco Art Institute; Professor of Communications Theory, University of Applied Arts, Vienna; and President of the Ontario College of Art. He is on the Art and Media Panel of the Arts and Humanities Research Board in the UK.

roy.ascott@btinternet.com

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