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experimentadesign 2001

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lisbon 2001

roy ascott

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ROY ASCOTT is the Founding Director of CAiiA-STAR, which he established in 1994 as a platform for advanced research in the interactive arts and the development of post-biological culture. It is based jointly in the University of Wales, Newport, and the University of Plymouth, UK. CAiiA-STAR is a PhD and postdoc research community comprising many of the leading figures in this transdisciplinary field, which includes architecture, performance, immersive VR, music, transgenics, alife, technoetics, telematics, distributed agency, telerobotics, Mixed Reality and other emergent artforms, behaviors and genres. Since 1997, Ascott has convened the conference "Consciousness Reframed" which has become the principal international forum for the discussion of art, technology and consciousness. Ascott is Professor of Interactive Art at UWCN, and Professor of Technoetic Art at University of Plymouth. He is also a senior Adjunct Professor in Design|Media Arts at the University of California Los Angeles. A pioneer of cybernetics and telematics in art*, Roy Ascott 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. He has been Dean of San Francisco Art Institute, California, Professor for Communications Theory in the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, and Principal of Ontario College of Art, Toronto. He is on the editorial boards of Leonardo, Convergence, and is the media arts editor of the Chinese language online arts journal Tom.Com. He advises new media organisations in Japan, Korea, Europe, North America, and in Brazil (where much of his current research is based). Publications include: Art & Telematics: Toward the Construction of New Aesthetics, NTT, Tokyo, 1998; Reframing Consciousness (1999) and Art Technology Consciousness (2000), Intellect Books UK. He has published over 150 papers, widely translated into, for example, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Korean, Macedonian, Romanian, Spanish, Polish, and Portuguese. * See: Packer, R. & K. Jordan (eds). Multimedia: from Wagner to Virtual Reality. New York: Norton, 2001. Stiles, K. & P. Selz (eds). Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.

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ROY ASCOTT is the Founding Director of CAiiA-STAR, which he established in 1994 as a platform for advanced research in the interactive arts and the development of post-biological culture. It is based jointly in the University of Wales, Newport, and the University of Plymouth, UK. CAiiA-STAR is a PhD and postdoc research community comprising many of the leading figures in this transdisciplinary field, which includes architecture, performance, immersive VR, music, transgenics, alife, technoetics, telematics, distributed agency, telerobotics, Mixed Reality and other emergent artforms, behaviors and genres. Since 1997, Ascott has convened the conference "Consciousness Reframed" which has become the principal international forum for the discussion of art, technology and consciousness. Ascott is Professor of Interactive Art at UWCN, and Professor of Technoetic Art at University of Plymouth. He is also a senior Adjunct Professor in Design\|Media Arts at the University of California Los Angeles. A pioneer of cybernetics and telematics in art, Roy Ascott 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. He has been Dean of San Francisco Art Institute, California, Professor for Communications Theory in the University of Applied Arts, Vienna, and Principal of Ontario College of Art, Toronto. He is on the editorial boards of Leonardo, Convergence, and is the media arts editor of the Chinese language online arts journal Tom.Com. He advises new media organisations in Japan, Korea, Europe, North America, and in Brazil (where much of his current research is based). Publications include: Art & Telematics: Toward the Construction of New Aesthetics, NTT, Tokyo, 1998; Reframing Consciousness (1999) and Art Technology Consciousness (2000), Intellect Books UK. He has published over 150 papers, widely translated into, for example, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Korean, Macedonian, Romanian, Spanish, Polish, and Portuguese. See: Packer, R. & K. Jordan (eds). Multimedia: from Wagner to Virtual Reality. New York: Norton, 2001. Stiles, K. & P. Selz (eds). Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
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