He convenes the annual conference Consciousness Reframed: art and consciousness in the post-biological era. He was formerly Dean of San Francisco Art Institute, and Professor for Communications Theory at the Hochschule fuer angewandte Kunst in Vienna. He is on the editorial board of Leonardo, Convergence, and Digital Creativity, and advises new media centres and festivals in Japan, Korea, Brazil, North America and Europe. His writings are published widely. His books include: Art & Telematics: Toward the Construction of New Aesthetics. (Japanese trans. E. Fujihara). Tokyo: NTT, 1998; Reframing Consciousness, 1999, and Art Technology Consciousness, 2000 (Intellect Books, UK). His collected writings, edited by Edward A. Shanken, was published by the University of California Press. Email: roy_ascott@compuserve.com.