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Leonardo Electronic Directory
Roy Ascott
Leonardo Honorary Editor
| Roy Ascott 64 Upper Cheltenham Place, Bristol BS6 5HR U.K. Email: roy.ascott@btinternet.com Web site: www.planetary-collegium.net |
Roy Ascott, Founding Director of the Planetary Collegium, 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) from which base the Collegium has evolved; 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, Minneaplois College of Art & Design; 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, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London. Roy Ascott is an artist and theorist who has shown, inter alia, 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 Technoetic Arts: a journal of speculative research , 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 the UK, 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. |
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