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Born 1934 in Bath, England. Artist and theorist.
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Roy Ascott (1934, Bath) is an artist and theorist, working with cybernetics and telematics on cybernetic art, focusing on the impact of digital and telecommunications networks on consciousness.  
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== Biography ==
 
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Pioneering the place of cybernetics and telematics in art, Roy Ascott has been working with issues of art, technology and consciousness since the 1960s. 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. His first seminal telematic project was La Plissure du Texte (1983), an online work of "distributed authorship" involving artists around the world in the construction of a non-linear narrative.
 
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== Interactive Computer Art ==
 
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Since the 1960s Roy Ascott has been one of Europe's most active and outspoken practitioners of interactive computer art. Ten years before the personal computer came into existence, Ascott saw that interactivity in computer-based forms of expression would be an emerging issue in the arts. Intrigued by the possibilities, he built a theoretical framework for approaching interactive artworks, which brought together certain characteristics of the avant-garde (Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus, Happenings, and Pop Art in particular), with the science of cybernetics championed by Norbert Wiener.
 
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== Academic Career ==
 
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He is the founding president of the Planetary Collegium[1], an advanced research center based in the University of Plymouth, UK, with nodes in Zurich, Milan and Beijing. He has been Dean of San Francisco Art Institute, California, Professor for Communications Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and Principal of Ontario College of Art, Toronto. He has advised media organisations in Brazil, Japan, Korea, Europe and North America, as well as UNESCO and the CEC, and since 2000 has been a Visiting Professor in Design|Media Art [2] at the UCLA School of the Arts. He is the founding editor of Technoetic Arts, journal of speculative research[3].
 
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== Students ==
 
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As a teacher Ascott has had many notable students e.g. Brian Eno, Paul Sermon[4], Pete Townsend, Stephen Willats[5]. As director of studies his doctoral graduates include Peter Anders, Jon Bedworth, Geoff Cox, Char Davies[6], Elisa Giaccardi, Dew Harrison, Pamela Jennings[7], Eduardo Kac, Joseph Nechvatal, Miroslaw Rogala, Gretchen Schiller, Jill Scott, Bill Seaman, Christa Sommerer, Victoria Vesna[8].
 
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He has published over 150 articles and academic papers in the journals and magazines of many countries.
 
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==Publications==
 
==Publications==
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* Ascott, R. (ed). 2005. Engineering Nature. 2005.Bristiol UK:Intellect.
 
* Ascott, R. (ed). 2005. Engineering Nature. 2005.Bristiol UK:Intellect.
 
* Ascott,R.2003. Telematic Embrace. {E.Shaken, ed.] Berkeley: University of California Press.  
 
* Ascott,R.2003. Telematic Embrace. {E.Shaken, ed.] Berkeley: University of California Press.  
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*Ascott, R. 2002. Technoetic Arts (Korean translation: YI, Won-Kon), (Media & Art Series no. 6, Institute of Media Art, Yonsei University). Yonsei: Yonsei University Press
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* Ascott, R. 2002. Technoetic Arts (Korean translation: YI, Won-Kon), (Media & Art Series no. 6, Institute of Media Art, Yonsei University). Yonsei: Yonsei University Press
 
* Ascott, R. 1998. Art & Telematics: toward the Construction of New Aesthetics. (Japanese trans. E. Fujihara).  A. Takada &  Y. Yamashita eds. Tokyo:  NTT Publishing Co.,Ltd.  
 
* Ascott, R. 1998. Art & Telematics: toward the Construction of New Aesthetics. (Japanese trans. E. Fujihara).  A. Takada &  Y. Yamashita eds. Tokyo:  NTT Publishing Co.,Ltd.  
 
* Reframing Consciousness. Exeter: Intellect.  1999
 
* Reframing Consciousness. Exeter: Intellect.  1999
 
* Art Technology Consciousness. Exeter: Intellect. 2000
 
* Art Technology Consciousness. Exeter: Intellect. 2000
  
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==Links==
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* http://www.planetary-collegium.net/people/detail/ra
  
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Latest revision as of 01:32, 1 March 2015

Roy Ascott (1934, Bath) is an artist and theorist, working with cybernetics and telematics on cybernetic art, focusing on the impact of digital and telecommunications networks on consciousness.

Publications[edit]

  • Ascott, R. (ed). 2005. Engineering Nature. 2005.Bristiol UK:Intellect.
  • Ascott,R.2003. Telematic Embrace. {E.Shaken, ed.] Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Ascott, R. 2002. Technoetic Arts (Korean translation: YI, Won-Kon), (Media & Art Series no. 6, Institute of Media Art, Yonsei University). Yonsei: Yonsei University Press
  • Ascott, R. 1998. Art & Telematics: toward the Construction of New Aesthetics. (Japanese trans. E. Fujihara). A. Takada & Y. Yamashita eds. Tokyo: NTT Publishing Co.,Ltd.
  • Reframing Consciousness. Exeter: Intellect. 1999
  • Art Technology Consciousness. Exeter: Intellect. 2000

Links[edit]

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