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Roy Ascott wins at Prix Ars Electronica 2014

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It’s official. Professor Roy Ascott is a national – and an international – treasure.
One of his seminal pieces, Video-Roget has become part of the Tate Gallery Permanent Collection, where it will sit alongside works by the most celebrated British artists of the past 500 years.
Plus he won the Golden Nica award as a Visionary Pioneer of Media Art at the esteemed international competition for cyber-arts, the Prix Ars Electronica 2014, “the world’s oldest and most renowned competition in media art”.
Roy, Professor of Technoetic Arts in Plymouth University’s School of Art and Media, and founding president of the Planetary Collegium based here, has been at the forefront of the digital art movement for more than five decades.

Reviewing the Future: Vision, Innovation, Innovation.

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The First Summit Meeting of the Planetary Collegium, Montreal, Canada.19-22 April, 2007. C’ur des Sciences, University of Quebec, Montreal. hosted by Centre Interuniversitaire des Arts Mediatiques and Hexagram. Network consciousness, telematic interactivity and the media and metaphors of technology and science, have informed the vision of the Collegium since its inception as CAiiA at the University of Wales College, Newport back in 1994. Throughout the subsequent decade, developments in computing, communications, biophysics and cognitive science, hypermedia, telepresence and robotics created challenges in all fields: architecture, performance, dance, narrative, music, as well as the visual arts and design. New discourse was emerging and theory was not to be left behind. In this context, CAiiA-STAR flourished. As the pressure to expand increased, the Planetary Collegium was established, with its CAiiA-Hub in the University of Plymouth, and Nodes in Zurich, Milan and Beijing, with others pending. http://summit.planetary-collegium.net/

F.A.q. Questions about Art, Consciousness and Technology

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November 30, December 1 and 2, 2006. SESC Paulista, Avenida Paulista, 119, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil, Phone (5511) 3179-3796 (25/11/2006). The idea of this forum is to establish an open dialogue between general public and people dedicated to the interface between art, consciousness and technology. In the forum, the question plays the major role of relating the complexity of the participants projects and issues of daily reality in the voice of the invited perguntadores (‘question makers’). The perguntadores will be intellectuals related to each of the five main topics of the round tables, but not particularly engaged in the context of art and technology. F.A.q. gathers 17 members of the Planetary Collegium, Brazilian artists and prominent intellectuals in the fields of science, culture and thought in a program of three days of lectures, round tables and commented digital art shows.