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Roy Ascott (born 26 October 1934) is a British artist, who works with cybernetics and telematics, on an art which is technoetic, focusing on the impact of digital and telecommunications networks on consciousness. He is President of the Planetary Collegium, and DeTao Master of Technoetic Arts at the DeTao Masters Academy in Shanghai. He is the founding editor of the research journal ''Technoetic Arts'', an honorary editor of ''Leonardo Journal'', and author of the book ''Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology and Consciousness.'' His Golden Nica award is for “those men and women whose artistic, technological and social achievements have decisively influenced and advanced the development of new artistic directions.” He is recipient of the Ars Electronica Golden Nica award for Visionary Pioneer of Media Art 2014, == Biography == Roy Ascott was born in Bath, England. He was educated at the City of Bath Boys' School. His National Service was spent as a commissioned officer in the RAF Fighter Command working with radar defence systems.〔(Technology and Intuition: A Love Story? Roy Ascott's Telematic Embrace )〕 From 1955-59 he studied Fine Art at King's College, University of Durham (now Newcastle University) under Victor Pasmore and Richard Hamilton, and Art History under Lawrence Gowing and Quentin Bell. On graduation he was appointed Studio Demonstrator (1959–61). He then moved to London, where he established the radical ''Groundcourse'' at Ealing Art College, which he subsequently established at Ipswich Civic College, in Suffolk. Notable alumni of the Groundcourse include Brian Eno, Pete Townshend, Stephen Willats, Roger Ruskin Spear, and Michael English. Ascott taught in London Ealing,〔(Bot generated title --> )〕 and was a visiting lecturer at other London art schools throughout the 1960s. Then briefly was President of Ontario College of Art,〔Wolfe, Morris. ''OCA 1967-1972: Five Turbulent Years''. Toronto: Grubstreet Books, 2002. ISBN 0-9689737-0-1〕 Toronto, then Chair of Fine Art at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, before moving to California as Vice-President and Dean of San Francisco Art Institute, during the 1970s. He was Professor for Communications Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna〔( )〕 during the 1980s, and Professor of Technoetic Arts at the University of Wales, Newport in the 1990s.(Bot generated title --> ),. where he established the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts. He established the Planetary Collegium at Plymouth University in 2003. He has advised new media arts organisations in Brazil, Japan, Korea, Europe and North America ( ), as well as UNESCO(Bot generated title --> ), and was Visiting Professor (VI), Design|Media Arts, University of California Los Angeles (2003–07)〔()〕 at the UCLA School of the Arts. Ascott was an International Commissioner for the XLII Venice Biennale of 1986 (Planetary Network and Laboratorio Ubiqua〔(Planetary Network - Venice Biennale 1986 )〕). He is the founding president of the Planetary Collegium an advanced research center which he set up in 2003, with its Hub currently based in the University of Plymouth, UK, and nodes in China, Greece, Italy, and Switzerland. In March 2012 he was appointed De Tao Master of Technoetic Arts at () (DTMA), a high-level, multi-disciplined, creativity-oriented higher education institution in Shanghai, China.(Bot generated title --> ). In 2014, he established the Ascott Technoetic Arts Studio at DTMA () creating the Technoetic Arts advanced degree programme, taught jointly with the Shanghai Institute of Visual Art. The DeTao-Node of the Planetary Collegium was established in 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roy Ascott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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