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'''Roy Ascott''' is a British artist and theorist, who works with [[cybernetics]] and [[telematics]]. He is President of the [[Planetary Collegium]].
'''Roy Ascott''' is a British artist and theorist, who works with [[cybernetics]] and [[telematics]]. He is President of the [[Planetary Collegium]].

== Work ==
Since the 1960s, Roy Ascott has been a practitioner of [[interactive]] [[computer art]], [[electronic art]], cybernetic and [[telematic art]].

The historian of art and technology [[Frank Popper]] writes of Roy Ascott<ref>{{cite book|last=Popper|first=Frank|title=From Technological to Virtual Art|year=2007|publisher=MIT Press|location=Cambridge, MA|isbn=9780262162302|pages=77}}</ref>:

{{quote|Roy Ascott was among the first artists to launch an appeal for total spectator participation ... At present, Ascott is one of the most outstanding artists and theoreticians in the field of telematics.
}}

In his first show (1964) at the Molton Gallery, London [http://telematic.walkerart.org/timeline/timeline_shanken.html], he exhibited ''Analogue Structures and Diagram Boxes'', comprising change-paintings and other works in wood, perspex and glass. In 1964 Ascott published "Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic Vision" in ''Cybernetica: journal of the International Association for Cybernetics'' (Namur). In 1968, he was elected Associate Member of the Institution of Computer Science, London (proposed by [[Gordon Pask]]). In 1972, he became a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Arts]].

Ascott has shown at the [[Venice Biennale]], Electra Paris, [[Ars Electronica]], [[V2 Institute for the Unstable Media]] [http://framework.v2.nl/archive/archive/leaf/other/default.xslt/nodenr-143122], Milan Triennale, Biennale do Mercosul, [[Brazil]], European Media Festival, and gr2000az at [[Graz]], [[Austria]]. His first telematic project was ''La Plissure du Texte'' (1983), [http://telematic.walkerart.org/timeline/timeline_ascott.html] an online work of "distributed authorship" involving artists around the world. The second was his "gesamtdatenwerk" ''Aspects of Gaia: Digital Pathways across the Whole Earth'' (1989),an installation for the [[Ars Electronica]] Festival in Linz, discussed by (inter alia) Matthew Wilson Smith in ''The Total Work of Art: from Bayreuth to Cyberspace'', New York: Routledge, 2007. Retrospective exhibitions of his work were shown in May 2009 at Plymouth Arts Centre, England and in the Incheon INternational Digital Arts Festival, Incheon, South Korea in September 2010.


== Interactive computer art ==
== Interactive computer art ==

Revision as of 19:51, 27 December 2011

Roy Ascott
Born
Roy Ascott

Bath, Somerset, England
NationalityEnglish
EducationKing's College, University of Durham (now Newcastle University)
Known forart, technoetics, syncretism
Notable workLa Plissure du Texte, Electra, Paris; Planetary Network, XLII Venice Biennale; Telematic Embrace: visionary theories of art, technology and consciousness University of California Press).
MovementTelematic art
AwardsHonorary Professor, Thames Valley University, London. Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts

Roy Ascott is a British artist and theorist, who works with cybernetics and telematics. He is President of the Planetary Collegium.

Interactive computer art

Since the 1960s, Ascott has been a working with interactive computer art, telematic art.[3] and systems art. Ascott built a theoretical framework for approaching interactive artworks, which brought together certain characteristics of Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus, Happenings, and Pop Art with the science of cybernetics.[4] He was also influenced by the writings of Gordon Pask, Anthony Stafford Beer, William Ross Ashby, and F.H.George.[5]

References

  1. ^ Roy Ascott is mentioned as a major influence to Stephen Willats in: Emanuele Guidi, "Stephen Willats -- The world how it is and the world how it could be", in Kunstforum International, Volume 207: Social Design, March/April 2011, pp. 180-187
  2. ^ [1]
  3. ^ artmuseum.net
  4. ^ http://www.plymouthartscentre.org/art/royascott.html
  5. ^ A critical survey of Ascott's work is provided by Edward A. Shanken in his introductory essay "From Cybernetics to Telematics: The Art, Pedagogy, and Theory of Roy Ascott" in Ascott, R. 2003. Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology and Consciousness. (ed. Edward A. Shanken). Berkeley: University of California Press. [2]


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