THE
      SPIRIT OF.
DISCOVERY
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art and science international meeting
low power society and thought strategies
trancoso | portugal | june 21 to 23. 2007
free admitance

Roy Ascott
 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_AscottRoy
      Ascott is founding president of the Planetary Collegium, and
      Professor of Technoetic Art, University of Plymouth, England,
      and Visiting Professor in Design|Media Arts at UCLA. He was Vice-President
      and Dean of San Francisco Art Institute, California; Professor
      of Communications Theory, University of Applied Arts, Vienna;
      Professor of Fine Art, Minneapolis College of Art; and President
      of  Ontario College of Art, Toronto. He served on the Art and
      Media Panel of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2001-2004).
      Pioneer of telematic art , Ascott has shown at the Venice Biennale,
      Electra Paris, Ars Electronica Linz, V2 Holland, Milan Triennale,
      Biennale do Mercosul, Brazil, European Media Festival, and has
      initiated many online projects, including the seminal work of
      "distributed authorship", La Plissure du Texte: a planetary
      fairytale (1983). Founding editor of Technoetic Arts, he's also
      on editorial boards of Leonardo, LEA, and Digital Creativity.
      He has advised new media centres and festivals in Europe, Australia,
      Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, Korea and the USA, as well as the
      CEC and UNESCO. He convenes the annual international Consciousness
      Reframed conferences. See: Ascott, R. 2003. Telematic Embrace:
      visionary theories of art, technology and consciousness. Edited
      with an introduction by Edward A. Shanken. Berkeley: University
      of California Press. 



      
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