9.4 Roy Ascott Studio Celebration
Tracks
Track 4
| Wednesday, June 26, 2024 |
| 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
| Plaza P8 |
Speaker
Dr Clarissa Ribeiro
Program Director
Roy Ascott Studio
A Decade of Technoetic Innovation: Celebrating 10 Years of the Roy Ascott Studio Advanced Program at ISEA 2024 - Roy Ascott 90th Anniversary and the Planetary Collegium 40th Anniversary in 2024
Abstract
In 2024, the Roy Ascott Studio Advanced Program in Technoetic Arts marks a significant milestone—its 10th anniversary. This institutional presentation at ISEA 2024 aims to showcase the journey of the program, highlighting the innovative works and outcomes produced by its talented 4th-year and 3rd-year students who were incentivized to submit short papers and artist talk proposals to the ISEA 2024 Student stream. Roy Ascott and Clarissa Ribeiro— Technoetic Arts Program Director and the recipient of the Pete Townshend Endowed Senior Lecturership in Performative Technoetics (2023-2024), will shed light on the intersection of art, science, and technology, as manifested in the students' projects and the studio education radical innovative philosophy. A unique element of the proposal involves organizing an edition of the ‘LASER talks at Roy Ascott Studio’ at ISEA 2024, providing a platform for intellectual exchange and exploration of aspects of Technoetic Aesthetics. The Planetary Collegium was conceived and established by Roy Ascott as the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (CAiiA) 30 years ago, in 1994, at the University of Wales, Newport. At ISEA 2024, the joint celebration invites former Planetary Collegium Ph.D. researchers to contribute by sending short video testimonials, showcasing the evolution of Technoetic Arts from their particular perspectives over 30 decades of history. This joint celebration at ISEA 2024 is intended to serve as a testament to the global impact of the Planetary Collegium program in our field worldwide and the impact of the Advanced Program in Technoetic Arts designed by Professor Roy Ascott with the collaboration of Clarissa Ribeiro and the seminal team back in 2014. The short video messages from former Planetary Collegium Ph.D. researchers and former students from the T Technoetic Arts Program in China will be shared, offering heartfelt congratulations on the 90th birthday of Professor Roy Ascott.
Biography
Dr. Clarissa Ribeiro, Program Coordinator of the Roy Ascott Studio Advanced Program in Technoetic Arts at SIVA/DeTao in Shanghai, has been honored with the Pete Townshend Endowed Senior Lectureship in Performative Technoetics (2022-2024). Ph.D. in Arts (ECA USP Brazil, Poéticas Digitais/CAiiA hub of The Planetary Collegium, UK), Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship awardee (UCLA, Art|Sci Center/James Gimzewski Lab, US), M.Arch. (IA USP, Brazil), B.Arch, member of the UCLA Art|Sci Collective (2013-present), is the chair of the first Leonardo/ISAST LASER talks to be hosted in Brazil/Latin America (2017-present). The core of her explorations is the interest in cross-scale information and communication dynamics that impact and shape macro-scale emergent phenomena.
Roy Ascott, recipient of the first Ars Electronica Golden Nica award for Visionary Pioneers of Media Art, focuses on the impact of digital and telecommunications networks on consciousness. His work has been shown at the Shanghai Biennale, Venice Biennale, Milan Triennale, Biennale do Mercosul Brazil, European Media Festival, INDAF 2010 Korea, and the Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris. His work is in the permanent collection of the Tate Gallery, London and other notable collections. He has advised universities, arts councils, media centers, and festivals in Europe, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Japan, Korea, USA and UNESCO. He is the founding President of the Planetary Collegium, an international network for doctoral research. Since 2017, he has also been the Chief Specialist of the Visual Art Innovation Institute at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
Ms Eleanor Zhang
Studio Assitant
Co-presenter
Biography
Eleanor Zhang is the Personal Assistant to the ‘Roy Ascott Studio’ at the Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts, DeTAO Masters Academy, and the ‘Advanced Program in Technoetic Arts. Eleanor graduated from Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics. Since 2016, she has been responsible for assisting all programs, events, and activities in the Studio, including teaching, exhibitions, workshops, field trips, and publications.
Session chair
Clarissa Ribeiro
Program Director
Roy Ascott Studio
