who's who in research visuAl Arts - Intellect

Roy Ascott
Planetary Collegium, 64 Upper
Cheltenham Place, Montpelier,
Bristol, BS6 5HR, United Kingdom
Keywords moistmedia, syncretic
reality, telematics, technoetics
Linda Ashton
Keywords postcolonialism,
postmodernism, teacher education,
reflective practice
of art, science and technology. Her first science-fiction novel The
Gray’s Anatomy was published in 2001 by Serpent’s Tail.
› Living buildings: plectic systems architecture, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of
Speculative Research, 7.2, 79-94.
› The nautilus – evolving architecture and city landscapes for future
sustainable development, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative
Research, 7.2, 105-115.
Roy Ascott is an artist and theorist whose research is invested in
cybernetics, technoetics, telematics, and syncretism. He is founding
president of the Planetary Collegium, an international research
platform for art, technology and consciousness research, based in
Plymouth University with nodes in Milan and Zurich. He has held
senior academic positions in San Francisco, Minneapolis, Vienna and
Toronto, and is an Honorary Professor of Aalborg University Denmark,
and Thames Valley University London. His international exhibitions
include La Plissure du Texte , Paris 1983; Planetary Network, Venice
Biennale, 1986; Aspects of Gaia, Ars Electronica 1989; Art-ID/Cyb-
ID, Biennal do Mercosul, Brazil,1999; Moist Manifesto, gr2000az,
Graz. 2000. His retrospective ‘The Syncretic Sense’ was exhibited at
Plymouth Art Centre in 2009, and at the International Incheon Digital
Art Festival in Korea, 2010, including a new production in Second Life
of La Plissure du Texte. His theoretical work is widely published,
translated
› The syncretic imperative, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative
Research, 4.2, 109-114.
› Introduction: Living Buildings: Plectic Systems Architecture, Technoetic
Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 7.2, 73-74.
› Editorial, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 8.1, 3-4.
› Editorial, Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 8.2, 137-137.
› LPDT2, Metaverse Creativity, 1.1, 81-100.
Linda Ashton graduated from Townsville Teachers’ College in 1972.
The arts have been the main integrating device for her personal and
professional development and teaching across early childhood,
primary, secondary and tertiary education contexts. She was a founding
member of The N.Q. Ballet Company (precursor to Dance North)
which provided a unique blend of skills and knowledge in the
performing arts, costume and music. Career emphases: teaching in