Planetary Collegium

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The Planetary Collegium is an international research platform that promotes the integration of art, science, technology, and consciousness research. It is based in Plymouth University, with nodes in Kefalonia, Lucerne, Milan, and Zurich. Its president is Roy Ascott.

Planetary Collegium logo

History

The Planetary Collegium was founded in 1994 at what is now the University of Wales, Newport as the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (CAiiA) by Roy Ascott.[1]

Three years later, Ascott established STAR (Science Technology and Art Research) in the School of Computing, University of Plymouth. CAiiA-STAR constituted a joint research platform, with access to supervisory and technical resources of both universities.

In 2003, Ascott relocated the platform to Plymouth University, renaming it the Planetary Collegium.

Since 1997, the Collegium has given over fifty conferences and symposia in Europe, North and South America, Japan, China and Australia.

Aims

The Collegium aims to produce new knowledge in the context of the arts, through transdisciplinary inquiry and critical discourse, with special reference to technoetic research and to advances in science and technology.[2] Its seeks to reflect the social, technological and spiritual aspirations of an emerging planetary society, while sustaining a critical awareness of the retrograde forces and fields that inhibit social and cultural development. It combines the face-to-face association of individuals with the trans-cultural unity of telematic communities, thereby developing a network of research nodes strategically located across the planet, each with a distinctive cultural ethos. The Collegium seeks outcomes that involve new language, systems, structures, and behaviours, and insights into the nature of mind, matter and human identity.


Structure

The Planetary Collegium consists of artists, theoreticians and scholars working within the context of transdisciplinarity and syncretism so as to develop their research in the practice and theory of new media art with a special interest in telematics and technoetics. Their doctoral research leads to the award of the University of Plymouth PhD. Post-doctoral research is also pursued. It has attracted an impressive number of internationally well-established artists, musicians, performers, designers, architects, theorists and scholars involved in doctoral and post-doctoral research.

The hub of the Collegium, CAiiA-Hub (the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Integrative Arts) is situated in the School of Art and Media, Faculty of Arts, Plymouth University.[1] Its Nodes are Z-Node in Zurich, M-Node in Milan, I-Node in Kefalonia, and NGL-Node in Lucernel

In addition to doctoral candidates and graduates, supervisors and honorary members, its constituency also includes general members, who share the aims and interests of the Collegium, and are invited to participate in its development .

The Planetary Collegium has geographically dispersed members and frequent research sessions and public conferences in Asia, Australia, the Americas and Europe.

Awards

The Collegium was awarded The World Universities Forum Award for Best Practice in Higher Education 2011.[3]

Collegium President

Roy Ascott, Founding President, and Director of the CAiiA-Hub

Collegium Advisory Board

Honorary Members of the Collegium
Academic Members of the Collegium

Advanced Research Associates

The Advanced Research Associateship (ARA) involves post-doctoral or advanced practice research. ARAs are required to attend three Composite Sessions within their year of registration, and to participate in the associated international research conferences.

CAiiA-Hub: Heather Raikes University of Washington, Seattle, USA (2011-12). Paulo Rodrigues University of Aveiro, Portugal (2010-2011). Wengao Huang University of Plymouth, UK (2005-2006). Cristina Miranda de Almeida University of the Basque Country. (2005-2006). Andrea Gaugusch University of Vienna, Austria (2003-2004). Dene Grigar Washington State University--Vancouver (2002-2004). Katia Maciel Federal University Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2001-2002). Tania Fraga University of Brasilia, Brazil (1999-2000). M-Node: Luisa Paraguai, Anhembi Morumbi University, São Paulo, Brazil (2011-12). Gianna Angelini, University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy (2012-).

The Consciousness Reframed Conferences

Instituted by Roy Ascott, the international research conference series Consciousness Reframed: art and consciousness in the post-biological era brings together each year between 60 and 100 presenters from up to 25 countries

  • 1997, 1998, and 2000. University of Wales College, Newport
  • 1998. University of Plymouth, England. Conference workshop The Architecture of Consciousness
  • 2002. Perth, Western Australia. Hosted by Curtin University
  • 2003. University of Wales College, Newport.
  • 2004. Beijing, China. Qi and Complexity Digital Media Studio, Central Academy of Fine Arts; China Electronic Music Center, Central Conservatory of Music; Department of Digital Art and Design, School of Software, Peking University; Institute of Digital Media, Beijing Normal University.
  • 2005. University of Plymouth, England. Altered States: Transformations of Perception, Place & Performance.
  • 2006. University of Plymouth, England. Altered States: Immatereality.
  • 2008. Vienna, Austria. New Realities : Being Syncretic Hosted by Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien.
  • 2009. Munich, Germany. Macromedia Hochschule für Medien und Kommunikation. Experiencing Design, Behaving Media .
  • 2010. Trondheim, Norway. TEKS - Trondheim Electronic Arts Center. Making Reality Really Real .
  • 2011. Shanghai, China. Institute of Visual Art, Fudan University. Transcultural Tendencies | Transmedial Tendencies.
  • 2011. Centro Cultural Belem and Artshare. Lisbon, Portugal. Presence in the Mindfield: Art, Identity and the Technology of Transformation .
  • 2012. Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture. Kefalonia, Greece. Technoetic Telos: Art, Myth and Media
  • 2013. The German University in Cairo, Egypt. 2013. "Behind the Image and Beyond"

Research Sessions and Public Conferences

  • Sessions and conferences have been hosted by:
  • Artspace Media Centre, Dublin (1997)
  • La Beneficia Cultural Centre, Valencia (1998)
  • CYPRES, Marseilles (1999)
  • Federal University, Rio de Janeiro (1999)
  • University of Arizona, Tucson (2000)
  • École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (2000)
  • Fondazione Fitzcaraldo, Turin (2001)
  • Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona (2001)
  • University of California DARNet, Santa Cruz and Los Angeles (2001)
  • University of Arizona, Tucson (2002)
  • Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia (2002)
  • IAMAS, Ogaki, Japan (2002)
  • The Hochschule fuer Gestaltung und Kunst, Zurich (2003)
  • Image Technology Center, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Paraciutu and Fortaleza (2003)
  • Ciberart, Bilbao (2004)
  • School of Software, Peking University, Beijing (2004)
  • Texas Woman's University, Dallas (2005)
  • University of Plymouth, Plymouth (2005)
  • Sabanci University, Istanbul (2005)
  • University of Arizona, Tucson (2006)
  • University of Plymouth, (2006)
  • SESC , São Paulo, Brazil (2006)
  • Hexagram , Montreal (2007)
  • University of Plymouth, (2007)
  • Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano - NABA (2007)
  • LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijon, Asturias, Spain (2008)
  • Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien (2007) Vienna, Austria (2008)
  • SESC , São Paulo, Brazil (2008)
  • La Sala Parpallo Valencia, Spain (2009)
  • macromedia hochschule für medien und kommunikation Munich, Germany (2009)
  • Artshare, Porto, Portugal, 2010
  • Ionion Centre for the Arts and Culture, Kefalonia, Greece, 2012
  • CIANT - International Centre for Art and New Technologies, Prague, Czech Republic. 2012

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kristine Stiles & Peter Selz, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded by Kristine Stiles) University of California Press 2012, p. 464
  2. ↑ Roy Ascott
  3. ↑


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