{"id":552,"date":"2016-05-10T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=552"},"modified":"2016-05-06T14:04:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T14:04:29","slug":"professor-roy-ascott-awarded-the-degree-of-doctor-honoris-causa-by-the-ionian-university-corfu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2016\/05\/10\/professor-roy-ascott-awarded-the-degree-of-doctor-honoris-causa-by-the-ionian-university-corfu\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Roy Ascott honoured by University in Corfu"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Audio and Visual Arts of Ionian University<\/a>\u00a0has nominated as the first Honorary Doctors of the Department two of the most ground breaking pioneers of contemporary art, science and theory:\u00a0Professor Roy Ascott<\/a> (Plymouth University, UK) and Professor Stelarc (Curtin University, Australia). They will be honoured as part of the\u00a010th<\/sup> Audiovisual Arts Festival<\/a>\u00a0in a special ceremony organised at the Ionian Academy on Wednesday\u00a018th May 2016.<\/p>\n

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Roy Ascott is an artist and theorist of Media and New Media Arts, who has focused on the theoretical and practical application of cybernetics in art. He coined the concept of Technoetics –<\/em>\u00a0a field that brings together art, science, technology and consciousness.<\/p>\n

He is President of the Planetary Collegium<\/a>, a PhD and research programme based at\u00a0Plymouth University. Among a series of international awards, he has also been the recipient of the Ars Electronica Golden Nica Award for Visionary Pioneers of Media Art (2014).<\/p>\n

Prof Ascott’s\u00a0work has been exhibited in various international galleries and cultural institutions including Whitechapel Gallery (London), TATE Modern (collection) as well as at the Shanghai Biennale and Venice Biennale. His research has been published in a series of interdisciplinary and intermedia journals, conferences and symposia (US, Europe, Asia, Australia). He is the Founding Editor of Technoetic Arts<\/em> (Intellect) as well as an Honorary Editor of Leonardo<\/em> (MIT Press).<\/p>\n

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The Department of Audio and Visual Arts of Ionian University\u00a0has nominated as the first Honorary Doctors of the Department two of the most ground breaking pioneers of contemporary art, science and theory:\u00a0Professor Roy Ascott (Plymouth University, UK) and Professor Stelarc (Curtin University, Australia). They will be honoured as part of the\u00a010th Audiovisual Arts Festival\u00a0in a… Continue reading Professor Roy Ascott honoured by University in Corfu<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":166,"featured_media":610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,138],"tags":[66,126,222],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-transdisciplinary-creative-practices","tag-media-arts","tag-planetary-collegium","tag-roy-acott","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/166"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}