Planetary Collegium

The Planetary Collegium is an international research platform that promotes the integration of art, science, technology, and consciousness research, under the rubric of technoetic arts. It is based in Plymouth University. The Collegium's Hub is the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Integrative Arts (CAiiA), and it has nodes in Lucerne, Trento, and Shanghai.

Planetary Collegium logo

History

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

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, where it is now located in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Since 1997, the Collegium has given more than seventy conferences and symposia in Europe, North and South America, Japan, China and Australia.

Since its inception, over 80 doctoral candidates have graduated from the programme with the Plymouth University PhD.

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.[1] 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.[2] Its Nodes are T-Node in Trento, De Tao-Node in Shanghai, and NGL-Node in Lucerne. The programme, which is largely part-time, has a virtually 100% success rate, with well over 80 doctoral graduates .

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 https://www.facebook.com/groups/20001464384/

The Planetary Collegium has a geographically dispersed membership, and convenes the majority of its 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. 2014 Recipient of the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica Award for Visionary Pioneer of New Media Art. Doctor Honoris Causa, Ionian University, Corfu, 2016.

Collegium Advisory Board

Honorary Fellows 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, US (2011–12). Paulo Rodrigues University of Aveiro, Portugal (2010–11). Wengao Huang University of Plymouth, UK (2005–06). Cristina Miranda de Almeida University of the Basque Country. (2005–06). Andrea Gaugusch University of Vienna, Austria (2003–04). Dene Grigar Washington State University—Vancouver (2002–04). Katia Maciel Federal University Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2001–02). 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-) I-Node, Lila Moore,(2014-2015).

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

Research Sessions and Public Conferences

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Media Art Net - Ascott, Roy: Biography".
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ Archived January 16, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/14/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.