Roy Ascott (UK) - The Consciousness Reframed conference series

Trondheim - November 1, 2010

An interview with Roy Ascott was recorded on the occasion of Biennale for art and technology Meta.Morf in Trondheim, Norway.

Roy Ascott is a British artist and theorist, who works with cybernetics and telematics, whose work focuses on the impact of digital and telecommunications networks on consciousness. In 1997 at the University of Wales he founded The Consciousness Reframed conference series, which he talks about. It is a forum for transdisciplinary inquiry into art, science, technology, design and consciousness, drawing upon the expertise and insights of artists, designers, architects, performers, musicians, writers, scientists, and scholars, usually from at least 20 countries. As he says- It is certainly to say that technology and consciousness or as i would say techno ethics inform the research and of course this does involve the language. I mean we are interested in transdisciplinary practice that is to say not interdisciplinary where you have different sort of disciplines borrow each others terminology or tools or something, but genuine transdisciplinary process, which would have that outcome – new behaviours, new social structures, new language, new tools and that is what we look for, that is the measure of usefulness I think the kind of collaborative research.

Tags:
• cognitive system
• consciousness
• cybernetics
• electronic art
• interactive computer art
• techno ethics
• telecommunications networks
• telematics