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Roy Ascott (UK)

neja — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:15:06 +0000

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.

Sabine Himmelsbach (CH)

neja — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 17:00:54 +0000

Sabine Himmelsbach – since March 2012 she is the new artistic director of the House of Electronic Arts Basel. She studied art history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. From 1993–1996 she worked for galleries in Munich and Vienna and later became project manager for exhibitions and conferences for the Sterischer Herbst Festvial in Graz, Austria. In 1999 she became exhibition director at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. From 2005–2011 she was the artistic director of the Edith-Russ-Site for Media Art in Oldenburg, Germany. Her exhibition projects include „Fast Forward“ (2003), „Coolhunters“ (2004), „Playback_Simulated Realities“ (2006), „Ecomedia: Ecological Strategies in Today’s Art“ (2007), „Landscape 2.0“ (2009), „MyWar. Participation in an Age of Conflict“ (2010) und „Culture(s) of Copy“ (2011). 2011 she curated the exhibition “gateways. Art and Networked Culture” for the Kumu Art Museum in Tallinn as part of the European Capital of Culture Tallinn 2011 program. As a writer and lecturer she is dedicated to topics related to media art and contemporary culture.