Misplaced Pages

#157842

55-711: The Planetary Collegium was conceived and established by Roy Ascott as the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts ( CAiiA ) 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 contracted to relocate

110-692: A Cold Climate. There are six schools in the RSA Family of Academies, all in the West Midlands, including Whitley Academy . The former RSA Academy in Tipton was also a member, until its disassociation in 2021. Past projects include delivering fresh drinking water to the developing world, rethinking intellectual property from first principles to produce a Charter (published as the Adelphi Charter ), investigating schemes to manage international migration and exploring

165-461: A matter of interest in the press. Danish professor Björn Lomborg , was chosen; his latest book, Cool It , suggests that the imminent demise of polar bears is a myth. As president of the RSA, Prince Philip's first choice of speaker was Ian Plimer , professor of mineral geology at Adelaide University, but this was rejected as too controversial, as Plimer argues that the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming

220-757: A mini retrospective of his work was shown in Linz, at the time of his Ars Electronica Golden Nica award. He discussed his work on Geran TV. The seminal work of 1962, "Video-Roget" was acquired in 2014, by the Tate Gallery, London for its permanent collection. Two key works were included in "Electronic Superhighway", at the Whitechapel Gallery, London in 2016. "Art in Europe 1945–68" shown in ZKM, Karlsruhr, Germany Oct 2016/ Jan 2017, included his "Change-painting 1966". His early work

275-567: A radical innovator in arts education and research, having occupied leading academic roles in England, Europe, North America, and China, and is currently leading his Technoetic Arts studio in Shanghai, and directing the Planetary Collegium . In 2018, he became the subject of Cybernetics & Human Knowing: A Journal of Second Order Cybernetics, Autopoiesis and Cybersemiotics entitled "A Tribute to

330-438: Is Tim Eyles , and its chief executive since September 2021 is former Bank of England Chief Economist Andy Haldane . Fellowship is granted to applicants "who are aligned with the RSA's vision and share in our values." Some prospective fellows are approached by the RSA and invited to join in recognition of their work; some are nominated or "fast-tracked" by existing fellows and RSA staff, or by partner organisations such as

385-709: Is a Doctor Honoris Causa of Ionian University , Corfu, Greece. In his first show in 1964 at the Molton Gallery, London, he exhibited Analogue Structures and Diagram Boxes , comprising aleatory chance operation paintings and other chance operation works in wood, perspex and glass. In 1964, Ascott published "Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic Vision" in Cybernetica: Journal of the International Association for Cybernetics (Namur). In 1968, he

440-402: Is a key part of its charitable mission to make world-changing ideas and debate freely available to all. Over 100 keynote lectures, panel discussions, debates, and documentary screenings are held each year, many of which are live-streamed over the web. Events are free and open to the public, and mp3 audio files and videos are made available on the RSA's website and YouTube page. Speakers on

495-598: Is unproven. On 14 January 2010, the RSA in partnership with Arts Council England hosted a one-day conference in London called "State of the Arts". A number of speakers from various disciplines from art to government gathered to talk about the state of the arts industry in the United Kingdom. Notable speakers included Jeremy Hunt MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport , and his counterpart, Ben Bradshaw MP, who

550-523: The Churchill Fellowship ; others make their own applications with accompanied references, which are reviewed by a formal admissions panel consisting of RSA trustees and fellowship councillors. Fellows of the RSA are entitled to use the post-nominal letters FRSA . They also gain access to the RSA Library and to other premises in central London. Fellows pay an annual charitable subscription to

605-687: The Confederation of British Industry to raise £1 million and government departments to provide £3 million. In July 2008, the RSA became a sponsor of an academy in Tipton , The RSA Academy , which opened in September 2008. A New building for the school was completed in September 2010. In 2021 it was announced that the school would no longer be associated with the RSA. Projects include Arts and Ecology, Citizen Power, Connected Communities, Design and Society, Education, Public Services, Social Brain, and Technology in

SECTION 10

#1732851753158

660-562: The National Training School for Music , was founded by the RSA. The RSA devised a scheme for commemorating the links between famous people and buildings, by placing plaques on the walls – these continue today as " blue plaques " which have been administered by a range of government bodies. The first of these plaques was, in fact, of red terracotta erected outside a former residence of Lord Byron (since demolished). The society erected 36 plaques until, in 1901, responsibility for them

715-650: The Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica Award for Visionary Pioneer of New Media Art . Doctor Honoris Causa , Ionian University , Corfu, Greece. Honorary Professor, Aalborg University, Denmark. Honorary Professor, West London University, UK. Professor, Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts. DeTao Master of Technoetic Arts, DeTao Masters Academy, Shanghai, China. 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

770-620: The Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce , it was granted a Royal Charter in 1847, and the right to use the term "Royal" in its name by King Edward VII in 1908. Members of the society became known as 'Fellows' from 1914. In the nineteenth century, The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations was organised by Prince Albert , Henry Cole , Francis Henry, George Wallis , Charles Dilke and other members of

825-650: The Strand in central London, had been purpose-designed by the Adam Brothers ( James Adam and Robert Adam ) as part of their innovative Adelphi scheme. The original building (6–8 John Adam Street) includes the Great Room, which features a magnificent sequence of paintings by Irish artist James Barry titled The Progress of Human Knowledge and Culture and portraits of the society's first and second presidents, painted by Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds respectively. On

880-567: The UCLA School of the Arts. Ascott was an International Commissioner for the XLII Venice Biennale of 1986 (Planetary Network and Laboratorio Ubiqua ). He is the founding president of the Planetary Collegium an advanced research center which he launched in 1994, with its Hub currently based in the University of Plymouth , UK, and nodes in China, Greece, Italy, and Switzerland. In March 2012 he

935-591: The 1980s, and Professor of Technoetic Arts at the University of Wales, Newport in the 1990s where he established the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts. He established the Planetary Collegium in 2003. Ascott is recipient of the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica award for Visionary Pioneer of Media Art 2014. The award is for "those men and women whose artistic, technological and social achievements have decisively influenced and advanced

990-1105: The Faculty is automatic for (and exclusive to) all RDIs and HonRDIs. The Faculty currently has 120 Royal Designers (RDI) and 45 Honorary Royal Designers (non-British citizens who are awarded the accolade of HonRDI): the number of designers who may hold the distinction of RDI at any one time is strictly limited. The Faculty consists of practitioners from fields as disparate as engineering, graphics, interaction, product, furniture, fashion, interiors, landscape, and urban design. Past and present members include Eric Gill , Enid Marx , Sir Frank Whittle , Sir Jonathan Ive , Dame Vivienne Westwood , Sir James Dyson , Sir Tim Berners-Lee , Manolo Blahnik , Naoto Fukasawa , Rei Kawakubo , Issey Miyake , Dieter Rams , Sergio Pininfarina , Alvar Aalto , Vico Magistretti , Walter Gropius , Charles Eames , Richard Buckminster Fuller , Saul Bass , Raymond Loewy , George Nelson , Paul Rand , Carlo Scarpa , Vuokko Nurmesniemi , Massimo Vignelli , Yohji Yamamoto , Peter Zumthor , and more. In Great Britain and Ireland,

1045-617: The Incheon International Digital Arts Festival, Incheon, South Korea in September 2010, and at SPACE (studios) in Hackney, London in 2011. Syncretic Cybernetics , a comprehensive exhibition of his work, was featured in the 9th Shanghai Biennale 2012. Roy Ascott: The Analogues (featuring his work of the 1960s) was shown at the Plug-in Institute of Contemporary Arts, Winnipeg, July–Sept 2013. In September 2014,

1100-681: The Messenger Shaman: Roy Ascott". Dr.Kate Sloan's comprehensive study of his early work "Art Cybernetics and Pedagogy in Post-War Britain: Roy Ascott's Groundcourse" was published by Routledge in 2019. He is President of the Planetary Collegium , Professor of Technoetic Arts Plymouth University , and the De Tao Master of Technoetic Arts at the DeTao Masters Academy in Shanghai. He is also Chief Specialist of

1155-684: 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 . Currently, 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. Currently,

SECTION 20

#1732851753158

1210-443: The RSA awarded the first distinctions of Royal Designers for Industry (RDI or HonRDI), reserved for "those very few who in the judgment of their peers have achieved 'sustained excellence in aesthetic and efficient design for industry ' ". In 1937, "The Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry" was established as an association with the object of "furthering excellence in design and its application to industrial purposes": membership of

1265-586: The RSA building's rear frieze , the words "The Royal Society of Arts" are displayed (see photograph at right), although its full name is "The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce". The RSA has expanded into adjacent buildings, and now includes 2 and 4 John Adam Street and 18 Adam Street. The first occupant of 18 Adam Street was the Adelphi Tavern, which is mentioned in Dickens's The Pickwick Papers . The former private dining room of

1320-533: The RSA offers regional activities to encourage Fellows to address local topics of interest and to connect with other Fellows in their locality. The British Regions are: London, Central, North, Scotland, South East, South West, Wales and, Ireland. The RSA has a presence around the world under its RSA Global scheme with a notable presence in Australia, New Zealand and the United States. The RSA's public events programme

1375-402: The RSA's stage have included Ken Robinson , Al Gore , Sir David Attenborough , Alain de Botton , Michael Sandel , Nassim Nicholas Taleb , Martha Nussbaum , Desmond Tutu , Steven Pinker , Susan Cain , Dan Pink , Dan Ariely , Brene Brown , Slavoj Zizek , David Cameron , Yuval Noah Harari and Dambisa Moyo . The choice of speaker for the recent annual Presidential lecture has been

1430-458: The RSA. Alongside this, all new Fellows pay a one-off registration fee. Originally modelled on the Dublin Society for improving Husbandry, Manufacturers and other Useful Arts , the RSA, from its foundation, offered prizes through a Premium Award Scheme that continued for 100 years. Medals and, in some cases, money were awarded to individuals who achieved success in published challenges within

1485-512: The Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), principally the sculptor Henry Cheere , to found an autonomous academy of arts to teach painting and sculpture. Prior to this a number of artists were members of the RSA, including Cheere and William Hogarth , or were involved in small-scale private art academies, such as the St Martin's Lane Academy . Although Cheere's attempt failed,

1540-525: The Tavern contains a magnificent Adam ceiling with painted roundels by the school of Kauffman and Zucchi. A major refurbishment in 2012 by Matthew Lloyd Architects won a RIBA London Award in 2013, and a RIBA English Heritage Award for Sustaining the Historic Environment, also in 2013. The origin of London's Royal Academy of Arts lies in an attempt in 1755 by members of the RSA (then simply known as

1595-724: The Visual Art Innovation Institute at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. He is the founding editor of the research journal Technoetic Arts , an honorary editor of Leonardo Journal , and author of the book Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology and Consciousness, University of California Press . Roy Ascott was born in Bath , England. He was educated at the City of Bath Boys' School . His National Service

1650-593: The age of 10 was awarded a silver medal for his drawing of a dog. The RSA originally specifically precluded premiums for patented solutions. Today the RSA continues to offer premiums. The RSA awards three medals – the Albert Medal , the Benjamin Franklin Medal , and the Bicentenary Medal . Medal winners have included Nelson Mandela , Sir Frank Whittle , and Professor Stephen Hawking . In 1936,

1705-663: The aims and interests of the Collegium, and are invited to participate in its development on FaceBook . 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. The Collegium was awarded The World Universities Forum Award for Best Practice in Higher Education 2011. Roy Ascott , Founding President, 2014 Recipient of

Planetary Collegium - Misplaced Pages Continue

1760-462: The associated international research 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 Roy Ascott Roy Ascott FRSA (born 26 October 1934) is a British artist, who works with cybernetics and telematics on an art he calls technoetics by focusing on

1815-522: The categories of Agriculture, Polite Arts, Manufacture, Colonies and Trade, Chemistry and Mechanics. Successful submission included agricultural improvements in the cultivation of crops and reforestation, devising new forms of machinery, including an extendable ladder to aid firefighting that has remained in use relatively unchanged, and artistic skill, through submissions by young students, many of whom developed into famous artists such as Edwin Landseer who at

1870-412: The context of the arts, through transdisciplinary inquiry and critical discourse, with special reference to technoetic research and to advances in science and technology. 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

1925-490: The development of new artistic directions." He is a Doctor Honoris Causa of Ionian University , Corfu, Greece; Honorary Professor at Aalborg University Copenhagen; Honorary Professor at University of West London . He has advised new media arts organisations in Brazil, Japan, Korea, Europe and North America as well as UNESCO , and was Visiting Professor (VI), Design Media Arts, University of California Los Angeles (2003–07) at

1980-524: The eventual charter , called an 'Instrument', used to establish the Royal Academy of Arts over a decade later was almost identical to that drawn up by Cheere and the RSA in 1755. The RSA also hosted the first exhibition of contemporary art in 1760. Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds were among those who exhibited at this first exhibition, and were subsequently founder members of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768. An 1852 photography exhibition led to

2035-424: 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. As conceived and directed by Ascott,

2090-616: The feasibility of a UK-wide personal carbon trading system. It still promotes the practice of inclusive design, and is working with artists to communicate ideas about environmental sustainability (for example, through one of the RSA's past projects, WEEE Man , and currently through the Arts and Ecology project). The RSA has been home to TEDxLambeth , a TEDx conference based in Lambeth, since October 2019. The RSA moved to its current home in 1774. The House, situated in John Adam Street, near

2145-553: 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 . The Collegium has a Node De Tao-Node [2] in Shanghai. 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

2200-507: The impact of digital and telecommunications networks on consciousness . Since the 1960s, Ascott has been a practitioner of interactive computer art , electronic art , cybernetic art and telematic art . Ascott exhibits internationally (including the Biennales of Venice and Shanghai), and is collected by Tate Britain and Arts Council England . He is recognised by Ars Electronica as the "visionary pioneer of media art", and widely seen as

2255-482: The need to alleviate poverty and secure full employment . Notable Fellows (before 1914, Members) include Charles Dickens , Benjamin Franklin , Stephen Hawking , Karl Marx , Adam Smith , Marie Curie , Nelson Mandela , David Attenborough , Judi Dench , William Hogarth , John Diefenbaker , and Tim Berners-Lee . Today, the RSA has fellows elected from 80 countries worldwide. Founded in 1754 by William Shipley as

Planetary Collegium - Misplaced Pages Continue

2310-646: The no.1 nonprofit YouTube channel worldwide. The first animation in the RSA Animate series was based on Renata Salecl 's speech delivered for RSA on her book about choice. The society offered the first national public examinations in 1882 that led to the formation of the RSA Examinations Board now included in the Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations Board . In 1876, a predecessor of the Royal College of Music ,

2365-520: The platform to Plymouth University , renaming it the Planetary Collegium , where it is currently 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, first at the University of Wales and currently at Plymouth, over 80 doctoral candidates have graduated. The Collegium aims to produce new knowledge in

2420-679: The radical Groundcourse at Ealing Art College , which he subsequently established at Ipswich Civic College, in Suffolk, working with artist tutors such as Anthony Benjamin , Bernard Cohen . R. B. Kitaj , Brian Wall, Harold Cohen , and Peter Startup. Important to the development of his understanding of cybernetics was his friendship with Gordon Pask . Notable alumni of the Groundcourse include Brian Eno , Pete Townshend , Stephen Willats , and Michael English . Ascott taught in London Ealing, and

2475-533: The science of cybernetics . He was also influenced by the writings of Gordon Pask , Stafford Beer , William Ross Ashby , and F.H. George . Ascott has shown at the Venice Biennale , Shanghai Biennale , Electra Paris, Ars Electronica , V2 Institute for the Unstable Media , Milan Triennale, Biennale do Mercosul, Brazil, European Media Festival, and gr2000az at Graz , Austria. His first telematic project

2530-423: The society as a celebration of modern industrial technology and design. In September 2023, RSA workers voted to strike for the first time in the organisation's 270 year history, saying management had entered into pay negotiations in "bad faith". The RSA's Patron was Elizabeth II . The RSA's president is Anne, Princess Royal (who replaced her father, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh , in 2011), its chairman

2585-737: Was La Plissure du Texte (1983), an online work of "distributed authorship" involving artists around the world. The second was his "gesamtdatenwerk" Aspects of Gaia: Digital Pathways across the Whole Earth (1989), an installation for the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, discussed by (inter alia) Matthew Wilson Smith in The Total Work of Art: from Bayreuth to Cyberspace , New York: Routledge, 2007. Retrospective exhibitions of his work were shown in May 2009 at Plymouth Arts Centre, England, then in

2640-439: Was a visiting lecturer at other London art schools throughout the 1960s. He was then briefly was President of Ontario College of Art, now OCAD University , Toronto and then Chair of Fine Art at Minneapolis College of Art and Design before moving to California as Vice-President and Dean of San Francisco Art Institute , during the 1970s. He was Professor for Communications Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna , during

2695-606: Was appointed De Tao Master of Technoetic Arts at (DTMA), a high-level, multi-disciplined, creativity-oriented higher education institution in Shanghai, China. In 2014, he established the Ascott Technoetic Arts Studio at DTMA, creating the Technoetic Arts advanced degree programme, taught jointly with the Shanghai Institute of Visual Art . The DeTao-Node of the Planetary Collegium was established in 2015. He

2750-581: Was elected Associate Member of the Institution of Computer Science, London (proposed by Gordon Pask ) and in 1972, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts . Since the 1960s, Ascott has been working with interactive computer art , telematic art , and systems art . Ascott built a theoretical framework for approaching interactive artworks, which brought together certain characteristics of Dada , Surrealism , Fluxus , Happenings , and Pop Art with

2805-648: Was legally conveyed by deed to the National Trust . During the 1980s, the RSA worked with the Comino Foundation and established a Comino Fellowship Committee 'to change the cultural attitude to industry from one of lack of interest or dislike to one of concern and esteem'. This eventually led to a joint government/industry initiative to promote 1986 as "Industry Year", with the RSA and the Comino Foundation providing core funding of £250,000 – which persuaded

SECTION 50

#1732851753158

2860-486: Was spent as a Pilot Officer in RAF Fighter Command working with radar defence systems. From 1955 to 1959, he studied Fine Art at King's College , University of Durham (now Newcastle University ) under Victor Pasmore and Richard Hamilton , and Art History under Lawrence Gowing and Quentin Bell . He was awarded the degree of B.A. Hons Fine Art, Dunelm in 1959. On graduation he was appointed Studio Demonstrator (1959–61). He then moved to London, where he established

2915-486: Was the subject of the exhibition "Roy Ascott: Form has Behaviour", at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, Jan/Apr 2017. FRSA The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce , commonly known as the Royal Society of Arts ( RSA ), is a London -based organisation. The RSA's mission expressed in the founding charter was to "embolden enterprise, enlarge science, refine art, improve our manufacturers and extend our commerce", but also of

2970-541: Was then the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Excerpts from the events programme form the basis for the 10-minute whiteboard animations as shown on the theRSAorg YouTube channel. The series was created as a way of making important, socially-beneficial ideas as accessible, clear, engaging and universal as possible. The series is produced and audio-edited at the RSA, and the animations are created by RSA Fellow Andrew Park at Cognitive. The first 14 of these had gained 46 million views as of 2011, making it

3025-399: Was transferred to the London County Council (which changed the colour of the plaques to the current blue) and, later, the Greater London Council (the G.L.C.) and, most recently, English Heritage. Similar schemes are now operated in all the constituent countries of the United Kingdom . In 1929, the society purchased the entire village of West Wycombe . After extensive repairs, the village

#157842