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William Gibson

Eric Dean Rasmussen - 13.09.2011 - 14:45

Dennis Ashbaugh

Eric Dean Rasmussen - 13.09.2011 - 14:49

Roy Ascott is a British artist and theorist, who works with cybernetics and telematics, born in Bath, England. From 1955-59 he studied Fine Art at King’s College, University of Durham under Victor Pasmore and Richard Hamilton. On graduation he was appointed Studio Demonstrator (1959–61). He then moved to London, where he established the radical Groundcourse at Ealing Art College, which he subsequently established at Ipswich Civic College, in Suffolk. He was a visiting lecturer at other London art schools throughout the 1960s. Then he briefly was President of Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, 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 the 1980s, and Professor of Technoetic Arts at the University of Wales, Newport in the 1990s. Ascott is also the founding president of the Planetary Collegium, an advanced research center which he set up in 2003 at the University of Plymouth, UK, where he is Professor of Technoetic Arts.

Eric Dean Rasmussen - 13.09.2011 - 15:28

John Cage

A composer, philosopher, poet, and artist, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avante-garde. Critics have lauded him as one of the most influential American composers of the 20th century. (Source: Wikipedia)

Jill Walker Rettberg - 18.09.2011 - 21:33