Planetary Collegium

The collegium's hub (CAiiA-Hub) was located in the School of Art, Design and Architecture, with nodes in Trento, Lucerne and Shanghai
Planetary Collegium

Planetary Collegium

The collegium's hub (CAiiA-Hub) was located in the School of Art, Design and Architecture, with nodes in Trento, Lucerne and Shanghai
Within a transcultural, transdisciplinary perspective, the Planetary Collegium is concerned with the advancement of emergent forms of art and architecture, in the context of telematic, interactive and technoetic media, and their integration with science, technology, and consciousness research. The Collegium's hub (CAiiA-Hub) was located in the School of Art, Design and Architecture, with nodes in Trento, Lucerne and Shanghai. Whilst it is no longer recruiting, since its inception, over 80 doctoral candidates have graduated from the programme with the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ PhD.
Further information can be found on the .

Planetary Collegium

Nodes

  • DeTao-Node Shanghai, China. DeTao Masters Academy in Shanghai.
    Director: Roy Ascott (roy.ascott@btinternet.com)
  • NGL-Node Lucerne, Switerland, Lucerne, Switzerland. NGL - SAA Neue Galerie Luzern - Swiss Academic Association.
    Director: René Stettler (stettler@neugalu.ch)
  • Trento, Italy. Fondazione Ahref.
    Director: Francesco Monico (francescomonico@gmail.com)
Visiting artists and post doctoral researchers are also in residence from time to time. Honorary members (New Knowledge Advisory Board):
  • Marilyn Schlitz 

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, Roy established STAR (Science Technology and Art Research) in the School of Computing, sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. CAiiA-STAR constituted a joint research platform, with access to supervisory and technical resources of both universities.

In 2003, Roy relocated the platform to the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½, renaming it the Planetary Collegium, where it is now located in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business.

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

Aims

The collegium aims to produce new knowledge in the context of the arts, through transdisciplinary inquiry and critical discourse, with special reference to  research and to advances in science and technology. 

It 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.

PhD graduates of the programme

A random selection of PhDs awarded since 1998:

  • 'Subject and Aesthetic Interface - an inquiry into transformed subjectivities' Johansson, Kathrine (2015) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. 
  • 'Facing Experience: A Painter’s Canvas In Virtual Reality' Dolinsky, Margaret, (2014) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'Interactive Technologies for the Public Sphere Toward a Theory of Critical Creative Technology' Jennings, Pamela Lynnette (2006) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'Principles of Metadesign'. Giaccardi, Elisa. (2003). PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'The Kinesfield: study of movement-based interactive and choreographic art'. Schiller, Gretchen . (2003). PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'Art and Technology: coherence; connectedness, and the integrative field' Nobrega, Carlos Augusto Moreira (2009) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'Outline of a Subversive Technopoetic: for a Libertarian Pedartgogy'. Monico, Francesco (2014) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'A Procedural Model For Integrating Physical And Cyberspaces In Architecture' . Anders, Peter (2003) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'Strategies for Interactive Public Art: Dynamic Mapping with (V) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'The Hybronaut and the Umwelt: Wearable Technology as Artistic Strategy' Beloff, Laura Maria (2013) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'Image and Evidence: The Study of Attention through the Combined Lenses of Neuroscience and Art' . Levy, Ellen K (2012) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'Life Expansion: Toward an Artistic, Design-Based Theory of the Transhuman/Posthuman'. Vita-More, Natasha (2012) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'Polyphibianism: Evolving Transdisciplinarity into an Imaginary Organism of Living Knowledge'. Ljubec, Ziva (2015) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'Astral Projection: Theories Of Metaphor, Philosophies of Science, and The Art of Scientific Visualization' Cox, Donna J (2008) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½.

  • 'Ecological Understanding through Transdisciplinary Art and Participatory Biology'. Ballengée, Brandon ((2015) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'Diffracting Representation: Towards A Situated Aesthetics Of Technospaces' Timeto, Federica (2013) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'The Varieties of User Experience Bridging Embodied Methodologies from Somatics and Performance to Human Computer Interaction'. Schiphorst, Thecla (2009) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'Human Computer Interaction'. Schiphorst, Thecla (2009) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'Communicating the Unspeakable: Linguistic Phenomena in the Psychedelic Sphere' Slattery, Diana R (2011) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'software curating: the politics of curating in/as (an) Open System(s)' Krysa, Joasia (2008) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'Amergent Music: behavior and becoming in technoetic & media arts'. Herber, Norbert F (2010) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'Ludics for a Ludic Society The Art and Politics of Play' Jahrmann, Margarete (2011) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'Re-appropriating Chinese Art in the Context of Digital Media: From the Chinese Past into a Mediated ‘Presence’ through Creative Practice' Hung , Keung David (2014) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'Participation as Media: a compositional system for staging participation with reflective scenography' Søndergaard, Karin (2010) sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'An Experimental Research into Inhabitable Theories' Westermann, Claudia (2011) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'On the Evolution of the Heavenly Spheres: An Enactive Approach to Cosmography' McConville, David (2014) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'Towards a Phenomenologlcal Theory of the VIsceral In the Interactive Arts'. Gromala, Diane J (2007) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'Communicating the Unspeakable: Linguistic Phenomena in the Psychedelic Sphere' Slattery, Diana R (2011) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'Amergent Music: behavior and becoming in technoetic & media arts'. Herber, Norbert F (2010) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½
  • 'A dramaturgy of intermediality: composing with integrative design' Petersen, Kjell Yngve (2009) PhD sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½.

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Planetary Collegium

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