Conferences

The CAiiA-STAR International Research Conference Consciousness Reframed: art and consciousness in the post-biological era, has been held at the Caerleon Campus of the University of Wales College Newport in 1997, 1998, and 2000, on each occasion attracting over 100 presenters from more than 25 countries. Additionally in 1998, an International Workshop The Architecture of Consciousness was also convened at the University of Plymouth. In August 2002, Consciousness Reframed was held in Western Australia, hosted by Curtin University, Perth. The fifth conference is held in Caerleon, July 2003. The CAiiA -STAR conferences have resulted in the publication of two books: Ascott, R. (ed). 2000. Art Technology Consciousness. Bristol: Intellect Books. 234 pp. ISBN 1-84150-041-0, and Ascott, R. (ed). 1999. Reframing Consciousness. Exeter: Intellect Books. 314 pp. ISBN 1-184150-013-5. Professor Ascott guest edited the Special Issue: Computers and Post-Biological Art, Digital Creativity, 9,1. 61pp., and with Dr. Punt published A Speculative Bibliography of Art and Consciousness in Convergence, 4, (3), pp. 116-134. The 1998 CAiiA conference in Valencia, Spain, resulted in a bi-lingual book of essays by CAiiA researchers: Molina. A & K. Landa. (eds), 2000. Emergent Futures: Art, Interactivity and New Media/ Futuros Emergentes, Arte Interactividad y Nuevos Medios. Valencia: Institucio Alfons el Magnanim. pp.108. ISBN 84-7822-326-6.

Conference Publications

Ascott, R. (ed). 2005. Engineering Nature. Bristol: Intellect. ISBN 1-84150-128-X.??

Maciel, K. and Parente, A. (eds). 2003. Redes sensoriais: arte, ciência, tecnologia. Rio de Janeiro: Contra Capa. ISBN: 85-86011-74-6

Ascott, R. (ed). 2000. Art Technology Consciousness. Bristol: Intellect. ISBN 1-84150-041-0

Molina. A & K. Landa. (eds), 2000. Emergent Futures: Art, Interactivity and New Media/ Futuros Emergentes, Arte Interactividad y Nuevos Medios. Valencia: Institució Alfons el Magnánim. ISBN 84-7822-326-6.

Ascott, R. (ed).1999.Reframing Consciousness.Exeter: Intellect Books. ISBN 1-184150-013-5

Publication of Proceedings

The 1997 Caerleon conference proceedings were published by the University of Wales College, Newport. The 2002 Perth conference proceedings were published as a CD by Curtin University. 

The 2004 proceedings were published by CAFA Beijing.

The proceedings of Altered States, Plymouth (2005) and Consciousness Reframed 8, Plymouth (2006) were published by the University of Plymouth.

Conference Archive 

Consciousness Reframed 8: art & consciousness in the post biological era/ 21 – 23 July 2006

Consciousness Reframed 7: Altered States – transformations of perception place, and performance/ 22 – 24 July 2005

Shaping Consciousness: New Media, spirituality, and identity/ 6 – 7 April 2005

Consciousness Reframed 6: QI and COMPLEXITY/ 24 – 27 November 2004

Redes Sensoriais Symposium/ 29 – 30 November 2003

Consciousness Reframed 5/ 2 – 5 July 2003

Nomadic Transitions /Thinking About Art/ 10 – 12 April 2003

ISEA 2002: CAiiA-STAR Composite Session/ 23 October – 1 November 2002

Consciousness Reframed 4/ 1 – 4 August 2002

From Networking to Nanosystems/ 8 – 14 November 2001

eXtreme parameters/ 11 – 12 July 2001

e-naissance/ 28 – 29 March 2001

Consciousness Reframed 3/ 24 – 26 August 2000

Inveção/ 25 – 29 August 1999

CYPRES: Futurs Émergents/ 12 – 14 April 1999

Symposium: Futuros Emergents/ 4 – 5 December 1998

Interstices/ 23 – 25 August 1998

Consciousness Reframed 2/ 19 – 22 August 1998

Technoetic Arts, an international journal of speculative research. 

Founded in Spring 2003. The journal is published three times a year, and is transdisciplinary in its approach to art, science, technology and consciousness. 

Founding Editor: Roy Ascott

Editorial Advisory Board

Annick Bureaud, Observatoire Leonardo des arts et des technosciences, Paris

Oron Catts, SymbioticA, University of Western Australia, Perth

Mohammed Aziz Chafchaouni, Foundation Al Andalus, Rabat

Monika Fleischmann, Fraunhofer Institut Medienkommunikation, Bonn

James K. Gimzewski, California NanoSystems Institute, UCLA

Steve Grand, Cyberlife Research, Shipham, England.

Piet Hut, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Eduardo Kac, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Pierre Levy, University of Ottawa

Luis Eduardo Luna, Center for the Study of Psychointegrator Plants, Visionary Art and Consciousness, Florianopolis

Ryohei Nakatsu, School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University 

Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, ASA Art and Technology, Lisbon /São Paulo

Edward Shanken, ISIS Research Center, Duke University, North Carolina

Diana Reed Slattery, Director, DomeWorks, Albany, New York, USA.

Neil Spiller, Bartlett Faculty of Built Environment, University College London

Barbara Maria Stafford, Department of Art History, University of Chicago

Victoria Vesna, Design|Media Arts, UCLA

Stephen Wilson, Conceptual/Information Arts, San Francisco State University

Won-Kon YI, Dankook University, Seoul