Throughout September 2010, a comprehensive exhibition of Roy Ascott’s work will be exhibited as part of the Incheon International Digital Art Festival at Tomorrow City.

His first London exhibition was in 1964, along with the publication of "Behaviourist Art and the Cybernetic Vision" (Cybernetica). This early analogue work called for the viewer’s physical interaction.

An originator of Telematic Art, his early online projects were Terminal Art -USA/UK, in 1980; La Plissure du Texte: a planetary fairytale for Frank Popper’s Electra, in Paris (1983); and Aspects of Gaia: Digital Pathways across the Whole Earth, Ars Electronica 1989. Many online/installation projects followed at: V2 Institute for the Unstable Media; Milan Triennale; European Media Festival; Venice Biennale; Biennale do Mercosul, Brazil.

Cybernetics informed his radical Groundcourse in London early 1960s, and the subsequent restructuring of OCAD Toronto, as its President. He was Professor at MCAD, Minneapolis, and then Vice-President of San Francisco Art Institute, in the 1970s; Professor for Communications Theory, Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, in the 1980s; University of Wales Professor and founder of the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (CAiiA) in the 1990s.

Currently, Ascott is president of the Planetary Collegium, and Professor of Technoetic Arts, University of Plymouth; an Honorary Professor both of the Copenhagen Institute of Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark, and the Thames Valley University, London. He was Adjunct Professor Design|Media Arts at UCLA. He is the editor of Technoetic Arts, and Honorary Editor of Leonardo. He has advised universities and new media centers in Korea, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Japan, France, Spain, Portugal, Canada, China, Austria, the CEC, UNESCO, and the UK’s Arts Council and AHRC.

He convenes the Consciousness Reframed conferences. His books include: Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art Technology and Consciousness. University of California Press, 2003; Engineering Nature, Intellect, 2006; Technoetic Arts (YI, Won-Kon, Ed.), Yonsei University Press, 2002. Reframing Consciousness, Intellect, 1999; Art & Telematics: toward the Construction of New Aesthetics. (E. Fujihara, Ed.). NTT, Tokyo 1998. He has authored over 150 papers and articles, widely translated in many languages.

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