The Planetary Colleguim

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The Planetary Collegium is an international network for research in art, technology and consciousness, based in the University of Plymouth, with linked centers ("nodes") in Zurich and Milan. Its president is Roy Ascott.
The Collegium consists of artists, theoreticians and scholars who meet online, and periodically face-to-face in many parts of the world, to develop their research in the practice and theory of new media art with a special interest in telematics and technoetics.[1] Their doctoral research leads to the award of the University of Plymouth PhD. Post-doctoral research is also pursued. Within the context of transdisciplinarity and syncretism, the Collegium promotes the integration of art, science, technology, and consciousness research within a post-biological culture. Its constituency also includes General Members[2], who share the aims and interests of the Collegium, and are invited to participate in its development.[3] Founded in 1994 by Roy Ascott at the University of Wales, Newport as the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts (CAiiA), Ascott moved its base in 2003 to the University of Plymouth, renaming it the Planetary Collegium. It has attracted an impressive number of internationally well-established new media artists, musicians, performers, designers, architects, theorists and scholars involved in doctoral and post-doctoral research. With its geographically dispersed members and frequent research sessions and public conferences in Asia, Australia, the Americas and Europe, it constitutes a worldwide research community. The "hub" of the Collegium is situated in the Faculty of Arts, School of Art and Media, University of Plymouth, its Nodes are the M-Node in Milan[4] and the Z-Node in Zurich.[5] Since 1997, the Collegium has given over twenty five conferences and symposia in Europe, North and South America, Japan, China and Australia.

Inlak’esh Alaken I am You, You are Me

We have decided that even though it is not possible to defy science by
confronting it with art, we as many artists of our time have found that in
the combination of these two applied disciplines we can create a virtual
wormhole through space and time. This can only prove that even though
we still have physical body limitations, our minds are still free thanks to
the existence of art. All that we can imagine will eventually exist. Theory
has now become practice thanks to the breakthroughs of science and
with Inlak’esh Alaken we want to vivify the possibilities of our existence.

We know we are an Everything; M theory, the tao, the cosmic conscious,
God, the self, these are just words, mathematical representations, signs,
symbols of that we cannot speak of because language is still rudimentary,
but the force of experience through art is unlimited and speaks deep
within ourselves. Through this artistic intervention our purpose is to prove
once more, and as many artists have done in the course of time, that
through art we can access the eternal possibilities such as the ones mentioned
above.

This past March 11 2009 Mátika Magazine, Emily Carr University of Art + Design,
Gámomo Creative Lab, A day in a Life, Tuesday Creative, Almacén,
and ITESO came together to present Inlak’esh Alaken. We transmited
live through the internet three different New Media artistic interventions that
were taking place in three different cities at the same time. More than 80 people saw the artistic intervention live and more than 100 people saw it live through the internet from different parts of the world. Matika invites you to experience the infinate possibilities that art and science open to us.

ART HAS ALWAYS BEEN AHEAD
-Sigmund Freud