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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, ²ÝùÊÓƵ. 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 ²ÝùÊÓƵ, 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 ²ÝùÊÓƵ. 
• 'Facing Experience: A Painter’s Canvas In Virtual Reality' Dolinsky, Margaret, (2014) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'Interactive Technologies for the Public Sphere Toward a Theory of Critical Creative Technology' Jennings, Pamela Lynnette (2006) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'Principles of Metadesign'. Giaccardi, Elisa. (2003). PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
  
• 'The Kinesfield: study of movement-based interactive and choreographic art'. Schiller, Gretchen . (2003). PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'Art and Technology: coherence; connectedness, and the integrative field' Nobrega, Carlos Augusto Moreira (2009) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'Outline of a Subversive Technopoetic: for a Libertarian Pedartgogy'. Monico, Francesco (2014) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'A Procedural Model For Integrating Physical And Cyberspaces In Architecture' . Anders, Peter (2003) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'Strategies for Interactive Public Art: Dynamic Mapping with (V) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
  
• 'The Hybronaut and the Umwelt: Wearable Technology as Artistic Strategy' Beloff, Laura Maria (2013) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
  
• 'Image and Evidence: The Study of Attention through the Combined Lenses of Neuroscience and Art' . Levy, Ellen K (2012) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'Life Expansion: Toward an Artistic, Design-Based Theory of the Transhuman/Posthuman'. Vita-More, Natasha (2012) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'Polyphibianism: Evolving Transdisciplinarity into an Imaginary Organism of Living Knowledge'. Ljubec, Ziva (2015) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'Astral Projection: Theories Of Metaphor, Philosophies of Science, and The Art of Scientific Visualization' Cox, Donna J (2008) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ.

• 'Ecological Understanding through Transdisciplinary Art and Participatory Biology'. Ballengée, Brandon ((2015) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'Diffracting Representation: Towards A Situated Aesthetics Of Technospaces' Timeto, Federica (2013) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'The Varieties of User Experience Bridging Embodied Methodologies from Somatics and Performance to Human Computer Interaction'. Schiphorst, Thecla (2009) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'Human Computer Interaction'. Schiphorst, Thecla (2009) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'Communicating the Unspeakable: Linguistic Phenomena in the Psychedelic Sphere' Slattery, Diana R (2011) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'software curating: the politics of curating in/as (an) Open System(s)' Krysa, Joasia (2008) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'Amergent Music: behavior and becoming in technoetic & media arts'. Herber, Norbert F (2010) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'Ludics for a Ludic Society The Art and Politics of Play' Jahrmann, Margarete (2011) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• '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 ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'Participation as Media: a compositional system for staging participation with reflective scenography' Søndergaard, Karin (2010) ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'An Experimental Research into Inhabitable Theories' Westermann, Claudia (2011) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'On the Evolution of the Heavenly Spheres: An Enactive Approach to Cosmography' McConville, David (2014) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'Towards a Phenomenologlcal Theory of the VIsceral In the Interactive Arts'. Gromala, Diane J (2007) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'Communicating the Unspeakable: Linguistic Phenomena in the Psychedelic Sphere' Slattery, Diana R (2011) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'Amergent Music: behavior and becoming in technoetic & media arts'. Herber, Norbert F (2010) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ
• 'A dramaturgy of intermediality: composing with integrative design' Petersen, Kjell Yngve (2009) PhD ²ÝùÊÓƵ.