The Trans-subjective Look: Conversations with Roy Ascott at the First Cyberculture and New Media Art Symposium

This article refers to my encounter with Roy Ascott at the First Cyberculture and New Media Art Symposium, which, as part of the Fourth Edition of the MADATAC (Open Contemporary Audiovisual Art Museum Festival), I organized – with the collaboration of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport – along with Juan Arturo Rubio Aróstegui, head of research at the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the Antonio de Nebrija University, Madrid. The aim was specifically to discuss Roy Ascott’s current work in terms of theoretical variables and innovative creative experiences. I highlight the most important aspects of his recent research and work, focusing particularly on a methodology circumscribed by a particular dialectic that emerged during our conversation that proved to be both the motivation and the engine that drove my own research. Summarized here, then, are the results of my own research aimed at devising new artistic and knowledge creation paradigms along with some reflections regarding the role of technology in this process.