Roy Ascott is the Founding President of the Planetary Collegium, Full Professor of Technoetic Arts at the University of Plymouth, Visiting Professor in Design
Media Arts at UCLA, and Honorary Professor of Thames Valley University, London. He created the Consciousness Reframed annual conferences in 1997. Gerald Bast studied jurisprudence and economics at Kepler University in Linz, Austria where he graduated with a doctorate in law in 1979. Since 2000, he is Rektor at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, since 2003 speaker of the Rektors Conference of the AusÂtrian Universities of the Arts, and executive board member of the Austrian Rektors Conference. Wolfgang Fiel studied Architecture at the Vienna University of Technology and obtained his Master in Architectural Design at the Bartlett, University College London. He is Ph.D. candidate at the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth/UK, and teaches at the Institute of Art and Design, Vienna University of Technology.

Introduction: Gerald Bast; Roy Ascott.- Round Table.- Contents: Roy Ascott; Elif Ayiter; John Backwell/John Wood; René Bauer/Beat Suter; Laura Beloff; Martha Blassnigg; Ingrid Böck; Wulf Walter Böttger; Pier Luigi Capucci; Simona Caraceni; Antonio Caronia; Linda Cassens Stoian; Isabelle Choinière; David Crawford; Nina Czegledy; Margaret Dolinsky; Hannah Drayson; Alan Dunning/Paul Woodrow; Ernest Edmonds; Jürgen Faust; Wolfgang Fiel; Andreas Leo Findeisen; Karmen Franinovic; Gonçalo Miguel Furtado; Cardoso Lopes; Martha Carrer Cruz Gabriel; Gregory P. Garvey; Luis Miguel Girão; Tina Gonsalves; Jochen Hoog/Manfred Wolff-Plottegg; Birgit Huemer; Jung A. Huh; Salvatore Iaconesi/Oriana Persico; Margarete Jahrmann; Jennifer Kanary; Nicolaj Kirisits; Bernd Kraeftner; Martin Kusch; Iro Laskari/Dimitris Charitos; Kieran Lyons; Franco Marineo; David McConville; Francesco Monico; Max Moswitzer; Sana Murrani; Ryohei Nakatsu; Martha Patricia Niño Mojica; Carlos Nóbrega; Robert Pepperell; Michael Punt; Susanne Ramsenthaler; Barbara Rauch; Nicolas Reeves; Clarissa Ribeiro/Gilbertto Prado; Ana Rosa Richardson; Glauce Rocha de Oliveira; Natacha Roussel; Semi Ryu; Miguel Santos; Jinsil Seo/Diane Gromala; Christa Sommerer/Laurent Mignonneau/Michael Shamiyeh; René Stettler; Randall Teal; Federica Timeto; Naoko Tosa/Seigo Matsuoka; Sarah Tremlett; Nicholas Tresilian; Suzete Venturelli/Mario Maciel/Johnny Souza; Natasha Vita-More; Monika Weiss; Claudia Westermann; Manfred Wolff-Plottegg; Katarzyna Maria Wozniak; Mariela Yeregui/Mariano Sardón; Brigitta Zics; Rachel Zuanon.- CR9 Ambient DVD.- Biographies.

Die Buchreihe der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien Edition Angewandte, herausgegeben von Rektor Dr. Gerald Bast, erscheint themenabhängig in den Verlagen Birkhäuser und De Gruyter. Veröffentlicht werden Sammelbände, Dokumentationen und Monografien aus den Bereichen Architektur, Bildende und Mediale Kunst, Design, Konservierung und Restaurierung, Kunstwissenschaften, Kunstpädagogik, Kunstvermittlung und Sprachkunst. Die seit 2007 bestehende Reihe wird mittlerweile in der Öffentlichkeit als starke Plattform für relevante Veröffentlichungen aus Kunst und Wissenschaft wahrgenommen. Die Bücher erscheinen in deutscher wie auch in englischer Sprache.