# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-ascott
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:27:04.400Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-ascott"
name: "Roy Ascott"
slug: "roy-ascott"
description: "Roy Ascott FRSA is a British artist, who works with cybernetics and telematics on an art he calls technoetics by focusing on the impact of digital and telecommunications networks on consciousness. Since the 1960s, Ascott has been a practitioner of interactive computer art, electronic art, cybernetic art and telematic art."
tagline: "English cybernetic artist (born 1934)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roy_Ascott_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1934-10-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.32
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.018612
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/rascott"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Roy_Ascott"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Ascott"
    title: "Roy Ascott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Ascott"
    title: "Roy Ascott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A1%CF%8C%CE%B9_%CE%86%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%BF%CF%84"
    title: "Ρόι Άσκοτ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Ascott"
    title: "Roy Ascott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Ascott"
    title: "Roy Ascott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Ascott"
    title: "Roy Ascott"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%AD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%82%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B9"
    title: "Эскотт, Рой"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3445740"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump