[spectre] CFP: Renewable Futures Conference on Post-media Art and Theories

[rasa at rixc.lv]

Hello on Spectre list!

with greetings from Transmediale i would like to announce a call for  
new conference series - Renewable futures, the 1st edition of which  
will focus on "post-media" art and theories, taking place in Riga,  
October 8-10, 2015

please see more info below -

kind regards,

Rasa Smite
http://rixc.org - RIXC has new website! :)

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RENEWABLE FUTURES 2015:
Transformative Potential of Art in the Age of Post-Media

The 1st edition of new academic art and science conference series in  
the Baltic Sea region

October 8-10, 2015, Riga


The Renewable Futures is a new conference series in the Baltic Sea  
region that aims to invent new avenues for more sustainable and  
imaginative future developments. It will shape new contact zones  
between traditionally separated domains – art and science, academic  
research and independent creative practices, sustainable businesses  
and social engagement in the 21st century.

The 1st conference edition will take place in Riga, from October 8-10,  
2015, and it will primarily focus on exploring the transformative  
potential of art in the post-media conditions. Today, according to  
several voices – Rosalind Krauss, Lev Manovich, Peter Weibel and  
Domenico Quaranta – we have entered the post-media age; there is no  
any single medium anymore that dominates in contemporary media art  
practices that are rather engaged with contemporaneity and critical  
thinking. The huge diversity of “post-media art” was profoundly  
explored also in the Fields exhibition  (Riga 2014, fields.rixc.org),  
curated by Raitis Smits, Armin Medosch and Rasa Smite. The Fields  
showed that art in post-media conditions contains highly  
transformative and visionary potential. However, symbolic and  
aesthetic qualities, as well as critical, investigative and  
confrontational aspects also proved to be just as important for  
“post-media art” to maintain a line between physical and mental,  
realities and utopias.

CALL for Conference Proposals:
We welcome proposals by artists, curators, theorists, academic  
researchers and other lateral thinkers to share their ideas and  
research with regards to the following themes:

* post-media art - avantgarde practices and theories
* slow media art, preservation challenges for the museums
* art and science, building techno-ecological perspective
* technopolitical investigations into the informational paradigm
* big data and “media visualizations”
* culture for sustainable development in the Baltic Sea region

Call for Exhibition Artworks:
The conference will be complemented by Art+Communication 2015 festival  
exhibition that will also contribute in building post-media  
perspective. We invite artists to propose their works that by blurring  
the boundaries between different disciplines are developing visions  
for more sustainable and imaginative ways of life.

DEADLINE: March 20, 2015

Please submit your conference proposal (abstract 250 words, biography  
200 words) and/or proposal for artwork (description of idea, images,  
links, etc. and short biography – 200 words) by sending via e-mail:  
rixc at rixc.lv or website: http://rixc.org (“openconf” submission page  
will be opened soon)

* Conference International Advisory board:
Dieter Daniels, Douglas Kahn, Katja Kwastek, Armin Medosch, Regine  
Debatty, Gediminas Urbonas, Misko Suvakovic, and others.

* Conference chair: Rasa Smite. Exhibition curator: Raitis Smits

* Contact: rixc at rixc.lv

You can also follow the RF conference news by subscribing Renewable  
list: http://db.x-i.net/mailman/listinfo/renewable

More information: http://rixc.org

Organized by RIXC in collaboration with Art Research Lab of Liepaja University

Partners: Renewable Network, NORTH Creative Network Project, Culturability BSR
Support: State Cultural Capital Foundation, Riga City Council, Latvian  
Ministry of Culture, Creative Europa, EEA/Norway grants