[spectre] CfP: 3D BioLab - Transformative Ecologies

Thu Jul 30 16:52:20 CEST 2015

Hello on Spectre list!

from August 19-21, 2015, we - RIXC are organizing a symposium 3D BioLab
at Cafe Europa, in Mons, Belgium,

you are very welcome to join us and participate!

please see below a short-notice call

also, in relation to the symposium, we also have curated Transformative 
Ecologies exhibition, which will be open in Maison du Design Gallery in 
Mons, from August 20-30, 2015

best
Rasa

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(Short-notice) Call For Symposium Participation:

3D BioLab : TRANSFORMATIVE ECOLOGIES

… an investigation into the changing patterns of contemporary ecologies, 
art and science.

3D BioLab – RIXC residency at Cafe Europa is announcing a call for 
participation in the symposium, which will take place from August 19-21, 
2015 in Mons – European Capital of Culture 2015, Belgium.

The symposium programme will begin on August 19th with the opening of 
the exhibition in Maison du Design gallery. Entitled TRANSFORMATIVE 
ECOLOGIES, this exhibition is an investigation into the changing 
patterns of contemporary ecologies, art and science. It features 
artworks by Latvian and Belgian artists, who have created innovative art 
science installations as well as sonic, visual and 3D representations of 
various environmental data collected during their long term 
“techno-ecological” art research projects.

The TRANSFORMATIVE ECOLOGIES exhibition is providing the context for 3D 
BioLab symposium that will take place in the following days – August 
20th and 21st in Cafe Europa. The Day 1 will offer the workshop on 3D 
data visualization, using as a point of departure the data from two 
artistic science research projects – BIOTRICITY by Rasa Smite and Raitis 
Smits, and INTELLIGENT BEEHIVE by Annemie Maes. During the Day 2 artists 
Gert Aertsen and David de Buyser will introduce their approach to 3D 
object generation by conducting the workshop onWIND POWER, SOUND AND 
MOVEMENT.

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CALL for participation:

We welcome participants to apply for the symposium and workshops by 
sending emails with short motivation letter and short biography to:

rixc (at) rixc.lv

Deadline: August 10, 2015.

Admission is free.

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EXHIBITION:

TRANSFORMATIVE ECOLOGIES exhibitiontakesplace in the framework Mons 
–European Capital of Culture 2015, August 19to 30, 2015, featuring 
innovative art and science works, that addresses the environmental 
issues and deal with“tehno-ecological” data representation.

Curators – Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits / RIXC, exhibition design – 
Rudolf Bekic.

Artists – Gints Gabrans, well-known Latvian contemporary artist, in his 
work METABOLIC DOMINANCE offers a vision on future of food by proposing 
to use cellulose disintegrating enzymes, which allows obtaining 
nutrients from grass, wood, paper... Innovative artist couple Rasa Smite 
and Raitis Smits / RIXC together with Martins Ratniks keep exploring 
human-plant communication by analysing and mapping the words out from 13 
000 messages received during TALK TO ME artistic research project: what 
exactly people say to the plants so they grow better, taller and more 
beautiful? Interspecies communication is also explored in Belgian 
artist's Anne-Marie Maes work TRANSPARENT BEEHIVE, which is a living 
sculpture with the bee colonies that have been monitored, measured and 
visualized. Likewise, sound artist Voldemars Johansons in his artwork 
from ATTRACTORS series has observed the movement trajectories of an ant 
colony, creating 3D object from selected data. Negotiations with 
micro-size species – the bacteria, have been used also in two other 
works by Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits from BIOTRICITY series. Together 
with Voldemars Johansons they have made live installation with 
sonifications of real-time bacteria-electricity generation process, 
while together with video artists Martins Ratniks and Janis Jankevics – 
Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits have created new visualizations of POND 
BATTERY, which was installed in Riga Botanical garden and monitoring of 
which took place in the out-door conditions for 7 month-long period.

Exhibition also includes artworks by two young Latvian artists who offer 
highly utopian visions and positive future scenarios. Paula Vitola in 
her work PRIVATE ATMOSPHERE has made a costume that can help you to 
create your own 'ideal' and very private environment, yet not escaping, 
rather being a part of a society. And last but not least, Rihards Vitols 
with his AKA (Well) project has developed a proposal for new 
agricultural field that could be named “cloud-farming” as it is using 
helium balloons to collect rain water.

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PRELIMINARY SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME

at CAFÉ EUROPA, Mons, Belgium

Wednesday, 19.08.2015

18:00 > 20:00

Exhibition Opening with Bacteria Battery art-science public show by Rasa 
Smite and Raitis Smits / RIXC and audiovisual performances by Rihards 
Vitols / Trihars and Martins Engelis / VADi.

Thursday, 20.08.2015

12:00 > 16:00

Symposium Day 1: BIOTRICITY, a poetics of green energy, INTELLIGENT 
BEEHIVE research and 3D DATA VISUALIZATION: workshop conducted by Rasa 
Smite, Raitis Smits by Annemie Maes.

17:00 > 20:00

3D BioLab Public Program: Renewable Futures lecture, artist 
presentations and participatory discussions (Playing Fields I).

Friday, 21.08.2015

12:00 > 16:00

Symposium Day 2: WIND POWER, SOUND AND MOVEMENT RESEARCH, AND 3D OBJECT 
GENERATION: workshops conducted by Gert Aertsen and David de Buyser

17:00 > 20:00

3D BioLab Closing Program: lectures and participatory discussions 
(Playing Fields II), workshop result demos and art science performances.

Sunday, 23.08.2015

15:00 > 18:00

FAMILY 3D BIOLAB (for local participants): VIRTUOSO workshop – 
introducing experiments from the 17th century scientists–amateurs and 
how artists today work with science: building battery from mud, using 
bees as living 3D printers, 'harvesting' drinking water from the clouds.

More info: http://rixc.org <http://rixc.org/>

Contact: rixc (at) rixc.lv, rasa (at) rixc.org (Rasa Smite)

Organized by RIXC in collaboration with Brussels Urban Bee Lab and 
Mons2015.

Supported by Mons 2015, WBI, Latvian Ministry of Culture of Republic of 
Latvia, and European Economic Area Financial mechanism.

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