[spectre] RENEWABLE FUTURES Conference and RIXC Festival begins
Rasa Smite
rasa at rixc.lv
Wed Oct 7 06:22:39 CEST 2015
Hello on Spectre list,
Today we have the opening of the first RIXC's festival exhibition and
tomorrow already our new conference - Renewable Futures will begin!
please see more info below and on the websites:
http://rixc.org, http://renewablefutures.net, http://rixc.org/en/festival/
the festival exhibitions will be open till November 22, 2015, in Riga
best,
Rasa Smite
RIXC.ORG
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RENEWABLE FUTURES
The 1st edition of new Art and Science Conference Series in EU Baltic
Sea region, in the framework of RIXC Art Science Festival
October 8-10, 2015, Riga
http://renewablefutures.net | http://rixc.org/en/festival/
The Renewable Futures is a new conference series in the Baltic Sea and
North European region that aims to invent new avenues for more
sustainable and imaginative future developments. It shapes 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, http://fields.rixc.lv), 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.
The conference will share two main perspectives of potential of art in
post-media age - “techo-ecological” and “big data”, which will be
represented by our public keynote speakers – John THACKARA, and Lev
MANOVICH, as well as by plenary session / thematic keynote speakers –
Domenico QUARANTA, Armin MEDOSCH, Dieter DANIELS, Geoff COX, Andreas
BROECKMANN, Katja KWASTEK and Martha BUSKIRK.
The conference is complemented by RIXC's festival programme. This year,
in its 15th anniversary, RIXC is changing the title and the course of
its annual festival: from the 90s network culture and
“art+communication” ideas the festival now is making a shift towards
broader art and science fields, focusing on cultural innovation. This
year's edition of RIXC's new Art Science festival will feature Opening
Performance programme in Spikeri Concert hall, and opening of two
exhibitions – Data Drift, curated by Lev MANOVICH, Rasa SMITE and Raitis
SMITS, that will take place in kim? Contemporary Art Center, and North
Transformative Ecologies exhibition in RIXC Gallery will be open already
today – on Wednesday, October 7, at 19.00. Both exhibitions will run
till November 22, 2015.
Also, in relation to the RIXC festival and Renewable Futures conference,
new issue of Acoustic Space journal will come out, with the title – DATA
DRIFT. Archiving Media and Data Art in the 21st century. This volume
(No. 14) includes papers from the Media Art Histories 2013: ReNew
conference, as well new texts and visual review about the exhibition
Save As (Riga, 2013) and catalog section of new exhibition – Data Drift
(Riga, 2015).
More info:
http://renewablefutures.net
http://rixc.org/en/festival/
http://acousticspacejournal.com
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PROGRAMME
OCTOBER 8-10, 2015
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7
OPENING DAY
12:00-13:00 PRESS CONFERENCE
Location: kim? Contemporary Art Center, Maskavas street 12/1, Spikeri
Creative Quartier
Curators and participants introducing Festival and Conference Programme
14:00-15:00 RENEWABLE FUTURES – Creative Europe project partner
kick-off meeting
Location: RIXC Center, Maskavas street 10, Spikeri Creative Quartier
19:00-20:30 NORTH. TRANSFORMATIVE ECOLOGIES. Opening of the first
Festival Exhibition
Location: RIXC Gallery, 11. Novembra Krastmala 35, entrance from
Minsterejas street
Artists: Gints Gabrans (LV), Rihards Vitols (LV), Gisle Froysland (NO),
Maite Cajaraville (ES), Dani Ploeger (NL/UK), Hege Tapio (NO), Rasa
Smite, Raitis Smits / RIXC (LV).
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2015
DAY 1: RENEWABLE FUTURES CONFERENCE
Venue: Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Strelnieku street 4a
14:00 Registration and coffee
15:00 Plenary Session I: Thematic Keynotes:
Introduction, and moderator: Rasa SMITE
Domenico QUARANTA. Notes on Postmedia and Other Posts
Armin MEDOSCH. Art and Technopolitics: Resist, Subvert, Accelerate!
17:00 Public Keynote:
John THACKARA. Green Hacking
Venue: Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Strelnieku street 4a
19:00 Reception:
Renewable Futures Conference and RIXC Festival Opening
Welcome words by Dace MELBARDE, Minister for Culture of the Republic of
Latvia
Introductory words by Rasa SMITE and Raitis SMITS, Conference chairs
21:00 RIXC Art and Science Festival Opening Performances:
Venue: Spikeri Concert Hall, Maskavas street 4/1, Spikeri Creative Quartier
Tickets - bilesuparadize.lv
Hildur GUDNADÓTTIR, electric cello / Bjørnar HABBESTAD, flute & Ellen
RØED, video / Eriks KIRSFELDS, electroacoustic cello / Le RÉVÉLATEUR,
audiovisual performance / Bas VAN KOOLWIJK, electronics & Gert-Jan
PRINS, drums / Platons BURAVICKIS, electronic music
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FRIDAY, 9 OCTOBER
DAY 2: RENEWABLE FUTURES CONFERENCE
Venue: Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Strelnieku street 4a
9:30-10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:00-11:45 Plenary Session II: Thematic Keynotes:
Moderator: Rasa SMITE
Dieter DANIELS. Revisiting the Readymade as Renewable Future (30 min)
Geoff COX. Contemporary Conditions are Badly Known (30 min)
Andreas BROECKMANN. Ecology/Machines: The Technologies of Eco Art
(30 min)
11:45-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-12:55 Parallel sessions:
Session 1A: ART AND TECHNOPOLITICS
Moderator: Armin MEDOSCH
Polona TRATNIK. Bio Art as Tactical Media (25 min)
Gerald NESTLER. The Future as a Derivative Technology at Present
(25 min)
Session 1B: BIG DATA AND VISUALIZATIONS
Moderator: Andrew PATERSON
Mauro MARTINO. AI and visualizations (25 min)
SPIN Unit (Damiano Cerrone, Anne Vingisar). The Invisible Image of the
City (25 min)
13:00-14:15 (75 min) Parallel sessions:
Session 2A: ART, BIOLOGY AND COMPUTING
Moderator: Andrew PATERSON (tbc)
Régine DEBATTY. Artists Merging the Biological and the Digital
Ivan HENRIQUES, Theun KARELSE. Machine Ecology
Laura BELOFF. What Flies Got To Do With It?
Piibe PIIRMA. Hybrid Art and Estonian Experience
Helena SEDERHOLM. Intersecting Art and Science in Basic Education
Session 2B: MAPPING COMPLEXITY AND POSTMEDIA ARCHITECTURE
Moderator: Damiano CERRONE / Margret OLAFSDOTTIR (tbc)
Kim ALBRECHT. Culturegraphy
Christophe GUIGNARD. Inhabiting and Interfacing the Cloud(s)
Chaewon AHN. Ma(i)cro Visions: Utilizing Social Network Service data for
a transformational process of urban social spaces
Cecilia WEE, Dani ADMISS. Futuring Social Change: Crisis, Cognition and
Agency
Alan HOOK, Danielle BARRIOS-O’NEILL. Future Energy Networks and the Role
of Interactive Gaming as Simulation
14:15-15:15 Lunch
15:15-16:30 (75 min) Parallel sessions:
Session 3A: SLOW MEDIA ART AND NEW ECOLOGIES
Moderator: Régine DEBATTY
Daniela DE PAULIS. COGITO: Neuroscience and Radio Astronomy in Art
Edith DOOVE. Slow/Networked Media Art and the Museum: Who Takes Care of
Whom?
Alice SMITS. Towards a New Ecology in Contemporary Land Art Practices
Maren RICHTER, Klaus SCHAFLER. Grammar of Urgencies
Daniel PLOEGER. Abject Digital Performance: Engaging the Politics of
Electronic Waste
Session 3B: THE CITY, NATURE AND CRITICAL DESIGN
Moderator: Margret OLAFSDOTTIR
Olga MINK. The city is The city is (The city)
Conor McGARRIGLE. Walking Code
Krista PETERSONE. City Votes Nature: Space Against the Mediated Word
Susana SOARES. Design for the New Natural in the Age of Post-Media
Liene JAKOBSONE. Critical Design. Speculations on Future as a Critique
of Today
16:30-17:00 break
17:00 Public keynote:
Lev MANOVICH. The Science of Culture?
Venue: Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Strelnieku street 4a
19:00 Public Opening of DATA DRIFT Exhibition
Venue: kim? Contemporary Art Center, Maskavas street 12/1, Spikeri Quartier
Curators: Lev MANOVICH, Rasa SMITE, Raitis SMITS
Artists: SPIN Unit (EU), Moritz STEFANER (DE), Frederic BRODBECK (DE),
Kim ALBRECHT (DE), Boris MÜLLER (DE), Marian DÖRK (DE), Benjamin GROSSER
(US), Maximilian SCHICH (DE/US), Mauro MARTINO (IT/US), Periscopic (US),
Pitch Interactive (US), Smart Citizen Team (ES), Lev MANOVICH / Software
Studies Initiative (US), Daniel GODDEMEYER (DE/US), Dominikus BAUR (DE),
Mehrdad YAZDANI (US), Alise TIFENTALE (LV/US), Jay CHOW (US),
Semiconductor (UK), Rasa SMITE, Raitis SMITS / RIXC (LV), Martins
RATNIKS (LV), Kristaps EPNERS (LV).
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SATURDAY, 10 OCTOBER
DAY 3: RENEWABLE FUTURES CONFERENCE
Venue: Latvian National Library, Mukusalas iela 3
10:00-10:30 Coffee and Registration
10:30-11:45 (75 min) Plenary Sesssion III Thematic Keynotes:
Moderator: Hanna HOELING
Katja KWASTEK. A Voyage to the North Sea. Aesthetics of Tidal Art
(35 min)
Martha BUSKIRK. The Artist as Collector – Digital Edition (35 min)
12:00-12:15 Coffee
12:15-14:00 (105 min) Parallel sessions:
Session 4A: RETHINKING EARTH SYSTEMS
Moderator: Hege TAPIO
Elizabeth MCTERNAN. Altitude Sickness: The Aerial View Of The
Post-Romantic Sublime
On Ni WAN. Cosmic Gun
Laura BALLANTYNE-BRODIE. Earth System Aesthetics
Margret OLAFSDOTTIR. Melting on Ice
Jennifer (no.e) PARKER. Composing [De]Composition
Oksana CHEPELYK. The COLLIDER project as a Model of "Post-Media Art"
Combined Science, Public Space, History and New Technologies to Rethink
Worldwide Changes.
Session 4B: CONTEMPORANEITY AND POSTMEDIA AESTHETICS
Moderator: Geoff COX / Andrew PATERSON
Hanna HOELING. Between Slow and Fast:
Time, Change, and Continuity in Media Installations
Gabriela GALATI. Art, Modernism, Posthuman
Angela BARTHOLOMEW. Suspended Disbelief. Gerald van der Kaaps's
Hover Hover (1991)
Vygandas Vegas SIMBELIS. Fault Aesthetics in Time Photography
Karla BRUNET. Data bending: aesthetics, code and photography
Hung-Han CHEN. Affective Embodiments of Subjectivities: the
Auto-Affection of the Lived Body and the Affection-Images in Media Arts
(10 min)
14:00-15:00 lunch
15:00-16:30 Parallel sessions:
Session 5A: BIOETHICS, ART AND SCIENCE
Moderator: Signe MEZINSKA
Ainars KAMOLINS. Communication and seduction of plants. RIXC's Talk
to Me Artwork
Jānis LIEPINS. Biological comments on Gints Gabran's artworks
Brian DEGGER. Microbe-philia: Art Practices that Explore our
Relationships with Microbial Symbionts
AnneMarie MAES. The Scaffolded Sound Beehive
Raivo KELOMEES. Truth and Trademark in Hybrid Artworks (10 min)
Hege TAPIO. On Next Eden (tbc) (10 min)
Session 5B: POSTMEDIA AND TRANS-EVERYTHING
Moderator: Andrew PATERSON
Elke REINHUBER. Counterfactualism as a Post-Media Strategy
Ilva SKULTE. Post-media Reading: New Dimensions of Literature as Art
Julian HANNA. Manifestos in the Post-Media Age
Kaylee KOSS. Transeverythingsim: Gender Identity, Audiovisual Languages and
Emerging Technologies
Normunds KOZLOVS. The fatigue of Richard Rorty’s „ironic intelectual“-
camp aesthetics in subcultural discourse
Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS. Hand-drawn Visualisations and Maps as Research
Texts in
the Age of Big Data
17:00 Closing Session: BOOK REVIEW (Pecha Kucha)
Book presentations by authors: Lev MANOVICH, Dieter DANIELS, Martha
BUSKIRK,
Katja KWASTEK, Ainars KAMOLINS, Helena DEMAKOVA, Karla BRUNET, Raivo
KELOMEES, Cecilia WEE, Ieva ASTAHOVSKA, AnneMarie MAES, Rasa SMITE,
Raitis SMITS, others (tbc).
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The conference and festival programme is supported by
LG Electronics Latvia, EU program "Creative Europe", European Economic
Area Financial mechanism Programme LV04"Conservation and revitalization
of cultural and natural heritage", Latvian Ministry of Culture,
Mondreaan fund, State Cultural Capital Foundation, Riga City Council,
Epson, Reverie TG, Goethe institute, Embassy of US in Latvia, TVNET,
Studija.
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Organized by RIXC, The center for new media culture
http://rixc.org
Contacts: rixc (at) rixc.org, +371-67228478 (RIXC office), +371-26546776
(Rasa Smite).
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