[spectre] Open Fields Conference @ RIXC Festival - coming soon!
Rasa Smite
rasa at rixc.lv
Fri Sep 2 09:27:28 CEST 2016
Hello, on Spectre list!
we are excited as our festival, which this year will be featuring Open
Fields conference and exhibition, is coming soon! The dates are:
September 29 - October 1, 2016
we are happy to announce main events, the list of participants, and
preliminary programme, please see below
more detailed programme will be following go (it should be ready in
about two weeks time)
for conference you can register here:
http://rixc.org/en/festival/
welcome to Riga this fall! :)
best
Rasa
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OPEN FIELDS Conference and Exhibition
@ RIXC Art Science Festival
Riga, September 29 – October 1, 2016
Contemporary and networked responses to geophysical, socio-political and
cultural shifts in European landscapes ...
Open Fields is the title of this year’s international conference and
exhibition taking place in the framework of the annual RIXC Art Science
festival in Riga, from September 29 until October 1, 2016, focusing on
new aesthetics, contemporary conditions, digital practises and
post-media situation. Since the first festival issue took place twenty
years ago, the festival has grown and developed itself into the annual
gathering for international scholars and artists, working at the
intersection of arts, humanities and science. The Open Fields festival
edition aims to present the most innovative approaches in artistic
research, and to discuss the changing role of arts, its transformative
potential, and relation to the sciences.
Conference Public Keynote Speakers:
* Prof. Christiane PAUL / New School / Whitney Museum / US
* Dr. Jussi PARIKKA / Winchester School of Art / University of
Southampton / UK
* Monica BELLO / Arts at CERN / CH
We received more then 120 compelling abstracts from around the world,
out of which the conference reviewers board selected 80 proposals.
Overall, this year we expect that together with invited keynotes,
featured session participants, and exhibition artists in the festival
will participate more then 100 participants from 30 countries,
representing more then 60 universities, art centers, museums,
institutions and companies, as well as independent artists, scientists
and schoolars from different fields, who are engaged in exploring the
transformative potential of arts.
Info about the Open Fields and Early Bird registration for the
conference is available in festival website: http://rixc.org/en/festival/
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CONFERENCE
The Open Fields conference and its related exhibition is challenging the
artistic research that is located in the contested territory between
academic knowledge production and independent creative practices. Open
Fields will be investigating the use of data visualizations and other
mappings of the contemporary. It will look into areas such as open
commons, the future of social interaction, data representation and
visualisation, critical design, sustainable infrastructures,
eco-aesthetics, techno-ecologies, bio-hacking and other techniques of a
transformative potential. No Field is excluded, yet there should always
be a connection with art; it is highly likely that art works and
conference papers will touch on several Fields, not one. It is such an
enhanced understanding of transdisciplinarity that drives this undertaking.
Conference Research Questions:
How art and other creative practices can meaningfully contribute to the
environmental, technological and scientific challenges of our time? What
kind of new knowledge can be created through artistic practice that
collaborates with science, technology and other disciplines? And how to
deal with contemporary aesthetics, which has undergone dramatic changes
during the past decades and keeps changing again as influenced by
current post-media situation, data visualization and other contemporary
conditions?
Conference Themes:
* investigating contemporaneity – its representation and experience in
and through artistic practice and art-science research
* data visualization – and its relation to contemporary aesthetics
* art and science – challenging new ways of knowledge creation and
representation
* changing weathers – networked responses to geophysical and
geopolitical shifts across Europe and the globe
* eco-aesthetics – from sustainable architecture and critical design to
techno-ecological art practices
Featured Sessions and Thematic Keynotes:
The Open Fields conference aims to become the collaborative research
platform on artistic research in North Europe. Each year we will be
inviting several universities from the Baltic-Nordic region to host the
Open Fields featured artistic research sessions; this year we are
presenting:
* AARHUS UNIVERSITY's Contemporainity Research Group (Aarhus, DK)
*
LIEPAJA UNIVERSITY'S Art Research Lab (Liepaja, LV)
We also have conference thematic keynote speakers:
* Andy GRACIE /
artist (UK/ES) – on art and science
*Andris TEIKMANIS / vice-rector of
Latvian Academy of Arts / - on art and politics
An other speciall session – Open Fields BOOK REVIEW will be taking place
at the close of the each day of the conference. On September 30th (Day
1), the featured book presentations and book-discussion will take place
by Armin MEDOSCH (AT/UK) and Christiane PAUL about their recently
published books; whereas on October 1 (Day 2) Book Review 20”x20
(PechaKucah format) will take place, providing an opportunity for the
speakers to present their new books and other publications for the audience.
The Open Fields Conference participants:
Jamie ALLEN (CH), Miguel ALMIRON (FR), Sandra ALVARO (ES), Anders-Petter
ANDERSSON (NO), Ágnes Karolina BAKK (HU), Marita BATNA (AU), Meghan Moe
BEITIKS (US), Julien BELLANGER (FR), Laura BELOFF (DK), Tracey BENSON
(AU), Erich BERGER (AT / FI / DK), Samir BHOWMIK (FI), Tom BIELING (DE),
Maryam BOLOURI (DE), Leonore BONACCINI (FR), Till BOVERMANN (DE), Sabine
BREITSAMETER (DE), Jan Hendrik BRUEGGEMEIER (AU), Sarah BURGER (CH),
Benjamin CADON (FR), Cédric CARLES (FR), Aigars CEPLĪTIS (LV), Ioan
Ovidiu CERNEI (AT), Alice COLQUHOUN (UK), Geoff COX (NO), Ursula DAMM
(DE), Irina DANILOVA (US), Marieke DE JONG (NL), Daniela DE PAULIS (NL),
Jurij DOBRIAKOV (LT), Anna DUMITRIU (NL), Ahmed EL-FEKY (NO), Christina
ELINGSEN (NO), Lisa ERB (DE), Lucas EVERS (NL), Bobbie FARSIDES (UK),
Christian FAUBEL (DE), Cathy FITZGERALD (IE), Patricia FLANAGAN (AU),
Frode FLEM (NO), Raune FRANKJÆR (DK), Natalia FUCHS (RU), Gabriela
GALATI (IT), Francisco Javier Fernandez GALLARDO (UK), Jānis GARANČS
(LV), Verina GFADER (NO), Christina Della GIUSTINA (NL), Wayner
GONCALVES (BR), Andy GRACIE (ES), Ance GRICMANE (LV), Artūrs GRUDULS
(LV), David GUEZ (FR), Evin GÜLER (NO), K.G. GUTTMANN (NL), Ian GWILT
(UK), Chris HALES (UK), Jake HARPER (US), Nadia-Konstantinia
HATZIMITRAGA (GR), Christiane HEIBACH (DE), Martin HOWSE (DE), Helena
HUNTER (UK), Adam HYDE (US), Ellie IRONS (US), Lucy IRVINE (AU), Liene
JAKOBSONE (LV), Alana JELINEK (UK), Terry JENOURE (US), Ryan JORDAN
(HK), Owen KELLY (FI), Raivo KELOMEES (EE), Jon KEMP (UK), Raphael KIM
(UK), Jānis KLEPERIS (LV), Anne KØLBÆK IVERSEN (NO), Mara-Johanna KOLMEL
(DE), Saskia KORSTEN (NL), Marinos KOUTSOMICHALIS (GR), Arendse KRABBE
(NL), Matteo LANFRANCHI (IT), Deborah LAWLER-DORMER (NZ), Pēteris
LESNIČENOKS (LV), Marie-Eve LEVASSEUR (DE), Manu LUKSCH (AT), Jacob LUND
(NO), Armin Medosch (AT), Iris MEIER (US), Margarida MENDES (PT),
Vytautas MICHELKEVIČIUS (LT), Anna Maria MONTEVERDI (IT), Tālis
MUZIKANTS (LV), Mirko NIKOLIĆ (UK), Azadeh NILCHIANI (FR), Netta NORRO
(SI), Vladimirs ŅEMCEVS (LV), Pauline O'CONNELL (IE), Jenny ODELL (US),
Thomas ORTIZ (FR), Aneta PANEK (DE), Nedyalka PANOVA (UK), Matt PARKER
(UK), Mukul PATEL (UK), Andrew PATERSON (FI), Marko PELJHAN (SI / US),
Luke PENDRELL (UK), Krista PĒTERSONE (LV), Susanne PRATT (AU), David
QUILES GUILLÓ (ES), Alexandru RAEVSCHI (DE), Grit RUHLAND (DE), Martin
RUMORI (AT), Sabina SALLIS (UK), Audrey SAMSON (CA), Przemyslaw SANECKI
(UK), Vincenzo SANSONE (IT), Martin SCHNEIDER (DE), Lena SÉRAPHIN (FI),
Andreas SIMON (CH), Adilson SIQUEIRA (BR), Eva SJUVE (UK), Ilva SKULTE
(LV), Lisa SO YOUNG PARK (HK), Ela SPALDING (PA), Christina STADLBAUER
(BE / FI), Justyna STEPIÉN (PL), Minka STOYANOVA (HK), Joanna
SZLAUDERBACH (DE), Ulla TAIPALE (FI), Hege TAPIO (NO), Andris TEIKMANIS
(LV), Brad TODD (CA), Jan TORPUS (CH), Milos TRAKILOVIC (DE), Lucas VAN
DER VELDEN (NL), Mārtiņš VANAGS (LV), Bart VANDEPUT (BE / FI), Eva
VERHOEVEN (UK), Edit Emese VIZER (HU), Rihards VĪTOLS (LV), Yvonne
VOLKART (CH), Artis VOLKOVS (LV), Frieda WIK (NO), Danielle WILDE (DK),
Amy YOUNGS (US), Solvita ZARIŅA (LV), Emily ZHUKOV (PA), Karolina
ŻYNIEWICZ (PL).
Conference Proceedings:
The conference papers will be published in conference proceeding, which
will come out in the Acoustic Space, peer-reviewed journal & book
series. The call for full paper submissions will be announced during the
conference and on the Acoustic Space journal website:
http://acousticspacejournal.com
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EXHIBITIONS:
The Open Fields conference will be connected to the festival's featured
exhibition taking place in the new Exhibition Hall of the National
Library of Latvia. Partly curated, partly peer-reviewed, the exhibition
will represent 25 works by 35 artists, artists-researchers and data
designers, who are challenging the notion of art and contemporary
aesthetics. They are moving across, bringing together and converging
different knowledge, various media and diverse Fields, as well as using
scientific, cultural and social data as new artistic medium, and
interpreting them in a new and meaningful ways.
Open Fields Exhibition artists: James AUGER (UK), Jimmy LOIZEAU (UK),
Subramanian RAMAMOORTHY (UK) and Alan MURRAY (UK), Laura BELOFF (FI),
Erich BERGER (FI/AT) and Mari KETO (DK/FI), Līvija DAUDZE (LV), Gints
GABRĀNS (LV), Mindaugas GAPŠEVIČIUS (LT/DE), Jānis GARANČS (LV),
Christoph HAAG (DE), Martin RUMORI (DE), Franziska WINDISCH (DE) and
Ludwig ZELLER (DE), Adam HARVEY (US/DE), Bjørn Erik HAUGEN (NO), Ellie
IRONS (US), Gideon KIERS, David KIERS & Lucas van der VELDEN /
Telcosystems (NL), Raphael KIM (UK), Karen LANCEL (NL) and Hermen MAAT
(NL), Pei-Ying LIN (TW), Dimitrios STAMATIS (UK) & Špela PETRIČ (SI),
Rafael LOZANO-HEMMER (MX/CA), Mauro MARTINO (IT/US) and Jianxi GAO
(CN/US), Dmitry MOROZOV (RU), Avner PELED (IL), Elisa SPIGAI (IT),
Idamaija PITKONEN PIGUET (FI) and Soujanyaa BORUAH (IN), Esther POLAK
(NL) & Ivar van BEKKUM (NL), Roberto PUGLIESE (IT/FI) & Jukka HAUTAMÄKI
(FI/UK), Vygandas ŠIMBELIS (LT/SE), Jan TORPUS (CH), Paula VĪTOLA (LV), etc.
This year, we are also showing two more exhibitions, which are included
in the festival's parallel programme. As a part of Changing Weathers
project the exhibition with the title TURNTON – A SMALL CITY ON THE SEA
by Time's Up artist collective (AT/AU) will take place in RIXC Gallery
from September 28 – October 5, 2016. Through a process of scenario
planning based upon futures processes and the current state of the
oceans, Time's Up artistshave developed a model for a small town that
has transformed through this development to become an example of what a
possible future might be like.
The other exhibition – THE IMPULSES is will take place in RISEBA
University's Architecture and Media Centre H2O 6 from September 19 –
October 2, 2016, organized by Liepaja University's Art Research Lab
(Mplab). It will be showing the interactive and sound art work by
artists: Madara KLAVINSKA, Anna PRIEDOLA, Paula VITOLA, Gunta
DOMBROVSKA, Arturs KALVANS, Reinis NALIVAIKO, Uldis HASNERS. The
exhibition will bel also featuring THE NEW SOUND DAYS performance
programme on the evening of September 30, 2016.
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VENUES:
The National Library of Latvia
The main venue of the conference and exhibition the new building of the
National Library of Latvia http://www.lnb.lv/en/about-library/nll-building
RIXC Gallery
Address: 11. Novembra Krastmala 35, entrance from Minsterejas iela
RISEBA Center for Architecture and Media “H2O 6”,
Address: Durbes iela 4
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OPEN FIELDS PROGRAMME (preliminary)
WEDNESDAY, September 28, 2016
12.00 – Press Conference
18.00 – Opening of the Exhibition: Turnton, Small City on the Sea by
Time's Up (AU/AT).
RIXC Gallery, Address: 11. Novembra Krastmala 35, entrance from
Minsterejas iela
THURSDAY, September 29, 2016
15.00 – Conference Registration
Public Keynote Lectures:
16.00 – 17.00 Jussi PARIKKA (Winchester School of Art / University of
Southampton / UK)
17.30 – 18.30 Christiane PAUL (New School / Whitney Museum / US)
19.00 – The Opening of Open Fields Exhibition and RIXC Festival
Reception
The National Library of Latvia, Address: Mukusalas iela 3
FRIDAY, September 30, 2016
09.00 – 16.00 - Open Fields conference Day 1: Contemporainity / Art as
Research
Featured sessions by Aarhus University'S Contemporainity
Research Group, and Liepaja university's Art Research Lab / Thematic
keynotes / Parallel sessions
17.00-18.30 – Open Fields Book Review 1 (Featured session): book
presentations by Armin MEDOSCH and Christiane PAUL, and discussion.
The National Library of Latvia
21.00 – Satellite event: New Sound Days performance programme and
Impulses exhibition
RISEBA Center for Architecture and Media “H2O 6”, Address: Durbes iela 4
SATURDAY, October 1, 2016
10.00 – 15.00 Open Fields conference Day 2: Eco-Aesthetics / Art and
Science
Featured session by Changing Weathers project / Thematic keynote
by Andy GRACIE / Parallel sessions.
16.00-17.00 Public Keynote Lecture: Monica BELLO (Arts at CERN / CH)
17.00 – 18.00 Open Fields Book Review 2 (20”x20 / Pecha Kucha format)
presentations: by authors – Open Fields participants
18.00 Festival Closing: Art-Science Coctails
The National Library of Latvia
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FESTIVAL EXHIBITIONS
September 29 – November 2, 2016
OPEN FIELDS Featured Exhibition
The main festival exhibition featuring 25 artworks by international artists
The Opening – September 29, 2016, 19.00.
The National Library of Latvia, Address: Mukusalas iela 3
September 28 – October 5, 2016
Turnton, a Small City on the Sea
Artists: Time's Up (AU/AT)
The Opening – September 28, 2016, 18.00
RIXC Gallery, Address: 11. Novembra Krastmala 35, entrance from
Minsterejas iela
September 19 – October 2, 2016
The Impulses. The New Sound Days
Exhibition by young artists from
The Opening – September 19, 2016, 19.00
The Concert and Performance programme – September 30
RISEBA Center for Architecture and Media “H2O 6”, Address: Durbes iela 4
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About
Following the last year's successful launch of Renewable Futures
(renewablefutures.net – the biannual travelling conference series) –
this year RIXC with its European partners from Changing Weathers
project, and other collaborating institutions and universities from the
Baltic Sea region and Europe, are introducing Open Fields, aiming to
develop it towards an annual Riga based gathering for the discussion on
artistic reseach, the changing role of arts in societies, art's
transformative potential, and relations to sciences.
The International Conference Scientific Organizational board:
Prof. Lev MANOVICH / Software Studies Initiative / The Graduate Center,
City University of New York, US
PhD. Armin MEDOSCH / Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum
University, Belgrade, Serbia / Initiator of the Technopolitics working
group in Vienna, Austria
PhD. Jussi PARIKKA / Winchester School of Art / University of
Southampton / UK
PhD. Geoff COX / School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University,
Denmark
Prof. Kristin BERGAUST / Oslo and Akershus University, Norway
Assoc. prof. Laura BELOFF / IT University in Copenhagen, Denmark /
Finnish Bioart Society, Helsinki, Finland
Dr. Lily DIAZ-KOMMONEN / Head of Research Department of Media, Aalto
University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland
Dr. Ursula DAMM / Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Dr. Andris TEIKMANIS / Vice-rector, the Art Academy of Latvia, Riga
Dr. Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS / Nida Art Colony, Vilnius Academy of Arts,
Lithuania
PhD. Margrét Elísabet ÓLAFSDÓTTIR / Art Education at the University of
Akureyri, Iceland
Andrew Gryf PATERSON / Pixelache Helsinki / SERDE / Aalto University
ARTS Media department, Helsinki, Finland
Dr. Piibe PIIRMA / Tallinn's University, Tallinn, Estonia
Dr. Janis KLEPERIS / Hydrogen Laboratory, Solid State Physics Institute,
Latvian University, Riga, Latvia
Dr. Raivo KELOMEES / Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
Regine DEBATTY / we-make-money-not-art.com, London, UK
Conference Chair: Dr. Rasa SMITE / RIXC / Art Research Lab, Liepaja
University / RISEBA / Riga, Latvia
Festival and Exhibition curators: Raitis SMITS and Rasa SMITE.
The festival is organized by RIXC Center for New Media Culture.
Open Fields Conference Academic Partners: Liepaja University's Art
Research Lab, RISEBA University for Business, Art and Technologies, and
Latvian Academy of Arts.
RIXC Festival Exhibition and Open Fields Conference partners:
Latvian National Library and Creative Europe's project Changing Weathers
partners http://www.changingweathers.net/
Contacts: rixc at rixc.org
Address: RIXC Center for New Media Culture
Maskavas iela 10, Riga, LV 1050
Phone: +371-67228478 (office), +371-26546776 (Rasa Smite),
Support: EU programme Creative Europe, State Cultural Capital Foundation
of Latvia, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Latvia, Goethe Institute
Riga, Mondrian Foundation, Pro Helvetia (tbc.)
More information:
http://rixc.org
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Dr Rasa Smite
Artist and Founding Director of RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture in Riga,
Assoc. Prof. in New Media Art at Liepaja University,
Chief Editor of Acoustic Space, peer-reviewed book & journal series
Contact: rasa at rixc.org
Phone: +371-26546776
http://smitesmits.com
http://rixc.org
http://renewablefutures.net
http://acousticspacejournal.com
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