[spectre] Call Extended: VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES, Open Fields-2 conference and RIXC festival

Rasa Smite rasa at rixc.lv
Mon May 15 09:34:04 CEST 2017 

Hello,

we are announcing the title and theme for our this year's festival
and also we have extended the deadline
so, we welcome proposals for VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES
, the 2nd Open 
Fields Conference and Festival Exhibition,
- till June 7, 2017

APPLY FOR CONFERENCE here >: http://openfields2017.rixc.lv
APPLY FOR EXHIBITION here >: http://exhibition2017.rixc.lv


more info - please see below, and our new festival website:
http://festival2017.rixc.org

best regards,
Rasa
http://rixc.org

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VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES

The 2nd Open Fields Conference

and RIXC Art Science Festival 2017


October 19 – 21, 2017, Riga



http://festival2017.rixc.org



DEADLINE for conference and exhibition submissions EXTENDED: June 7, 
2017



VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES is the theme of this year's RIXC Art Science 
festival in Riga, Latvia, that aims to establish a space for artistic 
interventions and conversations about the complex implications of 
immersive technologies. The festival programme will include the 2nd Open 
Fields conference, workshops, performances and exhibitions presenting 
the most innovative approaches in artistic research. It will take place 
from October 19-21, 2017, in Riga's most significant contemporary art 
venues – kim? Contemporary Art Center and RIXC Gallery, as well as in 
the Art Academy, and the National Art Museum.


VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES


Immersive technologies coupled with superior virtual environments, 
artificial intelligence algorithms, faster processors, and biometrics 
are launching a new era in virtual experiences, entertainment and story 
telling. At the same time these technologies have the potential for 
reinforcing stereotypes, contributing to massive economic and social 
disruptions, and implementing new systems of invasive monitoring and 
control.

What do these new developments in VR/AR mean for education, 
entertainment, social policy, and systems of codified knowledge? Like 
their predecessors the telephone, television, and mobile phone, what are 
the impending new vistas and reduced horizons?

Biometrics and the uploading and tracking of personal data spans areas 
from health care to advertising, with implications for law, criminal 
justice, entertainment (gaming), education and sports. Machine learning 
and algorithms are harvesting and making use of big data in new and 
startling ways. Some of it allows pinpoint accuracy in determining 
issues of public health, economics, climate change, story telling, 
political leanings and the migration of populations. What does all this 
data combined with new technologies mean? What are some current and 
future artistic strategies that deal with this? Combined with the 
acceleration of vr/ar and technologies of immersion, how will societies 
react?

Taking place in the framework of RISK CHANGE Creative Europe’s 
project, various festival events will explore relations between 
“virtualities” and “realities” in our post-media society. The Open 
Fields conference will discuss the socio-cultural and neurobiological 
impacts of virtual and augmented reality, and other immersive 
technologies. The conference participants will also look at the places 
and movements from a socio-political perspective, the mapping and 
charting of migrating cultures particularly people and their data 
traces. The conference will be complemented by the festival exhibition 
that will explore the changing role of art in society, its 
transformative potential, and its relations to the sciences, especially 
focusing on neomateriality, new aesthetics and other critical qualities 
of the post-digital.


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CALL FOR PROPOSALS:

DEADLINE EXTENDED: JUNE 7, 2017



By following many requests, we have extended the submission deadline 
till June 7, 2017. We welcome artists and theorists, academic 
researchers and creative practitioners to submit the abstracts for 
CONFERENCE and proposals for EXHIBITION with regards to the following 
THEMES:



* augmented and virtual reality

* 360-degree video and interactive story-telling

* biometrics, AI and machine learning

* tracing and charting the migrating cultures

* artistic and scientific research practices

* techno-ecological perspective

* neomateriality and post-digital aesthetics

* digital art archives and curating practices
* data visualization and immersive environments



Welcome to submit your conference proposal consisting of:


- keywords 5–6,

- an abstract 250 words,

- biography of the author(s) 200 words each.



APPLY NOW:

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APPLY FOR CONFERENCE here >: http://openfields2017.rixc.lv

The Open Fields conference is the annual gathering in Riga, Latvia, for 
international scholars and artists working at the intersection of arts, 
humanities and science. The conference was launched in 2016 with the aim 
to create the Nordic-Baltic region based platform for artistic research. 
It is taking place in the framework of the RIXC Art Science festival.
The conference venues this year will be: Art Academy of Latvia, and 
National Arts Museum


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APPLY FOR EXHIBITION here >: http://exhibition2017.rixc.lv

The Open Fields conference will be complemented by the festival 
exhibition, presenting the most innovative approaches in artistic 
research practices. The exhibition will be featuring 25 artworks. It 
will take place in kim? Contemporary Art Center.
http://www.kim.lv/sakumlapa


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In case of any issues (i.e.with the openconf system), please don’t 
hesitate to contact us:
rixc (at) rixc.org



More info – on festival website:
http://festival2017.rixc.org



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* Conference chairs:

Rasa SMITE / RIXC / Liepaja University / Latvia,
Ellen PEARLMAN / Parsons / New School / Art-A-Hack / ThoughtWorks / New 
York, USA

* The International Conference Scientific board:

Lev MANOVICH / Cultural Analytics Lab / The Graduate Center, City 
University of New York, USA
Jussi PARIKKA / Winchester School of Art / University of Southampton / UK
Geoff COX / School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark
Kristin BERGAUST / Oslo and Akershus University, Norway
Laura BELOFF / IT University, Copenhagen / Finnish Bioart Society, 
Helsinki, Finland
Lily DIAZ-KOMMONEN / Head of Research Department of Media, Aalto 
University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland
Ursula DAMM / Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS / Nida Art Colony, Vilnius Academy of Arts, 
Lithuania
Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir / Art Education at the University of 
Akureyri, Iceland
Ilva SKULTE / Riga Stradins University
Regine DEBATTY / we-make-money-not-art.com / UK/BE
Piibe PIIRMA / Tallinn University / Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, 
Estonia
Raivo KELOMEES / Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
Aleksandra KOSTIC / Kibla / Risk Change project / Maribor, Slovenia

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The Festival and Exhibition curators: Raitis SMITS and Rasa SMITE / RIXC

The Festival is produced by RIXC / Riga, Latvia in collaboration of Risk 
Change / Creative Europe's project partners.

The Conference is organized by RIXC / Riga in collaboration with the 
Renewable Futures Headquarters / Oslo, and Art-A-Hack / New York, and 
Hybrid Lab Nordplus project academic partners: Liepaja University, Aalto 
University and HiOA, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied 
Sciences.

Support: Creative Europe, Risk Change project, Nordplus, 
Hybrid Lab project, The State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, Riga 
City Council, The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of 
Latvia

Contact: rixc at rixc.org, +371-67228478 (RIXC office), 
+371-26546776 (Rasa Smite)

http://rixc.org


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