[spectre] Call Extended: Aug 29, 2022 > SPLINTERED REALITIES Virtual Conference @ RIXC Festival 2022

[Rasa Smite]

Hello on Spectre list!

We have received many amazing proposals already – thanks so much to 
those of you who have submitted their abstracts for SPLINTERED REALITIES 
conference, taking place from October 6 - 8, 2022 (Riga / Hybrid / Virtual)!

However, as we have several requests (and due summer holidays in 
Europe), we have decided to extend the deadline for SPLINTERED REALITIES 
conference proposals until August 29, 2022! Please apply here:
https://renewablefutures2022.rixc.lv/openconf.php

Looking forward seeing you soon in Riga and online!

Rasa
on behalf of co-chairs of the Splintered Realities conference


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The SPLINTERED REALITIES Conference takes place from October 6-8, 2022, 
in Riga, Latvia and Virtually in Zoom. The Open Call Deadline is 
extended until August 29, 2022.

The RIXC Art and Science Festival 2022 and SPLINTERED REALITIES 
Exhibition Opening takes place on August 25, in Riga. The Exhibition 
will be on view until October 16, 2022, at  Kim? Contemporary Art Centre 
in Riga, Latvia

More info: http://rixc.org
http://festival2021.rixc.org

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CALL for Conference Proposals is OPEN!
Deadline for submissions – August 15, 2022
APPLY NOW! Please send your submissions (short abstract and biography) 
via openconf system online: 
https://renewablefutures2022.rixc.lv/openconf.php
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SPLINTERED REALITIES
The 5th RENEWABLE FUTURES Conference (Hybrid / Virtual)
in the framework of RIXC Art Science Festival 2022
October 6 – 8, 2022
Riga, Latvia / virtually from Liepaja, Karlsruhe, Oslo
http://rixc.org
http://festival2021.rixc.org

“An ecology of the virtual is .. just as pressing as ecologies of the 
visible world” – Felix Guattari

RIXC in Riga is preparing the next edition of its annual Art and Science 
festival, which under the title SPLINTERED REALITIES will take place in 
Riga and virtually, including the exhibition opening program (August 25, 
2022) followed by artist talks, guided tours, workshops and performances 
(August 25 – October 16, 2022), and the international conference event 
(October 6–8,  2022).

The SPLINTERED REALITIES Conference of RIXC Festival, is the 5th edition 
of the Renewable Futures conference series. The Conference will take 
place from October 6 – 8, 2022, as a hybrid event; the on-site part will 
take place at the RIXC gallery in Riga, hosting keynote speakers, panel 
curators, co-chairs and moderators, while most of the participants 
(selected through an open call) will be joining online, including in 
hybridity format sessions co-hosted by RIXC partners – NAIA in 
Karlsruhe, MPLab in Liepaja and FeLT in Oslo.


SPLINTERED REALITIES
Conference
October 6 – 8, 2022,
Riga (Hybrid and Virtual)

The SPLINTERED REALITIES Conference will be structured into a three-day 
program, with each “Splinter Session” focusing on a different area or 
field, identifying the key “splinters” and discussing how to make 
tentative steps towards reconstituting our realities, everyday lives, 
and communication with each other, now and into the future.

We want to meet in Riga and online, to talk, eat, play – and probably 
also cry – together, and imagine what it would take to build a world in 
which wars like the current Russian onslaught on Ukraine would become 
impossible. We choose such a perspective because our realism is neither 
that of military strategists, nor that of cultural pessimists. Instead, 
ours is a desperate realism – perhaps in the spirit of Guattari's 
ecososphy, Latour's terrestrial coexistence, or Haraway's question of 
how to live on a damaged Earth.. Media ubiquity, pandemic concerns, and 
social divisions have landed us in a world of splintered realities – to 
live with? to heal? to care? to learn from nature?

We don't expect to provide answers. Instead, the conference aims to be a 
forum for revising the “splinters” of our contemporary condition – 
affected moreover by ongoing military conflict.

The Conference will also look at creative practices that deal with 
“splintered realities”, showcasing what art can do and discussing what 
kind of (extended reality) technologies can help us to become more open 
(and sensitive) towards each other and our environments.

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[Splinter Session 01: Deep Europe] on Day 1 (6 Oct) – “in the rear-view 
mirror of history” – will focus on the current situation in Europe, with 
a focus on the Baltics and Central and Eastern Europe, discussing and 
evaluating the “splinters” from the perspective of the past. Day 1 will 
feature the “Syndicate Meeting”, and artist presentations hosted by 
MPLab in Liepaja, which will be European Capital of Culture in 2027.

The “Syndicate” was an extended, informal network of artists and 
cultural practitioners based in Europe and beyond, that was active in 
the second half of the 1990s. Besides its online mailing list, the 
participants organised meetings for amicable encounters and professional 
exchange. We want to revive this format and again hold a Syndicate 
Meeting under the label of "Deep Europe", a notion that does not refer 
to a particular territory, but to the awareness that identities and 
histories are always layered and entangled, a messy formation that 
cannot be 'cleared up', but that should rather be cherished and 
cultivated - in Europe, and elsewhere.

Session 01 curators: Andreas Broeckmann and Rasa Smite.
Topics: Deep Europe, Entangled Histories, Cultivated Futures, New 
Ecosophies, Extended Realities

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[Splinter Session 02: Naturecultures] on Day 2 (7 Oct) – “how to live in 
the damaged world” – will examine eco-feminist perspectives and other 
new ecosophies, learning from nature and our relations with it, in a 
search of new cultural theories and art practices that contribute 
towards goals of socio-ecological justice.

Day 2 will be hosted by the new Karlsruhe based art center – NAIA 
(Naturally Artificial Intelligence Art association), featuring 
presentations by Karlsruhe UNESCO Media Art city artists.

Session 02 curators and co-chairs: Anett Holzheid, Eva-Maria Lopez, 
Daria Mille / NAIA
Topics: NatureCultures, Eco-feminism, More-than-Human, Socio-Ecological 
Justice, Naturally/Artificial IntIntelligences…

[Splinter Session 03: Living Technologies] on Day 3 (8 Oct) – will focus 
on how the “relations between humans, other living organisms and 
machines” are experienced and expressed today, in the face of 
environmental crises, global pandemics and the war in Ukraine – 
splinters that raise fears of domination, and evoke a sense of the 
uncanny. Might they also point to a world of possibilities of becoming, 
creation of new forms and behaviors? Can we co-create more balanced 
forms of existence?

Day 3 will be hosted by the FeLT project team from Oslo, Norway, who are 
also co-founders of the Renewable Futures conference series. It will 
also feature the Green Revisited Book presentation by editors Kristin 
Bergaust, Jens Hauser and Rasa Smite.

Session 03 curators: Kristin Bergaust, Jens Hauser and FeLT (Oslo) 
project team.
Topics: Techno-Ecological Sensoriums, AI and Biological Systems, 
Technologies of Sensible, Terrestrial Co-existence, Beyond Green…

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APPLY NOW!
CALL for Conference Proposals is OPEN!
Deadline for submissions – August 15, 2022

If you are interested in an on-site or virtual participation and 
contribution, please, submit your proposals (a short abstract and bio) 
for the RIXC Festival / Renewable Futures conference via the openconf 
system:
https://renewablefutures2022.rixc.lv/openconf.php
related to the following topics:

01-1 Deep Europe, Entangled Histories and Cultivated Futures,
01-2 New Ecosophies and Extended Realities
02-1 NatureCultures, Eco-feminism and Socio-Ecological Justice,
02-2 More-than-Human and Naturally/Artificial IntIntelligences
03-1 Techno-Ecological Sensoriums, AI and Biological Systems,
03-2 Technologies of Care, Terrestrial Co-existence, and Beyond Green

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Registration Fees / Tickets

Early Bird fee: 18 EUR
Full fee: 36 EUR
Students: 50% reduction.
Conference Registration and Early Bird tickets are available through 
Eventbrite.com
On-site Exhibitions in kim? and RIXC gallery – free entrance.
Guided Tours for groups can be booked for no charge via e-mail rixc at rixc.org

Producers and Contact:

The Festival is Produced by The RIXC Centre for New Media Culture.
Festival curators: Rasa Smite (rasa at rixc.org) and Raitis Smits 
(raitis at rixc.org)
Festival producer: Agnese Baranova (agnese at rixc.org)
PR and information coordinator: Liva Silina (rixc at rixc.org)
Contact e-mail: rixc at rixc.org
Phones: +371 29635167 (Agnese Baranova), +371 26546776 (Rasa Smite)
Address: RIXC the Centre for New Media Culture, Lencu iela 2, Riga, 
LV-1010, Latvia

Partners:

The SPLINTERED REALITIES Festival and Conference partners are: 
NAIA/Karlsruhe, MPLab/Liepaja, FeLT/Oslo.

Support:

The festival is supported by The State Culture Capital Foundation of 
Latvia,  Riga City Council, Goethe Institute, LG.

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-- 
Dr. Rasa Smite
Artist and Founding Director of RIXC Art Science Center and Festival, 
Riga, Latvia
Professor of New Media Art and Senior Researcher at the Art Research Lab 
(MPLab), Liepaja University, Latvia
Researcher at the Institute Art Gender Nature IAGN, FHNW Academy of Art 
and Design, Basel, Switzerland
Visiting Lecturer at MIT ACT - Art, Culture and Technology Program, Boston
+371-26546776 (whatsapp)
rasa at rixc.org
http://rixc.org
http://smitesmits.com