[spectre] Symposium for ART AND RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES - starts tomorrow

[Rasa Smite]

Dear Spectre,

Sympoisum for Art and renewable technologies starts tomorrow -
more info please see below and on symposium's blog:
http://renewable.rixc.lv

best regards
Rasa

http://rixc.lv
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Symposium for ART AND RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES
August 13-16, Aizpute (Latvia)


The symposium for "Art and Renewable 
Technologies" will start on Thursday, August 13 
held in Aizpute, Latvia. The symposium will 
gather together 30 artists, activists, 
technologists, scientists and researchers 
primarily from Nordic and Baltic countries, as 
well as from other European countries. Symposium 
participants will exchange their ideas and 
explorations that deal with renewable energy 
resources, alternative and ecological use of 
technologies and other sustainability related 
issues.

- - - The symposium addresses 4 main themes:

BIO / ECO-SYSTEMS: Environmental science and 
ecology - - -  Ecosystem research - Permaculture 
and biosystem design - - - Biomass as renewable 
energy resource - - -  Critical and alternative 
approaches to biotechnology

SOLAR ENERGY: Sunlight as constant energy 
resource - - - Process of photosynthesis - Solar 
energy technologies

OPEN SOURCE: Sustainability using open source / 
information approaches: in art and grassroots 
culture, ecology, architecture and environmental 
design

MYTH & LEGENDS: Historical traditions and modern 
alternative solutions - - - Cultural 
transformation: energy in nature and in city - - 
- Future  visions of terrestrial energy

- - - Participants:

Ulla Taipale (FI/ES), Victor Hugo Mondragon 
Franco (SE), Malin Lindmark Vrijman (SE), Mathieu 
Vrijman  (SE), Bartaku (BE), Christina Stadlbauer 
(BE), Tiina Sööt (EE), Linda Vebere (LV), Andrew 
Paterson (SCO/FI), Gisle Froysland (NO), Julian 
Priest (DK), Jaanis Garancs (LV), Ainars Kamolins 
(LV), Reinis Rutkis (LV), Jaanis Liepins (LV), 
Mikelis Putrams (LV), Linda Krumina (LV), Daina 
Silina (LV), Terike Haapoja (FI), Rikke Luther 
(DK), Erik Sjödin (SE), Michel Bussien (SE), 
Martins Ratniks (LV), Dace Dzerina (LV), Rasa 
Smite (LV), Raitis Smits (LV), Signe Pucena (LV), 
Ugis Pucens (LV)

- - - Location:

The symposium will take place in artists 
residency center SERDE in Aizpute, a small town 
in Kurzeme region of Latvia. SERDE is located in 
old wooden historical building that also will be 
used as a specific case for which alternative and 
ecological approach in developing sustainable 
systems and renewable energy technologies can be 
explored and applied.
http://www.serde.lv

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SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME


DAY 1. Thursday, August 13

17.00 - 20.00 Introduction Meeting
21.00 Opening programme
Open session / screenings / performances ...

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DAY 2. Friday, August 14

09.30 - 10.00 Planning Meeting
10.00 - 11.30 [bio : eco]
Andrew Gryf Paterson. PLATFORM ECOSYSTEMS AND PEDAGOGY (20-30 min)
Erik Sjödin and Michel Bussien. BEYOND NATURE (20-30 min)
Ulla Taipale. Capsula's CURATED EXPEDITIONS (20-30 min)

12.00-13.00 [bio : energy]
Julian Priest. WHOIS ENERGY? (30 min)
Reinis Rutkis. HYDROGEN AS ENERGY CARRIER - 
native and fuel cell systems. (20 min)

13.00 - 14.30 [bio : ethics]
Ain?rs Kamoli?? and J?nis Liepi??. BIOETHICS AND/IN ART. (20 min)
Terike Haapoje. PROJECT "CLOSED CIRCUIT - OPEN 
DURATION" and on use of scientific research 
technologies in art, and the impact of 
environmental ethics on art. (60 min)
Discussion.

15.30 - 19.00 [bio : solar]
Workshop [bio : solar]: HOW TO MAKE DYE 
SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS. Conducted by Bartaku
Workshop [bio : myth]. BEE ARCHITECTS - ON THE 
GEOMETRY OF BEE HIVES. Conducted by Christina 
Stadlbauer.
+ Field work / Work on collaborative projects / Individual work / ...

  21.00 - Screenings and presentations:
[electromagnetic : energy] Rasa Smite, Raitis 
Smits, Linda Vebere/RIXC. Presentation of RIXC's 
projects: exhibitions WAVES (2006) and SPECTROPIA 
(2008), research projects SPECTRAL ECOLOGY and 
video SKRUNDA SIGNAL (2007).
Open session / Films.

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DAY 3. Saturday, August 15

10.00 - Planning Meeting / Discussions

10.30 - 11.30 [open source]
Gisle Frøysland. INTO THE FREE AND OPEN: the 
piksel festival and related initiatives to 
provide sustainable resources for artists based 
on floss technologies. (30 min)
Malin Lindmark Vrijman and Mathieu Vrijman. 
Sustainability using open source approaches on 
ECO TOURISM AND LOCAL COMMUNITY AWARENESS. (30 
min)

11.30 - 12.10 [eco : systems]
Tiina Sööt. UNDERSTANDING OF ECOLOGY IN HUMANITIES (20 min)
Mi?elis Putr?ms. NEW OPORTUNITIES CREATED BY WOOD 
INNOVATION: how new materials shape timber 
construction; dendrolight. (20 min)

12.30 - 14.00 [myth & legends]
Rikke Luther. WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH ALL THAT WATER (30 min)
Christina Stadlbauer. THE BLACK BEE WENT TO TOWN 
or how the ever waste land came to have 50.000 
new inhabitants (30 min)
Victor Hugo Mondragon. ZEGACHE PROJECT IN MEXICO. 
Open Media relations, interpretation and 
subjectivity within the popular culture and the 
Media Art. (20 min)

15.00 - 19.00
Workshop [solar]: HOW TO BUILD SOLARBOTS 
MINIATURE KINETIC SCULPTURES DRIVEN BY LIGHT. 
Conducted by Gisle Frøysland.
Workshop [myth]: NATURAL FARMING: LOCAL 
TRADITIONS OF MAKING 'MOONSHINE'. Conducted by 
Signe Pucena and U?is Pucens.
+ Open session / Field work / Work on 
collaborative projects / Individual work / ...

21.00 - Closing event / Screenings / Presentations
Julian Priest. MINIMALIST SENSOR NETWORK PERFORMANCE "I SPEAK; I LIE".
Open Session / Films.

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DAY 4. Sunday, August 16

10.30 - 12.00 Closing Meeting (final discussions, evaluation, future planning)

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The outcomes of the symposium - new projects, 
artworks, co-productions - will be presented 
during the international art and science 
conference ENERGY that will take place in the 
framework of Art+Communication festival in Riga, 
October 8 - 10, 2009.
(Call for proposals for Energy festival and 
conference is currently open - deadline August 
31, 2009. http://rixc.lv/09)

- - - Organisers and support:

Symposium is organised by RIXC, the center for new media culture
with the support of Nordic Culture Fund.
http://rixc.lv
http://www.nordiskkulturfond.org


RIXC address: 11. Novembra krastmala 35-201, Riga, LV-1050, Latvia
e-mail: 2009 at rixc.lv
phone (office): +371 67228478
phone (mobile): +371 67228477 (Rasa ?mite)

Symposium blog:
http://renewable.rixc.lv/

RIXC on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/rixcriga



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