[spectre] (fwd) TRANSBIOTICS - art+com festival in Riga starts Jun
14-20, 2010
Andreas Broeckmann
ab at mikro.in-berlin.de
Tue Jun 15 17:01:34 CEST 2010
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:49:54 +0300
From: Rasa Smite <rasa at rixc.lv>
dear spectre
please find below the info on annual Riga
festival art+communication which this year is
organized in collaboration with European SLSA
academic conference event
best regards,
Rasa
http://rixc.lv/10
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TRANSBIOTICS.
Temporal Stability Points
XII International Festival for New Media Culture ART+COMMUNICATION 2010
in collaboration with “Textures" - the 6th
European meeting of the Society for Literature,
Science and the Arts
Riga, June 14 - 20, 2010
http://rixc.lv/10/
This year the Festival for New Media Culture
“Art+Communication" with the title "TRANSBIOTICS.
Temporal Stability Points" will look at
biotechnologies as means for artistic expression
as well as challenge to the constantly changing
materiality in arts.
Festival programme will take place in
collaboration with the 6th European meeting of
the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts
(SLSAeu 2010 conference), which is devoted to
exploring materials, structures, surfaces and
interfaces transformed by the networked media.
http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/SLSAeu2010/home.htm
* exhibition
The exhibition "TRANSBIOTICS" will be held June
15 - 20 in kim? / RIXC gallery spaces in
Spikeri (new location for contemporary arts
exhibitions in Riga). American artist Paul
Vanouse is participating with his installations
"Latent Figure Protocol" and "Relative Velocity
Inscription Device" where he using the human DNA
as material for creating art.
London based Latvian artists Zane Berzina
together with architect Jackson Tan and an
international group of scientists have created an
interactive installation "E-Static Shadows" - a
touch-sensitive
"sculpture" exploring static electricity. British
artist Andy Gracie with his installation "Deep
Data" interprets experiments with bacteria
performed in deep space environments. And Finnish
artist Terike Haapoja (whose work "Entropy" was
exhibited at kim?/ RIXC Gallery last year) will
this year present her recent works "Dialogue" and
"Succession", which explores interaction between
human and non-human organisms.
The exhibition will be supplemented by
"Transbiotics" public lectures in Spikeri, taking
place on June 16 and June 17, 2010, where one of
the exhibition curators - Jens Hauser and
philosopher Ainars Kamolins, will introduce
biotechnology art as new materiality of textures,
and exhibition artists will talk will talk about
how they interpret this notion through their
works.
* performances
On Thursday, June 17 at 18.00 in RIXC Media Space
sound art performance and exhibition opening
“Concord" by Latvian media artist Voldemars
Johansons will take place.
And on Friday, June 18 at 21.00 in RIXC Media
Space the special festival evening event will
feature live performance and video programme:
Jürgen Reble and Thomas Köner will present their
live performance "Materia Obscura" - an audio
visual expedition into crystallized salts and
dyes changing rhythm and structure constantly
between moving images and opening a door to the
dark and unperceivable material of our universe.
The performance "Mucilaginous Omniverse" by
Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand will present
artistic experiments with sonicated bouncing
silicone oil droplets. Meanwhile a movie "Planet
A" by French artist Momoko Seto invites into a
world of salt crystal formations which are slowly
taking over the land by turning it into a
physically beautiful but dried out saline desertŠ
* SLSAeu conference
During June 15 to 19, 2010, as a Day Programme,
SLSAeu 2010 conference “Textures" will take place
in Stocholm School of Economics in Riga. The
SLSAeu 2010 conference is dedicated to exploring
fabrics, structures, surfaces, and interfaces in
a world that has been transformed to a large
extent through technoscience and networked media.
This transformed world is highly textured, partly
through verbal and non-verbal 'texts' but also by
mixtures of human-made and given environments
whose complexity offers resistance to symbolic
readings.
Along the other conference streams - "Textuality
and Materiality", "Architextures",
"Biopalimpsests", "Tissue Cultures", two streams
- “Networks and Sustainability" (chaired by Armin
Medosch and Rasa Smite) and “Art as Research"
(chaired by Kerstin May and Rasa Smite) wil be
co-organized by RIXC and MPLab (Art Research
Laboratory) of Liepaja University.
"Network and Sustainability" stream interrogates
the complex relationships between "network
technology" and " network society", in order to
reveal the multilayered texture of networks and
to consider what potential network culture
contains for sustainable development in
technological, social and cultural fields. “Art
as Research" stream is challenging the
conventional notion of the role of art - by
affirming that the art produce knowledge, and
that the art can be scientific research approach,
it claim the right for arts, to being an
alternative form of knowledge and research on a
par with other sciences.
http://rixc.lv/10/lv/konference.html
http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/SLSAeu2010/streams.htm
* biotech workshop
At a close of the festival, on Saturday, June 19
at Faculty of Biology, University of Latvia the
biotechnology workshop “Tissue Engineering and
Art" will be conducted by artists and directors
of Australian Bioart Laboratory "SymbioticA" -
Oron Catts and dr. Ionat Zurr.
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Art+Communication FESTIVAL and SLSAeu 2010 CONFERENCE
PROGRAMME
Monday, June 14
19.00 Opening of the Transbiotics exhibition and
Art+Communication 2010 festival (kim? / RIXC
Galleries in Spikeri, Maskavas iela 12/1).
Tuesday, June 15
17.00 Opening of SLSAeu 2010 conference
"Textures" (Stockholm School of Economics)
17.30 [Plenary Session]: Daina Taimina "Folding
Mathematics, Craft and Art: Seeing what is
between Folds".
Wednesday, June 16
09.00-18.00 SLSAeu 2010 conference "Textures"
(Stockholm School of Economics, Strelnieku iela
4a)
16.30-18.00 [Session] ART AS RESEARH (stream
moderated by Kerstin Mey) - Christopher Hales
"Learning from the SMARTlab Experience"; Mili
John Tharakan "New Insights into Traditional
Narrative Textile Craft Shaping the Future of
Interactive Textiles and Technology"; Kathy High
"BioArt Initiative: the failure of going too
fast"; Signe Gr?be "Artwork - Witness of Time".
19.00 TRANSBIOTICS public lectures "Temporary
sustainability points": Ainars Kamolins, Andy
Gracie, Terike Haapoja (kim? / Spikeri, Maskavas
ielas 12/1).
Thursday, June 17
09.00-18.00 SLSAeu 2010 conference "Textures":
09.00-10.30 [Semi-Plenary Session] NETWORKS AND
SUSTAINABILITY (stream moderated by Armin Medosch
and Rasa Smite) - Felix Stalder "Sharing and
surveillance. Two features of network culture";
11.00-12.30 [Session] NETWORKS AND SUSTAINABILITY
- Magda Tyzlik-Carver "Sustainability of Labour
within Organized Networks"; Clemens Apprich
"Reading the Digital City: New political
technologies in the Network Society".
16.30-18.00 [Section] NETWORKS AND SUSTAINABILITY
- Simon Biggs "Where and why creativity?"; Adnan
Hadzi "Why Openness Matters: the Deptford.TV
Project"; Ilze Black and Alexei Blinov "Local
portals: Experiments in ubiquitous networks".
18.00 Voldemars Johansons "Concord" - performance
and opening of the exhibition (RIXC Media space)
19.30 TRANSBIOTICS public lectures "Textures and
materialitiy": Jens Hauser, Zane Berzina, Paul
Vanouse (kim? / Spikeri).
Friday, June 18
09.00-18.00 SLSAeu 2010 conference "Textures":
09.00-10.30 [Semi-Plenary Session] ART AS
RESEARCH - Carole Gray and Heather Delday "A
'PEDAGOGY OF POIESIS' Possible futures for
'artistic' practice-led doctoral research"
16.30-18.00 [Semi-Plenary Session] ART AS
RESEARCH - Jan Kaila "Artistic Research
formalized into Doctoral Programs".
21.00 Performances: Evelina Domnitch, Dmitry
Gelfand "Mucilaginous Omniverse", Thomas Köner,
Jürgen Reble "Materia Obscura". Video: Momoko
Seto "Planet A" (RIXC Mediju telpa., 11. Novembra
krastmala 35, ieeja no Minsterejas ielas).
Saturday, June 19
09.00-15.30 SLSAeu 2010 conference "Textures":
09.00-10.30 [Round Table] ART AS RESEARCH - chaired by Florian Dombois
11.00-13.00 [Session] ART AS RESEARCH - Kerstin
Mey "Creativity, Imagination, Values - Why we
need art as research; Janis Jefferies. Situated
Knowledge: The Subjective and The Personal In
Creative Arts Research; Christoph Brunner
"Research-Creation / The Generation of Novel
Textures"; Camille Baker "Art-as-Research for
MINDtouch: participatory performance as research
in mobile media".
14.00-15.30 [Plenary Session] ART AS RESEARCH -
Henk Borghoff, Sher Doruff "Artistic Research:
Non-Conceptualism, Realism and Contingency"
10.00-18.00 Workshop "Tissue Engineering and
Art": conducted by SymbioticA (LU Faculty of
Biology)
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Organized by:
The festival is organized by Centre for New Media
Culture RIXC in collaboration with The Pilot
Project of the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art
kim?, e-text+textiles and Art Research
Laboratory MPLab, University of Liepaja.
Supported by:
State Culture Capital Foundation, Riga City
Council, European Cultural Foundation, Nordic
Culture Point, Centre Culturel Français de Riga,
EEA Financial Mechanism/Norwegian Financial
Mechanism, Hotel Elizabete, Embassy of Federal
Republic of Austria, LU Faculty of Biology, the
University of Western Australia, SymbioticA,
Department of Culture and Arts of the Government
of Western Australia, airBaltic, Dizaina Studija,
Live Riga, Studija, Foto Kvartals, Rigas Laiks,
Veto Magazine, Maksla Plus, Kultura.lv,
Easyget.lv, Delfi.lv, Satori.lv
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