[spectre] Acoustic.Space 8: ENERGY is out and grow_ability exhibition opens

[Rasa Smite]

hello at Spectre!

we are happy to announce that the newest issue 
(No 8) of the "Acoustic Space" issue - ENERGY is 
out now, and in relation to that we (RIXC + 
Renewable Network) also have organized an 
exhibition "grow_ability", which introduces with 
artistic explorations on "nature and food as 
energy resource".

see below more information on both - journal and exhibition

best
Rasa
http://renewable.rixc.lv

------------------ journal ---------------------------------------

ENERGY.
Scientific and Artistic, Utopian and Critical Visions
Acoustic Space (No 8).
Peer-reviewed Journal for Transdisciplinary 
Research on Art, Science, Technology and Society

Edited by Rasa Smite, Armin Medosch, Kerstin Mey, Raitis Smits
Published by RIXC (Riga) and MPLab of Liepaja university, 2011.
ISSN 1407-2858


* Energy makes change

In human society, energy is the most essential 
resource driving its economy and its future 
development. Yet, the currently used forms of 
terrestrial energy production are 
non-sustainable, posing serious danger to 
climate, people and the environment. Now, in the 
twenty-first century, human society with its 
information technologies needs more resources 
then ever before, thus sustainable development of 
both energy and information technologies have 
become the key issues of the present.
Building on the notion that saving-the-world 
scenarios can be successful only if people from 
different fields become more susceptible towards 
new ideas and new collaborations, this issue of 
the Acoustic Space journal aims to become a 
cross-disciplinary platform for innovative 
thought combining the results of both scientific 
and artistic research.

In this volume, scientists and artists, academic 
researchers, media theorists, social scientists, 
activists and other lateral thinkers are 
introducing their scientific and artistic, 
utopian and critical visions on future 
terrestrial energy.

The publication covers a broad scope of "energy" 
topics under 4 main sections: "Information  and 
energy", "Changing the future landscape of 
sustainability", "Energy in nature and society" 
and "Science and art of renewable energy 
technologies".

Authors: Eric Kluitenberg, Michel Bauwens, Ludger 
Hovestadt, Vera Bühlmann, Sebastian Michael, Lina 
Dokuzovic, Julian Priest, George Papanikolaou, 
Vasilis Kostakis, Andrew Gryf Paterson, John 
Reshaur Enevoldsen, Jegan Vincent de Paul, Janis 
Kleperis, Liga Grinberga, Imants Dirba, Ilze 
Klepere, Ingrida Sahta, Ilze Baltina, Juris 
Blums, Bartaku, Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits.

* * *

Price: 20 EUR (including postal expenses).

You can order a copy of journal by sending an 
e-mail with your request to: rixc at rixc.lv

* * *

The Acoustic Space journal, was initially founded 
in 1998 by E-Lab / RIXC (Riga) for new media 
culture and creative explorations within digital 
networked environments and electro-acoustic 
space. Since 2007 Acoustic Space has come out as 
a peer-reviewed (refereed) international journal 
for transdiscplinary research on art, science, 
technology and society. It is published by MPLab 
(Art Research Lab) of Liepaja University 
(Liepaja, Latvia) in collaboration with RIXC, The 
Centre for New Media Culture (Riga, Latvia).

* * *

This issue of the journal is published with 
support of a grant from Norway through the 
Norwegian Financial Mechanism in the framework of 
the project "Development of New Media Art 
Education in Liepaja" (LV0086), and co-financed 
by The State Cultural Capital Foundation (Latvia).

http://rixc.lv   |   http://mplab.lv


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GROW_ABILITY -
- artists explore sustainability issues from 
"nature as resource of energy" perspective.

http://renewable.rixc.lv

"grow_ability" is an interdisciplinary art 
exhibition taking place in kim? / RIXC Gallery at 
Spikeri from April 1 to May 8, 2011, in Riga, 
Latvia.

The exhibition addresses the issues of 
sustainability in relation to our planet's 
ecology and energy from the "food as energy" and 
"nature as resource of energy" perspectives. The 
exhibition features three installations: Super 
Meal by Erik Sjödin (SE), Folk Pharmacy by Serde 
(LV), and Talk to Me by RIXC artists collective 
(LV).

* SUPER MEAL by Swedish artist Erik Sjödin is 
collaborative experiment (together with farmers, 
chefs and scientists) with the aquatic plant 
Azolla - one of the worlds fastest growing 
plants, which also is a rich source of nutrients, 
yet it is virtually unexplored as food.
http://www.eriksjodin.net/

* Latvian artists and culture researchers Signe 
Pucena, UÆis Pucens, Ieva Vitola  (the 
Interdisciplinary Art Group SERDE) and Aigars 
LielbÇrdis (LU LFMI LFK, LU HZS) in the 
exhibition present their project FOLK PHARMACY - 
an artistic interpretation of the use of indoor 
and wild plants as food and folk medicine.

* Artists Raitis Smits, Rasa Smite and Martins 
Ratniks exhibit the most recent project by RIXC - 
Talk to Me (Long Bean 2011) - that examines the 
old assumption that plants which had been talked 
to grow better. You are kindly asked to talk to 
the bean plants by using an online remote 
interface http://rixc.lv/talktome, thus, 
presumably, helping the "long bean" plants to 
grow better, faster and longer.


Exhibition concept / curators: Raitis Smits and 
Rasa Smite. Scenography: Rudolf Bekic. 
Production: RIXC - Raitis Smits, Daina Silina, 
Agnese Baranova.

Exhibition is organised by The Centre for New 
Media Culture RIXC in collaboration with the 
Renewable Network, in the framework of the 
Baltic-Nordic collaboration project "Art as 
Research: Energy" supported by Nordic Culture 
Point, and co-financied by State Cultural Capital 
Foundation of Latvia and Riga City Council.

Contacts and information: The Centre for New 
Media Culture RIXC, 11. Novembra krastmala 
35-201, Riga, LV-1050, Latvia. E-mail: <rixc (at) 
rixc.lv>, Ph.: +371 67228478 (office)

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