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

Fri Apr 1 16:44:40 CEST 2011

H, 

the best languages to talk to plants are those 
which have more vowels than those 
which have more consonants, because 
they blow more carbon dioxide onto the plant.  
(Try Arabic, Finnish, Hungarian, Japanese, Latin.)

But the best result you achieve by  
songs by Hildegard von Bingen.  

In case of loud-speakers, 
use made of taiga wood char.  

Additional notes: 
cows give more milk by playing music to them. 
The result is better 
by Bach, Chopin, La Monte Young, Pat Boon, Beatles than 
by Beethoven, Bartok, Cage, Bill Haley, Rolling Stones.  

The Camelus bactrianus prefers Ima Sumac, 
the Camelus dromedarius prefers rumba. 

H, 
a

On Apr 1, 2011, at 3:26 PM, Rasa Smite wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
> ------------------ exhibition ---------------------------------------
> 
> 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 interfacehttp://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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