[spectre] TECHNO-ECOLOGIES (art+communic.) festival in Riga this
week!
Rasa Smite
rasa at rixc.lv
Mon Oct 31 15:21:44 CET 2011
Hello!
Please see below information about RIXC's annual festival
"Art+Communication" in Riga, which with the title of TECHNO-ECOLOGIES
takes place this week, from November 3 - 5 in Riga, featuring
conference, workshops (still open for participation!), special video
programme, and the exhibition (which will take place in Contemporary
Arts Center kim? in Spikeri, from November 4 to December 11, 2011, in
Riga, Latvia)
with best regards,
Rasa
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TECHNO-ECOLOGIES
XIII International Festival for New Media Culture ART+COMMUNICATION 2011
Riga, November 3 – December 11, 2011
http://rixc.lv/11
“Techno-Ecologies" is the theme of this year's Art+Communication
festival that explores how we inhabit the deep technological spheres
of our everyday life.
Everyday life has become so intimately interwoven with complex
technological ecologies that we can no longer consider technology as
the alienating other. A careful consideration of the relationships
between the natural and the artificial is required. Techno-Ecologies
concept for this festival is built by Eric Kluitenberg upon the
concerns of Felix Guattari (the French philosopher and co-conspirator
of Gilles Deleuze) about the lack of an integrated perspective on the
dramatic techno-scientific transformations the Earth has undergone in
recent times. Guattari urges to take three crucially important
'ecological registers' into account: the environment, social
relations, and human subjectivity.
The Techno-Ecologies festival will facilitate a discussion between
artists, theorists, designers, environmental scientists,
technologists, responsible entrepreneurs and activists to develop this
perspective. Diversity, social and ecological sustainability, and a
much deeper understanding of technology as an extension of our desires
are the building blocks that we want to bring together to build a
perspective that can help us chart less hazardous routes into the
future than the ones currently travelled.
(Full concept text please read on festival website:
http://rixc.lv/11/en/theme.html)
* Exhibition
Artists in the Techno-Ecologies exhibition will introduce with their
diverse and creative approaches in building technological ecologies
perspective and dealing with environmental and social sustainability
issues. The exhibition is curated by Raitis Smits and Rasa Smite in
collaboration with Eric Kluitenberg. It will take place from November
4 to December 11 in the Contemporary Art Center kim? at Spikeri
Quartier in Riga, featuring 14 media artworks and innovative design
objects by various artists.
Belgian artist Bartaku, who explores the transformation of light into
electrical and nutritional energy, in his PhoEfarium artwork
introduces how to make solar cells by your own – from glass-based to
edible ones; whereas The Toaster Project by British artist Thomas
Thwaites is a story on artist's attempt to build a simple electric
appliance – the toaster – from scratch. French artist duo Scenocosme
explore relationships between nature and digital technology – their
Phonofolium artwork is interactive installation that displays a living
tree reacting to the human touch by sound and voice. Aptium by
Franco-german artist Lynn Pook invites visitors to lay-down in a
hammock and in an unexpected way to hear and feel sound, which is
specially composed for this installation in collaboration with Julien
Clauss. Another exhibition piece – Andrea, is designed to improve
houseplant capability of purifying the air with an increased
efficiency, it is the joint invention by Paris-based designer Mathieu
Lehanneur and Harvard professor of bioengineering David Edwards. RIXC
artists collective: Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, Jaanis Garancs, Martins
Ratniks / RIXC (Latvia) have developed Renewable Network Interface –
an online research tool that maps artists, projects and fields that
emerge on the boundaries of art, energy and open information systems
(http://renewable.rixc.lv/network/).
The Techno-ecologies exhibition also displays many other unique and
interesting artworks by inernationally recognised artists from
different countries of the world, including Worldprocessor by Ingo
Günther (Germany); Plantas Parlantes by Popkalab artists: R icardo
O'Nascimento (Brasil), Gilberto Esparza (Mexico), Javier Busturia
(Spain), Jingni Wang (China) and Jelle Decker (The Netherlands); O.T.
by Ulrich Vogl (Germany); Psworld by Julian Oliver (New Zealand /
Germany), Deaddrop by Aram Bartholl (Germany), m/e/m/e 2.0 by Danja
Vasiliev (Russia / Germany).
Opening of the exhibition: November 3 at 18.00 – press conference and
curators' guided tour through the exhibition, at 19.00 – official
festival and exhibition opening, welcome to all interested.
* Workshops
In addition to the exhibition, in kim? venue at Spikeri, 3 workshops
will take place in November 4 and 5 (12.00 – 18.00): SonicDrift
workshop will be conducted by memelab artists (Canada), Symptoms Riga
workshop – by Martin Howse, and Talking to the Plants by artists from
Popkalab, in which they will demonstrate how to build an interactive
sound generation system by using simple electronics.
* Be Your Own Souvenir!
During two days only – on November 4 and 5 at RIXC Media Space,
festival guests will be invited to create a souvenir figurines of...
themselves! Spanish artists Raul Nieves, Gerard Rubio, Jordi Bari from
BlablabLAB in their artwork Be Your Own Souvenir! use custom-made 3D
printer with a 3D scanner – come by and … be your own souvenir!
* Video Programme
Another special event – the video programme curated by the film
curator Erwin van 't Hart (NL) will be shown on Friday, November 4,
20.00 at RIXC Media Space. The video programme features works by Pilvi
Takala (Finland), eteam (US/DE), Sebastian Diaz-Morales (AR/NL), Neïl
Beloufa (FR), Yin-Ju Chen and James T. Hong (NL).
* Conference
Meanwhile, the professional audience and students can take interest in
the international art and science conference “Techno-ecologies.
Inhabiting the deep technological spheres of everyday life”. The
conference is organized by RIXC in collaboration with MPLab, Art
Research Laboratory of University of Liepaja and it will be taking
place on November 4 and 5 at RIXC Media Space. The conference will
gather both artists and academic researchers as well as theorists,
environmental scientists, activists and other lateral thinkers who are
engaged with technological, social, and ecological sustainability
issues. The 2-day conference will consist of 6 sections, moderated by
Eric Kluitenberg (NL).
DAY1 – Section 1. TECHNOLOGY AND NATURE: Ronald van Tienhoven / Next
Nature (NL), Grégory Lasserre / Scenocosme (FR), Anne Sophie Witzke /
Media Art and Ecology at Aarhus University (DK), Julian Oliver (NZ /
DE), Ricardo O'Nascimento (BR), Javier Busturia (ES). // Section 2.
TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY: Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zielinski (online talk),
Daniel Irrgang / Chair for media theory/archaeology and variantology
of the media at Berlin University of the Arts (DE), Anita Jóri / The
_Vilém _Flusser_Archive / Berlin University of the Arts (HU / DE),
Martin Howse (UK), Normunds Kozlovs / Faculty of Communications at
Riga Stradins University (LV), Matze Schmidt (DE). // Section 3.
TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT: Erich Berger / Ars Bioarctica / Finnish
Bioart Society (FI), Dr. phys. Liga Grinberga / The Institute of Solid
State Physics / University of Latvia (LV), Arne Hendriks
(Netherlands), Dr. phys. Ojars Balcers / Environmental Protection Club
(LV)
DAY2 – Section 4. TECHNOLOGY AND PEOPLE: Rob van Kranenburg (NL),
Tatiana Goryucheva (RU / NL), Andrew Gryf Paterson / Pixelache /
Pixelversity 2012 (FI), Kyd Campbell (CA / DE), Gerard Rubio (ES),
Jordi Bari / BlablabLAB (ES), Lynn Pook (FR). // Section 5.
TECHNOLOGY, ART AND ECOLOGY: Tapio Makela / M.A.R.I.N. (FI), Niki
Passath / The University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT), Mirae Rosner and
Jesse Scot / memelab (CA / DE), Raitis Smits / RIXC / Visual
Communication dept. of Latvian Arts Academy (LV), Dr.sc.soc. Rasa
Smite / RIXC / Art Research Lab of Liepaja University (LV). // Section
6. TECHNOLOGY AND OPEN SYSTEMS: Thomas Thwaites (UK), Heath Bunting /
irational.org (UK), Danja Vasiljev (RU / DE), Dr.philol. Ilva Skulte /
Faculty of Communications at Riga Stradins University (LV), Zsofia
Ruttkay / The Creative Technology Lab / Moholy-Nagy University of Art
and Design (HU), Matthew Gardiner / Ars Electronica Futurelab (AU / AT).
* Imaginary Media Show
The closing event of the main festival programme in Riga will take
place on the evening of November 5, at 20.00 in RIXC Media Space,
featuring an audio-visual performance-lecture “Imaginary Media” by
Eric Kluitenberg, which will be dedicated to the newly published
Latvian edition of “The Book of Imaginary Media”, ed. Kluitenberg
(translation into Latvian provided by Daina Siliņa, published by RIXC,
2011).
* iWeek Programme in Liepaja
The festival will continue in Liepaja, where iWeek 2011, the
International New Media Art Week programme will take place from
November 7 to 13 in MPLab (Art Research Lab) of Liepaja University
including workshops, “show and tell” sessions, lectures, performances
and exhibitions.
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PROGRAMME:
Thursday, November 3
18.00 Press conference and curator's guided tour through the
exhibition (kim? in Spikeri, Riga)
19.00 Opening of the “Art+Communication 2011” festival and
“Techno-ecologies” exhibition (kim? in Spikeri)
Friday, November 4
10.00 – 17.00 Conference “Techno-ecologies”, Day 1. Panels: 1.
Technology and Nature, 2. Technology and Society, 3. Technology and
the Environment (RIXC Media Space, Riga)
12.00 – 18.00 Workshop “SonicDrift” by memelab / CA (kim? in Spikeri)
20.00 Video programme: eteam (US/DE) “Prim Limit”, Pilvi Takala
(FI/NL) “Players”, Sebastian Diaz-Morales “Oracle” (AR/NL), Neïl
Beloufa (FR) “Kempinski”, Yin-Ju Chen & James T. Hong (NL) “End
Transmission” (RIXC Media Space)
Saturday, November 5
10.00 – 17.00 Conference “Techno-ecologies”, Day 2. Panels: 4.
Technology and People, 5. Technology, Art and Ecology, 6. Technologies
and Open Systems (RIXC Media Space)
12.00 – 18.00 Workshops: “Talking to the Plants” by Popkalab and
“Symptoms Riga” by Martin Howse / UK (kim? in Spikeri)
20.00 Closing of the festival: “Imaginary Media”, audio-visual
lecture-performance by Eric Kluitenberg and presentation of the
Latvian edition of “The Book of Imaginary Media” (RIXC Media Space)
November 4 and 5, 10.00 – 17.00 (in parallel to conference )
blablabLAB (ES) will hold the 3D printing project “Be Your Own
Souvenir!” (RIXC Media Space)
November 7 – 13 – iWeek 2011 programme – international new media art
week: workshops, “show and talk” sessions, lectures, performances,
exhibitions in Liepaja (MPLab, Liepaja).
November 4 – December 11 – exhibition “Techno-ecologies” open to
visitors (kim? in Spikeri, Riga).
Entrance free. Opening hours: Mon.: closed, Tue., Wed.: 14.00 –
19.00, Thu.: 14.00 – 20.00, Fri.: 14.00 – 19.00, Sat., Sun.:12.00 –
18.00. Free entrance.
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* Venues and addresses:
RIXC Media Space, 11. novembra krastmala 35, entrance from Minsterejas
street, Riga. (http://rixc.lv)
kim? Contemporary Art Center in Spikeri Quartier for Creative
Industries, Maskavas street 12/1, Riga. (http://kim.lv)
MPLab, Art Research Laboratory of Liepaja University, Kurmajas
prospect 13, Liepaja. (http://mplab.lv)
* Organisers:
The festival is organised by RIXC, The Centre for New Media Culture in Riga.
The exhibition is organized in collaboration with Contemporary Art
Center kim?; the conference – in collaboration with MPLab, Art
Research Lab of Liepaja University. iWeek is organized by LiepU MPLab
(Art Research Lab) in collaboration with RIXC.
* Festival team:
The Techno-Ecologies idea and concept developed by Eric Kluitenberg (NL).
Exhibition curators: Raitis Smits and Rasa Smite in collaboration with
Eric Kluitenberg.
Video programme is curated by Erwin van 't Hart (NL).
Festival producers: Daina Silina, Agnese Baranova, Linda Vebere /
RIXC, Anna Trapenciere / MPLab.
Design: Martins Ratniks.
Website: Raitis Smits, Davis Bojars.
Exhibition scenography: Rudolf Bekic, Raitis Smits.
* Support: State Culture Capital Foundation, Mondriaan Foundation, EU
Culture programme 2007 – 2013 (Survival Kit project), Riga City
Council, Latvian Ministry of Culture, EU 7th Framework Programme (FP7)
(Studiolab project), Cultural dept. of Liepaja City Municipality,
Hotel Elizabete, B&B Riga.
* Media Support: Studija, IR, Easyget.lv, Delfi.lv, euroAWK,
Artterritory.com, Anothertravelguide.com, Kultūra.lv, Satori, Veto
Magazine, Ilustreta Zinatne.
* Contacts:
RIXC Center for New Media Culture, 11. Novembra krastmala 35-201,
Riga, LV-1050
Ph.: +371-67228478 (office), +371-26546776 (Rasa Šmite, mob.)
e-mail: rixc ( at ) rixc.lv
Festival website: http://rixc.lv/11
http://twitter.com/rixcriga
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