[spectre] Today opening of RENEWABLE LAB symposium in rural Latvia

[Rasa Smite]

Hello on Spectre!

We are happy to inform you that tonight we have 
an opening of Renewable Lab symposium that takes 
place in rural settings of Latvia, in Pedvale
and it will feature series of workshops on 
"renewable energy topic" exploring both 
perspectives - artistic and scientific
you will be able to follow the symposium in the Renewable Network blog-site:
http://renewable.rixc.lv

best regards,
Rasa


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RENEWABLE LAB symposium
Art and Science Symposium on Renewable Energy Technologies
featuring "Biotricity" workshops - how to make electricity from waste-water
Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum
July 26-28, 2012

Renewable Lab is a 3-day gathering and working 
session that aims at exploring the potential of 
art and science collaboration in the quest for a 
sustainable future. The symposium takes place 
from July 26 to July 28 in 'rural lab' settings 
in the Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum and Salinas 
farm in Kurzeme region, North-East Latvia.

The Renewable Lab symposium gathers together 
artists and scientists who will introduce with 
their artistic explorations and scientific 
research in the field of renewable energy 
technologies in order to discuss how these two 
perspectives can be combined for develop 
collaborative art-science projects in future.
The symposium features workshops conducted by 
artists and scientists who will be experimenting 
with new generation bio-technologies, hydroponics 
and other renewable energy technologies and 
'techno-ecological' ideas, in order to explore 
how to approach and interpret them through 
artistic perspectives and cultural innovation.
 
The main symposium event includes "Biotricity - 
how to make electricity from the waste-water" 
workshop during which RIXC artists Rasa Smite and 
Raitis Smits in collaboration with young 
biologists Arturs Gruduls and Zane Rutkovska will 
conduct experiments with so-called 
'next-generation' bio-energy technology (called 
MFC - microbial fuel cells). MFC technology is 
based on a bio-electrochemical system that 
converts chemical energy to electrical energy by 
using microorganisms - bacteria found in the 
commonly available resource such as, for 
instance, wastewater. Participants of the 
workshop will be building electricity generators 
outdoors in pond and soil. Meanwhile Latvian 
artist Voldemars Johansons will be experimenting 
with sonification of electrical signal generated 
by "bacteria battery".
In parallel to "Biotricity" workshop Mikko 
Laajola will conduct "Environmental monitoring 
and sustainable technologies" workshop, together 
with participants designing and building 
self-sustainable hydroponics gardening systems in 
pond of Pedvale and Salinas farm.

The symposium will also feature 
workshop-presentations by scientists from 
Hydrogen Lab of the Institute of Solid State 
Physics at University of Latvia - Dr. Jaanis 
Kleperis and Vladimirs Nemcevs, who will be 
discussing "water power" and "hydrogen 
tehnologies" as well as demonstrating and testing 
their own made hydrogen car. Artist Bartaku will 
present his research-based experiments in aronia 
fields in Latvia and agave plantations in Mexico 
and how these plants can be used as an 
alternative energy resource such as solar 
technologies, while Christoph De Boeck and 
Patricia Portela will introduce their sensors 
network of Hortus project, which measures 
dynamics of wind and light and register how 
plants harvest energy from natural resources. 
zThe Latvian biologist Ilze Dimanta and Finnish 
artist Mia Makela will introduce with different 
perspective how to look at Baltic Sea algae, 
considering it as an energy resource.

And last but not least, symposium will also 
include presentations by interdisciplinary 
artists Aiste Goda Virsulyte and Vytautas 
Kazimieras Juozònas from Lithuania, Marija Maric 
from Serbia as well as participation by new media 
art students Maija Demitere, Rihards Vitols, 
Gatis Vaitovskis and artist Anna Trapenciere from 
the MPLab, Art Research Lab of Liepaja 
University, and artists and producers Signe 
Pucena from Serde, Davis Bojars, Daina Silina and 
Agnese Baranova from RIXC.


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SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME:

RENEWABLE LAB
Art and Science Symposium on Renewable Energy Technologies
and "Biotricity" workshops - how to make electricity from waste-water
Pedvale, July 26 - 28, 2012

Thursday, July 26
19.00 Presentations by Renewable Lab symposium participants
22.00 Symposium opening

Friday, July 27 in Pedvale
DAY 1: RENEWABLE LAB - artistic and scientific 
experiments with renewable energy
10.00-13.00 Workshops: Bacteria Battery, 
Hydroponics Gardening System, Hydrogen 
Technologies and other working sessions on themes 
proposed by participants.

14.00-16.00 PUBLIC OPEN PROGRAMME and PRESS CONFERENCE

15.00-19.00 Workshops: Hydroponics Gardening 
System, Bacteria Battery - Sonifications and 
other working sessions on themes proposed by 
participants
20.00-22.00 Discussions and "show and tell" 
session (participants showing their projects, 
video, and other thematically related visual 
materials, and discuss the results of the Day 1)

Saturday, July 28 in Sali¿as
DAY 2: BIOTRICITY - how to make electricity from waste-water
11.00-18.00 Biotricity working session. 
"Biotricity - generating electricity from 
wastewater" - experimenting and building bacteria 
battery system in soil and pond; other workshops.

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* More information about symposium: http://renewable.rixc.lv

* Main symposium venue: Open-Air Art Museum in PedvÇle - http://www.pedvale.lv

* Symposium is organised by RIXC, the Center for 
New Media Culture in collaboration with Renewable 
Netwokrk, MPLab / Art Research Lab of Liepaja 
University, Hydrogen Lab / Institute of Solid 
State Physics and Faculty of Biology at 
University of Latvia.

* Coordinator and contact person: Rasa ·mite - 
rasa at rixc.lv, mob.ph. +371 26546776. Symposium 
managers: Agnese Baranova - agnese at rixc.lv, 
mob.ph. 29635167; Daina Sili¿a - daina at rixc.lv, 
mob.ph. 29463054. Symposium technical assistance: 
DÇvis BojÇrs

* Support:
"Renewable Lab" - the workshops of Day 1 takes 
place in the framework of the project 
"Techno-Ecologies. Other approach to cultural, 
social and ecological sustainability" supported 
by the EU Culture programme 2007 - 2013.
"Biotricity" - the working session of Day 2 takes 
place in the framework of the project "Studio Lab 
- a new European platform for creative 
interactions between art and science" supported 
by EU 7th Framework Programme (FP7).
Symposium is also supported by the State Culture 
Capital Foundation and Nordic Culture Point.


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