[spectre] Call for proposals : Art of Resilience - conference and festival

[Rasa Smite]

Hello on Spectre!

please find below call for RIXC's annual Art+Communication festival,
which this year with the theme - Art of Resilience will take place in 
October 4-6, 2012 in Riga,

you are very welcome to submit proposals for the conference, as well 
as for workshops, performance and video programme

Deadline: August 25, 2012

best regards,
Rasa


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Call for proposals:


ART+COMMUNICATION 2012: ART OF RESILIENCE
October 4 - November 4, 2012

The 14th edition of the Art+Communication festival with the theme 
"art of resilience" will be discussing a sustainaibility from art 
perspective.

* Theme:

Today art is leaving its autonomous position behind the society's 
quest for a sustainable future. Artists who once were in vanguard of 
exploring digital frontiers, today again are among the first ones who 
are actively engaged in looking for other ways how to make the world 
more sustainable.
Resilience is one of the key tactics that helps people to undergo 
unstable, uncertain times. The idea of a resilience will be used as a 
guiding theme and as a point of departure for the festival 
discussions with which we aim at fostering deeper understanding of 
social, cultural and ecological, as well as technological 
sustainability issues.

We are questioning: How to enhance resilience - our capability to 
cope with today's complex situation that has occurred in the result 
of rapid 'techno-sciences' development? Does art play a role of a 
'catalyst' in this quest for sustainability, if it keeps actively 
establishing new connections with other fields - science and 
technology, architecture and design, rural infrastructure development 
and urban planning, social networking and global engineering? How 
these emergent art practices that are bridging not only different 
fields but also exploiting resilience experiences from different 
times and different cultures, are contributing towards developing a 
successful scenario for the future world?

* Programme:

The main festival programme will take place in Riga, Latvia, October 
4 - 6, 2012, including international art, science and technology 
conference "Art of Resilience" with visionary thinkers, artists and 
scientists from different countries of the Europe and the world. The 
festival will also feature unique programme of audiovisual 
performances, electronic music concerts and experimental film and 
video programmes in Spikeri Concert Hall. The exhibition this year 
will take place in RIXC Media Space, open from October 4 until 
November 4.
In parallel to the main festival programme, series of "art of 
resilience" workshops in Riga and Liepaja will be organised by RIXC 
and MPLab (Art Research Lab) of Liepaja University, that will result 
into annual International New Media Art Week "iWeek" held in Liepaja, 
from October 26 - November 3, 2012.

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS:

We welcome participants with different background and from different 
fields - art, science, technology, sociology, architecture, music, 
design, network activism etc. - to submit proposals for the 
conference. We also invite artists and electronic musicians to 
propose their work and ideas for other festival events - 
performances, workshops, video programme.

DEADLINE: AUGUST 25, 2012
Notification - September 3, 2012

Please send your proposals - conference abstracts (about 200 words) 
as well as descriptions of proposed workshop or artwork (performance, 
video) along with your short biography to: rixc at rixc.lv and/or 
rasa at rixc.lv (Rasa Smite)

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The "Art of Resilience" conference will be organised in the framework 
of the European partnership project "Survival Kit" in collaboration 
with  MPLab (Art Research Lab) of Liepaja University and Latvian 
Contemporary Arts Center.

Find out more about previous "Art+Communication" festival editions: 
"Techno-Ecologies" in 2011 (and all the other ones starting 1996) 
here: http://www.rixc.lv/info/festival.html

Festival organiser: RIXC.lv

Support: State Cultural Capital Foundation, Nordic Culture Point, 
Riga City Council, EU Culture 2007-2013

Contact: festival curators - Rasa Smite rasa at rixc.lv, and Raitis 
Smits raitis at rixc.lv

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