[spectre] Art+Communication'2012: ART OF RESILIENCE - next week

[Rasa Smite]

dear Spectre,

please find below the information about events 
taking place in Riga from October 4-6, in the 
framework of RIXC's annual Art+Communication 
festival, which this year explores "Art of 
Resilience" theme,

best regards,
Rasa

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ART OF RESILIENCE
Art+Communication festival
Riga, October 4-6

http://rixc.lv/12

From October 4 to November 4, 2012 Riga and 
Liepaja will be the host cities for the 14th 
International Festival for New Media Culture 
"Art+Communication '2012". The 
"Art+Communication" festival is renowned across 
Europe for its proposed innovative themes. Each 
year, the festival gathers around hundred 
participants from Latvia, Europe and other world 
countries discussing newest ideas and future 
development trends in the field of new media art. 
By continuing the festival theme of its previous 
editions on art's role in building 
sustainability, this year's festival with the 
title "Art of Resilience" looks at the scenario 
of sustainable development from the position of 
resilience tactics, re-approaches relations 
between nature and technologies as well as 
discusses the role of art in addressing 
"techno-ecological" issues.
The main festival programme will take place in 
Riga, October 4 - 6 in Sp¥™eri at kim? 
Contemporary Art Centre, RIXC Media Space and 
Sp¥™eri Concert Hall.

* october 4 - EXHIBITION OPENING at RIXC Media Space

The festival programme will kick off with the 
opening of "Art+Communication 2012" exhibition on 
October 4 at 19.00 at RIXC Media Space. Artists 
from Switzerland and Germany - Christian Hübler 
and Ivonne Wilhelm from Knowbotiq collective will 
participate in the exhibition with their 
installation and performance "Dancing 
with'without Darwin", which received recently the 
Swiss Art Award 2012. The exhibition also 
features artists from Latvia Rasa Smite, Raitis 
Smits and Martins Ratniks from RIXC, who together 
with sound artist and composer Voldemars 
Johansons will present their ongoing art-science 
research project "Bacteria Battery", which 
reveals the mutual relations between systems of 
biological and electrical networks. Installation 
"Bacteria Battery" has been developed in 
collaboration with the scientists from the 
Faculty of Biology at University of Latvia and 
Institute of Solid State Physics in the framework 
of Studiolab - European art-science project.
The exhibition at RIXC Media Space (11. novembra 
krastmala 35) will be open to the public until 
November 4, 2012. Entrance (to both festival 
opening and exhibition) is free.

* October 5 - CONCERT in Spikeri Concert hall

During the special programme of the festival, on 
October 5 at 19.00 Sp¥™eri Concert Hall will host 
Festival's "Art+Communication" concert and 
audiovisual performances exploring relations 
between nature and technologies - through both 
harmonies and contrasts. The concert will feature 
American jazz musician and philosopher David 
Rothenberg who combines clarinet improvisations 
with sound recordings of whales and birds in 
their natural habitats. Whereas the well known 
British experimental electronic musicians Mark 
Fell & Matt Steel / snd will create live 
performance with soundscapes of electronic space. 
Also Latvian musicians and sound artists will 
offer program rich in contrast: Jekabs Nimanis 
and Maksims Sentelevs together with Indian 
classical dance artist Ieva Orbidane will create 
an electro-acoustic performance where they will 
improvise on the three quintessential elements - 
water, wind and fire. And last but not least, the 
audiovisual multi-channel performance by Martins 
Rokis will combine improvisation elements with 
generated sound structures based on the signal 
analysis of insect and bird communication.

Tickets to Art+Communication'2012 concert are 
available online http://www.bilesuparadize.lv. 
Tickets cost 5 Ls. Tickets will be also available 
at the entrance at Sp¥™eri Concert Hall (Maskavas 
Street 4/1).

* October 5 - 6 - CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOPS in 
kim?  Contemporary Art Center in Spikeri

On October 5 and 6, kim? Contemporary Art Center 
in Spikeri will host an international conference, 
artist presentations and workshops open to the 
public. The international conference "Art of 
Resilience" will include lectures and 
presentations by world renowned visionaries, 
artists and scientists, media art curators and 
theorists, featuring Michel Bauwens, David 
Rothenberg, Armin Medosch, Christian Huebler / 
knowbotiq, Eric Kluitenberg, Léonore Bonaccini 
and Xavier Fourt / Bureau d'Etudes, Sabine 
Himmelsbach, Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits / RIXC, 
Kristian Lukic, Vincent Guimas / Ars Longa, 
Nathalie Aubret / Pixelache, Anna Trapenciere / 
MPLab.lv, Erich Berger, Bart Vandeput / Bartaku, 
and others.

In parallel to the conference, visitors are 
welcome to participate in three workshops: 
Belgian artist Bartaku will lead Temporary 
photoElectric Digestopians Worklabs # 11 "The 
Aronia M. PPB Session" on edible-sun-electric 
experiments with aronia power plant juice, while 
the young scientists from the University of 
Latvia together with RIXC artists will lead 
"Bacteria Battery" workshop on how to make 
electricity from waste water, and how to approach 
and interpret this novel bio-technology from 
artistic and cultural perspective. And last but 
not least artist Lina Kusaite will conduct the 
"Resilient dialogs / citizens and the city" 
workshop addressed particularly for school 
children and youth.
Participating in workshops and attending the 
conference and artist presentations is admission 
free.

On October 5 and 6 visitors will be welcomed and 
informed on festival programme by festival guides 
at kim? (Maskavas iela 12/1). Admission free.

* October 26 to November 4 - Follow-up events in Liepaja

At the closing of the festival, from October 26 
to November 4 Art Reserach Laboratory (MPLab) at 
Liepaja University (Kurmajas prospect 13, 
Liepaja) will host an "Art+Communication" 
satellite-event - the third international new 
media art week "iWeek" with workshops, public 
lectures, presentations, exhibitions and 
audiovisual performances by upcoming artists.


* INFO

* For more information please visit: http://rixc.lv/12
* RIXC on twitter: http://twitter.com/rixcriga
* RIXC on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/rixcriga

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* ORGANIZERS

Festival is organized by RIXC Center for New 
Media Art in collaboration with Art Research 
Laboratory of Liepaja University. The conference 
"Art of Resilience" takes place in the framwork 
EU Culture 2007-2014 supported project "Survival 
Kit".

* Festival team:
Festival curators: Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits
Visual concept and design: Martins Ratniks
MacGhillie image used in festival promotion 
materials: from knowbotiq's "MacGhillie - just a 
void" project
Festival exhibition scenography: Rudolf Bekic un Raitis Smits
Festival Producers: RIXC: Rasa ·mite, Raitis 
·mits, Agnese Baranova, Daina Sili¿a,
Assistance: New media art students from Liepaja 
Unviersity / Art Research Lab, and other 
universities.

* Festival venues and addresses:
Festival exhibition - RIXC Media Space, 11. 
Novembra krastmala 35 (entrance from Minstereja 
street), Riga
ART+COMMUNICATION concert and audiovisual 
performances - Sp¥™eri Concert Hall, Street 
Maskavas 4/1, Riga
Conference "Art of Resilience" and workshops - 
kim? Contemporary Art Center  - 3rd floor, Street 
Maskavas 12/1, Riga
The 3rd international new media art week "iWeek" 
-  Liepaja University Art Research Laboratory, 
K•rmÇjas prospect 13, Liepaja

* Support: State Culture Capital Foundation 
(SCCF), EU Culture Programme 2007 - 2013 
(Survival Kit project), Riga City Council, 
Latvian Ministry of Culture, Nordic Culture 
Point, EU 7th Framework Programme (FP7) 
(Studiolab project), Kurzeme Programme of SCCF, 
Cultural dept. of Liepaja City Municipality

Media Support: Veto Magazine, Kult•rasDiena.lv, 
Riga.com, Easyget.lv, Kult•ra.lv, 
Artterritory.com, Studija, R¥gas Laiks, 
Anothertravelguide.com, ir, euroawk.

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* Contacts:
RIXC Center for New Media Culture, 11. Novembra krastmala 35-201, Riga, LV-1050
Ph.: +371-67228478 (office), +371-26546776 (Rasa ·mite, mob.)
e-mail: rixc ( at ) rixc.lv
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