[spectre] RENEWABLE FUTURES: Open North Launch meeting and White Night event

[Rasa Smite]

Hello on Spectre list,

please find below info about most recent RIXC's 
activities in Riga - launching event of Open 
North - new North-European network and public 
events programme in Riga's White Night city forum

best regards,
Rasa

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RENEWABLE FUTURES
OPEN NORTH Network Launch Meeting and Conference
Riga, September 6-7, 2013

... designing more accessible routes towards 
sustainable culture and into the sector of 
creative industries ...

Open North is a new network initiative that aims 
to support sustainable culture development in the 
North European region by fostering open 
innovation in art and culture and providing 
accesible routes into the sector of creative 
industries. The Open North Launch Meeting will 
take place on September 6 - 7, 2013 in the 
emerging RIXC Innovation Lab space and outdoors 
in Riga Spikeri Creative Quartier. The Launch 
Meeting will gather together artists, cultural 
operators and other creative producers from Riga 
and Liepaja / Latvia, Kaliningrad and St 
Petersburg / Russia, Tallinn / Estonia, 
Copenhagen / Denmark, Stockholm / Sweden, and 
Mons / Belgium.

The intent of the meeting is two fold. The first 
is to launch OPEN NORTH Creative Network and 
Think Tank for facilitating both -- development 
of strategies and policies for open innovation in 
creative industries in the region at large. And 
the second is to work out models and tactics for 
providing artists, cultural organizations and 
other creative producers with accessible routes 
into the sector in particular.

The Day 1 on September 6, 2013 will feature the 
RENEWABLE FUTURES conference that will focus on 
digital media art, techno-sciences and open 
business development in the North European 
region. The conference will include the 
presentations and discussions by participants 
with the aim to investigate the current state of 
emerging creative industries sector in the 
region. It will be followed by two parallel 
working sessions - (1) Networking, Culture and 
Sustainability and (2) Designing New FabLabs.

The programme of Day 2 on September 7, 2013 will 
take place in the framework of WHITE NIGHT, Riga 
forum for contemporary culture, with the aim to 
introduce wider public with open innovation 
approach in digital media art and culture. Open 
North project will feature two workshops - SOCIAL 
GAMING workshop for manifesting techno-social 
innovation, and BACTERIA BATTERY workshop - 
showing art and science collaboration. The 
workshops will be followed by public 
demonstration of interactive video games and 
audiovisual performance programme.


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PROGRAMME:

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6
RENEWABLE FUTURES, Open North Launch Meeting and Conference

10.30 - Coffee and registration

11.00-11.10 - Welcome words by Rasa SMITE / RIXC 
Centre for New Media Culture / Latvia & Agnese 
Baranova / RIXC Centre for New Media Culture / 
Latvia - OPEN NORTH - building new network and 
creative think tank in the region.

11:10 - 12:30 Session 1: THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL MEDIA ART
Presentations on past and future (introduction to cases):
Nils CLAESSON / Stockholm Academy of Dramatic 
Arts / Sweden - THE FUTURE OF LABORATORIES AND 
LIBRARIES (10 min)
Piibe PIIRMA / Estonian Academy of Arts / 
Estonian Media Artists Union / Estonia (10 min)
Yulia BARDUN / Tranzit, Non-governmental Agency / 
Russia & Anna KARPENKO / Tranzit, 
Non-governmental agency / Kaliningrad, Russia (10 
min)
Timo SOPPELA / Artists' Association MUU / MUU gallery / Finland (10 min)
Victoria ILYUSHKINA / CYLAND Media Art Lab / 
Russia & Sergei TETERIN / CYLAND Media Art Lab / 
St Petersburg, Russia (10 min)
Agnese Baranova / RIXC Centre for New Media Culture / Latvia (10 min)
Rihards VITOLS / Liepaja Art Reserch Lab (10 min)
Discussions on future of digital media art 
(moderated by Rasa Smite and Nils Clasesson)

12:30 - 12:50 Coffe break

12:50 - 14:15 - Session 2: CREATIVE HUBS
Mihkel SALM / Tallinn Creative Hub / Estonia (10 min)
Association of Riga Creative Quartiers / Latvia 
and representatives from other independent 
cultural organizations - tbc. (10-20 min)
TechHub / Latvia - tbc. (10 min)
Centre for Sustainable Business / Stockholm 
School of Economics in Riga - tbc. (10 min)
Pascal KEISER / TechnocITé / Belgium and Yves 
VASSEUR / Mons2015 - European Capital of Culture 
/ Belgium (10 min)
Rasa SMITE / RIXC Centre for New Media Culture / 
Latvia - Spikeri Innovation Center (project) (10 
min)
Discussions on creative networks and its hubs 
(moderated by Rasa Smite and Oleg Koefoed)

14:15 - 15:00 Lunch break

15:00 - 17:30 Workshops

Workshop 1: CREATIVE NETWORKS, CULTURE AND 
SUSTAINABILITY - conducted by Oleg KOEFOED / 
Cultura21 / Denmark and Rasa SMITE / RIXC

Workshop 2: DESIGNING NEW FABLABS (in Riga, 
Liepaja and elsewhere in the Baltic Sea region) 
conducted by Ali Neissi SHOOSHTARI / Aalto 
University Media Factory / Finland.

17:30 - 18:00 Closing discussions

18:00 - Guided tours to the Latvian artist 
exhibitions in kim? Contemporary Art Center in 
Spiker, and Synthetic Nature exhibition by young 
Liepaja artists in RIXC Media Space.

19:00 - Dinner


SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7

Open North public events in the framework of 
WHITE NIGHT, forum for contemporary culture in 
Riga

SOCIAL GAMING
14:00-18:00 - public open workshop conducted by 
Fishing Cactus and TechnoCite (Belgium)
19:00 - interactive video games demonstration by TechnoCite (Belgium)

BACTERIA BATTERY
19:00-21:00 - art-science workshop conducted by 
RIXC (Latvia) and young scientists from Latvian 
University
21:00 - performance programme - audio and visual 
interpretations of "bacteria battery" signals by 
Voldemars Johansons, Martins Rokis and Rihards 
Vitols.

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The conference is organized by RIXC Centre for New Media Culture.

The project "OPEN NORTH. Launching Project of 
North European Creative Network and Think Tank" 
is supported by the Northern Dimension 
Partnership on Culture (NDPC) programme, European 
Union and Riga City Council.

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RIXC and Conference venue address:
Maskavas street 10 (entrance from the yard)
Spikeri creative quarter for culture and creative industries
Riga, LV - 1050
Latvia

e-mail: rixc at rixc.lv
ph.: +371 67228478 (office)
 +371 26546776 (Rasa Smite)
+371 29635167 (Agnese Baranova)

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