[spectre] two new books by RIXC: Techno-Ecologies 2 and Talk to Me

[Rasa Smite]

Dear Spectre

please find below an announcement about two new publications - 
TECHNO-ECOLOGIES 2, new volume of Acoustic Space journal, which is 
the 1st collection of the Media Art Histories 2013: RENEW conference 
papers, and TALK TO ME book - on artistic research project exploring 
human-plant communication.

Both published by RIXC (Riga) and Liepaja's University Art Research 
Lab (Liepaja), and are available via amazon.com, or by ordering 
directly from RIXC via e-mail: rixc at rixc.lv

http://www.amazon.com/Techno-Ecologies-II-Acoustic-Space-12/dp/9934843412
http://www.amazon.com/Talk-Me-Rasa-Smite/dp/9934843404

best
Rasa

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Techno-Ecologies II. Acoustic Space #12
Edited by Rasa Smite, Armin Medosch and Raitis Smits
ISBN-13: 978-9934843419
312 pages (English edition)

Techno-ecological perspectives have become now one of the key 
directions in contemporary discourses and are part of a larger 
paradigm shift from new media to post-media art. A range of practices 
which were once subsumed under terms such as media art, digital art, 
art and technology or art and science, have experienced such growth 
and diversification that no single term can work as as a label any 
more. Traditionally separated domains are brought together to become 
contextual seedbeds for ideas and practices that aim to overcome the 
crisis of the present and to invent new avenues for future 
developments.

This is the 2nd volume in the Acoustic Space series that continues to 
build a 'techno-ecological' perspective whereby new artistic 
practices are discussed that combine ecological, social, scientific 
and artistic inquiries. Edited and published in the context of the 
exhibition Fields, it makes a perspective its own that sees art as a 
catalyst for change and transformations.

This volume gives various insights into research tactics and 
strategies which form the larger context of the FIELDS exhibition 
which takes place in Riga, Latvia, The Arsenals Exhibition Hall of 
the Latvian National Museum of Art (May 15 - August 3, 2014, 
http://fields.rixc.lv) while the texts included here are mainly 
contributions from two earlier conferences, Media Art Histories 2013: 
RENEW, the 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media 
Art, Science and Technology held in Riga, Latvia, October 8-11, 2013, 
and the Art+Communication 2012 festival conference Art of Resilience 
, Riga, Latvia, October 5-6, 2012.

Contributors: Armin Medosch, Douglas Kahn, Kevin Hamilton, Katja 
Kwastek, Lauren Fenton, Kuai Shen Auson, Vytautas Michelkevicius, 
Roberta Buiani, Erich Berger, Laura Beloff, Tega Brain, Brad Miller, 
Michel Bauwens, Claudia Roselli, Eric Kluitenberg, Heba Amin, Erandy 
Vergara, Gavin MacDonald, Conor McGarrigle, James Warner, Brian 
Reffin Smith, Saskia Korsten, Maryam Bolouri, Gabriela Galati, Amos 
Bianchi, Asa Stahl, Kristina Lindstrom, Eric Snodgrass, Takis 
Zourntos, Marjan Verstappen, Caroline Langill, Ebru Yetskin.

http://www.amazon.com/Techno-Ecologies-II-Acoustic-Space-12/dp/9934843412

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TALK TO ME. Exploring human-plant communication
By Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Martins Ratniks, with reflection by 
Nishant Shah
ISBN-13: 978-9934843402
144 pages (color)

Everyone wants someone to talk to. Perhaps ancient Latvians, like 
Prince Charles, who in a 1986 television interview stated I just come 
and talk to the plants, may be right after all. Recent scientific 
studies have proved that talking to plants may encourage their 
growth. RIXC artists were keen on testing this concept by developing 
Talk to Me, an online interface which allows people to talk to their 
plants while away from home. The Talk to Me book introduces the 
process and results of our artistic research project on human-plant 
communication. The networked installations with live growing 
bean-plants were set up and presented in Helsinki, Riga, Tallinn, 
Ventspils, Basel, Lueneburg and Stavanger. Before the beans ripened 
they received over 13 000 online messages in different languages.

Bio
Rasa Smite anad Raitis Smits are artists, researchers and innovators, 
working with emerging media technologies since the roaring mid-90s. 
They are key founders of the first Riga based electronic arts center 
E-Lab, now - RIXC., and since 1997 they are working together with 
artist, VJ and designer Martins Ratniks, collectively creating art 
installations and digital avantgard projects.

http://www.amazon.com/Talk-Me-Rasa-Smite/dp/9934843404

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