[spectre] FIELDS exhibition and RENEWABLE FUTURES conference in Riga

Rasa Smite rasa at rixc.lv
Fri May 16 00:43:32 CEST 2014


 
Hello on Spectre list!

Today we had opening of FIELDS exhibition in 
Arsenals Exhibition Hall, Riga, featuring more 
then 40 artworks, which are not only envisioning 
future scenarios for more sustainable and 
imaginative life, but also are tracing back in to 
history of ecology and communication related art. 
The exhibition shows huge diversity of 
contemporary art practices, and it is very unique 
show. It will be open till August 3, 2014 - so i 
think it is very good idea to visit this summer 
Riga 2014- European cultural capital, and to see 
the exhibition!

The exhibition is complemented by performance 
programme tomorrow, and conference Renewable 
Futures - more info below

best
Rasa


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Fields Exhibition and Art+Communication 2014 
Festival Opening programme presents
RENEWABLE FUTURES
International conference for art, science and cultural innovation
Riga 2014 - A European Capital of Culture Event

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RENEWABLE FUTURES is a new conference series, the 
launch of which will take place during the FIELDS 
exhibition opening weekend on May 15-18, 2014 in 
the framework of Riga - European Cultural Capital 
programme. In a response to recent quests for a 
more sustainable future and overcoming the crises 
of the present, the conference aims to invent new 
avenues for future developments by bringing 
together traditionally separated domains. The 
conference idea is inspired by the approach of 
FIELDS Exhibition, which does not just look at 
art in a narrow sense but takes into account all 
kinds of creative practices that bring together 
new ways of thinking, scientific knowledge, 
aesthetics, technologies and social practices. 
The conference aims to shape new contact zones 
between academic research and diversity of 
contemporary art practices, art and science, 
sustainable businesses and social engagement in 
the 21st century.

Programme:

THURSDAY, May 15
18:00 FIELDS Exhibition Opening
Arsenals Exibition Hall, Torna street 1 / free entrance

Friday, May 16
17:00 - 19:00	FIELDS / RENEWABLE FUTURES - 
public lectures by artists and currators
Goethe Institute - Riga, Torna iela 1 (entrance 
from Klostera street) / free entrance / please 
register via e-mail: rixc at rixc.lv

Armin MEDOSCH. The Broken Mirror: Art after the dreamworld of digital utopia
Misko SUVAKOVIC. Grey zones: Revisionisms and theory of art and politics
Ieva ASTAHOVSKA. Trajectories of search for new 
space in Latvian art of the recent past - 
visionary art and approximate art

20.00 Art+Communication Festival Concert and Performances
Spikeri Concert Hall, Maskavas street 4, Tickets 
at bilesuparadize.lv - 9 EUR / 4,50 EUR (students)

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SATURDAY, May 17
Conference RENEWABLE FUTURES Day 1
ART AND SCIENCE. From Techno-Ecological Practices 
to New Sustainability Theories
Goethe Institute - Riga, Tor¿a street 1 (entrance 
prom Klostera street) / Free entrance

10:00 Artist Keynotes
Marko PELJHAN & Matthew BIEDERMAN. Integrative 
Methodologies - Tactical Approaches to Some 
Strategic Problems
Lisa JEVBRATT. Together - Seeing, Seeking and Knowing with an Other
Richard BARBROOK. Class Wargames: 
Ludic subversion against spectacular capitalism

12:30 Session 1: Art+Science
Ainars KAMOLINS. On History and Philosophy of Art and Bio-Science
Annick BUREAUD. Art in the Future Tense. A Life, Bio Art and Synthetic Biology
Maja SMREKAR. Hu.M.C.C.: Transdisciplinary Guide through the Project
Regine DEBATTY. Artistic Exploration of the Meat 
Industry. Or How to Reconnect with Your Burger?

14:00 Session 2: Techno-Ecologies
Olga MINK. New Sustainable Models for Future Collaborations
Darko Fritz. Nature Embedded Netculture
Annemie MAES. Intelligent Beehives
Eric SNODGRASS / Malmö University. Ecologies of 
the Executable: A Few Interstratic Experiments
Klaus SCHAFLER. Hacking the Future and Planet
Ulrich EVERDING and Jonas BUECHEL. Empty Spaces

15:30 Participatory Session - PLAYING FIELDS - 
Plant It! Wild Ontologies in the service of 
activating history
Conducted by FIELDS exhibition curators - Armin MEDOSCH and Rasa SMITE
Participants: all artists from the FIELDS exhibition are welcome to join

19:00 - 01:00 FIELDS Exhibition Public Event 
Programme during the Museum's Night
Arsenals EXibition Hall, Torna iela 1 / Free entrance

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SUNDAY, May 18 (Liepaja)
8:30 bus trip to Liepaja

RENEWABLE FUTURES - Conference Day 2
ART AS RESEARCH - From Transdisciplinary 
Explorations and Participatory Culture to 
Academic Inquiry
Liepaja University's Art Research Lab, Liepaja, 
Kurmajas prospekts 13 / free entrance

13:00 Session 1: Art as Research - Exploring 
Relation between Digital and Real Environment
Piibe PIIRMA. Hybrid Practice
Anna TRAPENCIERE. Intimacy and Private Space in Internet of Things Age
Janis GARANCS. Immersive environments as 
self-adopting interfaces for participats
Anja MALEC. Out of the Black Box Inside the White 
Cube - On Immersive Environments
Samir BHOWMIK. digGLAM: A Collaborative 
Digitization Project for the Collections of 
Gallen-Kallela Museum and its User Communities

14:15 Session 2: Art as Research - Theories, Practices and Methodologies
Raivo KELOMEES / Estonian Academy of Arts / Tartu 
University. Transgressing Borders and Building 
Norms: On Research-Based Artworks - Discussing 
Interdisciplinary Artworks from Point of View of 
Ordinary Visitor
Ásthildur Björg JÓNSDÓTTIR / Iceland Academy of 
Arts / University of Rovaniemi / University of 
Iceland. On Participatory Research
Lily DIAZ-KOMMONEN / Aalto University. Transformation Through Research
Margrét Elísabet ÓLAFSDÓTTIR / Lorna /  Iceland 
Academy of Arts. What is the scholar doing here?
Kristin BERGAUST / Oslo University College, 
Faculty for Art and Design. Art in Society: 
Artistic Methods as a Resource and Challenge for 
Innovation in Education
Gisle FROYSLAND. On Pixel Festival

15:30 Session 3: Art as Research - Building Techno-Ecological Perspective
Isidora TODOROVIC. On Games for Social Changes 
and as Art Research. Can you feel the spill (on 
Kravtsovskoye oilfield)
Karla BRUNET. Art as Research: The Creative 
Process of a Costal Project in Brazil.
Karl Heinz JERON. Wind Park Drone: The Humming of 
Wind Turbines - Sound Art Action About the 
Perception of Noise
Scott ELLIOTT / Aalto. On Architectural Interventions and Environmental Art
Simon GODDEK. Sustainable Challenges of Commercial Aquaponics
Vika SOKOLOVSKAJA. Upcycling design in context of contemporary fashion
Markus JOUTSELA. Exploring Food Packaging 
Experiences for Lifestyles of Health and 
Sustainability (LOHAS)

17:00 Session 4. New Media Art Showcase by Liepaja Art Research Lab students
	Maija DEMITERE, MÇrti¿” EøœELIS, JÇnis JANKEVICS etc.

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FIELDS Exhibition
Arsenals Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art
May 15  - August 3, 2014

The changing role of art in society is one where 
it does not just create a new aesthetics but gets 
involved in patterns of social, scientific, and 
technological transformations. Fields, jointly 
curated by Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Armin 
Medosch, presents an inquiry into patterns of 
renewal and transition. The curators asked which 
expanded fields of artistic practice offer new 
ideas for overcoming the crisis of the present 
and developing new models of a more sustainable 
and imaginative way of life.
	From the 200 proposals received through 
the public call, the curators have chosen 40 
works from all over the world, but with a special 
focus on Central, Eastern and Northern Europe. 
Selected works are considered to be contextual 
seedbeds for social change.
Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits are artists and 
founding directors of RIXC, an art institution in 
Riga, Latvia, whose Art + Communication festival 
has become one of the most important festivals of 
this kind in Europe and worldwide. Armin Medosch 
is a curator, writer and artist based in Vienna, 
Austria. The Fields exhibition is a follow-up 
project to Waves 2006, which was also shown at 
Arsenals in Riga, co-curated by Smite, Smits and 
Medosch.
	Fields presents a lively landscape of art 
that challenges existing viewpoints and 
deconstructs social issues, but also proposes 
positive visions for the future. No single field 
and associated label can do justice any more to 
the diversity of contemporary art practices. 
Typically, today, the most interesting practices 
are transdisciplinary and transformative - they 
rely on new combinations of existing 
fields-as-in-disciplines, combining the artistic 
with the social and the natural, the scientific 
and the emotional, the sensible with the actual.
	Fields opens up the contemporary field 
for a free and associative play of radical 
taxonomies, remixing and recombining existing 
categories, thereby carrying out important 
boundary work that gives a new shape to the 
contact zones between art, science, technology 
and social engagement in the 21st century.
	The exhibition is accompanied by public 
lectures, Renewable Futures conference as well as 
artist performances and concerts.

Curators: Armin Medosch, Raitis Smits and Rasa Smite

Artists: OHO, Robert Adrian, Janis Borgs, Indulis 
Bilzens, Boriss Avramecs, Hardijs Ledins, Roberts 
Gobzins, Micky Remann, Aljosa Abrahamsberg, 
Matthew Biederman, Marko Peljhan, Brian Springer, 
Ernest Edmonds, Cecile Babiole, Erich Berger, Shu 
Lea Cheang, Bureau d'etudes, Class Wargames, Ines 
Doujak, John Barker, Hans A. Scheirl, Darko 
Fritz, Gints Gabrans, Janis Liepins, Hanna 
Haaslahti, Oioicollective, HeHe, Martin Howse, 
Janis Jankevics, Karl Heinz Jeron, Lisa Jevbratt, 
Javier Villegas, Charlie Roberts, Voldemars 
Johansons, Michal Kindernay, Ondrej Vavrecka, 
Milos Vojtechovsky, Annja Krautgasser, Pamela 
Neuwirth, Franz Xaver, Markus Decker, Manu 
Luksch, Annemie Maes / Okno, Hayley Newman, 
Esther Polak, Ieva Auzina, Radix / David Strang, 
Deborah Robinson, Simon Rundle, Bronac Ferran, 
Martins Ratniks, Oliver Ressler, Rasa Smite, 
Raitis Smits / RIXC, Natacha Roussel, Pieter 
Heremans, Maja Smrekar, Isidora Todorovic, Andrea 
Palasti, Luka Ranisaljevic, Superflex, YoHa, 
Matthew Fuller

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Organizers

The new conference series will be launched by 
RIXC / Renewable Network and ARS BALTICA in a 
joint effort with Goethe Institute - Riga, The 
Danish Cultural Institute in Latvia, Art Research 
Lab of Liepaja University as well as by other 
involved partner organizations, cultural 
institutions, art universities and collaboration 
networks. More then just building an other new 
Baltic-Nordic collaboration platform, this event 
aims to play a role of 'connector' - maintaining 
links between different platforms and networks 
existing in North European and Baltic Sea region, 
as well as connecting them with the other 
European countries and the rest of the world.

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Contacts
RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture
Maskavas street 10, R¥ga, LV-1050
e-mail: rixc at rixc.lv
phone.: +371 67228478
Rasa Smite, RIXC / LiepU MPLab, festival director, rasa at rixc.lv, +371 26546776
Agnese Baranova, RIXC / festical producer, agnese at rixc.lv,+371 29635167

Support
The Renewable Futures conference takes place in 
the framework of Renewable Network - long-term 
collaboration project supported by Nordic Culture 
Point.
The Fields exhibition is supported by Riga 2014, 
Riga City Council, Nordic Culture Point, State 
Cultural Capital Foundation, Ministry of Culture 
of the Republic of Latvia, Austrian Ministry of 
Culture, EU Culture 2007-2013 programme, Nordic 
Culture Point.

Partners
The Latvian National Museum of Art, Soft Control, 
Techno-Ecologies, Goethe Institute in Riga, 
French Institute in Latvia, Nordic Council of 
Ministers' Office in Latvia, The Danish Cultural 
institute, ARS BALTICA, Renewable Network.?

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