[spectre] VIRTUOSO symposium and fifteenth anniversary of RIXC
Rasa Smite
rasa at rixc.lv
Fri May 15 11:18:46 CEST 2015
Hello!
this weekend we are celebrating RIXC's fifteenth anniversary - by
organizing a "Virtuoso - multiscience art platform" symposium -
more info - below
and at the RIXC's new website: http://rixc.org
best regards,
Rasa
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VIRTUOSO symposium marks fifteenth anniversary of RIXC,
May 14-16, RIXC Gallery in Riga
Symposium "Virtuoso - multiscience art platform" takes place from May
14-16, 2015 at RIXC Gallery in Riga. It brings together three
important RIXC's spring events - 15th anniversary of RIXC, "Virtuoso"
exhibition (by emerging Latvian media artists from Liepaja
University's Art Research Lab), and Slovenian-Latvian artist
exchanges in the framework of EU Soft Control's project closing
programme.
In May 2015 RIXC celebrates it's fifteenth anniversary - RIXC was
founded in 2000 in Riga, on a base of E-Lab (1996). RIXC is Riga
based center for new media culture and artist collective, who
explores intersection of art, science and emerging media
technologies. The key founders of RIXC are media artists Rasa Smite
and Raitis Smits. RIXC produces own artworks and carries out various
digital media art and research projects. It also organizes annual
Art+Communication festival, publishes Acoustic Space journal series
and curates exhibitions. (* more about RIXC - see below)
http:// rixc.org
On occasion of its anniversary, RIXC curates young artist exhibition
Virtuoso, in the close of which the Virtuoso symposium will take
place this weekend from May 14-16, 2015. The symposium offers rich
programme of lectures, presentations and workshops around the topics
- sound art and art-science experiments, alternative food resources,
collecting and archiving, communication technologies and bioart.
The 1st day on May 14th featured a public lecture by philosopher and
Virtuoso exhibition curator Ainars Kamolins, artist presentation by
Maja Smrekar, and art-science presentation session by Virtuoso
artists - Rihards Vitols, Paula Vitola, Maija Demitere, Krista
Dintere and Kristaps Biters, RIXC artists and curators Rasa Smite and
Raitis Smits, artist Gints Gabrans and biologist Janis Liepins.
Today, on the 2nd symposium day, the "Audio.holic" workshop will be
led by Monika Pocrnjic, who suggests that any object that produces
sound can also be a musical instrument. The workshop will provide an
opportunity for developing experimental musical objects, made up of
various materials and used for the purpose of manipulating sound. The
evening programme will include demo-show by real-time multi-player
strategy game PRE-ALPHA-TEST-PARTY developed by Kristaps Biters.
The symposium will culminate on Saturday, May 17th, 2015 - during the
"Museum Night 2015" programme, Virtuoso exhibition in RIXC Gallery
will be open till the midnight. Public will be welcomed also by
"YogHurt" workshop, which will be led by Maja Smrekar. As the food
prices keep growing due to reduction of products amount and increase
of world's population, the artist Maja Smrekar is looking for new
solutions and alternatives for food production in the future. The
"YogHurt" workshop will provide an opportunity to produce yoghurt
enriched with genetically modified organisms that contains enzymes of
the artist's own body.
The evening programme will include public lectures by composer
Rolands Kronlaks and sound artist Voldemars Johansons, who will speak
about data sonification and manipulation in sound art and electronic
musical compositions. Lectures will be follewed by "audio.holic"
performance produced by Monika Pocrnjic and workshop participants.
The other performance of the Museum's night programme in RIXC Gallery
will be "Damned robe of Rainis" by audio-visual organism Trihars
(wordplay in Latvian - "nolapitais" means both 'patched' and also
'damned')'.The performace by Trihars will propose their
interpretation about the creative collaboration of important Latvian
writers and thinkers of the 19th-20th century - Rainis and Aspazija
(**more info about them - see below). The performance consists of a
chaotic, flowing sound together with a hypnotic projection showing
seemingly ordinary things that the legendary Latvian couple had to
deal with are highlighted in the performance.
And last but not least, on the following week - May 22-24, 2015,
Virtuoso exhibition artworks by artists Paula Vitola and Rihards
Vitols, and "Talk to Me" video installation by RIXC artists Rasa
Smite, Raitis Smits and Martins Ratniks will traveling to Maribor,
Slovenia, where it will be shown in Kibla Gallery space.
More info on Virtuoso symposium program is available at http://rixc.org
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Exhibition "Virtuoso - multiscience art platform" is open from April
16th until May 17th, 2015, at RIXC Gallery, address: 11. novembra
krastmala 35 (entrance from Minsterejas street). Opening hours: from
Tuesday until Sunday, 12pm to 6pm, closed on Mondays. Free entrance.
Virtuoso webpage: http://virtuozi.mplab.lv
Contacts: rixc at rixc.lv; +371 67228478 (RIXC office), +371 26546776
(Rasa Smite).
Symposium is organized by E-LAB Center for Electronic Art and Media
in collaboration with RIXC Center for New Media Culture and Art
Research Laboratory (MPLab) of Liepaja University.
Support: State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, Riga City
Council, EU program "Culture 2007-2013" in the framework of "Soft
Control" project.
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* more about RIXC
In May 2015 RIXC celebrates it's fifteenth anniversary - RIXC was
founded in 2000 in Riga, on a base of E-Lab (1996). RIXC is Riga
based center for new media culture and artist collective, who
explores intersection of art, science and emerging media
technologies. The key founders of RIXC are media artists Rasa Smite
and Raitis Smits; they are also curators, lecturers and writers about
new media art avantgarde practices, networking and archiving issues,
and they both hold PhD degrees.
RIXC Center was founded with the aim to facilitate a platform where
artists together with people from different background and public can
meet, work together and innovate. RIXC produces own artworks and
carries out various digital media art and research projects. It also
organizes annual Art+Communication festival, publishes Acoustic
Space journal series and curates exhibitions - the largest and more
recent of which was FIELDS (2004, fields.rixc.org, curated together
with Armin Medosch). Through their artworks, events and publications
RIXC has introduced novelty themes such as internet radio (1997),
locative media (2003), trans-cultural mapping (2004), spectral
ecology (2007), art and science of renewable energy (2009),
techno-ecologies (2011), art of resilience (2012).
RIXC is also key founder of Liepaja University's Art Research Lab &
New Media Art education programme. RIXC has extensive experience in
network building locally and internationally - currently RIXC is
developing its Renewable Network, and has launched new conference
series entitled Renewable Futures, the 1st edition of which will take
place in Riga, October 8-10, exploring "transformative potential of
arts in the age of post-media".
http:// rixc.org - new website
(old, 'historical' website: http://rixc.lv)
http://acousticspacejournal.com
http://renewablefutures.net
* more about Rainis and Aspazija
Rainis (1865-1929) was famous Latvian poet, playwright, translator,
and politician, Aspazija (1865-1943) was Latvian poet and playwright,
and Rainis' wif. Theirs 150th anniversaries are wildly celebrated
around Latvia in 2015 through many cultural events.
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http://rixc.org
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