[spectre] CALL for Open Fields Conference and Exhibition proposals @ RIXC Festival
Rasa Smite
rasa at rixc.lv
Tue May 17 11:41:49 CEST 2016
Hello on Renewable list
We are happy to announce about the extended call for Open Fields - the
international conference focusing on artistic research, changing role of
arts in societies, the transformative potential of arts, and its
relation to the sciences.
With the Open Fields, our intent is to build a common ground for more
regular gatherings of Renewable Network - annual conferences in Riga,
where to discuss respective topics, in the framework of RIXC's annual
festival.
We also welcome proposals for artworks, particularly we are interested
in elaborate work by artists-researchers, PhD students, who are working
in the contested territory between academic way of knowledge creation
and contemporary art practices
Looking forward seeing you in Riga in September 29-October 2!
best
Rasa
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Call for Open Fields Conference abstracts and Exhibition proposals
DEADLINE Extended: June 20, 2016
APPLY NOW!
http://festivalconf.rixc.lv
More info: http://rixc.org/en/festival/
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*OPEN FIELDS Conference and Exhibition*
in the framework of *RIXC Art Science Festival 2016*
Riga, September 29 – October 1, 2016
Venue: National Library of Latvia
Open Fields is the title of this year's international conference taking
place in the framework of the annual RIXC Art Science festival in Riga.
It brings together international scholars and artists, working at the
intersection of arts, humanities and science. Open Fields will focus on
artistic research, the changing role of arts, its transformative
potential, and relation to the sciences. This call for participation
invites contributions and conference paper proposals by scholars,
artists, artists-researchers, art and media theorists, data designers
and critical engineers, as well as doctoral students, and scientists
from different Fields – biology, ecology, environment, digital
technologies, renewable energy, etc., who are engaged in experiencing
the transformative potential of arts.
For the exhibition and conference, we are looking for research that is
located in the contested territory between academic knowledge production
and independent creative practices. Open Fields will be investigating
the use of data visualizations and other mappings of the contemporary.
It will look into areas such as open commons, the future of social
interaction, data representation and visualisation, critical design,
sustainable infrastructures, eco-aesthetics, techno-ecologies,
bio-hacking and other techniques of a transformative potential. No Field
is excluded, yet there should always be a connection with art; it is
highly likely that art works and conference papers will touch on several
Fields, not one. It is such an enhanced understanding of
transdisciplinarity that drives this undertaking.
Research Questions: How art and other creative practices can
meaningfully contribute to the environmental, technological and
scientific challenges of our time? What kind of new knowledge can be
created through artistic practice that collaborates with science,
technology and other disciplines? And how to deal with contemporary
aesthetics, which has undergone dramatic changes during the past decades
and keeps changing again as influenced by current post-media situation,
data visualization and other contemporary conditions?
The Conference also will feature “Playing Fields” session on
contemporary taxonomy, maintaining a connection between the exhibition
and the conference. It also will include “Open Fields – Book Review”
(PechaKucha) session, providing an opportunity for the speakers to
present their new books for other participants and the audience.
* Conference keynote speakers:
Christiane PAUL / New School / Whitney Museum / New York
Jussi PARIKKA / Winchester School of Art / University of Southampton / UK
and others - tbc.
* Exhibition: The Open Fields conference will be complemented by the
exhibition taking place in the new Exhibition Hall of National Library
of Latvia. Partly curated, partly peer-reviewed, the Exhibition will
represent works by artists, artists-researchers and data designers, who
are challenging the notion of art and contemporary aesthetics by moving
across, bringing together and converging different knowledge, various
media and diverse Fields, as well as using scientific, cultural and
social data as new artistic medium, and interpreting them in a new and
meaningful ways.
The Exhibition will be open from September 29 - November 6, 2016.
* Proceeding: The papers will be published in conference proceeding,
which will come out in the Acoustic Space, peer-reviewed journal & book
series. The call for full paper submissions will be announced during the
conference.
http://acousticspacejournal.com
Conference Chair: Dr. Rasa SMITE / RIXC / Art Research Lab, Liepaja
University, Latvia
Festival and Exhibition curators: Dr. Raitis SMITS, Ainars KAMOLINS, Dr.
Rasa SMITE
Playing Fields session will be organized and moderated by Armin MEDOSCH
/ Austria
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DEADLINE FOR CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS:
June 20, 2016
We welcome proposals by scholars, artists, artists-scholars, designers,
PhD researchers, curators, media theorists, art historians, science
philosophers, cultural innovators, bio-hackers, critical engineers and
data designers, as well as scientists from different Fields – biology,
ecology, environment, digital technologies, renewable energy, and
others, who are engaged in the transformative potential of arts.
Conference themes include:
* investigating contemporaneity, its representation and experience in
and through artistic practice and art-science research
* data visualization, and its impact on art, science and contemporary
aesthetics
* art and science – challenging new ways of knowledge creation and its
representation
* changing weathers – networked responses to geophysical and
geopolitical shifts across Europe and the globe
* eco-aesthetics – from sustainable architecture and critical design to
techno-ecological art practices
Conference proposal should consist of:
* title and abstract (250 words)
* 5-6 keywords,
* and short author's biography (160 words).
Please submit your proposals online:
http://festivalconf.rixc.lv
Notifications: June 22, 2016
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DEADLINE FOR EXHIBITION PROPOSALS:
June 20, 2016
Partly curated, partly peer-reviewed, the Festival Exhibition welcomes
proposals by artists, artists-researchers, artists-engineers, data
designers, as well as practice-based doctoral students, who are
challenging the notion of art and contemporary aesthetics by moving
across, bringing together and converging different knowledge, various
media and diverse Fields, as well as by those, who are using scientific,
cultural and social data as new artistic medium, interpreting them in a
new and meaningful ways.
Artwork submissions should include:
* description of idea and technical requirements (1-2 pages),
* short biography and/or portfolio,
* additional material (photos/video/links/etc.)
Please submit your artwork proposal via e-mail to the address:
rixc (at) rixc.org
Additional material, if the files are larger then 5MB, should be sent
via wetransfer.com.
Notifications: June 30, 2016
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* About Open Fields Conference
Following the last year's successful launch of Renewable Futures
(renewablefutures.net – the biannual travelling conference series) –
this year RIXC with its European partners from Changing Weathers
project, and other collaborating institutions and universities from the
Baltic Sea region and Europe, are introducing Open Fields, aiming to
develop it towards an annual Riga based gathering for the discussion on
artistic reseach, the changing role of arts in societies, art's
transformative potential, and relations to sciences.
http://rixc.org/en/festival/
* The International Conference Scientific Organizational board:
Dr. Lev
MANOVICH / Software Studies Initiative / The Graduate Center, City
University of New York, US
Dr. Armin MEDOSCH / Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum
University, Belgrade, Serbia / Initiator of the Technopolitics working
group in Vienna, Austria
PhD. Jussi PARIKKA / Winchester School of Art / University of
Southampton / UK
PhD. Geoff COX / School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University,
Denmark
Prof. Kristin BERGAUST / Oslo and Akershus University, Norway
Asoc. prof. Laura BELOFF / IT University in Copenhagen, Denmark /
Finnish Bioart Society, Helsinki, Finland
Dr. Lily DIAZ-KOMMONEN / Head of Research Department of Media, Aalto
University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland
Dr. Ursula Damm / Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany – tbc.
Dr. Andris TEIKMANIS / Vice-rector, Latvian Academy of Arts, Riga
Dr. Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS / Nida Art Colony, Vilnius Academy of Arts,
Lithuania
PhD. Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir / Art Education at the University of
Akureyri, Iceland
Andrew Gryf PATERSON / Pixelache Helsinki / SERDE / Aalto University
ARTS Media department, Helsinki, Finland
Regine DEBATTY / we-make-money-not-art.com, London, UK - tbc.
Dr. Piibe PIIRMA / Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
Dr. Janis KLEPERIS / Hydrogen Laboratory, Solid State Physics Institute,
Latvian University, Riga, Latvia
and others – tbc.
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* The venue of the conference and exhibition: the new building of
National Library of Latvia
(http://www.lnb.lv/en/about-library/nll-building).
* Organizer: RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture.
* Partners: Conference and Exhibition is organized by RIXC in
collaboration with Art Research Lab of Liepaja University, Arts Academy
of Latvia and Changing Weathers - Creative Europe’s project partners
(http://www.changingweathers.net/)
* Exhibition partner: National Library of Latvia
* Contact: rixc (at) rixc.org,
Address: RIXC, Maskavas iela 4, Riga, LV 1050, Latvia
Phone: +371-67228478 (office), +371-26546776 (Rasa Smite)
* Support: Creative Europe, Cultural Capital Foundation of Latvia, Riga
City Council, Latvian Ministry of Culture, and others.
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Dr Rasa Smite
Artist and Founding Director of RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture in Riga,
Assoc. Prof. in New Media Art at Liepaja University,
Chief Editor of Acoustic Space, peer-reviewed book & journal series
Contact:rasa at rixc.org
Phone: +371-26546776
http://smitesmits.com
http://rixc.org
http://renewablefutures.net
http://acousticspacejournal.com
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