[spectre] Out Now! OPEN FIELDS book, Acoustic Space Vol. 15

Rasa Smite rasa at rixc.lv
Wed Oct 5 11:45:54 CEST 2016 

Hello!

Last weekend, on the occasion of the Open Fields conference & RIXC 
festival, we also presented our newly published book "OPEN FIELDS - Art 
and Science Research Practices in the Network Society", which came out 
as volume no. 15, in the Acoustic Space, peer-reviewed book & journal 
series.

Please see below more information -

best regards,
Rasa

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OUT NOW!

OPEN FIELDS. Art and Science Research Practices in the Network Society
Acoustic Space, Vol. 15
Edited by Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Armin Medosch
RIXC: Riga, September 29, 2016

http://acousticspacejournal.com

The Open Fields volume presents artistic research that is located in the 
contested territory between academic knowledge production and 
independent creative practices. Open Fields is constituting the 
interwoven  histories of art and science in the digital age, whereby 
investigating the changing role of art in network society. Open Fields 
claims that art with its transformative potential, critical, 
investigative as well as symbolic and aesthetic qualities, is among 
those disciplines that are capable to reflect upon current realities, 
complexity of our society, facing challenges of our time.

We are proposing to look at those Fields from different perspectives, 
dedicating one section to studies from Eastern European and North. But 
this regional focus also comes with a different intellectual orientation 
to discourses which leave the safe zone of disciplinary academia behind 
and engage with Open Fields: with the interchanges and crossings between 
practices which are barely sustained by one discipline alone.

With the Fields exhibition in 2014 we have opened multiple conversations 
about how art can not only criticize and thereby provide a mirror for 
society, but how it can also more directly intervene in material and 
social structures. We are now continuing this discussion asking:

How can art and other creative practices meaningfully contribute to the 
environmental, technological and scientific challenges of our time?

We are raising this question by dedicating the first chapter to the 
contemporary aesthetics and its immediate forerunners, starting around 
40 years ago; this is followed by the chapter on media art histories in 
Eastern Europe. The third chapter allows bringing together specific 
issues in artistic research with speculative and phenomenological, and 
philosophical questioning. And last but not least, the forth chapter 
gives an insight into some of more recent exhibitions and art projects 
in which artists by creating “open fields” works are challenging the 
notion of art and contemporary aesthetics. They are 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 mediums, and interpreting them in a new and meaningful ways.

The book consists from the following sections:

I Early Digital Art And Contemporary Aesthetics In Network Society

II Media Art Histories In Eastern Europe

III Speculative Archeologies: The Open Fields Of Art And Science


IV Transformative Ecologies: From Changing Weathers To Open Fields 


The book combines a selection of papers presented in the Media Art 
Histories 2013 Renew conference held in Riga, October 8-11, 2013, and 
visual review of Transformative Ecologies exhibitions in Mons and Riga 
(2015). This volume also includes new texts – such Christiane's Paul 
“From Archives to Collections: Digital Art In/Out of Institutions” which 
is based on her keynote speech delivered at the Open Fields conference, 
taking place in Riga during September 29 – November 2, 2016, in the 
framework of RIXC's annual festival. Our festival this year was focusing 
on new aesthetics, contemporary conditions, digital practices and the 
post-media situation. Since the first festival took place twenty years 
ago, the festival has grown and developed into a larger annual gathering 
in Northern Europe for international scholars and artists working at the 
intersection of arts, humanities and science. The Open Fields edition 
aims to present the most innovative approaches in artistic research, and 
to discuss the changing role of the arts, their transformative 
potential, and relation to the sciences. (http://openfields.rixc.org)

Authors and contributors:
Christiane Paul, Ernest Edmonds, Jamie Allen And Ryan Jordan, Laura 
Beloff, Rajashree Biswal, Jim Boulton, Brogan Bunt, Dana Catona, Ksenia 
Fedorova, Darko Fritz, Simon Hagemann, Roddy Hunter, Aleksandra 
Kaminska, Raivo Kelomees And Stacey Koosel, Jung-Yeon Ma, Vytautas 
Michelkevičius And Lina Michelkevičė, José A. Oliveira, Aneta Panek, 
Andrew Gryf Paterson, David Thomas.

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Available on Amazon.com:
https://www.amazon.com/Fields-Science-Research-Practices-Network/dp/9934843455/
or by ordering directly from RIXC Publishing rixc at rixc.org

More info: http://acousticspacejournal.com

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OPEN FIELDS. Art and Science Research Practices in the Network Society
Edited by Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Armin Medosch
Acoustic Space, Vol. 15
Peer-reviewed journal & book series for transdisciplinary research on 
art, science, technology and society.
ISSN 1407-2858
ISBN 978-9934-8434-5-7
Published by RIXC, Riga & LiepU MPLab, Liepaja
(RIXC Center for New Media Culture, Riga & Liepaja University's Art 
Research Lab, Liepaja)

CONTENTS

7 Introduction by editors - Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Armin Medosch

9 Christiane Paul. From Archives to Collections: Digital Art In/Out of 
Institutions

I EARLY DIGITAL ART AND CONTEMPORARY AESTHETICS IN NETWORK SOCIETY

20 Roddy Hunter. Curating the Network-as-Artwork after Globalisation
30 José A. Oliveira. The Art of Systems and the Systems of Art: Theory 
and Practices
43 Simon Hagemann. Performing the Web: Aspects of the Communication 
Network in Performance
50 Jim Boulton. Error 404 – Why Archive the Web?
55 Darko Fritz. Agents of Social and Political Change in the Early 
Digital Arts from the Netherlands
62 Rajashree Biswal. The Politics and Dynamics of Web Based Art Practice 
in India in the Post 1990s
80 Ernest Edmonds. Network Art from the Birth of the Internet to Today

II MEDIA ART HISTORIES IN EASTERN EUROPE

88 Aneta Panek. Ingenious Dillettantes – Night Patrol – Punk in Poland. 
Transgressions, subversions and détournements in experimental music and 
cinema in West Berlin, Warsaw and Łódź in the 1980s
100 Raivo Kelomees, Stacey Koosel. Privacy Experiments in Public and 
Artistic Spaces
111 Dana Catona. Human Body Related Works in Performance, Video and New 
Media – from the ‘60s to the Present in Romania
118 Ksenia Fedorova. Transmediality, Transliteracy, Transduction and 
Aesthetics of the Technological Sublime
129 Vytautas Michelkevičius, Lina Michelkevičė. Unwritten Histories of 
Extinct Media Art in Lithuania: From the 2000s of Great Promise to the 
Multidirectional 2010s
143 Andrew Gryf Paterson. Reflections on Soil Future(s), Past(s) and 
Present(s)

III SPECULATIVE ARCHEOLOGIES: THE OPEN FIELDS OF ART AND SCIENCE

158 Laura Beloff. Art as A Playground for Evolution
165 Jung-Yeon Ma. Renewing the Story of the CTG: Haruki Tsuchiya’s 
Research on Energy
172 David Thomas. The Crystal Stereoscope: The Architectural 
Reconstruction of Modern Vision
177 Jamie Allen, Ryan Jordan. Signal Aesthetics. Stroboscopic Arts and 
Sciences
200 Aleksandra Kaminska. Audible Walls, Breathing Vaults, and the 
Fantastic Sites of Re-Imagination
211 Brogan Bunt. Cutting Sections from Cars: at the Medial Margins of 
Media Art

IV TRANSFORMATIVE ECOLOGIES: FROM CHANGING WEATHERS TO OPEN FIELDS

223 Transformative Ecologies. North Creative Network Initiative and 
Exhibitions
237 Open Fields. The Exhibition and Conference / RIXC Art Science 
Festival 2016
252 Changing Weathers. Networked Responses to Geophysical, Geopolitical 
and Technological Shifts Across Europe. Collaborative Project


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Contact:
RIXC Publishing / RIXC Center for New Media Culture
Address: Maskavas iela 4, Riga, Latvia, LV 1050
+371-26546776
rixc at rixc.org

Support: State Cultural Capital Foundation / Ministry of Culture of 
Republic of Latvia / Co-Funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the 
European Union, in the framework of Changing Weathers project 
http://changingweathers.com /

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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
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