[spectre] VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES will start tomorrow! RIXC festival, conference, exhibition...

[Rasa Smite]

Hello!

VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES – the RIXC Art & Science Festival 2017 in  
Riga will start tomorrow! The Opening of the 2nd Open Fields  
Conference and Festival Exhibition takes place on Thursday, October  
19, 2017 at 16.00 in Latvian National Museum of Art, and continues at  
19.00 - in kim? Contemporary Art Center.

Welcome!

best regards,
Rasa


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VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES 
RIXC Art Science Festival
and the 2nd Open Fields Conference
Riga, October 19 – 21, 2017
The Exhibition Open till November 28, 2017

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VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES – the RIXC Art & Science Festival 2017 in  
Riga will start tomorrow!

This year's festival aims to become a space for artistic interventions  
and conversations about the complex implications of immersive  
technologies. Taking place in the framework of RISK CHANGE Creative  
Europe’s project, this year's festival particularly will focus on  
exploring the relations between “virtualities” and “realities” in our  
post-media society.

The festival will take place in from October 19–21, 2017, on the most  
significant contemporary art & culture sites in Riga, Latvia. The  
CONFERENCE parallel sessions will take place the in the Art Academy of  
Latvia, and the Latvian National Museum of Art, while the EXHIBITIONS  
– in kim? Contemporary Art Centre, and RIXC Gallery (two venues), and  
the PERFORMANCES – in RISEBA Architecture and Media Center “H2O6”.

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CONFERENCE

The 2nd Open Fields Conference: Virtualities And Realities

October 19–21, 2017 / The Art Academy of Latvia, and the Latvian  
National Museum of Art.



THE 2ND OPEN FIELDS CONFERENCE will discuss the socio-cultural and  
neurobiological impacts of virtual and augmented reality, and other  
immersive technologies. The conference participants will also look at  
the places and movements from a socio-political perspective, the  
mapping and charting of migrating cultures particularly people and  
their data traces.

Immersive technologies coupled with superior virtual environments,  
artificial intelligence algorithms, faster processors, and biometrics  
are launching a new era in virtual experiences, entertainment and  
story-telling. At the same time these technologies have the potential  
for reinforcing stereotypes, contributing to massive economic and  
social disruptions, and implementing new systems of invasive  
monitoring and control.

 What do these new developments in VR/AR mean  
for education, entertainment, social policy, and systems of codified  
knowledge? Like their predecessors the telephone, television, and  
mobile phone, what are the impending new vistas and reduced horizons?

Biometrics and the uploading and tracking of personal data spans areas  
from healthcare to advertising, with implications for law, criminal  
justice, entertainment (gaming), education and sports. Machine  
learning and algorithms are harvesting and making use of big data in  
new and startling ways. Some of it allows pinpoint accuracy in  
determining issues of public health, economics, climate change,  
story-telling, political leanings and the migration of populations.  
What does all this data combined with new technologies mean? What are  
some current and future artistic strategies that deal with this?  
Combined with the acceleration of VR/AR and technologies of immersion,  
how will societies react?

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KEYNOTES

OPENING KEYNOTE LECTURES AND PERFORMANCES
Thursday, October 19, 16.00-18.00 / The National Museum of Art

SHADES OF VIRTUALITY
Monika FLEISCHMANN  and Wolfgang STRAUSS /  
DE
Thursday, October 19, 16.00
The National Museum of Art

Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss are Visionary Pioneers of  
Interactive Media Art. 
In their lecture they will talk about Virtual  
Reality (VR) as the technisation of perception, a translation of the  
natural senses into the telematic. To keep pace with the growth of  
data knowledge over time, performative structures are needed that keep  
the mind alert and shake the memory. Their own work will demonstrate  
how ‘difference’ and ‘new knowledge’ can emerge through immersive  
mixed reality installations. How do the ideas and visions of early VR  
pioneers compare to today’s immersive environments?

WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE A NIGHTINGALE?  Adventures in Interspecies  
Music
David ROTHENBERG / US

David Rothenberg is a musician, composer, author and  
philosopher-naturalist, professor of philosophy and music at the New  
Jersey Institute of Technology.
… Can one really communicate with other species through music? David  
Rothenberg has been trying to do this for many years, and his latest  
subject is the nightingale. Rothenberg will play a special solo  
version of his new piece for spoken word, electronics, and clarinet,  
involving the ideas of Thoreau, Hegel, and Tim Dee recording the wind….

Thursday, October 19, 17.00 / The National Museum of Art

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PUBLIC KEYNOTES
Friday, October 20, 17.00-19.00 / The Art Academy of Latvia

THE APPROACHING STORM: AI, BIOMETRICS, BIG DATA, IMMERSION AND SURVEILLANCE
Ellen PEARLMAN (USA)
Parsons / New School / Art-A-Hack / ThoughtWorks / New York, US

Ellen Pearlman is a professor in Parsons / New School, director of the  
ThoughtWorks Arts Residency, president of Art-A-Hack, and  
director/curator of the Volumetric Society. 
The rise in computing  
power is growing in tandem with enormous databanks of information,  
algorithmic processing, new methods of surveillance, and advances in  
biotechnology. Using examples of brain computer interfaces (BCIs) and  
her fully immersive interactive brain opera brain “Noor”, Ellen  
Pearlman will explore a few of the implications of these emerging and  
converging technologies for the future.


IMMERSION: WHAT FOR?

Chris SALTER 

Concordia University / Hexagram Concordia Centre for Research and  
Creation in Media Art and Technology, Montreal, CA


Chris Salter is an artist, University Research Chair in New Media,  
Technology and the Senses at Concordia University and Co-Director of  
the Hexagram network for Research-Creation in Media Arts and  
Technology in Montreal.
With the increasing commercial take up of supposedly new “immersive”  
technologies such as VR and AR, there is the sense that new forms of  
human sensory experience are just on the horizon – ones which are not  
only unprecedented but directly made possible by these technologies.  
This talk asks a simple question – namely, what does immersion do and  
for what purposes?

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EXHIBITIONS

VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES. Festival Exhibition
October 20 – November 28, 2017 / kim? Contemporary Art Center, Sporta  
iela 2, Riga, LV1010


THE MAIN FESTIVAL EXHIBITION will explore the changing role of art in  
society, its transformative potential, and its relations to the  
sciences, especially focusing on neomateriality, new aesthetics and  
other critical qualities of the post-digital.
The VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES exhibition will feature 25 innovative  
artworks by 35 artists from 12 countries who experiment with augmented  
and virtual reality, create immersive environments, and explore  
complex relations between the “virtualities” and “realities” of our  
post-media society with its networked communities and migrating  
cultures.

Artists: Marc LEE (CH), Jacques PERCONTE (FR), Juuke SCHOORL (NL),  
Brenna MURPHY (US), Hans BREDER (US), Clement VALLA (US), Matteo  
ZAMAGNI & Daniel BEN-HUR (UK/IT), Zane ZELMENE (LV), The Swan  
Collective / Felix KRAUS (DE), Annie BERMAN (US), Felipe CUCKER &  
Hector RODRIGUEZ (HK), Gunta DOMBROVSKA (LV), Martin John CALLANAN  
(UK/IE), Nina FISCHER & Maroan EL SANI (DE), Santa FRANCE (LV), Greta  
HAUER (UK), Martin HESSELMEIER & Andreas MUXEL (DE/AT), Raphael KIM  
(UK), Michal KINDERNAY (CZ), Christopher MANZIONE & Seth CLUETT (US),  
Andrew MCWILLIAMS (UK), Melodie MOUSSET & Naem BARON (CH/FR), Hanns  
Holger RUTZ (AT), Julia SOKOLNICKA (PL/NL), Danielle ZORBAS (AU/GR)


Curator: Raitis SMITS / RIXC.

http://virtualitiesandrealities.rixc.org/


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FLUCTUATIONS OF MICROWORLDS. By Rasa SMITE and Raitis SMITS
Open until October 28, 2017 / RIXC Gallery & Center, Lencu iela 2,  
Riga, LV1010

Artist duo Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits have set up bacteria power  
plants and environmental sensors in a swamp. Retrieved data from the  
Kemeri wetland ecosystems are transformed into virtual audiovisual  
experiences.

http://smitesmits.com

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DATA.LOGS. By Trihars
Open until October 22, 2017 / RIXC “2” Gallery, 11. Novembra Krastmala  
35, Riga, LV1050

The “audiovisual organism” – Trihars is artists Rihards Vitols, Peters  
Riekstins, and Kristaps Biters, who in this exhibition are acting as  
“dataloggers” – processing “big data” by creating, analyzing and  
representing the data archives.

http://trihars.mplab.lv/

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BOOK SESSION
Saturday, October 20, 17.00 / The National Museum of Art

FROM NEW TENDENCIES TO FIELDS.
A Tribute to Armin Medosch.

Armin Medosch (1962-2017) has long been collaborating with Riga based  
RIXC Center for New Media Culture. For many years he has been  
scientific editor of ACOUSTIC SPACE, peer-reviewed book & journal  
series, published by RIXC and Art Research Lab of Liepaja University  
(acousticspacejournal.com). In this Book Session we will present  
Armin’s book – NEW TENDENCIES (MIT, 2016), and recently published new  
Acoustic Space volume (16) – RENEWABLE FUTURES (RIXC, 2017), which  
includes a section about FIELDS exhibition (curated by Armin together  
with Rasa and Raitis), as well as Armin’s conceptual text about the  
FIELDS, thereby in the context of books, we hold a tribute to Armin  
Medosch.

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OPEN FIELDS BOOK-REVIEW 
participatory session (Pecha Kucha)

The Open Fields Book-Review is a dynamic open participation session  
in Pecha Kucha format (20x20), taking place at the close of the  
conference, during which conference speakers and exhibition artists  
have an opportunity to present their recent or upcoming books. Please  
book your 6 min time slot for your book presentation by sending an  
email to rixc at rixc.org!


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CLOSING ANNOUNCEMENT
What's Next?

RENEWABLE FUTURES 2018: Hybrid Lab Conference and Leonardo Symposium,
in Helsinki, Finland, introduced by Lily DIAZ / Aalto University

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Programme

THURSDAY, October 19, 2017
Opening Programme

16.00 – 18.00 OPENING KEYNOTE LECTURES AND PERFORMANCES
Venue: The National Museum of Art, Jana Rozentala laukums 1, Entrance  
from Park.

Monika FLEISCHMANN and Wolfgang STRAUSS. Immersive Spaces for Thinking  
and Acting through Senses and Sensors
David ROTHENBERG. What’s It Like To Be A Nightingale? Adventures In  
Interspecies Music /
The Univocity of Being (Lecture / Concert)


19.00 – RECEPTION and OPENING OF VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES Festival  
and Exhibition.
Venue: kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Sporta iela 2

WELCOME WORDS AND OPENING TALKS:
Dace MELBARDE, Minister of Culture  
of the Republic of Latvia / 
Pieter (Jan) LANGENBERG, Ambassador  
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary from the Kingdom of the Netherlands  
to Latvia
 / Dominique Claire PETTER, Counsellor, Deputy Head of  
Mission, Swiss Embassy
 / Rasa SMITE, Curator of RIXC Festival 
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Valentinas KLIMASAUSKAS, Programme Director of kim? Contemporary Art  
Centre, 
and others.
CONCERT by David ROTHENBERG / US and OPENING OF THE FESTIVAL EXHIBITION.

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FRIDAY, October 20, 2017
Conference Day 1. VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES I: IMMERSIVE TECHNOLOGIES  
AND ARTISTIC RESEARCH

09.30 – 10.00 Coffee and Registration

10.00 – 11.30 Plenary Session. IMMERSIVE TECHNOLOGIES AND ARTISTIC  
RESEARCH (90 min)

Thematic Keynotes and Featured Presentations by Aalto University  
(Helsinki/FI)

Venue: The Art Academy of Latvia / Address: Kalpaka bulvaris 13 (from  
the park side)

Moderator: Rasa SMITE
Lily DIAZ. Interactive Diorama, Case Study Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson  
of 1632 by Dr. Nicolaes Tulp,
Andrea MANCIANTI. Preliminary Directions for a Performative Approach to VR.
Daniel LANDAU. Time-Body Study (presentation and live experiments)

11.45 – 13.00 Parallel Session A1. Immersive Environments: Time, Space  
And Visuality

Venue: The Art Academy of Latvia / Address: Kalpaka bulvaris 13 (from  
the park side)

Moderator: Chris MILLER
Speakers: 
Jorge SOBEJANO, Alvaro MOLINS. Black Islands

Camilla JALLER. A Sense of Time in Transit Spaces – Video projection  
artworks in public train station buildings.

Jonah BRUCKER-COHEN. Socializing Public Spaces With Shared Input From  
Mobile Devices

Hiba ALI. Deconstructing Network Visualities

David SCHMUDDE. Manifesting Human Relationships in Art and Technology

11.45 – 13.00 Parallel Session B1. Immersive Environments: Body and Perception
Venue: The Latvian National Museum of Art
Moderator: Kristin BERGAUST

Speakers: Miguel ALMIRON, Guillermo CROSETTO. Virtual Reality, the  
Empathic Machine?

Richard MERRITT. Ethereal Empathy: Creating Spaces for Intersectionality

KORSTEN & DE JONG. Paper-Performance 'Back-Space'

Asim HAMEED. Body: a Site of Virtualization.
Christina
DELLA GIUSTINA. You Are Variations, Towards Version 08


14.00 – 15.15 Parallel Session A2. Brainwaves and Immersive Data  
Visualizations / Biometrics

Venue: The Art Academy
Moderator: Ellen PEARLMAN

Speakers: 
Orr MENIROM. Clinton and Sanders Looking at the World and  
Naming Things for the First Time

Karen LANCEL. E.E.G. KISS – Kissing the Intimate Uncanny

Chris HALES. Interactive Stories for the Brain: Interaction and  
Response in Brainwave-Influenced Non-linear Films

Sean MONTGOMERY. Synergy in Art and Science: From Groundwater to Brainwaves
Jukka HAUTAMAKI. Interfacing in Live Electronics Performances.

14.00 – 15.15 Parallel Session B2. Neomateriality and Post-Digital Aesthetics
Venue: The Museum of Art
Moderator: Hiba ALI

Speakers:
 Winnie SOON, Sarah SCHORR. Screen Shots: Critical Codes of Capture

Raivo KELOMEES. From Net Art to Post-Internet Art: The Cyclical Nature  
of Art Movements

Doville DAGIENE. Anthropology of Memory and Imagination: Time and  
Place in Photography

Violetta DE SAGA. Transcendence in Immanence

Cristina COCHIOR. In The Company Of Bots

15.30 – 16.45 Parallel Session A3. Interactivity and Virtuality in  
Post-Digital Age
Venue: The Art Academy of Latvia 

Moderator: Jonah BRUCKER-COHEN 

Speakers:
 Kathryn BLAIR. A Research Creation Process for Interactive Works

Varvara GULJAJEVA. Beyond interactivity. The unsolved question of  
interactive art.

Vanessa GRAVENOR. Disassociate Reality

Vanessa Sonia SANTOS. Investigating Locative Art Through a  
Methodological Bricolage

Vytautas MICHELKEVIČIUS, Lina MICHELKEVIČE. Other Virtuality: Tracing  
the Real in Maps and Diagrams within Artistic Research

15.30 – 16.45 Parallel Session B3. Tracing and Charting Migrating Cultures

Venue: The Museum of Art
Moderator: Oksana CHEPELYK

Speakers:
 Stefanie RAU. Feeding Back (or: And Still We Keep Holding  
on to Our Spoons)

Greta HAUER. Proximity Of The Enemy

Jaana KOKKO. What There is to See (About Film, 24 min, 2017)

Ilva SKULTE, Normunds KOZLOVS. Hauntological Aspects of Steampunk's  
Philosophy

Mikko LIPIAINEN. The Potential of Augmented Reality Technology for  
Building Sites for Translocal, Transcontinental and Intercultural  
Dialogue: The Case of Digital Ghost of Resistance Monument Project

17.00 – 19.00 PUBLIC KEYNOTE LECTURES

Venue: The Art Academy

Ellen PEARLMAN. The Approaching Storm: AI, Biometrics, Big Data,  
Immersion and Surveillance
Chris SALTER. Immersion: What For?

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SATURDAY, October 21, 2017
Conference Day 2: VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES I: AUGMENTED & VIRTUAL  
REALITY AND DATA AESTHETICS

10.00 – 11.30 Plenary Session. Augmented & Virtual Reality, Digital  
Art Archives and Bio-Digital Games
Venue: The Museum of Art
Moderator: Ellen PEARLMAN 

Speakers: Vincenzo SANSONE. Augmented Reality Between a Philosophical  
Meaning and a Technological One. 
Some Questions About the Semantic  
Shift of the Concept of AR.
Livia NOLASCO-ROZSAS. Knowledge of the Virtual.
Kristin BERGAUST. Oslofjord Ecologies: Experience, Artistic Research  
and Education
Raphael KIM, Guy HANKE, Stefan POSLAND. Bacterial Candy Crush?  
Heuristics of Bio-Digital Gamification.

11.45 – 13.00 Parallel Session A1. Augmented and Virtual Reality: New  
Artistic Strategies
Venue: The Art Academy

Moderator: David SCHMUDDE

Speakers: Christopher MILLER. The Virtual Class

Sandra ALVARO. Behind the Black Mirror

Jānis GARANCS. Induced Spaces as an Effort of New Sense/Making –  
Interfacing Financial Trading in 3D/VR

Hanna HAASLAHTI. Cosmetic Space

Natalia EGOROVA, Sergey SIMONOV, Daniil BAKALIN. The Experience of  
Interpretation of Biological Object in the Context of Contemporary Art

Carlotta AOUN. soft-()-face: extra/inter/outra

11.45 – 13.00 Parallel Session B1. Digital Art Archives and Curating Practices
Venue: The Museum of Art

Moderator: Raitis SMITS
Speakers: Janina HOTH. Digital Archive as Display for Digital Art
Aleksander KOMAROV, Maxim TYMINKO. PXFLUX – Online Platform and  
Toolset for the Exhibition, Promotion, Distribution and Collection of  
Time Based, Computational, Digital Art.
Dijana PROTIC. Exploring Curating Practice on Example of Media Scape

Elke REINHUBER. Tangible / Intangible – the Digital Preservation of  
Yunnan Garden

Andrew Gryf PATERSON. Towards autoarchaeological archiving of  
artist-organiser practice

14.00 – 15.15  Parallel Session A2. 360º Video and Interactive Storytelling
Venue: The Art Academy
Moderator: Chris HALES

Speakers:
 Aigars CEPLITIS. The Tension of Temporal Focalization and  
Immersivity in 360 Degree 3D Virtual Space

Luis BRACAMONTES. Teleacting the Story: User-Centered Narratives  
Through Navigaze in 360º Video

Adnan HADZI. After.Video – Displaying Video as Theory and Reference System

Arnas ANSKAITIS. The Rhetoric of the Alphabet

Oksana CHEPELYK. Virtual Reality and 360-degree Video Interactive  
Narratology: Ukrainian Case Study.



14.00 – 15.15 Parallel Session B2. Neomateriality and Open Design,  
Sociality and Algorithms
Venue: The Museum of Art
Moderator: Andrew Gryf PATERSON

Speakers:
 Hanns Holger RUTZ, Ron KUIVILA. Aiming for the Implausible:  
How Algorithms Come to Matter at the Margins of One’s Attention

John-Patrick AYSON. The Necessary (augmented) Reality of The Common  
(dis)Functional Object

Giorgio RUGGERI. Tracing the Role of Design in Online History Platforms

Mitch GOODWIN. The Liquid Electric – Tracing Nature’s Machine Code

Paula VITOLA. Demystifying the Network

15.30 – 16.45 Parallel Session A3. Augmented Environments and Data Aesthetics

Venue: The Art Academy
Moderator: Andrew Gryf PATERSON

Speakers: 
Eva SJUVE. Creative Process in Augmented Atmospheric  
Environments and Generative Auditory Systems

Jenny RODENHOUSE. The Enchanted Forest:  Satellite Canopies and  
Digital Understories

Misha RABINOVICH. Shareable Biome

Tracey BENSON. Changing Tides: Migration, Ecology and Deep time

Ludwig ZELLER. The Institute of Sonic Epistemologies. Speculative  
Design and Sonic Fiction through Binaurally Mixed Environments

15.30 – 16.45 Parallel Session B3. Anthropocene and Techno-Ecological  
Perspective

Venue: The Museum of Art
Moderator: Kristin BERGAUST

Speakers:
 Anna NACHER. Between "Dance of Agency" and Distributed  
Agency of Techno-Ecological Artistic Practice

Maryna MAKARENKO. Utopian Gender Narratives: Reality of Fiction in  
Techno-Scientific era? 

Michael DOTOLO. Aesthetics in Yoga

Vygintas ORLOVAS. Anti-Ecology of Digital Sounds: a Case Analysis of  
Vaporwave

Maija DEMITERE. Data Vizualizations – Using Slow Media Art to Promote  
Deep Sustainability

17.00 – 19.00 Closing BOOK SESSION 

Venue: The Art Academy of Latvia
– Pecha Kucha Book-Presentations by Authors. OPEN PARTICIPATION for  
conference speakers, if you want to present your book, please apply  
rixc at rixc.org!
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– “From NEW TENDENCIES to FIELDS. Tribute to Armin”  
Book-Presentations: 
“RENEWABLE FUTURES” (Acoustic Space Vol. 16,  
RIXC, 2017)
“NEW TENDENCIES” (MIT, 2016)
– Closing Announcement with Glass of Wine:
What's Next? RENEWABLE  
FUTURES 2018: Hybrid Lab Conference & Leonardo Symposium in Helsinki,  
Finland, introduced by Lily DIAZ / Aalto University

18.00 Satellite Event/Parallel Programme:
SDV Arts and Science Foundation & Garage Museum (RU) presents:  
Portfolio Review
20.00 – Cocktail Reception (free admission / NB! places are limited,  
invitations will be available on a registration desk)
Venue: SDV  
Artist Residency, Doma laukums 2

21.00 – PERFORMANCE NIGHT
Platons Buravickis (LV), Michal Kindernay (CZ), Sean Montgomery & HIVE  
MIND (US), Gustavs Lociks (LV), Not Even Born Yet (LV), Andrea  
Mancianti (FI/IT). Admission Free.
Venue: RISEBA Media and Architecture Center H2O6, Durbes iela 6

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Conference chairs:
Rasa SMITE / RIXC / Liepaja University / Latvia
Ellen PEARLMAN / Parsons / New School / Art-A-Hack / ThoughtWorks /  
New York, USA

The International Conference Scientific board:
Raitis SMITS / RIXC / The Art Academy of Latvia
Lev MANOVICH / Cultural Analytics Lab / The Graduate Center, City  
University of New York, USA
Jussi PARIKKA / Winchester School of Art / University of Southampton / UK
Geoff COX / Aarhus University / Denmark, Plymouth University / UK
Kristin BERGAUST / Oslo and Akershus University, Norway
Laura BELOFF / IT University, Copenhagen / Finnish Bioart Society,  
Helsinki, Finland
Lily DIAZ-KOMMONEN / Head of Research Department of Media, Aalto  
University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland
Ursula DAMM / Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS / Nida Art Colony, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania
Margrét Elísabet ÓLAFSDÓTTIR / Art Education at the University of  
Akureyri, Iceland
Ilva SKULTE / Riga Stradins University
Regine DEBATTY / we-make-money-not-art.com / UK/BE
Piibe PIIRMA / Tallinn University / Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
Raivo KELOMEES / Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
Aleksandra KOSTIC / Kibla / Risk Change project / Maribor, Slovenia


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The Festival is produced by RIXC / Riga, Latvia in collaboration with  
Risk Change / Creative Europe's project partners.

The Conference is organized by RIXC / Riga in collaboration with the  
Renewable Futures network, and Art-A-Hack / New York, and Hybrid Lab  
Nordplus project academic partners: Liepaja University, Aalto  
University and HiOA, Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied  
Sciences.


Support:  EU Programme Creative Europe, the Ministry of Culture of the  
Republic of Latvia, the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia,  
Riga City Council, Nordplus, LG Electronics Latvia, the Swiss Arts  
Council Pro Helvetia, Goethe-Institut Riga, U.S. Embassy in Latvia,  
Fulbright World Learning Specialist, Embassy of Canada to Latvia, the  
Mondriaan Fund, Capital, Reverie TG, Risk Change project, kim?  
Contemporary Art Centre, Latvian National Museum of Art, Art Academy  
of Latvia, University of Liepaja, Art Research Lab of Liepaja  
University, RISEBA, Studija, LSM.LV, Arterritory, Rigas Laiks, ESSE,  
PK Riga Hotel, Caffein


Contact: rixc at rixc.org, +371 67228478 (RIXC office), +371 26546776  
(Rasa Smite)

http://rixc.org


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Dr Rasa Smite
Artist and Founding Director of RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture  
in Riga,
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
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