[spectre] CfP: UN/GREEN, COM/POST/HUMAN, N/AI – Conference and RIXC Festival 2019

Sun Dec 23 12:56:35 CET 2018

Hello!

Please see below the (updated version of) Call for Proposals for  
UN/GREEN Conference and Exhibition, that will take place from July  
4-7, 2019, in Riga, Latvia, in the National Art Musuem.

As we at RIXC for many years already have been engaged in building  
techno-ecological perspective, next year for the RIXC Festival 2019,  
we have invited Jens Hauser, curator and researcher, who for couple of  
decades have been involved in “greenness studies” (incl. organizing  
Green conference in Copenhagen last year, etc.). In a result of our  
discussions, we have come up with a very exciting concept of  
'un/green', aiming:

“to complicate the pervasively employed notion of “green” (as stated  
by Jens Hauser)

Hence, we also have deconstructed the festival title, which from Green  
has been now transformed into UN/GREEN, aiming to: ‘un-green'  
greenness, eco-systemically reconnect post-human postures, and  
discover and unpack ‘Naturally Artificial Intelligences’...

Apply Now! http://openfields2019.rixc.lv

the deadline for Conference and Exhibition submissions – February 15, 2019!

Happy holidays,

Best,
Rasa

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Call for UN/GREEN Proposals - Deadline for Submissions: February 15, 2019
Apply Now! 
http://openfields2019.rixc.lv 

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UN/GREEN
The 4th Open Fields conference on Art & Science Research and Exhibition,
RIXC Festival 2019
July 4 – 7, 2019, Riga, Latvia

The RIXC Festival 2019 aims at complicating the pervasively employed  
notion of “green” by providing a cross-disciplinary platform for the  
discussions and artistic interventions exploring one of the most  
paradoxical and broadest topics of our times. The festival will  
feature the “Un/Green” exhibition opening that takes place in the  
Latvian National Museum of Art, and the 4th Open Fields conference  
which aims to ‘un-green greenness', 'eco-systemically' reconnect  
'post-human postures', and discover and unpack ‘Naturally Artificial  
Intelligences.

'Green’, symbolically associated with the ‘natural’ and employed to  
hyper-compensate for what humans have lost, will be addressed as the  
indeed most anthropocentric of all colours, in its inherent ambiguity  
between alleged naturalness and artificiality. Are we in control of  
‘green’? Despite its broadly positive connotations ‘green’  
incrementally serves the uncritical desire of fetishistic and  
techno-romantic naturalization in order to metaphorically  
hyper-compensate for material systemic biopolitics consisting of the  
increasing technical manipulation and exploitation of living systems,  
ecologies, and the biosphere at large.***

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CONFERENCE

OF2019: UN/GREEN, COM/POST/HUMAN, N/AI

The 4th Open Fields conference on Art-Science Research,

July 4-7, 2019

Venue: The National Museum of Art, Conference Hall, Riga

Alongside 'green', the central topic of this conference, the Open  
Fields 2019 organizers also welcome visionary and critically un-green,  
spectral-prismatic, post-anthropocentric, and socio-algorithmic  
proposals by artists, scientists, researchers and experts from  
different academic disciplines and professional fields.

You may  
submit proposals with regards to the following topics / sections:

* green/ungreen – 'symbolic green, ontological greenness and  
performative greening'

* biopolitics and ecotopia – beyond the anthropocene, towards  
multi-species relations

* ‘green’ intelligence – environment and naturally AI within  
algorithmic societies

* post-anthropocentric visions – 'nature culture' and eco-critique 

* sensible ‘green’ – beyond the  visual: acoustic, olfactive, chemical, etc. 

* biosphere and technosphere - techno-ecological perspective (within  
and beyond our planet)

* prismatic – color theories, light and perception

DEADLINE for Conference Proposal submissions: February 15, 2019

APPLY NOW! (using the openconf system): 
http://openfields2019.rixc.lv 

The proposal should consist of title, 6 keywords, abstract (200  
words), and biography (120 words, in the “Comments” table).

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EXHIBITION

UN/GREEN
Exhibition
 of RIXC Art Science Festival 2019 and EMAP / EMARE**  
network project,
July 5 – September 20, 2019

The National Museum of Art, Riga

Alongside the Open Fields 2019 Conference, UN/GREEN, the large-scale  
exhibition, will be contributing towards the complicating,  
deconstructing and re-visiting the notion of 'green', and aiming to  
‘un-green greenness'.

DEADLINE for artwork* proposals for the UN/GREEN Exhibition: February 15, 2019

APPLY online, using the openconf system:
http://openfields2019.rixc.lv

NB! please submit your artwork* proposal ONLY under the following section:

* un/green exhibition – artworks

The artwork* proposal should consist of:
1) title, short description (200 words), biography (120 words,  
submitted under “Comments” table)
2) plus visual material - link to video (max. 3 min, amateur video  
explaining the main idea behind the work) or PDF with images (one A4  
page with images representing the idea).

* NB! artwork should be already created, the festival doesn't have the  
budget for producing new works. For approved artworks, we are  
providing technical assistance, set up and maintenance during the  
exhibition. As we have limited funds this year, in a case of approval,  
we also will be encouraging the artists to to apply for additional  
funding for travel (and/or transportation of artwork) in their home  
country, if possible. The accommodation will be provided by us, and  
also travel costs, in the cases, when it is not possible to raise  
additional funds.

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OPEN FIELDS 2019 conference chairs and GREEN exhibition curators:

Raitis SMITS, Rasa SMITE, Jens HAUSER*** ('un/green' concept author)

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OPEN FIELDS Conference International Scientific Board:

Prof. Lev MANOVICH / Cultural Analytics Lab / The Graduate Center,  
City University of New York, US

Dr. Ellen PEARLMAN / Parsons / New School / Art-A-Hack / ThoughtWorks  
/ New York, USA
Prof. Kristin BERGAUST / OsloMet-Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway

Ph.D. Jussi PARIKKA / Winchester School of Art / University of  
Southampton / UK

Ph.D. Geoff COX / Plymouth University, UK

Assoc.Prof. Laura BELOFF / IT University, Copenhagen / Finnish Bioart  
Society, Helsinki, Finland

Prof. Lily DIAZ-KOMMONEN / Head of Research Department of Media, Aalto  
University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland

Prof. Ursula DAMM / Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany

Dr. Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS / Nida Art Colony, Vilnius Academy of  
Arts, Lithuania

Ph.D. Margrét Elísabet ÓLAFSDÓTTIR / Art Education at the University  
of Akureyri, Iceland

Dr. Ilva SKULTE / Riga Stradins University, Latvia

Dr. Piibe PIIRMA / Tallinn University / Estonian Academy of Arts,  
Tallinn, Estonia

Ph. D. Raivo KELOMEES / Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia

Regine DEBATTY / we-make-money-not-art.com / BE/UK/IT 

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* Notifications, Conference Registration, Travel and Accommodation

Notifications of acceptance - by March 11, 2019.
The selected participants of the Open Fields 2019: UnGreen conference  
will be asked to register online; the Early Bird registration will be  
open from March 11, 2019. We also will be providing you with  
confirmation letters encouraging to apply for covering your travel and  
accommodation costs by your universities. There will be limited number  
of travel grants available for independent artists and researchers,  
particularly supporting artists from Eastern Europe and Baltics.
More information on Registration Fees, Accommodation possibilities in  
Riga, and how to apply for travel grants, will be available on UNGREEN  
website: http://festival2019.rixc.org

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* Organizers and Support

The festival is organized by RIXC Center for New Media Culture.
The UN/GREEN Exhibition is a part of EMAP / EMARE** – European Media  
Art Residency Network project.
The conference takes place in the framework of RISK CHANGE project,  
supported by Creative Europe, and it is co-organized by Art Research  
Lab / Liepaja University, RISEBA, Art in Society / OsloMET, and other  
Renewable Futures Network  partners.

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

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http://festival2019.rixc.org (festival and conference website)

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-- 
Dr Rasa Smite
Artist, Curator and Founder of RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture in Riga,
Professor in New Media Art / Art Research Lab / Liepaja University &  
RISEBA university
Researcher in The Institute of Aesthetic Practices / The University of  
Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
Lecturer at MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology / School of  
Architecture and Planning
Phone: +1-857-287-5897 (USA), +41-786525065 (CH), +371-26546776 (LV)
http://rixc.org
http://smitesmits.com