[spectre] Deadline Extended: March 15, 2019 UN/GREEN. Naturally Artificial Intelligences. RIXC FESTIVAL, Riga, July 4-7, 2019

[rasa at rixc.lv]

Hello, 

As we have received numerous requests, we are extending the deadline for
"UN/GREEN. Naturally Artificial Intelligences", this year's RIXC
Festival conference submissions, taking place in Riga, July 4-7, 2019. 

The Extended Deadline - March 15, 2019! 

Apply here: http://festival2019.rixc.org 

Rasa 

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Deadline for OF2019 Conference Abstracts Extended: March 15, 2019 

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UN/GREEN. Naturally Artificial Intelligences
RIXC Festival and the 4th Open Fields conference on Art-Science Research
July 4 - 7, 2019,
Venue: The Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga 

http://festival2019.rixc.org 

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-systematically' 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 Latvian National Museum of Art, 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 of our
planet and in Space
* prismatic - color theories, light and perception

DEADLINE for Conference Proposal submissions (extended): March 1, 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" field).
 

* Notifications, Conference Registration, Travel and Accommodation

Notifications of acceptance - by March 20, 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
20, 2019. There will be limited number of travel grants available for
independent artists and researchers, primarly 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 UN/GREEN
website by March 20, 2019: 
http://festival2019.rixc.org

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EXHIBITION

UN/GREEN
RIXC Festival 2019 Exhibition
July 5 - September 22, 2019
The Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga

The Open Fields 2019 Conference will be closely connected to UN/GREEN,
the large-scale exhibition, which will be complicating, deconstructing
and re-visiting the notion of 'green', by'un-greening greenness'.

Submissions for artwork proposals for UN/GREEN Exhibition are closed
(February 15, 2019) 

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N/AI - Naturally Artificial Intelligences -
Summer School and RIXC "Fields" Art Residency
June 20 / June 30 - July 4, 2019

This year RIXC is launching a new program - Summer School and Fields
Residencies (as pre-event series of RIXC Festival) for young and
emerging artists, who are interested in cutting-edge artistic researches
on AI, VR and other new technologies of augmentation and immersion, with
particular focus ecologies, biological systems, and socio-cultural
implications. By exploring the notion of 'naturally artificial
intelligences' this Summer School aims to enhance the notion of AI, to
explore the intelligent systems within and beyond the neural networks -
such as, for instance, in the nature, as well as to develop new
taxonomies and methodologies for creating "techno-ecological" artworks.

The Summer School will include Lectures and Masterclasses on Art,
Biology and AI, Eco-systematic Intelligence, Virtual Ecologies and
Gardening. Summer School will have close connection to the Un/Green,
RIXC Festival exhibition production, the curators of which - Jens HAUSER
and Raitis SMITS - will share their knowledge on exhibition production
processes.

In parallel to the Summer School, the artists in residency will be
working in rural site, setting up "techno-ecological" artworks in
out-door spaces. The results of both - the Residencies and Summer School
- will be presented for the international audiences during the the RIXC
Festival Conference, taking place from July 5-7, 2019.

* Submissions and Participation Info:

Call for the Residencies and Summer School will be open from March 15,
2019. 

The places are limited: for the Residency 3 artists or artists groups
will be selected, and for the Summer School - maximum 12 students from
(master and doctoral level students). 

The selected participants will be responsible about their travel and
accommodation costs. There also will be registration fees for summer
school, and possibility to obtain creditpoints, as well as to apply for
the travel grants (partial support) more information will follow soon on
the festival website.

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UN/GREEN exhibition curators and OPEN FIELDS 2019 conference chairs:

Raitis SMITS, Rasa SMITE and 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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The festival is organized by RIXC Center for New Media Culture. 

RIXC Festival producers:
Agnese BARANOVA (conference, agnese at rixc.org)
Daina SILINA (exhibition, daina at rixc.org) 

The conference is a part of RISK CHANGE project, supported by Creative
Europe, and it is co-organized by Renewable Futures network, Art in
Society / OsloMET, Art Research Lab (MPLab) of Liepaja University, and
RISEBA University for Business, Art and Technologies.

The exhibition is a part of EMAP - European Media Art residency network
project, supported by Creative Europe.

The N/AI Residency and Summer School is organized by RIXC, in
collaboration with [N.A!] Project, LiepU MPLab and other academic
partners. 

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

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http://festival2019.rixc.org

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-- 
Dr Rasa Smite
Artist 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
Visiting Lecturer at MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology / School
of Architecture and Planning
Phone: +371-26546776 (LV), +41-786525065 (CH)
http://rixc.org
http://smitesmits.com
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