[spectre] UN/GREEN. Naturally Artificial Intelligences. Programme - Riga, July 4-6, 2019

[Rasa Smite]

Hello on Spectre list,
This week RIXC Festival with the title "Un/Green" will be "un-greening 
greenness", exploring one of the most paradoxical and broadest topics of 
our times...
Welcome to Riga!
Best, Rasa

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UN/GREEN. Naturally Artificial Intelligences
RIXC Festival and the 4th Open Fields conference on Art-Science Research
July 4 – 6, 2019, Riga
Venue: The Latvian National Museum of Art / The Art Academy of Latvia

http://festival2019.rixc.org

The RIXC Festival 2019 taking place from July 4 – 6, 2019, in Riga, 
Latvias, aims at complicating the pervasively employed notion of ‘green’ 
by providing a cross-disciplinary platform for discussions and artistic 
interventions exploring one of the most paradoxical and broadest topics 
of our times.

The festival features the UN/GREEN exhibition at the Latvian National 
Museum of Art, and the 4th Open Fields conference that aims to 
‘un-green’ greenness, eco-systemically reconnect post-human postures, 
and discover and unpack ‘Naturally Artificial Intelligences.’ The 
festival programme also includes Opening Performances, Public Keynotes, 
Artist Talks, Un/Green Summer School (pre-event), and Sensible Garden – 
closing programme, experiencing the immersive installations by young 
artists.

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EXHIBITION
July 5 – September 22, 2019
The Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga

http://ungreen.rixc.org

Going against the grain of dominant colour symbolism, the UN/GREEN 
exhibition addresses ‘green’ as percept, medium, material biological 
agency, semantic construct, and ideology. ‘Green’, symbolically 
associated with the ‘natural’ and often employed to hyper-compensate for 
what humans have lost, is addressed here as the most anthropocentric of 
all colours, in its inherent ambiguity between alleged naturalness and 
artificiality. We, as the human species, symbolically re-contextualize 
techno-scientific tools and their related metaphors to offset what we 
feel we are losing in the times labeled the Anthropocene.

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 bio- and necro-politics, 
consisting of the increasing technical manipulation and exploitation of 
living systems, ecologies, and the biosphere at large.

On the one hand, engineers brand ‘green’ chemistry or biotechnology as 
ecologically benign and sustainable; on the other, climate researchers 
speak of the ‘greening of the earth’ to address the alarming effect of 
increasing anthropogenic CO2 emissions and nitrogen deposition, 
resulting in ‘global greenness trends’ and climate change. Toxic algae 
blooms have done much to discredit the shallow symbol and overused 
association of ‘green’ with ecological sustainability, while humans are 
green-washing greenhouse effects away.

At the same time, the current hype surrounding Artificial Intelligence 
and Artificial Life based technical fixes sparks discussions about 
whether the largely ambiguous notions of ‘intelligence’ and 
‘artificiality’ are reserved for human cognition, action and prowess, 
when designing regulatory systems. Beyond anthropocentric positions and 
related modeling of human-like capacities and consciousness, the innate 
technical capacities of non-human agents play a crucial role within a 
larger bio-semiotic web of trans-species relationships, resulting in 
eco-systemic intelligence that might be addressed as ‘Naturally 
Artificial Intelligences.’

Art at the threshold of the techno-sciences appears to be well suited to 
reveal the contradictions and paradoxes, and to disentangle such 
allegedly linked notions as ‘aliveness’, ‘naturalness, and ‘greenness’. 
The media arts are especially well equipped to critique and deconstruct 
the entanglement between symbolic green, ontological greenness and 
performative greening. They stage the noxious ambivalence, perceptual 
shifts and multi-sensory alternatives to vision, trans-species 
encounters, technologized lawns, or the very ‘ungreen’ impact of digital 
technologies.

Despite their different media, UN/GREEN art employs ‘greenness’ with 
techno-scientific awareness and criticality, and addresses the 
philosophical and political ‘nature versus culture’ debates through the 
lens of a much-needed deep media analytical approach.

Co-curators:

Rasa SMITE (LV), Raitis SMITS (LV), Jens HAUSER (FR / DE)

Exhibition Artists:

Rebekah BLESING (US), Karine BONNEVAL (FR), Adam W. BROWN (US), Bureau 
d'études (FR), Santa FRANCE (LV), HeHe (FR), Robert HENGEVELD (CA), 
Iodine Dynamics (NL), Voldemars JOHANSONS (LV), Eva-Maria LOPEZ (DE), 
Francisco LÓPEZ (ES), AnneMarie MAES (BE), Agnes MEYER-BRANDIS (DE), 
Joana MOLL (ES), Quimera Rosa (FR/AR), Jan-Peter E.R. SONNTAG (DE), 
Taavi SUISALU (EE), Rihards VĪTOLS (LV).

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CONFERENCE

OF2019: UN/GREEN, COM/POST/HUMAN, N/AI
The 4th Open Fields conference on Art-Science Research,
July 4 – 6, 2019, Riga, Latvia
Venues: The Latvian National Museum of Art / The Art Academy of Latvia

http://festival2019.rixc.org/#schedule

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

The topics:

* 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


* Conference Chairs:

Rasa SMITE,
Raitis SMITS,
Jens HAUSER

* Public Keynotes and Artists Talks

Luc STEELS
Jens HAUSER
Karine BONNEVAL
AnneMarie MAES
Agnes MEYER-BRANDIS
Adam W. BROWN
Jan-Peter E.R. SONNTAG

* Conference Speakers:

Miguel ALMIRON, Phil AYRES, Marcus BANKS, Katherine BEHAR, Laura BELOFF, 
Davide BEVILACQUA, Nadine BOTHA, Till BOVERMANN, Oksana CHEPELYK, Nina 
CZEGLEDY, Maija DEMITERE, Karel DOING, Casper DRAKE, Tuc EREL, Teodora 
Sinziana FARTAN, Ksenia FEDOROVA, Adam FISH, Gabriela GALATI, Elena 
Fuertes GONZÁLEZ, Paul GRANJON, Christina GRUBER, Catherine HARRIS, 
Katharina HAUKE, Jens HAUSER, Irène HEDIGER, Chelsea HEIKES, Robert 
HENGEVELD, Martina HUYNH, Petja IVANOVA, Ian INGRAM, Marton KABAI, Theun 
KARELSE, Raivo KELOMEES, Alexander KIRYUTIN, Normunds KOZLOVS, Joy LAM, 
Natela LEMONDZHAVA, Cammack LINDSEY, Eva-Maria LOPEZ, Vanessa LORENZO, 
Selenia MARINELLI, Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS, Jorge Sobejano NIETO, Karin 
OHLENSCHLÄGER, Kira O'REILLY, Ellen PEARLMAN, Pettifer RICHARD, Ramón 
Martínez PÉREZ, Jakub PALM, Anton PEITERSEN, Margherita PEVERE, Nadja 
Gabriela PLEIN, Chelsea POLK, Elke REINHUBER, Karolina RYBAČIAUSKAITĖ, 
Claudia ROBLES-ANGEL, Haakon Haraldsen ROEN, Lauren RUIZ, Aliya SAY, 
Elizabeth SHORES, Vegas SIMBELIS, Eva SJUVE, Ilva SKULTE, Saša SPAČAL, 
Luc STEELS, Taavi SUISALU, Nadya SUVOROVA, Tytus SZABELSKI, Anna 
TOKAREVA, Riccardo TORRESI, Colette TRON, Vako VARANKIAN, Aline VEILLAT, 
Yvonne VOLKART, Antonio ZINGARO, Peter ZORN.

Video session participants (remote contributions):

Neal WHITE, Anna NAZO, Carlos CASTELLANOS, Fabricio FAVA, Camila 
MANGUEIRA, Miguel CARVALHAIS, Bianca HLYWA,  Claire BREACH, Allison 
HOLT, Paul E. QUAST, Adnan HADZI, and others.

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SENSIBLE GARDEN
Un/Green Summer School (Festival Pre-Event)
July 1 – 6, 2019

http://festival2019.rixc.org/garden/

“We like to imagine ourselves as rational beings who think and speak, 
yet to live means first and foremost to look, taste, feel, or smell the 
world around us. (Emanuele Coccia)

SENSIBLE GARDEN is the closing programme of the RIXC Festival that will 
take place on July 6, at 17.00, at the Garden and on the Rooftop of the 
Art Academy.
During the Summer School the students from HfG-Karlsruhe and Art 
Research Lab of Liepaja have created and set up site-specific immersive 
sound and audiovisual artworks that combine the artistic with the social 
and the natural, the scientific with the emotional, the sensible with 
the actual, and the human (experiences) with non-human. During the 
closing programme of the festival, the guided tour through the Sensible 
Garden exhibition will take place in order to see the results of the 
Summer school, as well as the most recent work by the students and young 
artists from Karlsruhe and Liepaja.

Curated by Rasa SMITE. Participating students and artists: Isabella 
MÜNNICH, Vanessa BOSCH, Christopher VON FRANKENBERG, Janis ZECKAI, 
Paula VĪTOLA, Ieva VĪKSNE, Ivo TAURINS, Milda ZIEMANE.

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PROGRAMME (Summary - See Detailed Programme below)

Thursday, July 4, 2019

10:30 Press conference / Venue: The Latvian National Museum of Art 
(Exhibition Hall in the Basement)
15.00 – Un/Green, Com/Post/Human, N/AI  / Thematic Panel of Open Fields 
2019 Conference Opening Day / Venue: The Latvian National Museum of Art
17.00 – Ungreening Greenness and Naturally Artificial Intelligences:
Public Keynotes and Artist Talk: Jens HAUSER, Luc STEELS and Karine 
BONNEVAL / Venue: The Latvian National Museum of Art
19.30 – Reception and Opening Performances: Florent DI BARTOLO (EMAP 
resident / work in progress), Platons BURAVICKIS, and others / Venue: 
The Art Academy of Latvia

Friday, July 5, 2019

10.00 – OF2019 Conference Day 1: Thematic Panels and Parallel Sessions / 
Venues: The Latvian National Museum of Art / The Art Academy of Latvia
16.00 – Un/Green and Com/Post/Human – Public Keynotes and Artist Talks:
Agnes MEYER BRANDIS, AnneMarie MAES, Peter ZORN / Taavi SUISALU / EMAP / 
Venue: The Latvian National Museum of Art
18.00 – UN/GREEN Exhibition opening / Venue: The Latvian National Museum 
of Art / The Art Academy of Latvia

Saturday, July 6, 2019

10.00 – OF2019 Conference Day 2: Parallel Sessions
Venues: The Latvian National Museum of Art / The Art Academy of Latvia
17.00 – Sensible Garden – Closing Programme and Artistic Interventions 
by young artists
Venue: The Art Academy of Latvia

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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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Organizer: RIXC Center for New Media Culture

RIXC Festival producers and contacts: Agnese BARANOVA (conference, 
agnese at rixc.org) , Daina SILINA (exhibition, daina at rixc.org)
Contact: rixc at rixc.org, +371-67228478 (RIXC office), +371-26546776 (Rasa 
SMITE).

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The EXHIBITION is a part of EMAP – European Media Art Residency network 
project, supported by Creative Europe.

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.

Support:

State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, European Commission's 
framework programme Creative Europe in relation with EMAP –f European 
Media art platform and Risk Change projects, Ministry of Culture of the 
Republic of Latvia, Riga City Council, LG Electronics Latvia, Reverie 
TG, OU\/ERT, The Estonian National Culture Foundation, Outset Estonia 
Contemporary Art Fund, Goethe-Institut Riga, SIA Gardens, Art Research 
Laboratory (MPLab) of Liepaja University, The Latvian National Museum of 
Art, The Art Academy of Latvia, Erica Synths, The Canada Council for the 
Arts, ArtsNL – Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council, Grif.lv, U.S. 
Embassy in Latvia

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

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http://rixc.org
http://ungreen.rixc.org
http://festival2019.rixc.org

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DETAILED PROGRAMME:

Opening Day, Thursday, July 4

10:30 Press conference
Venue: The Latvian National Museum of Art (Exhibition Hall in the Basement)

14:00 Registration and Coffee
Venue: The Latvian National Museum of Art (Conference Hall on the Ground 
Floor)

15:00 – 16:45 Plenary Session: UN/GREEN, COM/POST/HUMAN, N/AI Thematic 
Panel and Featured Projects
Venue: The Latvian National Museum of Art
Welcome Speech by Rasa SMITE and Raitis SMITS, conference chairs
Jan-Peter SONNTAG. GAMMvert – “a green that no artist could ever obtain 
on his Palette”
Karin OHLENSCHLÄGER. Eco-Visionaries. Emerging Connections Between 
Biosphere and Technosphere
Adam BROWN. Bioremediating Greenness – Rethink– ing Human Exceptionalism

16:45 Coffee break

17:00 – 19.15  Public Keynotes and Artist Talk: UNGREENING GREENNESS AND 
NATURALLY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCES
Venue: The Latvian National Museum of Art
Moderator: Rasa Smite
Jens HAUSER. Greenness: Sketching the Limits of a Normative Fetish
Luc STEELS. How Nature Inspires Progress in Artificial Intelligence
Karine BONNEVAL. Se planter (To plant oneself / To fail)

19:30 – UN/GREEN FESTIVAL Opening Reception and Performances
By Florent DI BARTOLO (FR), Platons BURAVICKIS (LV), and young artists 
from Liepaja and Karlsruhe.
Venue: The Art Academy, K-2 building

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Day 1, Friday, July 5

9:00 Registration and Coffee

10:00 – 11:25 Plenary Session: ECODATA Thematic Panel and Featured Project
Venue: The Art Academy
Moderator: Karin OHLENSCHLÄGER
Yvonne VOLKART, Rasa SMITE, Aline VEILLAT. Ecodata – Ecomedia – 
Ecoaesthetics

11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Session 1A: GREEN INTELLIGENCE AND ENVIRONMENT – 
NATURALLY AI WITHIN ALGORITHMIC SOCIETIES
Venue: The Art Academy
Moderator: Gabriela GALATI
Aliya SAY. Bodies and Plants: Ways of Sensing in Contemporary Art
Claudia ROBLES-ANGEL. LEIKHĒN
Katherine BEHAR. SLIPPERY WHEN WET: Muddled Meanings in “Maritime 
Messaging: Red Hook”
Eva-Maria LOPEZ. I Never Promised You a Green Garden.
Theun KARELSE, Ian INGRAM. Random Forests A Field Guide Environmental 
Machine Learning

11.30 –  13.00 Parallel Session 1B: BIOPOLITICS AND ECOTOPIA – BEYOND 
THE ANTHROPOCENE, TOWARDS MULTISPECIES RELATIONS
Venue: The Latvian National Museum of Art
Moderator:  Anna PRIEDOLA
Tuce EREL. Hacktivate Yourself: Curatorial research about bio-politics 
and posthuman body
Nadine BOTHA. Sugar: A Cosmology of Whiteness
Saša SPAČAL. Symbiome – Economy of Symbiosis
Laura BELOFF, Kira O'REILLY. HAPPY TOGETHER – for ever
Alexander KIRYUTIN. EDEN Project: Listening to Tree

13:00 – Lunch  / Venue: The Art Academy

14:00 – 15:40 Parallel Session 2A: POST-ANTHROPOCENTRIC VISIONS – 
'NATURE CULTURE' AND ECO-CRITIQUE
Venue: The Art Academy
Moderator:  Chelsea POLK
Cammack LINDSEY. Airs for Algae (performative lecture)
Till BOVERMANN, Katharina HAUKE. Friendly Organisms … and then we will 
see if we can be friends
Catherine HARRIS. Posthuman spaces
Miguel ALMIRON. Dialogues in between real and unreal
Raivo KELOMEES. Perception of Temporal and Cognitive Lag in the 
Participatory Art

14:00 – 15:40  Parallel Session 2B: BIOPOLITICS AND ECOTOPIA – BEYOND 
THE ANTHROPOCENE, TOWARDS MULTISPECIES RELATIONS
Venue: The Latvian National Museum of Art
Moderator: Maija DEMITERE
Lauren RUIZ. Plastic Lifewords: At the Intersection of Human and 
Nonhuman Labor
Margherita PEVERE. Semina Aeternitatis
Martina HUYNH. Living Infrastructure
Richard PETTIFER. Climate Change vs. Hans, the Opera Robot: Negotiating 
Non-Human Agency
Haakon Haraldsen ROEN, Vako VARANKIAN. Gathering of The Hive: 
Investigating the clustering behaviour of honeybees through art and 
swarm robotics

15:40 Break

16:00 – 17:45 Public Keynotes and Artist Talks: UN/GREEN
Venue: The Latvian National Museum of Art
Moderator: Rasa SMITE
Agnes MEYER BRANDIS. Walking Trees
AnneMarie MAES. Intelligent Beehives
Peter ZORN. EMAP – European Media Art Residency platform / Taavi SUISALU 
– Waiting for the Light

18:00 UN/GREEN Exhibition Opening
Venue: The Latvian National Museum of Art

20:00 Dinner with Curators.

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Day 2, Saturday, July 6

9:00 – Registration and Coffee

10:00 – 11:20 Parallel Session 3A: GREEN/UNGREEN – SYMBOLIC GREEN, 
ONTOLOGICAL GREENNESS AND PERFORMATIVE GREENING
Venue: The Art Academy
Moderator: Raivo KELOMEES
Karolina RYBAČIAUSKAITĖ. The Ambivalent Matter of Soil in the Sphere of 
Contemporary Art
Joy LAM. The Pulse of Nature – Lung Fu Shan
Ksenia FEDOROVA. Generative Prototyping. Realities of Frictional Fictions
Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS. (Per)forming Ecotopias in the Green Cube: 
Agency of Plants, Gears and Landscapes
Marcus BANKS. Sustainability in Science Labs

10:00 – 11:20 Parallel Session 3B: BIOSPHERE AND TECHNOSPHERE - 
TECHNO-ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF OUR PLANET AND IN SPACE / Venue: The 
Latvian National Museum of Art
Moderator: Oksana CHEPELYK
Irène HEDIGER, Vanessa LORENZO, Nadya SUVOROVA. SEMIOSPHERES - 
Interfacing dialogues with the invisible.
Jakub PALM. Epistemic Computronium: Converging the -spheres
Colette TRON. Com-prehension of the Earth From Buckminster Fuller’s 
point of view to Anthropocene theories
Selenia MARINELLI. Hypernatural Greenness: Towards A Bio-tech 
Terraformation Of The Planet
Casper DRAKE. Multispecies Perspectives and Eco-Sci-Fi Practices

11:20 – 11:30 Break

11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Session 4A: POST-ANTHROPOCENTRIC VISIONS – 
'NATURE CULTURE' AND ECO-CRITIQUE
Venue: The Art Academy
Moderator: Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS
Marton KABAI, Natela LEMONDZHAVA / Oddkin. Apocalyptic calmness 
(performative lecture)
Chelsea POLK. 44, 320: Interpolating 8 Bogs and the Post-Transcendental
Karel DOING. Building human/plant affiliations
Robert HENGEVELD. Art in Natural and Post Natural Worlds
Maija DEMITERE. (Not)letting go of the nature


11:30 – 13:00 Parallel Session 4B: SENSIBLE ‘GREEN’ – BEYOND THE VISUAL: 
ACOUSTIC, OLFACTIVE, CHEMICAL…
Venue: The Latvian National Museum of Art
Moderator: Anna PRIEDOLA
Petja IVANOVA, Anton PEITERSEN. Styroworm and other hybrids
Riccardo TORRESI, Maxime LETHELIER, Asako FUJIMOTO. Sensing Gravity - 
audiovisual installations based on gravitational phenomenons
Nadja Gabriela PLEIN. Non-Dualism and its Implications on Art-Making
Eva SJUVE. Tuning into the Un/Greening
Nina CZEGLEDY. Beyond Green

13:00 – 14.00 Lunch / Venue: The Art Academy

14:00 – 15:20  Parallel Session 5A:  POST-ANTHROPOCENTRIC VISIONS – 
'NATURE CULTURE' AND ECO-CRITIQUE
Venue: The Art Academy
Moderator: Kristin BERGAUST
Paul GRANJON. What to make [techno] art about in the age of ecological 
collapse?
Davide BEVILACQUA, Christina GRUBER, Antonio ZINGARO. Unpacking Digital 
Greenwashing – Is an organic Internet possible?
Teodora Sinziana FARTAN. Red Herrings and Green Omens: Exploring the 
Urgency of Environmental Concerns Through Narrative Techniques
Taller DE CASQUERIA. Default Water (performative lecture)
Adam FISH. Points of Presence (film screening)

14:00 –15:20 Parallel Sessions 5B: BIOSPHERE AND TECHNOSPHERE - 
TECHNO-ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE OF OUR PLANET AND IN SPACE
Venue: The Latvian National Museum of Art
Moderator: Raivo KELOMEES
Elizabeth SHORES. Looking In: Outer Space as a Metaphor of Possibility 
for Practitioners and Viewers of Art and Design
Tytus SZABELSKI. Post-digital Landscape. Matter and Metaphors
Anna TOKAREVA. Baba Yaga Myco Glitch
Normunds KOZLOVS, Ilva SKULTE. Anti-entropic ideas of reforming the 
Earthlings' life by Russian cosmist Tsiolkovsky
Vegas SIMBELIS. Interpretative Digitality

15:20 – 15.30 Break

15.30 – 16:50 Plenary Session / Thematic Panel: GREEN INTELLIGENCE AND 
PRISMATIC ECOLOGIES – COLOR THEORIES, LIGHT, PERCEPTION
Venue: The Latvian National Museum of Art
Moderator: Anna PRIEDOLA
Ellen PEARLMAN. AIBO - A Rapid Prototype Emotionally Intelligent AI/BCI 
Body of Light
Phil AYRES.  Flora Robotica – A Bio-Hybrid Approach to Architecture
Elke REINHUBER. The Bluest Skies – About The Desire To Build A Perfect World
Gabriela GALATI. Ongoing Research for a Complex Ecology of Posthuman Art
Oksana CHEPELYK. “Green architecture” and “algorithmic society”

16.50 Closing Announcement:
Next Renewable Futures / Open Fields Conferences – Oslo and Riga 2020
Dates announced by Kristin BERGAUST and Rasa SMITE.

17:00 – Closing Program and Artistic Interventions:
SENSIBLE GARDEN
Venue: The Art Academy (Rooftop and Garden)
A walk through sound art, art-science and immersive installations by 
young artists and students from HfG-Karlsruhe, Art Research Lab of 
Liepaja University, curated by Rasa SMITE.

Participating students and artists: Isabella MÜNNICH, Vanessa BOSCH, 
Christopher VON FRANKENBERG, Janis ZECKAI, Paula VĪTOLA, Ieva VĪKSNE, 
Ivo TAURINS, Milda ZIEMANE.


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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
Guest Professor at the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe
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: +1-857-287-5897 (USA), +41-786525065 (CH), +371-26546776 (LV)
http://rixc.org
http://smitesmits.com