[spectre] CfP: Open Fields 2020: ECODATA (online conference) Deadline Extended July 10 / RIXC Festival Riga October 8-10, 2020

[rasa at rixc.lv]

Hello on Spectre list,

We have extended the deadline for Open Fields 2020:
ECODATA Online Conference's special sessions (see below) – until July 
10!

Apply here: https://openfields2020.rixc.lv/openconf.php

Open Fields 2020 this year will take place online, from October 8-10, 
2020, in the framework of RIXC's festival, which will be a combination 
of both - online and onsite program, featuring ECODATA exhibition.

Please see more info below,

and see you in the fall!

Best
Rasa


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RIXC Art Science Festival: ECODATA
and Open Fields 2020 Conference
October 8 - 10, 2020,
Riga, Latvia and Online

The RIXC Art-Science Festival: ECODATA and the Open Fields 2020 
conference takes place from October 8–10, 2020, in Riga, Latvia and 
online, exploring the 'ecosystematic perspective'. More than just rising 
awareness that living organisms are highly interdependent on each other 
and their environments, this year's festival edition aims to reveal a 
web of connections that interweaves biological, social and 
techno-scientific systems, living and digital data, artistic and 
scientific approaches.

The ECODATA festival aims to become a space for artistic interventions 
and critical discussions, gathering together the scholars and artists 
who are engaged with ecosystematic approach, use techno-scientific tools 
and create new aesthetics to deal with the challenges of our time and 
envision the future for 'terrestrial coexistence' (Latour).

The festival program features the Ecodata EXHIBITION and SYMPOSIUM 
taking place in the The National Library of Latvia in Riga; Open Fields 
2020 CONFERENCE – online, and a hybrid program of online and onsite 
activities – artistic interventions, screenings, virtual 
bio/eco-artworks and performances by young artists from Riga, Liepaja, 
Basel, Karlsruhe and Boston.

This year's festival is a collaboration with 
"Ecodata–Ecomedia–Ecoaesthetics" research group of The Institute of 
Aesthetic Practice and Theory at HGK FHNW in Basel, Switzerland. 
“Ecodata–Ecomedia–Ecoaesthetics” is the Swiss National Science 
Foundation (SNSF) funded project that explores the role and significance 
of new media, technologies and technoscientific methods in the arts for 
the perception and awareness of the ecological.
https://www.fhnw.ch/de/die-fhnw/hochschulen/hgk/institute/institut-asthetische-praxis-und-theorie/forschung/ecodata-ecomedia-ecoaesthetics

The festival takes place in the framework of Creative Europe's supported 
project “Ungreen Revisited. Encountering Emerging Naturecultures”

http://green.rixc.org

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CONFERENCE
Open Fields 2020: Ecodata
October 9–10, 2020, Online

Open Fields conference is the RIXC's festival based annual gathering 
bringing together international scholars and artists to discuss topics 
related to artistic research, the changing role of art in societies, and 
art and science collaboration.This year's Open Fields: ECODATA 
conference for the first time will take place virtually. Yet it will be 
(thematically) connected with the exhibition and onsite program of the 
RIXC festival, thus extending a space for discussions on contemporary 
challenges and the role of art in dealing with them.

OPEN CALL

We welcome proposals related to the topics (below) by interdisciplinary 
researchers, artists, artists-researchers, designers, PhD students, 
curators, media theorists, art historians, science philosophers, 
cultural innovators, bio-hackers, critical engineers and data designers, 
as well as scientists from different fields – biology, ecology, climate, 
environment, digital humanities and social sciences, renewable energy, 
and other, who are engaged with “technologies of ecological” and see the 
potential in collaborating with arts.

Topics:

Technologies of Ecological
Re-Connecting Biological and Digital
BioSensing and EcoAesthetics
Renewable Futures and Ecosystematic Perspective (Call Extended)
Green Revisited - Encountering Emerging Naturcultures (Call Extended)
Living Data, AI and network visualizations (Call Extended)

Conference proposal should consist of:

* title and abstract (200 words),
* 5–6 keywords,
* short author's biography (120 words).

DEADLINE EXTENDED - JULY 10, 2020!
Please submit your proposals online:

https://openfields2020.rixc.lv/openconf.php

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EXHIBITION
Ecodata
October 9 – November 17, 2020,
The National Library of Latvia, Riga

As this year's festival is a collaboration with 
"Ecodata–Ecomedia–Ecoaesthetics" research group led by researcher and 
theorist Yvonne VOLKART, (Basel, Switzerland), it's featured event is 
the ECODATA Exhibition, taking place in the Exhibition Hall of The 
National Library of Latvia, from October 9 – November 17, 2020.

The exhibition opening program takes place on October 8-9, 2020, 
including the ECODATA symposium with the participation of invited 
keynote speakers, scientists and artists-researchers of 
"Ecodata–Ecomedia–Ecoaesthetics" project – Marcus MAEDER, Rasa SMITE, 
Aline VEILLAT. The Symposium aims to introduce the context and outcomes 
of the SNSF-funded research project "Ecodata–Ecomedia–Ecoaesthetics" 
(2017-2020) that explores the role and significance of new media, 
technologies and technoscientific methods in the arts for the perception 
and awareness of the ecological.

The exhibition features twenty artworks by internationally acknowledged 
artists working in the field of media art, science, and ecology – Ursula 
BIEMANN, Sarah BURGER, Varvara GULAJEVA, Marcus MAEDER, Eva & Franco 
MATTES, Francoisk NOETZE, Diana SCHERER, Maayke SCHURER, Semiconductor, 
Rasa SMITE, Raitis SMITS, Susana SOARES, Tamiko THIEL, Leena VALKEAPÄÄ, 
Aline VEILLAT, Elaine WHITTAKER.

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OPEN FIELDS 2020 Conference Chairs and ECODATA Exhibition Curators:
Rasa SMITE, Raitis SMITS (Latvia), Yvonne VOLKART (Switzerland)

The RIXC Festival is produced by The RIXC Centre for New Media Culture.
The Open Fields 2020 Conference is co-organized by RIXC and The Art 
Research Lab (MPLab) of Liepaja University (Liepaja, Latvia).

Festival producer: Agnese Baranova (agnese at rixc.org)
PR and information coordinator: Liva Silina (rixc at rixc.org)
Contact e-mail: rixc at rixc.org
Phones: +371 29635167 (Agnese Baranova), +371 26546776 (Rasa Smite)
Address: RIXC the Centre for New Media Culture, Lenču iela 2, Riga, 
LV-1010, Latvia

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Support and Partners:

“Green Revisited” project supported by EU program Creative Europe,  
State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia,  Riga City Council, the 
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia,  Goethe Institute Riga, 
Pro Helvetia, Swiss Embassy in Latvia.

“Ecodata-Ecomedia-Ecoaesthetics” Research Project funded by The Swiss 
National Science Foundation (SNSF), hosted by The Institute of Aesthetic 
Practice and Theory IAeP at FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel 
(Switzerland), in cooperation with Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, 
Snow and Landscape Research WSL (Switzerland).

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More information: http://rixc.org

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