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<div>Hello on Spectre!</div>
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<div>please find below call for RIXC's annual Art+Communication
festival,</div>
<div>which this year with the theme - Art of Resilience will take
place in October 4-6, 2012 in Riga,</div>
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<div>you are very welcome to submit proposals for the conference, as
well as for workshops, performance and video programme</div>
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<div>Deadline: August 25, 2012</div>
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<div>best regards,</div>
<div>Rasa</div>
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Call for proposals:<br>
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ART+COMMUNICATION 2012: ART OF RESILIENCE<br>
October 4 - November 4, 2012<br>
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The 14th edition of the Art+Communication festival with the theme
"art of resilience" will be discussing a sustainaibility from art
perspective.<br>
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* Theme:<br>
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Today art is leaving its autonomous position behind the society's
quest for a sustainable future. Artists who once were in vanguard of
exploring digital frontiers, today again are among the first ones who
are actively engaged in looking for other ways how to make the world
more sustainable.</div>
<div>Resilience is one of the key tactics that helps people to undergo
unstable, uncertain times. The idea of a resilience will be used as a
guiding theme and as a point of departure for the festival discussions
with which we aim at fostering deeper understanding of social,
cultural and ecological, as well as technological sustainability
issues.</div>
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<div>We are questioning: How to enhance resilience - our capability
to cope with today's complex situation that has occurred in the result
of rapid 'techno-sciences' development? Does art play a role of a
'catalyst' in this quest for sustainability, if it keeps actively
establishing new connections with other fields - science and
technology, architecture and design, rural infrastructure development
and urban planning, social networking and global engineering? How
these emergent art practices that are bridging not only different
fields but also exploiting resilience experiences from different times
and different cultures, are contributing towards developing a
successful scenario for the future world?<br>
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* Programme:<br>
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The main festival programme will take place in Riga, Latvia, October 4
- 6, 2012, including international art, science and technology
conference "Art of Resilience" with visionary thinkers, artists
and scientists from different countries of the Europe and the world.
The festival will also feature unique programme of audiovisual
performances, electronic music concerts and experimental film and
video programmes in Spikeri Concert Hall. The exhibition this year
will take place in RIXC Media Space, open from October 4 until
November 4.</div>
<div>In parallel to the main festival programme, series of "art of
resilience" workshops in Riga and Liepaja will be organised by RIXC
and MPLab (Art Research Lab) of Liepaja University, that will result
into annual International New Media Art Week "iWeek" held in
Liepaja, from October 26 - November 3, 2012.<br>
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<div>CALL FOR PROPOSALS:</div>
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We welcome participants with different background and from different
fields - art, science, technology, sociology, architecture, music,
design, network activism etc. - to submit proposals for the
conference. We also invite artists and electronic musicians to propose
their work and ideas for other festival events - performances,
workshops, video programme.<br>
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<div>DEADLINE: AUGUST 25, 2012</div>
<div>Notification - September 3, 2012</div>
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Please send your proposals - conference abstracts (about 200 words)
as well as descriptions of proposed workshop or artwork (performance,
video) along with your short biography to: rixc@rixc.lv and/or
rasa@rixc.lv (Rasa Smite)<br>
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The "Art of Resilience" conference will be organised in the
framework of the European partnership project "Survival Kit" in
collaboration with MPLab (Art Research Lab) of Liepaja
University and Latvian Contemporary Arts Center.<br>
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Find out more about previous "Art+Communication" festival
editions: "Techno-Ecologies" in 2011 (and all the other ones
starting 1996) here: http://www.rixc.lv/info/festival.html</div>
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Festival organiser: RIXC.lv<br>
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Support: State Cultural Capital Foundation, Nordic Culture Point, Riga
City Council, EU Culture 2007-2013<br>
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Contact: festival curators - Rasa Smite rasa@rixc.lv, and Raitis
Smits raitis@rixc.lv</div>
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