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<div>Dear Spectres!</div>
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<div>It seems this fall will be busy -</div>
<div>Please see below an other Call for participants for an other
'Renewable' event in Latvia - AppleThink creative camp, which will
take place from September 13-15, 2012</div>
<div>Deadline for proposals - August 20, 2012</div>
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<div>Welcome to Latvia - 'apple country'! :)</div>
<div>Rasa</div>
<div>http://renewable.rixc.lv</div>
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<div>Call for Participants!</div>
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<div>APPLETHINK</div>
<div>Creative Camp in Aizpute, September 13-15, 2012<br>
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The AppleThink event takes place in Aizpute, Latvia, focused on
creative trans-disciplinary approaches to apples and their diverse use
after harvest. Artists, who once were exploring the boundaries of the
digital realm, are today investigating survival tactics and resilience
experiences that have been used in different times and by different
cultures. In the quest for a sustainable future these emergent art
practices are adapting, mixing and combining methods and techniques
grounded in historical and traditional cultures, with emerging
technologies, scientific research, and contemporary practices in
today's urban and rural communities.<br>
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Apples are one of the most harvest-rich, yet under-exploited resources
available in Latvia and other post-kolkhoz (collective Soviet farms)
countries. AppleThink event aims to re-approach our 'habitual' apples
from a variety of different perspectives. The event will bring
together an international trans-disciplinary group of participants,
who will be sharing their knowledge and experience by approaching
apples as a 'real' resource of food and energy, as well as as a
cultural metaphor for fecundity and wealth.<br>
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<div>AppleThink will start with a Helsinki event, where documentation
will be made at Malminkartano's public orchard event on 8th September,
including the gathering of apples to bring to Latvia. During the
following week from 13-15th September, the main AppleThink event, a
creative camp in Aizpute will explore the phenomena of apples. We will
start with the process of traditional fermenting, brewing, juicing,
and preserving, ending up with experimental investigations: Can an
apple be a transmitter of energy? How can one build a
'bacteria-battery' from apples-waste? How can apple-electricity
signals be interpreted through sonification and visualization? The
AppleThink event will also include presentations and discussions by
artists, curators, science researchers, and community activists who
will be discussing different survival strategies ranging from the
concepts of 'downshifting' and 'withdrawal', to the approach of
'resilience' and a 'techno-ecologies' perspective. The camp will end
with a local outdoor market together with local farmers, where the
artefacts created during the creative camp will be put out for
symbolic sale-exhibition.<br>
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CALL for participation:<br>
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We are inviting applications for AppleThink creative camp participants
who are interested in trans-disciplinary collaborations. We also
welcome proposals for AppleThink workshops and presentations.<br>
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<div>Please send your proposals or letter of intent to participate to
rixc@rixc.lv, and/or rasa@rixc.lv (Rasa Smite).</div>
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DEADLINE: August 20, 2012<br>
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The AppleThink event takes place in the framework of the European
partnership project 'Survival Kit'. The outcomes of the AppleThink
creative camp will be presented publicly during the Art+Communication
Festival conference titled 'Art of Resilience' that takes place in
Riga, October 4-6, 2012.<br>
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AppleThink is a collaboration between The Center for New Media Culture
RIXC, Latvian Contemporary Arts Center and Serde from Latvia, as well
as Pixelache Helsinki from Finland.</div>
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