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<div>Dear Spectre,</div>
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<div>Today is a last day of submissions for FIELDS exhibition,</div>
<div>but because of great success - we already have received many
great proposals - we decided to give more artists the chance to get
involved,</div>
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<div>therefore, please see below -</div>
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<div>FIELDS CALL DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 30, 2013!</div>
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<div>best regards,</div>
<div>Rasa</div>
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FIELDS Call for Participation -</div>
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<div>DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JUNE 30, 2013!<br>
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Fields starts from the assumption that the changing role of art in
society is one where it becomes a critical interloper in patterns of
social, scientific, and technological transformations. The range of
practices which were once subsumed under terms such as media art,
digital art, art and technology, art and science, have experienced
such growth and diversification that no single term can work as a
signpost any more. Fields is about mapping those expanded fields of
artistic practices which are contextual seedbeds for ideas and
practices aiming at overcoming the crisis of the present, inventing
new avenues for future developments by bringing together traditionally
separated domains. Fields is about new ecological and transversal
trends in art, outlining potential future trajectories for
multifarious types of activities that merge politics, technology,
ecology, gender, semiology.<br>
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Which Fields act as catalysts and underpin those artistic practices
which offer the greatest potential for social change towards more
imaginative and sustainable ways of living? Which pre-cursors in the
last 30-40 years did exist and what can we learn from those often
untold stories?<br>
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Areas that we will be looking at include but are not restricted to<br>
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* real fields, fields as in agricultural fields, works relating to
fields, food growing, water, seeds, plant ecologies and
communications; eco-activism, agro-socio-political projects<br>
* field as metaphor, semiotic field theories and meta-field theories;
work as decoding and recoding of cultural patterns of social use of
images;<br>
* electromagnetic fields: and their experimental epistomologies
(quantum field theory); notion of relational field; the
epistemological implications of quantum theory in art<br>
* gendered fields, field as a psychological relation, psychological
and psycho-analytical field theories<br>
* field theories of perception<br>
* social field theories, theories of masses and of emotional
'contagion'; relational field theories, notion of culture as a
relational field<br>
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If you have an art or artistic-research project that fits one of those
categories or where you feel that it extends this concept, please send
a short description to:</div>
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<div>fields@rixc.lv<br>
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The deadline for this first round call has been extended to June 30th
2013.<br>
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Selected works will be presented at the exhibition Fields from May 15
to August 2014 as part of Riga Culture Capital 2014, at the Arsenals
Exhibition Hall of the National Art Museum in Riga. Fields is
co-curated by Armin Medosch, Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, and will get
produced by RIXC in collaboration with a growing number of networks
and partners.<br>
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The initial matrix of Fields gets jointly developed through this open
call and public workshops. Fields was first presented publicly at
Transmediale 2013. At Pixelache 2013, a 'Fields Q & A' session was
held. The next workshop 'Playing Fields' will be staged at the MAH
Renew conference.</div>
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<div>http://rixc.lv/14</div>
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