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<div>Hello on Spectre list,</div>
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<div>please find below info about most recent RIXC's activities in
Riga - launching event of Open North - new North-European network and
public events programme in Riga's White Night city forum</div>
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<div>best regards,</div>
<div>Rasa</div>
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RENEWABLE FUTURES<br>
OPEN NORTH Network Launch Meeting and Conference<br>
Riga, September 6-7, 2013<br>
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<div>... designing more accessible routes towards sustainable culture
and into the sector of creative industries ...</div>
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Open North is a new network initiative that aims to support
sustainable culture development in the North European region by
fostering open innovation in art and culture and providing accesible
routes into the sector of creative industries. The Open North Launch
Meeting will take place on September 6 - 7, 2013 in the emerging
RIXC Innovation Lab space and outdoors in Riga Spikeri Creative
Quartier. The Launch Meeting will gather together artists, cultural
operators and other creative producers from Riga and Liepaja / Latvia,
Kaliningrad and St Petersburg / Russia, Tallinn / Estonia, Copenhagen
/ Denmark, Stockholm / Sweden, and Mons / Belgium.<br>
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<div>The intent of the meeting is two fold. The first is to launch
OPEN NORTH Creative Network and Think Tank for facilitating both --
development of strategies and policies for open innovation in creative
industries in the region at large. And the second is to work out
models and tactics for providing artists, cultural organizations and
other creative producers with accessible routes into the sector in
particular.<br>
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The Day 1 on September 6, 2013 will feature the RENEWABLE FUTURES
conference that will focus on digital media art, techno-sciences and
open business development in the North European region. The conference
will include the presentations and discussions by participants with
the aim to investigate the current state of emerging creative
industries sector in the region. It will be followed by two parallel
working sessions - (1) Networking, Culture and Sustainability and
(2) Designing New FabLabs.<br>
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<div>The programme of Day 2 on September 7, 2013 will take place in
the framework of WHITE NIGHT, Riga forum for contemporary culture,
with the aim to introduce wider public with open innovation approach
in digital media art and culture. Open North project will feature two
workshops - SOCIAL GAMING workshop for manifesting techno-social
innovation, and BACTERIA BATTERY workshop - showing art and science
collaboration. The workshops will be followed by public demonstration
of interactive video games and audiovisual performance programme.<br>
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PROGRAMME:<br>
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6<br>
RENEWABLE FUTURES, Open North Launch Meeting and Conference<br>
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10.30 - Coffee and registration<br>
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11.00-11.10 - Welcome words by Rasa SMITE / RIXC Centre for New
Media Culture / Latvia & Agnese Baranova / RIXC Centre for New
Media Culture / Latvia - OPEN NORTH - building new network and
creative think tank in the region.<br>
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11:10 - 12:30 Session 1: THE FUTURE OF DIGITAL MEDIA ART<br>
Presentations on past and future (introduction to cases):<br>
Nils CLAESSON / Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts / Sweden - THE
FUTURE OF LABORATORIES AND LIBRARIES (10 min)<br>
Piibe PIIRMA / Estonian Academy of Arts / Estonian Media Artists Union
/ Estonia (10 min)<br>
Yulia BARDUN / Tranzit, Non-governmental Agency / Russia & Anna
KARPENKO / Tranzit, Non-governmental agency / Kaliningrad, Russia (10
min)<br>
Timo SOPPELA / Artists' Association MUU / MUU gallery / Finland (10
min)<br>
Victoria ILYUSHKINA / CYLAND Media Art Lab / Russia & Sergei
TETERIN / CYLAND Media Art Lab / St Petersburg, Russia (10 min)<br>
Agnese Baranova / RIXC Centre for New Media Culture / Latvia (10
min)</div>
<div>Rihards VITOLS / Liepaja Art Reserch Lab (10 min)<br>
Discussions on future of digital media art (moderated by Rasa Smite
and Nils Clasesson)<br>
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12:30 - 12:50 Coffe break</div>
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12:50 - 14:15 - Session 2: CREATIVE HUBS<br>
Mihkel SALM / Tallinn Creative Hub / Estonia (10 min)<br>
Association of Riga Creative Quartiers / Latvia and representatives
from other independent cultural organizations - tbc. (10-20 min)<br>
TechHub / Latvia - tbc. (10 min)<br>
Centre for Sustainable Business / Stockholm School of Economics in
Riga - tbc. (10 min)<br>
Pascal KEISER / TechnocITé / Belgium and Yves VASSEUR / Mons2015 -
European Capital of Culture / Belgium (10 min)<br>
Rasa SMITE / RIXC Centre for New Media Culture / Latvia - Spikeri
Innovation Center (project) (10 min)<br>
Discussions on creative networks and its hubs (moderated by Rasa Smite
and Oleg Koefoed)<br>
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14:15 - 15:00 Lunch break<br>
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15:00 - 17:30 Workshops<br>
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Workshop 1: CREATIVE NETWORKS, CULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY -
conducted by Oleg KOEFOED / Cultura21 / Denmark and Rasa SMITE /
RIXC<br>
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Workshop 2: DESIGNING NEW FABLABS (in Riga, Liepaja and elsewhere in
the Baltic Sea region) conducted by Ali Neissi SHOOSHTARI / Aalto
University Media Factory / Finland.<br>
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17:30 - 18:00 Closing discussions<br>
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18:00 - Guided tours to the Latvian artist exhibitions in kim?
Contemporary Art Center in Spiker, and Synthetic Nature exhibition by
young Liepaja artists in RIXC Media Space.<br>
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19:00 - Dinner<br>
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7<br>
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Open North public events in the framework of WHITE NIGHT, forum for
contemporary culture in Riga<br>
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SOCIAL GAMING<br>
14:00-18:00 - public open workshop conducted by Fishing Cactus and
TechnoCite (Belgium)<br>
19:00 - interactive video games demonstration by TechnoCite
(Belgium)<br>
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BACTERIA BATTERY<br>
19:00-21:00 - art-science workshop conducted by RIXC (Latvia) and
young scientists from Latvian University<br>
21:00 - performance programme - audio and visual interpretations
of "bacteria battery" signals by Voldemars Johansons, Martins
Rokis and Rihards Vitols.<br>
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The conference is organized by RIXC Centre for New Media Culture.<br>
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The project "OPEN NORTH. Launching Project of North European
Creative Network and Think Tank" is supported by the Northern
Dimension Partnership on Culture (NDPC) programme, European Union and
Riga City Council.<br>
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RIXC and Conference venue address:<br>
Maskavas street 10 (entrance from the yard)<br>
Spikeri creative quarter for culture and creative industries<br>
Riga, LV - 1050<br>
Latvia<br>
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e-mail: rixc@rixc.lv<br>
ph.: +371 67228478 (office)<br>
+371 26546776 (Rasa Smite)<br>
+371 29635167 (Agnese Baranova)<br>
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