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<div>Hello on Spectre list!<br>
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<div>Today we had opening of FIELDS exhibition in Arsenals Exhibition
Hall, Riga, featuring more then 40 artworks, which are not only
envisioning future scenarios for more sustainable and imaginative
life, but also are tracing back in to history of ecology and
communication related art. The exhibition shows huge diversity of
contemporary art practices, and it is very unique show. It will be
open till August 3, 2014 - so i think it is very good idea to visit
this summer Riga 2014- European cultural capital, and to see the
exhibition!</div>
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<div>The exhibition is complemented by performance programme tomorrow,
and conference Renewable Futures - more info below</div>
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<div>best</div>
<div>Rasa</div>
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Fields Exhibition and Art+Communication 2014 Festival Opening
programme presents<br>
RENEWABLE FUTURES<br>
International conference for art, science and cultural innovation<br>
Riga 2014 - A European Capital of Culture Event<br>
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RENEWABLE FUTURES is a new conference series, the launch of which will
take place during the FIELDS exhibition opening weekend on May 15-18,
2014 in the framework of Riga - European Cultural Capital programme.
In a response to recent quests for a more sustainable future and
overcoming the crises of the present, the conference aims to invent
new avenues for future developments by bringing together traditionally
separated domains. The conference idea is inspired by the approach of
FIELDS Exhibition, which does not just look at art in a narrow sense
but takes into account all kinds of creative practices that bring
together new ways of thinking, scientific knowledge, aesthetics,
technologies and social practices. The conference aims to shape new
contact zones between academic research and diversity of contemporary
art practices, art and science, sustainable businesses and social
engagement in the 21st century.<br>
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Programme:<br>
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THURSDAY, May 15<br>
18:00 FIELDS Exhibition Opening<br>
Arsenals Exibition Hall, Torna street 1 / free entrance<br>
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Friday, May 16<br>
17:00 - 19:00<x-tab> </x-tab>FIELDS /
RENEWABLE FUTURES - public lectures by artists and currators<br>
Goethe Institute - Riga, Torna iela 1 (entrance from Klostera
street) / free entrance / please register via e-mail: rixc@rixc.lv<br>
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Armin MEDOSCH. The Broken Mirror: Art after the dreamworld of digital
utopia<br>
Misko SUVAKOVIC. Grey zones: Revisionisms and theory of art and
politics<br>
Ieva ASTAHOVSKA. Trajectories of search for new space in Latvian art
of the recent past - visionary art and approximate art<br>
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20.00 Art+Communication Festival Concert and Performances<br>
Spikeri Concert Hall, Maskavas street 4, Tickets at bilesuparadize.lv
- 9 EUR / 4,50 EUR (students)<br>
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SATURDAY, May 17<br>
Conference RENEWABLE FUTURES Day 1<br>
ART AND SCIENCE. From Techno-Ecological Practices to New
Sustainability Theories<br>
Goethe Institute - Riga, Tor¿a street 1 (entrance prom Klostera
street) / Free entrance<br>
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10:00 Artist Keynotes<br>
Marko PELJHAN & Matthew BIEDERMAN. Integrative Methodologies -
Tactical Approaches to Some Strategic Problems<br>
Lisa JEVBRATT. Together - Seeing, Seeking and Knowing with an
Other<br>
Richard BARBROOK. Class Wargames:
Ludic subversion against spectacular capitalism<br
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12:30 Session 1: Art+Science<br>
Ainars KAMOLINS. On History and Philosophy of Art and Bio-Science<br>
Annick BUREAUD. Art in the Future Tense. A Life, Bio Art and Synthetic
Biology<br>
Maja SMREKAR. Hu.M.C.C.: Transdisciplinary Guide through the
Project<br>
Regine DEBATTY. Artistic Exploration of the Meat Industry. Or How to
Reconnect with Your Burger?<br>
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14:00 Session 2: Techno-Ecologies<br>
Olga MINK. New Sustainable Models for Future Collaborations<br>
Darko Fritz. Nature Embedded Netculture<br>
Annemie MAES. Intelligent Beehives<br>
Eric SNODGRASS / Malmö University. Ecologies of the Executable: A
Few Interstratic Experiments</div>
<div>Klaus SCHAFLER. Hacking the Future and Planet<br>
Ulrich EVERDING and Jonas BUECHEL. Empty Spaces</div>
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15:30 Participatory Session - PLAYING FIELDS - Plant It! Wild
Ontologies in the service of activating history</div>
<div>Conducted by FIELDS exhibition curators - Armin MEDOSCH and Rasa
SMITE</div>
<div>Participants: all artists from the FIELDS exhibition are welcome
to join</div>
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19:00 - 01:00 FIELDS Exhibition Public Event Programme during the
Museum's Night<br>
Arsenals EXibition Hall, Torna iela 1 / Free entrance<br>
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SUNDAY, May 18 (Liepaja)<br>
8:30 bus trip to Liepaja<br>
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RENEWABLE FUTURES - Conference Day 2<br>
ART AS RESEARCH - From Transdisciplinary Explorations and
Participatory Culture to Academic Inquiry<br>
Liepaja University's Art Research Lab, Liepaja, Kurmajas prospekts 13
/ free entrance<br>
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13:00 Session 1: Art as Research - Exploring Relation between
Digital and Real Environment<br>
Piibe PIIRMA. Hybrid Practice<br>
Anna TRAPENCIERE. Intimacy and Private Space in Internet of Things
Age<br>
Janis GARANCS. Immersive environments as self-adopting interfaces for
participats<br>
Anja MALEC. Out of the Black Box Inside the White Cube - On
Immersive Environments<br>
Samir BHOWMIK. digGLAM: A Collaborative Digitization Project for the
Collections of Gallen-Kallela Museum and its User Communities<br>
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14:15 Session 2: Art as Research - Theories, Practices and
Methodologies<br>
Raivo KELOMEES / Estonian Academy of Arts / Tartu University.
Transgressing Borders and Building Norms: On Research-Based Artworks -
Discussing Interdisciplinary Artworks from Point of View of Ordinary
Visitor<br>
Ásthildur Björg JÓNSDÓTTIR / Iceland Academy of Arts /
University of Rovaniemi / University of Iceland. On Participatory
Research<br>
Lily DIAZ-KOMMONEN / Aalto University. Transformation Through
Research<br>
Margrét Elísabet ÓLAFSDÓTTIR / Lorna / Iceland Academy
of Arts. What is the scholar doing here?<br>
Kristin BERGAUST / Oslo University College, Faculty for Art and
Design. Art in Society: Artistic Methods as a Resource and Challenge
for Innovation in Education<br>
Gisle FROYSLAND. On Pixel Festival<br>
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15:30 Session 3: Art as Research - Building Techno-Ecological
Perspective<br>
Isidora TODOROVIC. On Games for Social Changes and as Art Research.
Can you feel the spill (on Kravtsovskoye oilfield)<br>
Karla BRUNET. Art as Research: The Creative Process of a Costal
Project in Brazil.<br>
Karl Heinz JERON. Wind Park Drone: The Humming of Wind Turbines -
Sound Art Action About the Perception of Noise<br>
Scott ELLIOTT / Aalto. On Architectural Interventions and
Environmental Art<br>
Simon GODDEK. Sustainable Challenges of Commercial Aquaponics<br>
Vika SOKOLOVSKAJA. Upcycling design in context of contemporary
fashion<br>
Markus JOUTSELA. Exploring Food Packaging Experiences for Lifestyles
of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS)<br>
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17:00 Session 4. New Media Art Showcase by Liepaja Art Research Lab
students<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Maija DEMITERE, MÇrti¿”
EøœELIS, JÇnis JANKEVICS etc.<br>
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FIELDS Exhibition<br>
Arsenals Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art<br>
May 15 - August 3, 2014<br>
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The changing role of art in society is one where it does not just
create a new aesthetics but gets involved in patterns of social,
scientific, and technological transformations. Fields, jointly curated
by Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Armin Medosch, presents an inquiry
into patterns of renewal and transition. The curators asked which
expanded fields of artistic practice offer new ideas for overcoming
the crisis of the present and developing new models of a more
sustainable and imaginative way of life.<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>From the 200 proposals received through the public
call, the curators have chosen 40 works from all over the world, but
with a special focus on Central, Eastern and Northern Europe. Selected
works are considered to be contextual seedbeds for social change.<br>
Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits are artists and founding directors of
RIXC, an art institution in Riga, Latvia, whose Art + Communication
festival has become one of the most important festivals of this kind
in Europe and worldwide. Armin Medosch is a curator, writer and artist
based in Vienna, Austria. The Fields exhibition is a follow-up project
to Waves 2006, which was also shown at Arsenals in Riga, co-curated by
Smite, Smits and Medosch.</div>
<div><x-tab> </x-tab>Fields
presents a lively landscape of art that challenges existing viewpoints
and deconstructs social issues, but also proposes positive visions for
the future. No single field and associated label can do justice any
more to the diversity of contemporary art practices. Typically, today,
the most interesting practices are transdisciplinary and
transformative - they rely on new combinations of existing
fields-as-in-disciplines, combining the artistic with the social and
the natural, the scientific and the emotional, the sensible with the
actual.<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Fields opens up the contemporary field for
a free and associative play of radical taxonomies, remixing and
recombining existing categories, thereby carrying out important
boundary work that gives a new shape to the contact zones between art,
science, technology and social engagement in the 21st century.<br>
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exhibition is accompanied by public lectures, Renewable Futures
conference as well as artist performances and concerts.<br>
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Curators: Armin Medosch, Raitis Smits and Rasa Smite<br>
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<div>Artists: OHO, Robert Adrian, Janis Borgs, Indulis Bilzens, Boriss
Avramecs, Hardijs Ledins, Roberts Gobzins, Micky Remann, Aljosa
Abrahamsberg, Matthew Biederman, Marko Peljhan, Brian Springer, Ernest
Edmonds, Cecile Babiole, Erich Berger, Shu Lea Cheang, Bureau
d'etudes, Class Wargames, Ines Doujak, John Barker, Hans A. Scheirl,
Darko Fritz, Gints Gabrans, Janis Liepins, Hanna Haaslahti,
Oioicollective, HeHe, Martin Howse, Janis Jankevics, Karl Heinz Jeron,
Lisa Jevbratt, Javier Villegas, Charlie Roberts, Voldemars Johansons,
Michal Kindernay, Ondrej Vavrecka, Milos Vojtechovsky, Annja
Krautgasser, Pamela Neuwirth, Franz Xaver, Markus Decker, Manu Luksch,
Annemie Maes / Okno, Hayley Newman, Esther Polak, Ieva Auzina, Radix /
David Strang, Deborah Robinson, Simon Rundle, Bronac Ferran, Martins
Ratniks, Oliver Ressler, Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits / RIXC, Natacha
Roussel, Pieter Heremans, Maja Smrekar, Isidora Todorovic, Andrea
Palasti, Luka Ranisaljevic, Superflex, YoHa, Matthew Fuller<br>
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Organizers<br>
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The new conference series will be launched by RIXC / Renewable Network
and ARS BALTICA in a joint effort with Goethe Institute - Riga, The
Danish Cultural Institute in Latvia, Art Research Lab of Liepaja
University as well as by other involved partner organizations,
cultural institutions, art universities and collaboration networks.
More then just building an other new Baltic-Nordic collaboration
platform, this event aims to play a role of 'connector' -
maintaining links between different platforms and networks existing in
North European and Baltic Sea region, as well as connecting them with
the other European countries and the rest of the world.<br>
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Contacts<br>
RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture<br>
Maskavas street 10, R¥ga, LV-1050<br>
e-mail: rixc@rixc.lv<br>
phone.: +371 67228478<br>
Rasa Smite, RIXC / LiepU MPLab, festival director, rasa@rixc.lv, +371
26546776<br>
Agnese Baranova, RIXC / festical producer, agnese@rixc.lv,+371
29635167<br>
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Support<br>
The Renewable Futures conference takes place in the framework of
Renewable Network - long-term collaboration project supported by
Nordic Culture Point.<br>
The Fields exhibition is supported by Riga 2014, Riga City Council,
Nordic Culture Point, State Cultural Capital Foundation, Ministry of
Culture of the Republic of Latvia, Austrian Ministry of Culture, EU
Culture 2007-2013 programme, Nordic Culture Point.<br>
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Partners<br>
The Latvian National Museum of Art, Soft Control, Techno-Ecologies,
Goethe Institute in Riga, French Institute in Latvia, Nordic Council
of Ministers' Office in Latvia, The Danish Cultural institute, ARS
BALTICA, Renewable Network.?<br>
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