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<div>dear Spectre</div>
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<div>please see below a short-notice call for RIXC Innovation lab
workshops, which we are hosting at the Cafe Europa container, in Riga
Spikeri Quartier, from August 15 to September 28,</div>
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<div>we are announcing additional call for artists, designers and
other interested people for 2 most exciting art+science lab
events:</div>
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<div>SEPTEMBER 2-6: Urban Ecosystems (sep 2-5, by Annamie Maes/ Okno),
and Fog (sep 6, by Edwin van der Heide and Latvian scientists)</div>
<div>deadline - Thu, August 28</div>
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<div>and</div>
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<div>SEPTEMBER 23-28: Seeing and Believing, on Visual Perception and
Interactive Systems (by Hanna Haaslahti)</div>
<div>deadline - Tue, September 8</div>
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<div>Participation is free of charge</div>
<div>Plus: We can cover travel costs for 2-3 participants from Baltic
and Nordic countries, and 2-3 participants from other European
countries</div>
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<div>welcome to apply!</div>
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<div>best</div>
<div>Rasa</div>
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<div>SHORT-NOTICE CALL FOR PARTICIPATION in Cafe Europa - RIXC
Innovation Lab workshops<br>
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From August 15th till September 28th, 2014, Café Europa Riga holds
event series at the container module which has come to Riga 2014 -
the European Capital of Culture all the way of more than 2000 km from
Belgium city Mons, which next year will be the Capital. Café Europa
is a multi-functional, architecturally flexible, mobile space, that
can be adapted to the needs of the local context while maintaining
connection to other places in Europa with similar nature at the same
time.<br>
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RIXC Centre for New Media Culture has turned Café Europa containers
into Riga Innovation Lab by offering 6 weeks long extensive and
manifold programme of exhibitions and workshops focused on art and
science, and 3D printing. The RIXC Innovation Lab programme together
with artists and scientists from Latvia, Belgium and Baltic-Nordic
countries particularly will host workshops exploring the themes such
as urban ecosystems, fog and the future of water, 3D printing of sound
(and other intangible and intuitive properties), food as energy in
overpopulated future world, as well as visual perception and
sensor/responsive technologies.<br>
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* We announce SHORT-NOTICE CALL FOR PARTICIPATION in two of the most
exciting RIXC Innovation Lab events:<br>
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Lab No 1: September 2-7<br>
Urban Ecosystems by Annemie MAES and Fog workshop by Edwin van der
Heide<br>
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September 2-5 (Part 1)<br>
URBAN ECOSYSTEMS AND CITY HONEYBEES<br>
Exhibition and workshop by Annemie MAES (BE).<br>
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The 4-day will continue to explore the complex world of honeybees,
which artist and workshop leader Annemie Maes has extensively
investigated for some years. The 4-days workshop will be started with
an introduction on Urban OpenGreens project and the role of the
honeybees within this ecosystem. Following, the participants will
study the bees' behaviour and architecture based upon insights from
biology, art, design and materials science. The participants will
explore specific structural patterns present in physical and
biological environments (city/nature walk), from macrostructures to
biological microsystems. Starting from the collection of gathered
organic materials, the participants will develop novel, bio-inspired
designs for bee houses. Participants are expected to collaborate in
the discussions, with drawings and by creating objects.<br>
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BIO: ANNEMIE MAES has studied a masters in fine arts, a masters of
cultural studies and a specialisation in anthropological documentary
film. By founding the organizations Looking Glass and OKNO she has
played a major role in organising the multi-media art scene in
Brussels, bringing together artists and art spaces from different
European countries to engage in workshops and open research labs. The
current line of her artistic work focuses on ecological issues, as in
the ongoing Open-Greens project: http://opengreens.net/<br>
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Saturday, September 6 (Part 2)<br>
WHITE NIGHT 2014: Fog - art and science workshops and
performance<br>
1-day art and science workshop (that will follow Urban Ecosystems lab)
will be conducted by artist Edwin van der Heide and scientists from
the Institute of Solid State Physics of Latvian University (the
partners of RIXC), who will experiment and show different ways how the
fog is generated (in natural and artificial environments).</div>
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The workshop will be followed by the FOG - environmental sound and
light performance by Edwin van der Heide that will take place in
Spikeri quartier, in the framework of WHITE NIGHT - annual forum for
contemporary culture.<br>
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BIO: EDWIN VAN DER HEIDE is an artist and researcher in the field of
sound, space and interaction. He extends the terms composition and
musical language into spatial, interactive and interdisciplinary
directions. His work comprises installations, performances and
environments. The audience is placed in the middle of the work and
challenged to actively explore, interact and relate themselves to the
artwork.<br>
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Lab No 2: September 23-28<br>
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September 23-28<br>
HABITUS: SEEING AND BELIEVING, LIFE AS AN IMAGE.</div>
<div>Exhibition and workshop on visual perception psychology,
real-time mapping and "shadow" projections by Hanna HAASLAHTI
(FI).</div>
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<div>The workshop will start with a presentation of Hanna's research
and her art work - Habitus , with notes about the body painting
tradition of the Hain people and introduction of the Gestalt laws of
perception. She will continue with a lecture and workshop on "Seeing
and Believing, Life as an Image". Cameras connected to computers
yield many applications, which has become necessary feature of
contemporary life. In this lecture the participants will be looking at
how the computer vision techniques have transformed from the
malevolent all-seeing eyes of big brother to ubiquituos vision systems
that feed our pleasure of being constantly watched. The participats
will also take a look at the Gestalt laws of perception and how it can
map the invisible space of connections between individual things. In
the practical part, the participants will explore the kinect 3D sensor
and will go through the principles of realtime mapping.</div>
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BIO: HANNA HAASLAHTI is a media and installation artist working and
living in Helsinki. She explores structures and methods which connect
individuals to communities. In her work, the balance between
individual freedom and communal rules takes shape as interactive
installations or photographic experiments. The basic elements of her
minimalistic installations are light, shadow and interaction. She
researches computer vision technology, generative and volumetric
graphics in the development process of interactive spaces. She has
graduated from Medialab, University of Art and Design Helsinki.<br>
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DEADLINES:<br>
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Please apply for workshops by sending short motivation letter and your
short biography to email: rixc@rixc.lv<br>
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<div>The Deadline for the Lab No 1 - August 28 (Urban Ecosystems +
Fog),</div>
<div>and the deadline for the Lab No 2 - (on Visual Perception) -
September 9, 2014.<br>
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<div>PARTICIPATION AND TRAVEL</div>
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<div>Participation is free</div>
<div>Plus: We can cover travel costs and accomodation for 2-3
participants from Baltic and Nordic countries, and 2-3 participants
from other European countries<br>
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The Exhibitions at Cafe Europa Riga Innovation Lab are open: Tue-Sun
12.00-18.00, Mon - closed.<br>
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Café Europa Riga is the project organized by RIXC Center for New
Media Culture in collaboration with Riga 2014 and Mons 2015 -
European Cultural Capitals.<br>
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Follow information about the Cafe Europa Riga prject and RIXC
Innnovation Lab events on Riga 2014 portal:
http://riga2014.org/riga_mons<br>
and RIXC Facebook page: http://facebook.com/rixcriga<br>
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Support: Foundation Riga 2014, Riga City Council, Ministry of
Culture of the Republic of Latvia, EU programme Culture, the State
Culture Capital Foundation, Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium in Riga,
Wallonia-Brussels Delegation in Warsaw, Wallonia-Brussels
International, ABLV Charitable Foundation, Nordic Culture Point, Soft
Control, Renewable Network, Laboratory of Hydrogen Energy Materials of
the Institute of Solid State Physics of University of Latvia, Art
Research Lab of Liepaja University.</div>
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