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<div>Hello on Spectre</div>
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<div>The Deadline to Apply for RENEWABLE FUTURES Conference and
Festival in Riga, October 8-10, 2015, is extended:</div>
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<div>I for Conference Abstracts - until April 20, 2015</div>
<div>II for Festival Proposals - until May 15, 2015</div>
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<div>Please apply here: http://openconf.rixc.lv</div>
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<div>With best regards,</div>
<div>Rasa Smite</div>
<div>http://rixc.org</div>
<div>http://renewablefutures.net</div>
<div>http://acousticspacejournal.com</div>
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RENEWABLE FUTURES 2015:</div>
<div>Transformative Potential of Art in the Age of Post-Media<br>
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<div>The 1st edition of new academic art and science conference
series,</div>
<div>complemented by the RIXC annual festival programme</div>
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October 8-10, 2015, Riga, Latvia<br>
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http://renewablefutures.net<br>
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The Renewable Futures is a new conference series in the Baltic Sea and
North European region that aims to invent new avenues for more
sustainable and imaginative future developments. It will shape new
contact zones between traditionally separated domains - art and
science, academic research and independent creative practices,
sustainable businesses and social engagement in the 21st century.<br>
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The 1st conference edition will take place in Riga, from October 8-10,
2015, and it will primarily focus on exploring the transformative
potential of art in the post-media conditions. Today, according to
several voices - Rosalind Krauss, Lev Manovich, Peter Weibel and
Domenico Quaranta - we have entered the post-media age; there is no
any single medium anymore that dominates in contemporary media art
practices that are rather engaged with contemporaneity and critical
thinking. The huge diversity of "post-media art" was
profoundly explored also in the Fields exhibition (Riga 2014,
fields.rixc.org), curated by Raitis Smits, Armin Medosch and Rasa
Smite. The Fields showed that art in post-media conditions contains
highly transformative and visionary potential. However, symbolic and
aesthetic qualities, as well as critical, investigative and
confrontational aspects also proved to be just as important for
"post-media art" to maintain a line between physical and
mental, realities and utopias.<br>
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THEMES:<br>
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post-media art, avantgarde practices and theories</div>
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'slow' media art - preservation challenges for the museums<br>
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techno-ecological perspective<br>
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informational paradigm<br>
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and media visualizations<br>
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sustainable design and open business<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>* culture for sustainable development in the Baltic
Sea Region & North Europe<br>
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CALL FOR CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS:<br>
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We welcome proposals by artists, curators, theorists, academic
researchers and other lateral thinkers to share their research with
regards to the above mentioned themes.<br>
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CONFERENCE DEADLINE EXTENDED: April 20, 2015<br>
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<div>Please submit your conference proposal (abstract 250 words,
biography 200 words)</div>
<div>at http://openconf.rixc.lv</div>
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CALL FOR FESTIVAL PROPOSALS - ART WORKS, WORKSHOPS, PERFORMANCES AND
SHOWCASE PRESENTATIONS:<br>
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The conference will be complemented by a broad programme of the RIXC's
annual "Art+Communication" festival, which in its 17th edition
will manifest the "post-media situation" by changing its title and
a shift - it will take a turn from the festival's initial focus on
information & communication technologies paradigm to the broader
and more contemporary discourse on art and science, culture and
sustainability, with particular interest to explore and build
techno-ecological perspective.<br>
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This year's festival will feature a "post-media art" exhibition,
workshops, performances and showcase presentations by artists, who in
their work are blurring the boundaries between different
disciplines.<br>
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DEADLINE FOR FESTIVAL PROPOSALS EXTENDED: May 15, 2015<br>
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We encourage artists to submit their proposals for artworks /
performances / showcase-presentations / workshops by sending a short
description (250 words), a biography (200 words), as well as other
complementing material (images, links, video, etc.) via e-mail: rixc
(at) rixc.lv</div>
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* Public Keynotes:<br>
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John THACKARA<br>
Lev MANOVICH<br>
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* Plenary Session Keynotes:<br>
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Dieter DANIELS<br>
Domenico QUARANTA<br>
Katja KWASTEK</div>
<div>Martha BUSKIRK<br>
Armin MEDOSCH<br>
Geoff COX<br>
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* Conference chair: Rasa SMITE / Exhibition curator: Raitis SMITS<br>
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* Conference International Advisory board:<br>
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Dieter DANIELS, Douglas KAHN, Katja KWASTEK, Armin MEDOSCH, Regine
DEBATTY, Gediminas URBONAS, Misko SUVAKOVIC, Jussi PARIKKA, Rob VAN
KRANENBURG<br>
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* Conference Regional (BSR/North Europe) Organizational Board: Chris
HALES, Hege TAPIO, Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS, Kristin BERGAUST, Lily
DIAZ-KOMMONEN, and other partners of Renewable Network<br>
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* Contact: rixc (at) rixc.lv<br>
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* More information:<br>
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http://renewablefutures.net<br>
http://rixc.org<br>
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You can also follow the RF conference news by subscribing Renewable
list: http://db.x-i.net/mailman/listinfo/renewable<br>
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Organizers: RIXC in collaboration with Art Research Lab of Liepaja
University<br>
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Partners: Renewable Network, NORTH Creative Network Project,
Culturability BSR Project<br>
Support: State Cultural Capital Foundation, Riga City Council, Latvian
Ministry of Culture, Creative Europa, EEA/Norway grants<br>
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http://rixc.org</div>
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