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<div>Hello!</div>
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<div>this weekend we are celebrating RIXC's fifteenth anniversary - by
organizing a "Virtuoso - multiscience art platform"
symposium -</div>
<div>more info - below</div>
<div>and at the RIXC's new website: http://rixc.org</div>
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<div>best regards,</div>
<div>Rasa</div>
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<div>VIRTUOSO symposium marks fifteenth anniversary of RIXC,</div>
<div>May 14-16, RIXC Gallery in Riga</div>
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Symposium "Virtuoso - multiscience art platform" takes place
from May 14-16, 2015 at RIXC Gallery in Riga. It brings together three
important RIXC's spring events - 15th anniversary of RIXC,
"Virtuoso" exhibition (by emerging Latvian media artists from
Liepaja University's Art Research Lab), and Slovenian-Latvian artist
exchanges in the framework of EU Soft Control's project closing
programme.<br>
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In May 2015 RIXC celebrates it's fifteenth anniversary - RIXC was
founded in 2000 in Riga, on a base of E-Lab (1996). RIXC is Riga based
center for new media culture and artist collective, who explores
intersection of art, science and emerging media technologies. The key
founders of RIXC are media artists Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits. RIXC
produces own artworks and carries out various digital media art and
research projects. It also organizes annual Art+Communication
festival, publishes Acoustic Space journal series and curates
exhibitions. (* more about RIXC - see below)</div>
<div>http:// rixc.org</div>
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On occasion of its anniversary, RIXC curates young artist exhibition
Virtuoso, in the close of which the Virtuoso symposium will take place
this weekend from May 14-16, 2015. The symposium offers rich programme
of lectures, presentations and workshops around the topics - sound
art and art-science experiments, alternative food resources,
collecting and archiving, communication technologies and bioart.<br>
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The 1st day on May 14th featured a public lecture by philosopher and
Virtuoso exhibition curator Ainars Kamolins, artist presentation by
Maja Smrekar, and art-science presentation session by Virtuoso artists
- Rihards Vitols, Paula Vitola, Maija Demitere, Krista Dintere and
Kristaps Biters, RIXC artists and curators Rasa Smite and Raitis
Smits, artist Gints Gabrans and biologist Janis Liepins.<br>
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Today, on the 2nd symposium day, the "Audio.holic" workshop will
be led by Monika Pocrnjic, who suggests that any object that produces
sound can also be a musical instrument. The workshop will provide an
opportunity for developing experimental musical objects, made up of
various materials and used for the purpose of manipulating sound. The
evening programme will include demo-show by real-time multi-player
strategy game PRE-ALPHA-TEST-PARTY developed by Kristaps Biters.<br>
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The symposium will culminate on Saturday, May 17th, 2015 - during
the "Museum Night 2015" programme, Virtuoso exhibition in RIXC
Gallery will be open till the midnight. Public will be welcomed also
by "YogHurt" workshop, which will be led by Maja Smrekar. As the
food prices keep growing due to reduction of products amount and
increase of world's population, the artist Maja Smrekar is looking for
new solutions and alternatives for food production in the future. The
"YogHurt" workshop will provide an opportunity to produce yoghurt
enriched with genetically modified organisms that contains enzymes of
the artist's own body.<br>
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The evening programme will include public lectures by composer Rolands
Kronlaks and sound artist Voldemars Johansons, who will speak about
data sonification and manipulation in sound art and electronic musical
compositions. Lectures will be follewed by "audio.holic"
performance produced by Monika Pocrnjic and workshop
participants. The other performance of the Museum's night programme in
RIXC Gallery will be "Damned robe of Rainis" by audio-visual
organism Trihars (wordplay in Latvian - "nolapitais" means both
'patched' and also 'damned')'.The performace by Trihars will propose
their interpretation about the creative collaboration of important
Latvian writers and thinkers of the 19th-20th century - Rainis and
Aspazija (**more info about them - see below). The performance
consists of a chaotic, flowing sound together with a hypnotic
projection showing seemingly ordinary things that the legendary
Latvian couple had to deal with are highlighted in the
performance.</div>
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And last but not least, on the following week - May 22-24, 2015,
Virtuoso exhibition artworks by artists Paula Vitola and Rihards
Vitols, and "Talk to Me" video installation by RIXC artists Rasa
Smite, Raitis Smits and Martins Ratniks will traveling to Maribor,
Slovenia, where it will be shown in Kibla Gallery space.<br>
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More info on Virtuoso symposium program is available at
http://rixc.org<br>
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Exhibition "Virtuoso - multiscience art platform" is open
from April 16th until May 17th, 2015, at RIXC Gallery, address: 11.
novembra krastmala 35 (entrance from Minsterejas street). Opening
hours: from Tuesday until Sunday, 12pm to 6pm, closed on Mondays. Free
entrance.<br>
Virtuoso webpage: http://virtuozi.mplab.lv<br>
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Contacts: rixc@rixc.lv; +371 67228478 (RIXC office), +371 26546776
(Rasa Smite).<br>
Symposium is organized by E-LAB Center for Electronic Art and
Media in collaboration with RIXC Center for New Media Culture and Art
Research Laboratory (MPLab) of Liepaja University.<br>
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Support: State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, Riga City
Council, EU program "Culture 2007-2013" in the framework of
"Soft Control" project.<br>
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* more about RIXC<br>
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In May 2015 RIXC celebrates it's fifteenth anniversary - RIXC was
founded in 2000 in Riga, on a base of E-Lab (1996). RIXC is Riga based
center for new media culture and artist collective, who explores
intersection of art, science and emerging media technologies. The key
founders of RIXC are media artists Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits; they
are also curators, lecturers and writers about new media art
avantgarde practices, networking and archiving issues, and they both
hold PhD degrees.<br>
RIXC Center was founded with the aim to facilitate a platform where
artists together with people from different background and public can
meet, work together and innovate. RIXC produces own artworks and
carries out various digital media art and research projects. It also
organizes annual Art+Communication festival, publishes
Acoustic Space journal series and curates exhibitions - the largest
and more recent of which was FIELDS (2004, fields.rixc.org, curated
together with Armin Medosch). Through their artworks, events and
publications RIXC has introduced novelty themes such as internet radio
(1997), locative media (2003), trans-cultural mapping (2004), spectral
ecology (2007), art and science of renewable energy (2009),
techno-ecologies (2011), art of resilience (2012).<br>
RIXC is also key founder of Liepaja University's Art Research Lab &
New Media Art education programme. RIXC has extensive experience in
network building locally and internationally - currently RIXC is
developing its Renewable Network, and has launched new conference
series entitled Renewable Futures, the 1st edition of which will take
place in Riga, October 8-10, exploring "transformative potential of
arts in the age of post-media".</div>
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<div>http:// rixc.org - new website</div>
<div>(old, 'historical' website: http://rixc.lv)</div>
<div>http://acousticspacejournal.com</div>
<div>http://renewablefutures.net</div>
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* more about Rainis and Aspazija<br>
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Rainis (1865-1929) was famous Latvian poet, playwright, translator,
and politician, Aspazija (1865-1943) was Latvian poet and
playwright, and Rainis' wif. Theirs 150th anniversaries are wildly
celebrated around Latvia in 2015 through many cultural events.</div>
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