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face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">Hello on Spectre list!<br>
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<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">from August 19-21, 2015, we - RIXC are organizing a
symposium 3D BioLab <br>
at Cafe Europa, in Mons, Belgium,</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3"> you are very welcome to join us and participate!<br>
</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">please see below a short-notice call<br>
</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">also, in relation to the symposium, we also have
curated Transformative Ecologies exhibition, which will be
open in Maison du Design Gallery in Mons, from August 20-30,
2015 </font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">best<br>
Rasa<br>
</font></font></p>
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<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">(Short-notice) Call For Symposium Participation:</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">3D BioLab : TRANSFORMATIVE ECOLOGIES</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV">… <font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3"><span style="font-style: normal">an </span><span
style="font-style: normal">in</span><span style="font-style:
normal">vestigation into the changing patterns of
contemporary ecologies, art and science.</span></font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">3D BioLab – RIXC residency at Cafe Europa is
announcing a call for participation in the symposium, which
will take place from August 19-21, 2015 in Mons – <span
lang="en-US">European Capital of Culture 2015</span>,
Belgium.</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">The symposium programme will begin on August 19th
with the opening of the exhibition in Maison du Design
gallery. Entitled TRANSFORMATIVE ECOLOGIES, this exhibition <span
style="font-style: normal">is an </span><span
style="font-style: normal">in</span><span style="font-style:
normal">vestigation into the changing patterns of
contemporary ecologies, art and science. </span><span
style="font-style: normal">It</span> features artworks by
Latvian and Belgian artists, who have created innovative art
science installations as well as sonic, visual and 3D
representations of various environmental data collected during
their long term “techno-ecological” art research projects.</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">The TRANSFORMATIVE ECOLOGIES exhibition is providing
the context for 3D BioLab symposium that will take place in
the following days – August 20th and 21st in Cafe Europa. The
Day 1 will offer the workshop on 3D data visualization, using
as a point of departure the data from two artistic science
research projects – BIOTRICITY by Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits,
and INTELLIGENT BEEHIVE by Annemie Maes. During the Day 2
artists <span style="font-weight: normal">Gert
Aertsen and D</span>avid de Buyser will introduce their
approach to 3D object generation by conducting the workshop on<span
style="font-weight: normal"> </span><span
style="font-weight: normal">WIND POWER, SOUND AND MOVEMENT</span><span
style="font-weight: normal">. </span></font></font> </p>
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<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">CALL for participation:</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">We welcome participants to apply for the symposium
and workshops by sending emails with short motivation letter
and short biography to: <br>
</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">rixc (at) rixc.lv <br>
</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">Deadline: August 10, 2015.</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">Admission is free.</font></font></p>
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<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">EXHIBITION:</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3"><span lang="en-US">TRANSFORMATIVE ECOLOGIES </span><span
lang="en-US">exhibition</span><span lang="en-US"> </span><span
lang="en-US">takes</span><span lang="en-US"> place in </span><span
lang="en-US">the framework </span><span lang="en-US">Mons –</span><span
lang="en-US"> European Capital of Culture 2015, August </span><span
lang="en-US">19</span><span lang="en-US"> to 30, 2015,
featuring innovative art </span><span lang="en-US">and
science </span><span lang="en-US">works, that </span><span
lang="en-US">addresses the environmental issues and </span><span
lang="en-US">deal </span><span lang="en-US">with</span><span
lang="en-US"> “</span><span lang="en-US">tehno-ecologic</span><span
lang="en-US">al</span><span lang="en-US">” </span><span
lang="en-US">data representation. </span></font></font> </p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3"><span lang="en-US">Curators – Rasa Smite and Raitis
Smits / RIXC, exhibition design – Rudolf Bekic. </span></font></font>
</p>
<p class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%"
lang="lv-LV"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">Artists – Gints Gabrans,
well-known Latvian contemporary artist, in his work METABOLIC
DOMINANCE offers a vision on future of food by proposing to
use cellulose disintegrating enzymes, which allows obtaining
nutrients from grass, wood, paper... Innovative artist couple
Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits / RIXC together with Martins
Ratniks keep exploring human-plant communication by analysing
and mapping the words out from 13 000 messages received during
TALK TO ME artistic research project: what exactly people say
to the plants so they grow better, taller and more beautiful?
Interspecies communication is also explored in Belgian
artist's Anne-Marie Maes work TRANSPARENT BEEHIVE, which is a
living sculpture with the bee colonies that have been
monitored, measured and visualized. Likewise, sound artist
Voldemars Johansons in his artwork from ATTRACTORS series has
observed the movement trajectories of an ant colony, creating
3D object from selected data. Negotiations with micro-size
species – the bacteria, have been used also in two other works
by Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits from BIOTRICITY series.
Together with Voldemars Johansons they have made live
installation with sonifications of real-time
bacteria-electricity generation process, while together with
video artists Martins Ratniks and Janis Jankevics – Rasa Smite
and Raitis Smits have created new visualizations of POND
BATTERY, which was installed in Riga Botanical garden and
monitoring of which took place in the out-door conditions for
7 month-long period. </font></font> </p>
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lang="lv-LV"> <font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font
style="font-size: 12pt" size="3">Exhibition also includes
artworks by two young Latvian artists who offer highly utopian
visions and positive future scenarios. Paula Vitola in her
work PRIVATE ATMOSPHERE has made a costume that can help you
to create your own 'ideal' and very private environment, yet
not escaping, rather being a part of a society. And last but
not least, Rihards Vitols with his AKA (Well) project has
developed a proposal for new agricultural field that could be
named “cloud-farming” as it is using helium balloons to
collect rain water.</font></font></p>
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<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">PRELIMINARY SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME </font></font> </p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">at CAFÉ EUROPA, Mons, Belgium</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">Wednesday, 19.08.2015 </font></font> </p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">18:00 > 20:00</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">Exhibition Opening with Bacteria Battery art-science
public show by Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits / RIXC and
audiovisual performances by Rihards Vitols / Trihars and
Martins Engelis / VADi.</font></font></p>
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<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">Thursday, 20.08.2015 </font></font> </p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">12:00 > 16:00</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">Symposium Day 1: BIOTRICITY, a poetics of green
energy, INTELLIGENT BEEHIVE research and 3D DATA
VISUALIZATION: workshop conducted by Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits
by Annemie Maes.</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">17:00 > 20:00 </font></font> </p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">3D BioLab Public Program: Renewable Futures lecture,
artist presentations and participatory discussions (Playing
Fields I).</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><br>
<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">Friday, 21.08.2015 </font></font> </p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">12:00 > 16:00</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">Symposium Day 2: WIND POWER, SOUND AND MOVEMENT
RESEARCH, AND 3D OBJECT GENERATION: workshops conducted by
Gert Aertsen and David de Buyser </font></font> </p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">17:00 > 20:00 </font></font> </p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">3D BioLab Closing Program: lectures and participatory
discussions (Playing Fields II), workshop result demos and art
science performances.</font></font></p>
<br>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">Sunday, 23.08.2015 </font></font> </p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">15:00 > 18:00</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">FAMILY 3D BIOLAB (for local participants): VIRTUOSO
workshop – introducing experiments from the 17th century
scientists–amateurs and how artists today work with science:
building battery from mud, using bees as living 3D printers,
'harvesting' drinking water from the clouds.<br>
<br>
</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">More info: <a href="http://rixc.org/">http://rixc.org</a>
</font></font> </p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3">Contact: rixc (at) rixc.lv, rasa (at) rixc.org (Rasa
Smite)</font></font></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3"><span lang="en-US">Organized by RIXC in collaboration
with Brussels Urban Bee Lab and Mons2015. </span></font></font>
</p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 100%" lang="lv-LV"><font
face="Times New Roman, serif"><font style="font-size: 12pt"
size="3"><span lang="en-US">Support</span><span lang="en-US">ed
by
Mons 2015, WBI, </span><span lang="en-US">Latvian Ministry
of Culture </span><span lang="en-US">of Republic of Latvia,
and </span><span lang="en-US">European Economic Area
Financial mechanism. </span></font></font> </p>
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