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Hello on Spectre list!<br>
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We are happy to announce about the extended call for Open Fields -
the international conference focusing on artistic research, changing
role of arts in societies, the transformative potential of arts, and
its relation to the sciences.<br>
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We also welcome proposals for artworks, particularly we are
interested in elaborate work by artists-researchers, PhD students,
who are working in the contested territory between academic way of
knowledge creation and contemporary art practices<br>
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Looking forward seeing you in Riga in September 29-October 2!<br>
best<br>
Rasa<br>
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Call for Open Fields Conference abstracts and Exhibition proposals<br>
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DEADLINE Extended: June 20, 2016<br>
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APPLY NOW!<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://festivalconf.rixc.lv">http://festivalconf.rixc.lv</a><br>
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More info: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rixc.org/en/festival/">http://rixc.org/en/festival/</a><br>
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<b>OPEN FIELDS Conference and Exhibition</b><br>
in the framework of <b>RIXC Art Science Festival 2016</b><br>
Riga, September 29 – October 1, 2016<br>
Venue: National Library of Latvia<br>
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Open Fields is the title of this year's international conference
taking place in the framework of the annual RIXC Art Science
festival in Riga. It brings together international scholars and
artists, working at the intersection of arts, humanities and
science. Open Fields will focus on artistic research, the changing
role of arts, its transformative potential, and relation to the
sciences. This call for participation invites contributions and
conference paper proposals by scholars, artists,
artists-researchers, art and media theorists, data designers and
critical engineers, as well as doctoral students, and scientists
from different Fields – biology, ecology, environment, digital
technologies, renewable energy, etc., who are engaged in
experiencing the transformative potential of arts.<br>
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For the exhibition and conference, we are looking for research that
is located in the contested territory between academic knowledge
production and independent creative practices. Open Fields will be
investigating the use of data visualizations and other mappings of
the contemporary. It will look into areas such as open commons, the
future of social interaction, data representation and visualisation,
critical design, sustainable infrastructures, eco-aesthetics,
techno-ecologies, bio-hacking and other techniques of a
transformative potential. No Field is excluded, yet there should
always be a connection with art; it is highly likely that art works
and conference papers will touch on several Fields, not one. It is
such an enhanced understanding of transdisciplinarity that drives
this undertaking.<br>
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Research Questions: How art and other creative practices can
meaningfully contribute to the environmental, technological and
scientific challenges of our time? What kind of new knowledge can be
created through artistic practice that collaborates with science,
technology and other disciplines? And how to deal with contemporary
aesthetics, which has undergone dramatic changes during the past
decades and keeps changing again as influenced by current post-media
situation, data visualization and other contemporary conditions?<br>
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The Conference also will feature “Playing Fields” session on
contemporary taxonomy, maintaining a connection between the
exhibition and the conference. It also will include “Open Fields –
Book Review” (PechaKucha) session, providing an opportunity for the
speakers to present their new books for other participants and the
audience.<br>
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* Conference keynote speakers:<br>
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Christiane PAUL / New School / Whitney Museum / New York<br>
Jussi PARIKKA / Winchester School of Art / University of Southampton
/ UK<br>
and others - tbc.<br>
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* Exhibition: The Open Fields conference will be complemented by the
exhibition taking place in the new Exhibition Hall of National
Library of Latvia. Partly curated, partly peer-reviewed, the
Exhibition will represent works by artists, artists-researchers and
data designers, who are challenging the notion of art and
contemporary aesthetics by moving across, bringing together and
converging different knowledge, various media and diverse Fields, as
well as using scientific, cultural and social data as new artistic
medium, and interpreting them in a new and meaningful ways.<br>
The Exhibition will be open from September 29 - November 6, 2016.<br>
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* Proceeding: The papers will be published in conference proceeding,
which will come out in the Acoustic Space, peer-reviewed journal
& book series. The call for full paper submissions will be
announced during the conference. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://acousticspacejournal.com">http://acousticspacejournal.com</a><br>
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Conference Chair: Dr. Rasa SMITE / RIXC / Art Research Lab, Liepaja
University, Latvia<br>
Festival and Exhibition curators: Dr. Raitis SMITS, Ainars KAMOLINS,
Dr. Rasa SMITE<br>
Playing Fields session will be organized and moderated by Armin
MEDOSCH / Austria<br>
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DEADLINE FOR CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS:<br>
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June 20, 2016<br>
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We welcome proposals by scholars, artists, artists-scholars,
designers, PhD researchers, curators, media theorists, art
historians, science philosophers, cultural innovators, bio-hackers,
critical engineers and data designers, as well as scientists from
different Fields – biology, ecology, environment, digital
technologies, renewable energy, and others, who are engaged in the
transformative potential of arts.<br>
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Conference themes include:<br>
* investigating contemporaneity, its representation and experience
in and through artistic practice and art-science research<br>
* data visualization, and its impact on art, science and
contemporary aesthetics<br>
* art and science – challenging new ways of knowledge creation and
its representation<br>
* changing weathers – networked responses to geophysical and
geopolitical shifts across Europe and the globe <br>
* eco-aesthetics – from sustainable architecture and critical design
to techno-ecological art practices<br>
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Conference proposal should consist of:<br>
* title and abstract (250 words)<br>
* 5-6 keywords,<br>
* and short author's biography (160 words).<br>
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Please submit your proposals online:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://festivalconf.rixc.lv">http://festivalconf.rixc.lv</a><br>
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Notifications: June 22, 2016<br>
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DEADLINE FOR EXHIBITION PROPOSALS:<br>
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June 20, 2016<br>
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Partly curated, partly peer-reviewed, the Festival Exhibition
welcomes proposals by artists, artists-researchers,
artists-engineers, data designers, as well as practice-based
doctoral students, who are challenging the notion of art and
contemporary aesthetics by moving across, bringing together and
converging different knowledge, various media and diverse Fields, as
well as by those, who are using scientific, cultural and social data
as new artistic medium, interpreting them in a new and meaningful
ways.<br>
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Artwork submissions should include:<br>
* description of idea and technical requirements (1-2 pages),<br>
* short biography and/or portfolio,<br>
* additional material (photos/video/links/etc.)<br>
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Please submit your artwork proposal via e-mail to the address:<br>
rixc (at) rixc.org<br>
Additional material, if the files are larger then 5MB, should be
sent via wetransfer.com.<br>
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Notifications: June 30, 2016<br>
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* About Open Fields Conference<br>
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Following the last year's successful launch of Renewable Futures
(renewablefutures.net – the biannual travelling conference series) –
this year RIXC with its European partners from Changing Weathers
project, and other collaborating institutions and universities from
the Baltic Sea region and Europe, are introducing Open Fields,
aiming to develop it towards an annual Riga based gathering for the
discussion on artistic reseach, the changing role of arts in
societies, art's transformative potential, and relations to
sciences.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rixc.org/en/festival/">http://rixc.org/en/festival/</a><br>
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* The International Conference Scientific Organizational board:
Dr.
Lev MANOVICH / Software Studies Initiative / The Graduate Center,
City University of New York, US<br>
Dr. Armin MEDOSCH / Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum
University, Belgrade, Serbia / Initiator of the Technopolitics
working group in Vienna, Austria<br>
PhD. Jussi PARIKKA / Winchester School of Art / University of
Southampton / UK<br>
PhD. Geoff COX / School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus
University, Denmark<br>
Prof. Kristin BERGAUST / Oslo and Akershus University, Norway<br>
Asoc. prof. Laura BELOFF / IT University in Copenhagen, Denmark /
Finnish Bioart Society, Helsinki, Finland<br>
Dr. Lily DIAZ-KOMMONEN / Head of Research Department of Media, Aalto
University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki,
Finland<br>
Dr. Ursula Damm / Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany – tbc.<br>
Dr. Andris TEIKMANIS / Vice-rector, Latvian Academy of Arts, Riga<br>
Dr. Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS / Nida Art Colony, Vilnius Academy of
Arts, Lithuania<br>
PhD. Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir / Art Education at the University
of Akureyri, Iceland<br>
Andrew Gryf PATERSON / Pixelache Helsinki / SERDE / Aalto University
ARTS Media department, Helsinki, Finland<br>
Regine DEBATTY / we-make-money-not-art.com, London, UK - tbc.<br>
Dr. Piibe PIIRMA / Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia<br>
Dr. Janis KLEPERIS / Hydrogen Laboratory, Solid State Physics
Institute, Latvian University, Riga, Latvia<br>
and others – tbc.<br>
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* The venue of the conference and exhibition: the new building of
National Library of Latvia
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lnb.lv/en/about-library/nll-building">http://www.lnb.lv/en/about-library/nll-building</a>).<br>
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* Organizer: RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture.<br>
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* Partners: Conference and Exhibition is organized by RIXC in
collaboration with Art Research Lab of Liepaja University, Arts
Academy of Latvia and Changing Weathers - Creative Europe’s project
partners (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.changingweathers.net/">http://www.changingweathers.net/</a>)<br>
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* Exhibition partner: National Library of Latvia<br>
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* Contact: rixc (at) rixc.org,<br>
Address: RIXC, Maskavas iela 4, Riga, LV 1050, Latvia<br>
Phone: +371-67228478 (office), +371-26546776 (Rasa Smite)<br>
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* Support: Creative Europe, Cultural Capital Foundation of Latvia,
Riga City Council, Latvian Ministry of Culture, and others.<br>
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Dr Rasa Smite
Artist and Founding Director of RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture in Riga,
Assoc. Prof. in New Media Art at Liepaja University,
Chief Editor of Acoustic Space, peer-reviewed book & journal series
Contact: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rasa@rixc.org">rasa@rixc.org</a>
Phone: +371-26546776
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://smitesmits.com">http://smitesmits.com</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rixc.org">http://rixc.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://renewablefutures.net">http://renewablefutures.net</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://acousticspacejournal.com">http://acousticspacejournal.com</a></pre>
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