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Hello, on Spectre list!<br>
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we are excited as our festival, which this year will be featuring
Open Fields conference and exhibition, is coming soon! The dates
are: September 29 - October 1, 2016<br>
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we are happy to announce main events, the list of participants, and
preliminary programme, please see below<br>
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more detailed programme will be following go (it should be ready in
about two weeks time)<br>
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for conference you can register here: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rixc.org/en/festival/">http://rixc.org/en/festival/</a><br>
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welcome to Riga this fall! :)<br>
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best<br>
Rasa<br>
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OPEN FIELDS Conference and Exhibition<br>
@ RIXC Art Science Festival<br>
Riga, September 29 – October 1, 2016<br>
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Contemporary and networked responses to geophysical, socio-political
and cultural shifts in European landscapes ...<br>
<br>
Open Fields is the title of this year’s international conference and
exhibition taking place in the framework of the annual RIXC Art
Science festival in Riga, from September 29 until October 1, 2016,
focusing on new aesthetics, contemporary conditions, digital
practises and post-media situation. Since the first festival issue
took place twenty years ago, the festival has grown and developed
itself into the annual gathering for international scholars and
artists, working at the intersection of arts, humanities and
science. The Open Fields festival edition aims to present the most
innovative approaches in artistic research, and to discuss the
changing role of arts, its transformative potential, and relation to
the sciences.<br>
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Conference Public Keynote Speakers: <br>
<br>
* Prof. Christiane PAUL / New School / Whitney Museum / US<br>
* Dr. Jussi PARIKKA / Winchester School of Art / University of
Southampton / UK<br>
* Monica BELLO / Arts@CERN / CH<br>
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We received more then 120 compelling abstracts from around the
world, out of which the conference reviewers board selected 80
proposals. Overall, this year we expect that together with invited
keynotes, featured session participants, and exhibition artists in
the festival will participate more then 100 participants from 30
countries, representing more then 60 universities, art centers,
museums, institutions and companies, as well as independent artists,
scientists and schoolars from different fields, who are engaged in
exploring the transformative potential of arts.<br>
<br>
Info about the Open Fields and Early Bird registration for the
conference is available in festival website: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rixc.org/en/festival/">http://rixc.org/en/festival/</a><br>
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CONFERENCE<br>
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The Open Fields conference and its related exhibition is challenging
the artistic 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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Conference Research Questions: <br>
<br>
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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Conference Themes:<br>
<br>
* investigating contemporaneity – its representation and experience
in and through artistic practice and art-science research<br>
* data visualization – and its relation to contemporary aesthetics<br>
* art and science – challenging new ways of knowledge creation and
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>
<br>
Featured Sessions and Thematic Keynotes:
<br>
<br>
The Open Fields conference aims to become the collaborative research
platform on artistic research in North Europe. Each year we will be
inviting several universities from the Baltic-Nordic region to host
the Open Fields featured artistic research sessions; this year we
are presenting:<br>
* AARHUS UNIVERSITY's Contemporainity Research Group (Aarhus, DK)
*
LIEPAJA UNIVERSITY'S Art Research Lab (Liepaja, LV)<br>
We also have conference thematic keynote speakers:
* Andy GRACIE /
artist (UK/ES) – on art and science
*Andris TEIKMANIS / vice-rector
of Latvian Academy of Arts / - on art and politics<br>
An other speciall session – Open Fields BOOK REVIEW will be taking
place at the close of the each day of the conference. On September
30th (Day 1), the featured book presentations and book-discussion
will take place by Armin MEDOSCH (AT/UK) and Christiane PAUL about
their recently published books; whereas on October 1 (Day 2) Book
Review 20”x20 (PechaKucah format) will take place, providing an
opportunity for the speakers to present their new books and other
publications for the audience.<br>
<br>
The Open Fields Conference participants: <br>
<br>
Jamie ALLEN (CH), Miguel ALMIRON (FR), Sandra ALVARO (ES),
Anders-Petter ANDERSSON (NO), Ágnes Karolina BAKK (HU), Marita BATNA
(AU), Meghan Moe BEITIKS (US), Julien BELLANGER (FR), Laura BELOFF
(DK), Tracey BENSON (AU), Erich BERGER (AT / FI / DK), Samir BHOWMIK
(FI), Tom BIELING (DE), Maryam BOLOURI (DE), Leonore BONACCINI (FR),
Till BOVERMANN (DE), Sabine BREITSAMETER (DE), Jan Hendrik
BRUEGGEMEIER (AU), Sarah BURGER (CH), Benjamin CADON (FR), Cédric
CARLES (FR), Aigars CEPLĪTIS (LV), Ioan Ovidiu CERNEI (AT), Alice
COLQUHOUN (UK), Geoff COX (NO), Ursula DAMM (DE), Irina DANILOVA
(US), Marieke DE JONG (NL), Daniela DE PAULIS (NL), Jurij DOBRIAKOV
(LT), Anna DUMITRIU (NL), Ahmed EL-FEKY (NO), Christina ELINGSEN
(NO), Lisa ERB (DE), Lucas EVERS (NL), Bobbie FARSIDES (UK),
Christian FAUBEL (DE), Cathy FITZGERALD (IE), Patricia FLANAGAN
(AU), Frode FLEM (NO), Raune FRANKJÆR (DK), Natalia FUCHS (RU),
Gabriela GALATI (IT), Francisco Javier Fernandez GALLARDO (UK),
Jānis GARANČS (LV), Verina GFADER (NO), Christina Della GIUSTINA
(NL), Wayner GONCALVES (BR), Andy GRACIE (ES), Ance GRICMANE (LV),
Artūrs GRUDULS (LV), David GUEZ (FR), Evin GÜLER (NO), K.G. GUTTMANN
(NL), Ian GWILT (UK), Chris HALES (UK), Jake HARPER (US),
Nadia-Konstantinia HATZIMITRAGA (GR), Christiane HEIBACH (DE),
Martin HOWSE (DE), Helena HUNTER (UK), Adam HYDE (US), Ellie IRONS
(US), Lucy IRVINE (AU), Liene JAKOBSONE (LV), Alana JELINEK (UK),
Terry JENOURE (US), Ryan JORDAN (HK), Owen KELLY (FI), Raivo
KELOMEES (EE), Jon KEMP (UK), Raphael KIM (UK), Jānis KLEPERIS (LV),
Anne KØLBÆK IVERSEN (NO), Mara-Johanna KOLMEL (DE), Saskia KORSTEN
(NL), Marinos KOUTSOMICHALIS (GR), Arendse KRABBE (NL), Matteo
LANFRANCHI (IT), Deborah LAWLER-DORMER (NZ), Pēteris LESNIČENOKS
(LV), Marie-Eve LEVASSEUR (DE), Manu LUKSCH (AT), Jacob LUND (NO),
Armin Medosch (AT), Iris MEIER (US), Margarida MENDES (PT), Vytautas
MICHELKEVIČIUS (LT), Anna Maria MONTEVERDI (IT), Tālis MUZIKANTS
(LV), Mirko NIKOLIĆ (UK), Azadeh NILCHIANI (FR), Netta NORRO (SI),
Vladimirs ŅEMCEVS (LV), Pauline O'CONNELL (IE), Jenny ODELL (US),
Thomas ORTIZ (FR), Aneta PANEK (DE), Nedyalka PANOVA (UK), Matt
PARKER (UK), Mukul PATEL (UK), Andrew PATERSON (FI), Marko PELJHAN
(SI / US), Luke PENDRELL (UK), Krista PĒTERSONE (LV), Susanne PRATT
(AU), David QUILES GUILLÓ (ES), Alexandru RAEVSCHI (DE), Grit
RUHLAND (DE), Martin RUMORI (AT), Sabina SALLIS (UK), Audrey SAMSON
(CA), Przemyslaw SANECKI (UK), Vincenzo SANSONE (IT), Martin
SCHNEIDER (DE), Lena SÉRAPHIN (FI), Andreas SIMON (CH), Adilson
SIQUEIRA (BR), Eva SJUVE (UK), Ilva SKULTE (LV), Lisa SO YOUNG PARK
(HK), Ela SPALDING (PA), Christina STADLBAUER (BE / FI), Justyna
STEPIÉN (PL), Minka STOYANOVA (HK), Joanna SZLAUDERBACH (DE), Ulla
TAIPALE (FI), Hege TAPIO (NO), Andris TEIKMANIS (LV), Brad TODD
(CA), Jan TORPUS (CH), Milos TRAKILOVIC (DE), Lucas VAN DER VELDEN
(NL), Mārtiņš VANAGS (LV), Bart VANDEPUT (BE / FI), Eva VERHOEVEN
(UK), Edit Emese VIZER (HU), Rihards VĪTOLS (LV), Yvonne VOLKART
(CH), Artis VOLKOVS (LV), Frieda WIK (NO), Danielle WILDE (DK), Amy
YOUNGS (US), Solvita ZARIŅA (LV), Emily ZHUKOV (PA), Karolina
ŻYNIEWICZ (PL). <br>
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Conference Proceedings: <br>
<br>
The conference 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 and on the Acoustic Space journal
website: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://acousticspacejournal.com">http://acousticspacejournal.com</a><br>
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EXHIBITIONS: <br>
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The Open Fields conference will be connected to the festival's
featured exhibition taking place in the new Exhibition Hall of the
National Library of Latvia. Partly curated, partly peer-reviewed,
the exhibition will represent 25 works by 35 artists,
artists-researchers and data designers, who are challenging the
notion of art and contemporary aesthetics. They are 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>
<br>
Open Fields Exhibition artists: James AUGER (UK), Jimmy LOIZEAU
(UK), Subramanian RAMAMOORTHY (UK) and Alan MURRAY (UK), Laura
BELOFF (FI), Erich BERGER (FI/AT) and Mari KETO (DK/FI), Līvija
DAUDZE (LV), Gints GABRĀNS (LV), Mindaugas GAPŠEVIČIUS (LT/DE),
Jānis GARANČS (LV), Christoph HAAG (DE), Martin RUMORI (DE),
Franziska WINDISCH (DE) and Ludwig ZELLER (DE), Adam HARVEY (US/DE),
Bjørn Erik HAUGEN (NO), Ellie IRONS (US), Gideon KIERS, David KIERS
& Lucas van der VELDEN / Telcosystems (NL), Raphael KIM (UK),
Karen LANCEL (NL) and Hermen MAAT (NL), Pei-Ying LIN (TW), Dimitrios
STAMATIS (UK) & Špela PETRIČ (SI), Rafael LOZANO-HEMMER (MX/CA),
Mauro MARTINO (IT/US) and Jianxi GAO (CN/US), Dmitry MOROZOV (RU),
Avner PELED (IL), Elisa SPIGAI (IT), Idamaija PITKONEN PIGUET (FI)
and Soujanyaa BORUAH (IN), Esther POLAK (NL) & Ivar van BEKKUM
(NL), Roberto PUGLIESE (IT/FI) & Jukka HAUTAMÄKI (FI/UK),
Vygandas ŠIMBELIS (LT/SE), Jan TORPUS (CH), Paula VĪTOLA (LV), etc.<br>
<br>
This year, we are also showing two more exhibitions, which are
included in the festival's parallel programme. As a part of Changing
Weathers project the exhibition with the title TURNTON – A SMALL
CITY ON THE SEA by Time's Up artist collective (AT/AU) will take
place in RIXC Gallery from September 28 – October 5, 2016. Through a
process of scenario planning based upon futures processes and the
current state of the oceans, Time's Up artistshave developed a model
for a small town that has transformed through this development to
become an example of what a possible future might be like. <br>
<br>
The other exhibition – THE IMPULSES is will take place in RISEBA
University's Architecture and Media Centre H2O 6 from September 19 –
October 2, 2016, organized by Liepaja University's Art Research Lab
(Mplab). It will be showing the interactive and sound art work by
artists: Madara KLAVINSKA, Anna PRIEDOLA, Paula VITOLA, Gunta
DOMBROVSKA, Arturs KALVANS, Reinis NALIVAIKO, Uldis HASNERS. The
exhibition will bel also featuring THE NEW SOUND DAYS performance
programme on the evening of September 30, 2016.<br>
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VENUES:
The National Library of Latvia
<br>
The main venue of the conference and exhibition the new building of
the 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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RIXC Gallery<br>
Address: 11. Novembra Krastmala 35, entrance from Minsterejas iela<br>
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RISEBA Center for Architecture and Media “H2O 6”, <br>
Address: Durbes iela 4<br>
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OPEN FIELDS PROGRAMME (preliminary)<br>
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WEDNESDAY, September 28, 2016<br>
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12.00 – Press Conference
<br>
18.00 – Opening of the Exhibition: Turnton, Small City on the Sea
by Time's Up (AU/AT).
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RIXC Gallery, Address: 11. Novembra Krastmala 35, entrance from
Minsterejas iela<br>
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THURSDAY, September 29, 2016
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15.00 – Conference Registration
<br>
Public Keynote Lectures:<br>
16.00 – 17.00 Jussi PARIKKA (Winchester School of Art / University
of Southampton / UK)
<br>
17.30 – 18.30 Christiane PAUL (New School / Whitney Museum / US)
<br>
19.00 – The Opening of Open Fields Exhibition and RIXC Festival
Reception
The National Library of Latvia, Address: Mukusalas iela 3<br>
<br>
FRIDAY, September 30, 2016<br>
09.00 – 16.00 - Open Fields conference Day 1: Contemporainity / Art
as Research
Featured sessions by Aarhus University'S Contemporainity
Research Group, and Liepaja university's Art Research Lab / Thematic
keynotes / Parallel sessions
<br>
17.00-18.30 – Open Fields Book Review 1 (Featured session): book
presentations by Armin MEDOSCH and Christiane PAUL, and discussion.
<br>
The National Library of Latvia
<br>
21.00 – Satellite event: New Sound Days performance programme and
Impulses exhibition<br>
RISEBA Center for Architecture and Media “H2O 6”, Address: Durbes
iela 4<br>
<br>
SATURDAY, October 1, 2016
<br>
10.00 – 15.00 Open Fields conference Day 2: Eco-Aesthetics / Art and
Science
Featured session by Changing Weathers project / Thematic
keynote by Andy GRACIE / Parallel sessions.
<br>
16.00-17.00 Public Keynote Lecture: Monica BELLO (Arts@CERN / CH)
<br>
17.00 – 18.00 Open Fields Book Review 2 (20”x20 / Pecha Kucha
format) presentations: by authors – Open Fields participants <br>
18.00 Festival Closing: Art-Science Coctails<br>
The National Library of Latvia<br>
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FESTIVAL EXHIBITIONS<br>
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September 29 – November 2, 2016
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OPEN FIELDS Featured Exhibition <br>
The main festival exhibition featuring 25 artworks by international
artists<br>
The Opening – September 29, 2016, 19.00.
<br>
The National Library of Latvia, Address: Mukusalas iela 3<br>
<br>
September 28 – October 5, 2016 <br>
Turnton, a Small City on the Sea
<br>
Artists: Time's Up (AU/AT)
<br>
The Opening – September 28, 2016, 18.00
<br>
RIXC Gallery, Address: 11. Novembra Krastmala 35, entrance from
Minsterejas iela<br>
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September 19 – October 2, 2016
<br>
The Impulses. The New Sound Days
<br>
Exhibition by young artists from
<br>
The Opening – September 19, 2016, 19.00
<br>
The Concert and Performance programme – September 30<br>
RISEBA Center for Architecture and Media “H2O 6”, Address: Durbes
iela 4<br>
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About <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>
<br>
The International Conference Scientific Organizational board:
<br>
<br>
Prof. Lev MANOVICH / Software Studies Initiative / The Graduate
Center, City University of New York, US
<br>
PhD. 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>
Assoc. 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 <br>
Dr. Andris TEIKMANIS / Vice-rector, the Art Academy of Latvia,
Riga
<br>
Dr. Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS / Nida Art Colony, Vilnius Academy of
Arts, Lithuania
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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>
Dr. Piibe PIIRMA / Tallinn's University, Tallinn, Estonia
<br>
Dr. Janis KLEPERIS / Hydrogen Laboratory, Solid State Physics
Institute, Latvian University, Riga, Latvia<br>
Dr. Raivo KELOMEES / Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia<br>
Regine DEBATTY / we-make-money-not-art.com, London, UK<br>
<br>
Conference Chair: Dr. Rasa SMITE / RIXC / Art Research Lab, Liepaja
University / RISEBA / Riga, Latvia<br>
<br>
Festival and Exhibition curators: Raitis SMITS and Rasa SMITE.
<br>
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The festival is organized by RIXC Center for New Media Culture.
<br>
Open Fields Conference Academic Partners: Liepaja University's Art
Research Lab, RISEBA University for Business, Art and Technologies,
and Latvian Academy of Arts. <br>
RIXC Festival Exhibition and Open Fields Conference partners: <br>
Latvian National Library and Creative Europe's project Changing
Weathers partners <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.changingweathers.net/">http://www.changingweathers.net/</a><br>
<br>
Contacts: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:rixc@rixc.org">rixc@rixc.org</a><br>
<br>
Address: RIXC Center for New Media Culture
<br>
Maskavas iela 10, Riga, LV 1050<br>
Phone: +371-67228478 (office), +371-26546776 (Rasa Smite), <br>
<br>
Support: EU programme Creative Europe, State Cultural Capital
Foundation of Latvia, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Latvia,
Goethe Institute Riga, Mondrian Foundation, Pro Helvetia (tbc.)
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More information:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rixc.org">http://rixc.org</a><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>
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