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Dear All,<br>
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Please find below the call for (virtual) <br>
<p>Deadline for RIXC Festival/ Open Fields2021 conference:
POSTSENSTORIUM <br>
extended until September 6, 2021!</p>
Please apply here -> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://openfields2021.rixc.lv/openconf.php">https://openfields2021.rixc.lv/openconf.php</a><br>
<p>Looking forward to see you in the virtual conference, taking
place from September 23-25, 2021, virtually in Zoom. The only
physical event of this year's festival will be the international
exhibition in the National Library of Latvia and RIXC Gallery in
Riga.<br>
More info will follow soon on the website:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://festival2021.rixc.org/">https://festival2021.rixc.org/</a>
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Best,<br>
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Rasa<br>
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PostSENSORIUM<br>
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RIXC Art Science Festival 2021<br>
and Open Fields Conference<br>
September 23–25, 2021, Riga, Latvia (Virtual)
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://festival2021.rixc.org/">https://festival2021.rixc.org/</a><br>
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PostSensorium, this year's RIXC Art Science Festival and the Fourth
Open Fields Conference (virtual), will take place from September
23-25, 2021, exploring the immensity of our virtual and real life
challenges that demand a renewed focus on sensory perception and
embodied experiences.<br>
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Open Call for Conference Proposals<br>
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Deadline Extended - September 6, 2021
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APPLY NOW! <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://openfields2021.rixc.lv/openconf.php">https://openfields2021.rixc.lv/openconf.php</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://festival2021.rixc.org/">https://festival2021.rixc.org/</a><br>
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PostSensorium festival aims to provide a platform for artistic
interventions and critical discussions on 21st-century's virtual
sensing technologies, science and aesthetics, reconsidering the
relations between the actual and virtual, organic and artificial,
natural and techno-social, human and “more-than-human”...
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The PostSensorium Festival Program will feature the Opening of the
PostSensorium Exhibition (the only physical event of this year's
festival) showing the works by internationally recognized artists
who are at the forefront interrogating novel sensing tools,
immersive technologies, and experiential art practices.<br>
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The PostSensorium Virtual Program will consist of the annual Open
Fields Conference, online WebVR exhibition and Screening Program by
young and emerging artists, Live Concert and Performances from RIXC
Greenhouse, Artist Talks and outstanding Keynote Lectures discussing
the contemporary mediums, artistic practices and novel tools for
exploring human and “more-than-human” sensoriums, AI and aesthetics
of the 21st century, and art practices creating new immersive
experiences.<br>
<br>
* Keynote Speakers<br>
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<span
id="gmail-m_-6370321280685302307docs-internal-guid-d27996cf-7fff-9edf-ebda-4a27f127b59b"
style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Christiane PAUL</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> / professor of media studies at The New School / Adjunct Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City / well known as the author of the book “Digital Art” (Thames & Hudson. 2003/2008/2015/2022) / curator of “The Question of Intelligence: AI and The Future of Humanity” (2020) exhibition.</span></span><br>
<p><b>Oliver GRAU</b> / art historian and media theoretician / Chair
Professor for Image Science at Danube University, Austria /
Founder of the Archive of Digital Art and the MediaArtHistories
conference series / author of “Virtual Art: From Illusion to
Immersion” (MIT Press/Leonardo Book Series, 2003), and other books
on media art history and immersive arts. <br>
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<p><b>Douglas KAHN </b>/ historian of the arts, theorist and writer
/ Honorary Professor at Sydney College of the Arts at University
of Sydney, Australia / author of Noise Water Meat: A History of
Sound in the Arts (MIT Press, 1999) and other books on sound and
energies in music, art, media arts and literature. <br>
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* Concept and Themes<br>
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“We like to imagine ourselves as rational beings who think and
speak, yet to live means first and foremost to look, taste, feel,
and smell the world around us.” (Emanuele Coccia, 2016)<br>
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The human sensorium has always been mediated. “Without the 'medium'
of air or water, the anthropoid ear finds it impossible to hear”
(Caroline A Jones, 2006). But with more recent enhancement of
virtual and sensing technologies, and intensification of its daily
use, our 'sensoriums' have become more mediated than ever before.
Recent conditions of navigating our lives between the virtual and
the real, demand a renewed focus on sensory perception and embodied
experience.<br>
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Earlier cyberfiction referred to the body as a “meat machine”, the
only function of which is to facilitate the activity of the brain,
so – to think; while our thinking separated from the body was
considered to be a purely transcendental act. Even if contemporary
neuroscience increasingly confirms that our “will'' is an effect of
basic autonomic neurons (hence, 'sensing'') we keep designing our
machines, including the intelligent ones, “to foster the fantasy
that bodies are separate from the minds that 'control' them”.
Moreover, as an art historian, curator and author Caroline A Jones
puts it that “embodied experience through senses (and their
necessary and unnecessary mediations) is how we think”. (Jones,
2006)<br>
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According to contemporary philosopher Emanuele Coccia “our existence
– whether sleeping or awake – is a relentless stream of the
sensible…”, yet the communication of two – body and mind,
imaginative and physical, natural and artificial – needs a medium,
as “the things are not the sensible themselves, they need [a media]
to become visible, tangible, audible”. (Coccia, 2016)<br>
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PostSensorium festival will take on the earlier RIXC studies on
“techno-ecological perspective” aiming to open it up towards broader
discussion on “post-sensorium conditions”; whereby asking which
mediums, technologies or practices are better than others served to
reveal our sensorium – as mediated being and extended reality.<br>
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The festival will gather together artists, theorists, and
researchers who are in a forefront of exploring the “post-sensorium
conditions”, critically interrogate transformative potential of
arts, and use virtual sensing tools for creating new embodied and
immersive experiences in which sensible and actual, embodied and
imaginative, natural and artificially intelligent are in a
continuous interaction..<br>
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* OPEN CALL: Open Fields 2021 Conference (Riga/Virtual)<br>
<br>
We welcome proposals for the PostSensorium conference by artists,
PhD students and researchers from different fields, who explore
extended reality applications, virtual sensing tools and other
immersive technologies, use data, AI and ML algorithms; collaborate
with science, biology, ecology and other disciplines; create and
critically engage with embodied experiences, immersive
environments, and experiential practices.<br>
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Topics:<br>
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- Embodied Experiences and Extended Reality<br>
- Virtual Sensing, Photogrammetry and Experiential Art Practices<br>
- Sensory Perception and Sonic Immersions<br>
- Intelligent Ecosystems and More-Than-Human Conditions<br>
- Ecologies Beyond Green - Light, Energies and Fields<br>
- Living Technologies - Artificial Intelligence & Biopolitics<br>
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DEADLINE for Conference Abstract submissions:<br>
August 20, 2021<br>
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Please submit your proposals online:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://openfields2021.rixc.lv/openconf.php">https://openfields2021.rixc.lv/openconf.php</a> (direct link to
submission form)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://festival2021.rixc.org">http://festival2021.rixc.org</a> (more info / conference and festival
website)<br>
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Conference proposals should consist of:<br>
- title and abstract (max 200 words),<br>
- 5–6 keywords,<br>
- short author's biography (120 words).<br>
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* Publication<br>
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The selected papers will be published in the new edition “GREEN
Revisited” of Acoustic Space (Volume 19) / Renewable Futures (Issue
4), co-edited by Rasa Smite, Jens Hauser and Kristin Bergaust,
published by RIXC, 2022.<br>
Call for full papers is open with the deadline October 30, 2021, for
the participants of the Open Fields 2020 and 2021 and Renewable
Futures conferences – PostSensorium (OF2021, Riga), Ecodata (OF2020,
Riga), and Living Technologies (RF2021, Oslo).<br>
Send your submissions to: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rixc@rixc.org">rixc@rixc.org</a> and cc: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rasa.smite@rixc.org">rasa.smite@rixc.org</a>
(editor).<br>
More info: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://acousticspacejournal.com">http://acousticspacejournal.com</a><br>
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* Exhibition<br>
<br>
The virtual conference and festival program will be connected to the
exhibition, the only physical event of this year's festival that
will take place from September 24 until November 12, 2021 in the
National Library of Latvia and RIXC Gallery, featuring immersive and
experiential artworks by fourteen international artists. The
exhibition will be complemented by onsite guided tours and
interactive educational programs for the local public of Riga and
Latvia, as well as virtual excursions by curators and artists for
online audiences.<br>
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* Context: GREEN Revisited and Renewable Futures<br>
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Open Fields is the annual RIXC Art Science festival conference based
in Riga and organized in collaboration with its academic partner
– MPLab (Art Research Lab) of Liepaja University, Liepaja, Latvia.
Open Fields is a leading Baltic Nordic platform for critical
discussions on emerging discourses and novelty art forms in the
field of artistic research, digital media, art and science, and
techno-ecologies.<br>
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Open Fields is a part of Renewable Futures, a larger international
network and biannual traveling conference series in the Baltic Sea
and North European region that aim to invent new avenues for more
sustainable and imaginative future developments, shaping 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. The first
Renewable Futures conference took place in Riga (2015), followed by
two next editions in Eindhoven (2017) and Helsinki (2018).<br>
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This year, the fourth Renewable Futures conference will take place
in Oslo, in November 4-6, 2021, exploring the topics related to
“Futures of Living Technologies”.
Currently, the Call for Renewable
Futures 2021 “Living Technologies” virtual conference in Oslo is
also open with the deadline – September 6, 2021.
More info and
submission from is available here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://feltproject.no">https://feltproject.no</a><br>
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This year's Open Fields 2021 “PostSensorium” (virtual) conference in
Riga, and Renewable Futures 2021 “Living Technologies” (virtual)
conference in Oslo, are manifesting a closing phase of “Green
Revisited - Encountering Emerging Naturecultures (GREEN)” Creative
Europe's cooperation project. The GREEN project aims to develop a
European platform that shapes and promotes an emerging
“naturecultures” paradigm via the arts and enhances criticality by
investigating the pervasive greenness trope.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://green.rixc.org">http://green.rixc.org</a><br>
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* Registration Fees / Tickets<br>
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Festival's Virtual Program offers festival passes as well as single
event tickets:<br>
- Conference Registration Fee / Festival Pass – 18 EUR /<br>
Discount for students – 10 EUR<br>
- Single Event tickets (Keynote Talks, Conference Panels, Virtual
Tour by Curators through the Exhibition, Video Screening, Concert
and Performances) – 5 EUR / 3 EUR (with student discount)<br>
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On site Exhibition in the Library and Gallery has a free entrance.
Guided Tours for school groups can be booked for no charge via
e-mail <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rixc@rixc.org">rixc@rixc.org</a><br>
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* Support and Partners:<br>
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The PostSensiorum Conference is co-organized by RIXC's academic
partners - MPLab (Art Research Lab) of Liepaja University and RISEBA
University of Applied Sciences.<br>
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The PostSensiorum Festival and Conference program take place in the
framework of “Green Revisited - Encountering Emerging Naturecultures
(GREEN)” project co-funded by the EU program Creative Europe. GREEN
project is led by RIXC in collaboration with the partners Baltan
Laboratories (The Netherlands), Emmetrop (France), Zavod Projekt
Atol (Slovenia), Oslo MET (Norway), Biofilia at Aalto University
(Finland), MPLab / Art Research Lab at Liepaja University (Latvia).<br>
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The festival is supported by The State Culture Capital Foundation of
Latvia, Riga City Council, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic
of Latvia, Goethe Institute, and others.<br>
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* Producers and Contact:<br>
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The Festival is Produced by The RIXC Centre for New Media Culture.<br>
Festival curators: Rasa Smite (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rasa@rixc.org">rasa@rixc.org</a>) and Raitis Smits
(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:raitis@rixc.org">raitis@rixc.org</a>)<br>
Festival producer: Agnese Baranova (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:agnese@rixc.org">agnese@rixc.org</a>)<br>
PR and information coordinator: Liva Silina (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rixc@rixc.org">rixc@rixc.org</a>)<br>
Contact e-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rixc@rixc.org">rixc@rixc.org</a><br>
Phones: +371 29635167 (Agnese Baranova), +371 26546776 (Rasa Smite)<br>
Address: RIXC the Centre for New Media Culture, Lencu iela 2, Riga,
LV-1010, Latvia<br>
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