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Dear All,<br>
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Tomorrow (rather Today already) on Thursday, September 23, 2021,
POSTSENSORIUM Virtual Conference and RIXC Festival begins with GREEN
Revisited session and our first Keynote Talk by Christiane Paul on
Art and AI - Automating the Sensorium, 4PM Riga time / 3PM (CEST)
Berlin time / 9AM (EDT) New York time! Registration
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://festival2021.rixc.org">http://festival2021.rixc.org</a><br>
<p>The Conference will take place Virtually with both - speakers and
visitors in Zoom room/s. The Keynote Talks will take place in the
Main Room, while Parallel Sessions – in two breakout rooms. <br>
Video-archived sessions (Youtube video files) will be made freely
available from the Festival website after the Conference. <br>
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<p>
Program, abstracts and registration (if you are interested to
receive Zoom link for live sessions) are available on the festival
website: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://festival2021.rixc.org/">https://festival2021.rixc.org/</a></p>
<p>Looking forward to see you in POSTSENSORIUM Opening tomorrow!
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<p> Best wishes,<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"
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<p> PostSensorium, this year's RIXC Art Science Festival and the
Fourth Open Fields Conference (virtual), will take place from
September 23-25, 2021, in Riga, Latvia, exploring the immensity of
our virtual and real life challenges that demand a renewed focus
on sensory perception and embodied experiences.</p>
<p>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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<p>* onsite<br>
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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>
<p>Exhibition will take place in the National Library of Latvia and
RIXC Gallery in Riga, Latvia, from September 24 untill November
12, 2021. <br>
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<p>* online<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>
<p>The Conference will take place Virtually with both the speakers
and the visitors in Zoom room/s. The Keynote Talks will take place
in the Main Room, while Parallel Sessions – in two breakout rooms.
Also other festival events (exhibition opening, screening events,
concert) will be available via Zoom.</p>
<p>
To receive Zoom link for live sessions, please register here: <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://festival2021.rixc.org/">https://festival2021.rixc.org/</a></p>
Video-archived sessions (Youtube video files) will be made freely
available from the Festival website (in Program part) after the
Conference.
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<p> * Keynote Speakers and Artist Talk<br>
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Christiane PAUL / 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”
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<p>Douglas KAHN / 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.</p>
<p>Špela PETRIČ / Ljubljana and Amsterdam based new media artist /
PhD in biology / a researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
/ Petrič received several awards, such as the White Aphroid for
outstanding artistic achievement (Slovenia), the Bioart and Design
Award (Netherlands), and an Award of Distinction at Prix Ars
Electronica (Austria).<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>
<br>
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 gathers together more than 80 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 Fields 2021 Conference (Riga/Virtual)<br>
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We received 70 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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* Exhibition<br>
<p>The virtual program will be connected to the exhibition, the main
physical event of this year's festival that will take place until
November 12, 2021 in the National Library of Latvia and RIXC
Gallery, featuring immersive and experiential artworks by thirteen
international artists. The exhibition will be complemented by
immersive excursions guided by curators and artists for virtual
audiences, and interactive educational programs for the local
public of Riga and Latvia. <br>
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Artists<br>
The National Library of Latvia from 24.09.2021-12.11.2021 <br>
Maria CASTELLANOS and Alberto VALVERDE (ES), Santa FRANCE (LV),
David HAINES and Joyce HINTERDING (AU), Knowbotiq (CH/AT),
Kristīne KRAUZE-SLUCKA (LV), Vanessa LORENZO (CH/ES), Špela PETRIČ
(SI), Tivon RICE (US/NL), Clement VALLA (FR/US), Rihards VĪTOLS
(LV) //<br>
RIXC Gallery from 1.10.2021-12.11.2021.<br>
Daniel HENGST (DE) <br>
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* About: 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>
<br>
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" moz-do-not-send="true">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"
moz-do-not-send="true">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, limited amount of Early Bird tickets are available:<br>
- Conference Registration Fee / Festival Pass – 9 EUR /<br>
Discount for students – 5 EUR<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" moz-do-not-send="true">rixc@rixc.org</a><br>
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<p>PROGRAMME<br>
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<p>NB! The time zone below is Riga time / EEST - Eastern European
Summer Time (UCT +3)<br>
e.g., the first Plenary Session on Thursday, September 23, 2021
begins: <br>
14.00 (EEST - Riga time) / which is 1 PM (CET - Berlin) / 12.00 PM
(BST - London) / 7 AM (EDT - Boston) / 7 PM (CST - Beijing) /
please use <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://time.is">http://time.is</a> to double check your time zone<br>
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10.00 - 10.30 Press conference and guided tour by curators through
the exhibition.<br>
The National Library of Latvia / Zoom<br>
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14.00-15.45 – Plenary Session: GREEN Revisited - Encountering
Emerging NatureCultures<br>
Welcome words by Rasa SMITE and Raitis SMITS / RIXC<br>
Introduction and moderation by Jens HAUSER / un/green / ouverte<br>
Adam BROWN. Shadows from the Walls of Death: Remediating Green.<br>
Kristin BERGAUST. FELT - Living Technologies and Renewable Futures
in Oslo <br>
María CASTELLANOS VICENTE. The Plants Sense. A multispecies cyborg
garden.<br>
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15.45 - 16.00 Break<br>
<br>
16.00-17.15. ART & AI KEYNOTE TALK<br>
Moderator Rasa SMITE<br>
Christiane PAUL. Art and AI - Automating the Sensorium<br>
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18.00 - POSTSENSORIUM Exhibition Opening<br>
Venue: the National Library of Latvia <br>
Guided tour by curator Raitis SMITS<br>
The exhibition artists: Maria CASTELLANOS and Alberto VALVERDE
(ES), Santa FRANCE (LV), David HAINES and Joyce HINTERDING (AU),
Knowbotiq (CH/AT), Kristīne KRAUZE-SLUCKA (LV), Vanessa LORENZO
(CH/ES), Špela PETRIČ (SI), Tivon RICE (US/NL), Clement VALLA
(FR/US), Rihards VĪTOLS (LV) / The National Library of Latvia from
24.09.2021-12.11.2021 // Daniel HENGST (DE) / RIXC Gallery from
1.10.2021-12.11.2021.<br>
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<p>11.00-11.10 Welcome by Conference Chairs and Curators Rasa SMITE
and Raitis SMITS. Introducing the Festival Program.<br>
Participants split in two breakout rooms for parallel sessions A
and B.<br>
Each panelist has 20 min time for the presentation including 1-2
questions.<br>
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Parallel Sessions (2 Breakout Rooms)<br>
<br>
11.10-13.00 Panel 1A. (XR) EMBODIED EXPERIENCES AND EXTENDED
REALITY<br>
Moderator Rasa SMITE<br>
Eva SJUVE. In Situ Suspension with Ontological Interfaces<br>
Andrew BURRELL. “Every Act of Reading Performs the Work“ -
Navigating Virtual Environments via Physical and Narrative
Portals.<br>
Lily DÍAZ-KOMMONEN, Cvijeta MILJAK. Making and Sharing Stories –
Immersive Experiments in Sharing Knowledge for Cultural Heritage<br>
Jonas KELLERMEYER, Jan TORPUS. Iterative Sensing &
Sense-Making in Extended Realities - "ubiCombs" as a spatial means
of investigating the condition of contemporary techno-social
hybridity<br>
Da Ye KIM. Embodied Experience of the Ultimate Border: DMZ in
Virtual Reality<br>
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11.10-13.00 Panel 1B. (VR/SENSE1) VIRTUAL SENSING AND EXPERIENTIAL
ART PRACTICES<br>
Moderator Maija DEMITERE<br>
Sander VEENHOF. Zoom Ballet<br>
Oksana CHEPELIK. Drift from Immersive Environments to VR:
Ukrainian projects on Mozilla Hubs <br>
Jānis GARANČS. Simulated Sensorium for Immersive Mappings of
Ephemeral values in time<br>
Dimitra KOUSTERIDOU. Surfaces In Becoming.<br>
Paula VĪTOLA. Experiencing electricity<br>
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13.00 - 13.10 Break <br>
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Parallel Sessions (2 Breakout Rooms)<br>
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13.10 - 15.00 Panel 2A. (XR2) EMBODIED EXPERIENCES AND EXTENDED
REALITY<br>
Moderator Maija DEMITERE<br>
Geraldine WHARRY. Humans as Living code: Has data and code become
the new skin?<br>
Paola TOGNAZZI. AxX Be my skin, Protect Me, Feel Me, Carve
yourself from my experiences<br>
Raivo KELOMEES. Cooperative Aesthetics and Embodied Multi-user
Interaction<br>
Maria NIKOLI. Making room for the body: a multisensory sketching
tool for architectural design<br>
Leo SCARIN. Remote Embodiments: Collaborative
Photogrammetry-making as a Bridge for Distant Bodies<br>
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13.10 - 15.00 Panel 2B. (VR/SENSE2) VIRTUAL SENSING AND
EXPERIENTIAL ART PRACTICES<br>
Moderator Solvita ZARINA<br>
Karla BRUNET. Narratives of Nature: Ebro Delta's
Artistic-Scientific insights (Brazil)<br>
Paul WIERSBINSKI. Remote Rules and Rituals<br>
Julian PRIEST. Expeditionary Reconnections<br>
Anna PRIEDOLA. Tasting Information<br>
Pavel RUZYAK. Filming Technology for Visually Impaired People<br>
<br>
15.00-16.00 Lunch time / Guided Tour through the Exhibition<br>
<br>
Parallel Sessions (Breakout Rooms)<br>
<br>
16.00 - 17.30 Panel 3A. (AI/DATA). INTELLIGENT ECOSYSTEMS AND
MORE-THAN-HUMAN CONDITIONS<br>
Moderator Rasa SMITE<br>
Ellen PEARLMAN. AIBO - How To Build A 'Sicko' AI Using GPT-3<br>
Jonah BRUCKER-COHEN. Deconstructing The Human Machine Relationship<br>
Sean MONTGOMERY. EmotiBit, Transdisciplinary Biometric Sensing and
Democratizing the Future of Augmented Cognition<br>
Vincenzo SANSONE. Theatre and Artificial Intelligence: from robots
to algorithms that perform on the stage. What is happening?<br>
<br>
16.00 - 17.30 Panel 3B. (AI/BIO). LIVING TECHNOLOGIES, AI &
BIOPOLITICS<br>
Moderator Solvita ZARINA<br>
Byron RICH, Kylie RIMES, Kai'lani WOODARD. The Suburbs of Accra<br>
Maija DEMITERE. Lifestyle Trends and Deep Sustainability<br>
Riad SALAMEH. Biopolitics of post-biological bodies on the web:
Performance of the internet self as an agent of surveillance
capitalism<br>
Alla SEMENOVSKAYA, Eva LINDSAY, Dhruv Shah aka LODAYA. Microplot:
genomic technologies as a potential tool of revelation for
deliberate terraforming<br>
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18.00-18.40 ARTIST KEYNOTE TALK<br>
Moderator Rasa SMITE<br>
Špela PETRIČ. Of Algos, Plants and the Vegetariat<br>
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18.40-20.00 - Artist Presentations. VIRTUAL SENSING AND
EXPERIENTIAL ART PRACTICES. <br>
Clement VALLA. Pointcloud Garden<br>
Daniel HENGST. Plants Per Second ‒ Towards a Plant Oriented
Rendering Methodology.<br>
Carly LAVE. The Golem-Labor: Researching Motion Capture Technology
+ Dance<br>
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21.00-22.00 STRANGER SENSES – Screening Program <br>
Onlien in Zoom / Onsite in RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2, Riga,
Latvia<br>
with short online presentations by young artists from ACT at MIT –
Kwan Q Li (HK/US), Pohao CHI (TW/US), Weihan JIANG (CN/US), Weilu
GE (CN/US), Kelon CEN (CN/US) / Liepaja MPLab – Ieva Viksne (LV) /
HfG Kalrsruhe – Jung Eun Lee (KR/DE).<br>
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11.00-12.20 ART-SCIENCE-ENERGY KEYNOTE TALK<br>
Moderator Rasa SMITE<br>
Douglas KAHN. On Not Seeing Blue: Energy And Materialism In Art
And Science<br>
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12.20-12.30 Break<br>
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Parallel Sessions<br>
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12.30-14.00 Panel 4A. (AI/ECO) INTELLIGENT ECOSYSTEMS AND
MORE-THAN-HUMAN CONDITIONS<br>
Moderator Rasa SMITE<br>
Joyce HINTERDING, David HAINES. Wrangling Chaos<br>
Alice BUCKNELL. The Martian Word for the World is Mother. <br>
Nina CZEGLEDY. On Sensory Awareness<br>
Sandra ALVARO. Aesthetics of Perception, a historical
approximation to inhuman vision and its ecological meaning.<br>
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12.30-14.00 Panel 4B. (SONIC1) SENSORY PERCEPTION AND SONIC
IMMERSIONS <br>
Moderator Raivo KELOMEES<br>
Michelle LEWIS-KING. Qiscapes: Listening to Cosmological Body<br>
Kazuhiro JO, Roy TAMAKI, Takuya ISHIKAWA, Tomoya MATSUURA. Naku:
The 'primary' of a voice in an anechoic chamber<br>
Silvia ROSANI. AmotIon - emotional content to connect
non-musicians to electroacoustic instruments<br>
Petros TATSIOPOULOS. Computed Spatiality and non-Linearity, or the
Virtuality of Sound<br>
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14.00-15.00 Lunch Time / Guided Tour through the Exhibition<br>
<br>
Parallel Sessions<br>
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15.00-16.30 Panel 5A. (SONIC2) SENSORY PERCEPTION AND SONIC
IMMERSIONS <br>
Moderator Solvita ZARINA <br>
Juan DUARTE. How computers learn to deep listen<br>
MOON Martina ZELENIKA. The body as a musical instrument:
generating data into audio-visual content<br>
Gabriela MUNGUÍA, Guadalupe CHÁVEZ. Rhizospheric Territories:
Expressions from the porosities of the soils (Mexico)<br>
Vygintas ORLOVAS. Sound analysis by schlieren flow visualization<br>
<br>
15.00-16.50 Panel 5B. AI & XR. EMBODIED EXPERIENCES AND
EXTENDED REALITY <br>
Moderator Oksana CHEPELIK<br>
Marina HASSAPOPOULOU. Artificial Intelligence and Post-Human
Embodied Experience<br>
Ance JANEVICA. Experimental walk: A walk through communicating
ecological complexity and immersive experiences<br>
Ilva SKULTE. Poetry reading as an embodied practice – interplay of
senses and meaning of text<br>
Claire BREACH. Peanut Head Enters<br>
Roc PARÉS. “BHDD”. An immersive art installation that enables
participants to experience their own beheading<br>
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16.50-17.00 Break<br>
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Parallel Sessions<br>
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17.00 - 18.50 Panel 6A. (SONIC3) SENSORY PERCEPTION AND SONIC
IMMERSIONS<br>
Moderator Solvita ZARINA<br>
Lauren RUIZ. Our Watchmen are Blind: An interrogation of
Subterranean Labor<br>
Stephanie ROTHENBERG, Suzanne THORPE. Tending Ostreidae: Serenades
for Settling<br>
Kathryn BLAIR, Pil HANSEN, Lora OEHLBERG. Algorithmic Rituals:
Embodied Explorations of Algorithmic Decision-Making<br>
Gundega STRAUTMANE. Artistic Experiments with Artificial Languages<br>
Ricardo Dal FARRA. Collective experiences of extended reality:
The Understanding Visual Music - UVM project.<br>
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17.00 - 18.50 Panel 6B. (GREEN) ECOLOGIES BEYOND GREEN. LIGHT,
ENERGIES AND FIELDS<br>
Moderator Daniel HENGST<br>
Richard LOWENBERG. "Info/Eco: Interferences & Resonances - The
Nature of Information"<br>
Taylor HOKANSON, Kay DARTT, J. Stephen LEE. Fine With This: An
Internet Controlled Flaming Sculpture<br>
Danielle DAMICO. The Sky is Coming<br>
Raphael ARAR, Olivia ARAR. Food Carbon Footprint Index (FCF)<br>
Veronika SELLNER. Redesigning Ecosystems: Synthetic Biology, Art
and the Non-Human<br>
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18.45 - 19.00 Plenary Session. Final Discussion and Follow-up /
GREEN Revisited events and next Renewable Futures Conference / <br>
Conference Chairs - Jens HAUSER, Kristin BERGAUST, Rasa SMITE,
Raitis SMITS<br>
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20.00-21.00 HEARING NOTES – The Greenhouse Concert <br>
with online introductions by participating artists and musicians:
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Krista DINTERE, Ivo TAURIŅŠ, Lauris ŠMITS.<br>
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10.00 - 18.00 Golem Labour Workshop (for participants only, with
final performance in Mozilla Hubs - the date to be announced).<br>
Golem-Labor is an international series of workshops that brings
together contemporary dance and mixed reality technologies,
organized by the Goethe-Institut. Riga edition is co-organized by
RIXC, and is a part of the PostSensorium festival.<br>
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18.00 The Opening of the Blooming Love VR installation by Daniel
Hengst<br>
Venue: RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2<br>
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<p>Conference Chairs</p>
<p>Rasa SMITE, PhD, Prof. of New Media Art, Liepaja University /
RIXC / Lecturer, ACT at MIT<br>
Kristin BERGAUST, Prof., FELT project / Faculty of Technology, Art
and Design, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway<br>
Jens HAUSER / Art curator and writer, independent scholar / Paris,
FR<br>
Raitis SMITS, Dr.,,RIXC / Associate Professor, Art Academy of
Latvia / Lecturer, ACT at MIT<br>
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OPEN FIELDS 2021 Conference Scientific Board:</p>
<p>Oksana CHEPELIK, Dr., leading researcher of The New Technologies
Department at The Modern Art Research Institute of Ukraine<br>
Maija DEMITERE / Lecturer and Program Director's Assistant of New
Media and Audiovisual Art MA Program at RISEBA and Liepaja
University, Latvia <br>
Lily DIAZ-KOMMONEN, Professor of New Media, Department of Media,
Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture,
Finland.<br>
Gabriela GALATI, Professor, NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti
Milan / Lecturer IED Istituto Europeo di Design, Turin /
Co-Founder IPERCUBO.eu<br>
Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS, Associate Professor, Vilnius Academy of
Arts, Department of Photography and Media Art and Doctoral School,
Vilnius, Lithuania<br>
Raivo KELOMEES, PhD., Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia<br>
Zilvinas LILAS, professor, KHM, Cologne, Germany<br>
Ellen PEARLMAN, PhD / Parsons / New School / Art-A-Hack /
ThoughtWorks / New York, USA / Docent, RISEBA University for
Business, Art and Technologies, Riga, Latvia<br>
Anna PRIEDOLA / Head of Art Research Lab, Program Director of New
Media Art BA program, Liepaja University, Latvia<br>
Helena SEDERHOLM, Prof., Biofilia & Department of Art, Aalto
University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki,
Finland <br>
Ilva SKULTE, PhD., Associate Professor, Riga Stradins University,
Riga, Latvia<br>
Chris HALES, PhD, Assistant Prof. at RISEBA University of Applied
Sciences, Riga, Latvia<br>
Marko PELJHAN, Prof., University of California Santa Barbara
Media Arts and Technology Program<br>
Alise TIFENTALE, PhD., independent scholar, Riga, Latvia<br>
Solvita ZARINA, Dr., Assoc. Prof. the Faculty of Computing,
University of Latvia, lead researcher at the Laboratory of
Innovative Information Technologies FC UL, Riga, Latvia<br>
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<p>* 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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