[spectre] RENEWABLE FUTURES 2017: Economia, April 28–29, 2017

[Rasa Smite]

Hello on Spectre list,

We are happy to announce that the 2nd Renewable Futures conference will 
take place next week, in Eindhoven, April 28-29, 2017, please see below
http://thinkeconomia.com

and on this occasion, we also have published the new volume of Acoustic 
Space (16), which contains the papers from the 1st Renewable Futures 
conference (Riga 2015), and overview of the Fields exhibition (Riga 2014)
http://acousticspacejournal.net

best regards,
Rasa


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RENEWABLE FUTURES 2017: Economia
The 2nd Conference on Art, Science and Society in the Post-Media Age
Eindhoven, April 28–29, 2017

The second edition of the Renewables Futures conference with the title 
Economia will take place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, aiming to push 
the boundaries of our thinking about economy. Two-day conference is a 
part of the larger programme of Economia festival, organized by Baltan 
Laboratories from April 28–30, 2017 in NatLab, former Physics Lab of 
Philips.

http://thinkeconomia.com/renewable-future-conference

* Background - Renewable Futures conference series

The Renewable Futures is new international art and science conference 
series launched by RIXC Center for New Media Culture in collaboration 
with Renewable Futures European network, and supported by Creative 
Europe programme. The Renewable Futures aims to invent new avenues for 
more sustainable and imaginative future developments by 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 conference launching event took place in Riga 2014, inspired by the 
approach of Fields Exhibition (co-curated by Armin Medosch, Rasa Smite 
and Raitis Smits). The Fields Exhibition was large-scale manifestation 
of the art in post-media age, which suggested not to look at art in a 
narrow sense but to take into account all kinds of creative practices 
that bring together new ways of thinking, scientific knowledge, 
aesthetics, technologies and social practices (http://fields.rixc.lv).

The first edition took place in Riga, 2015, focusing on transformative 
potential of art in the post-media age. Following the Eindhoven's 
“economia” edition, the third conference is planned to take place in 
Helsinki, 2018/2019.

http://renewablefutures.net

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* Economia – Festival on economy, without economists

In its second edition, the Renewable Futures conference is moving to 
Eindhoven. Organized by Baltan Laboratories, this year's conference aims 
to push the boundaries of our thinking about economy. The 2-day 
conference (April 28–29) is a part of a broader programme of the 
Economia festival that explores new ideas and thinking about our 
economy. The Economia Festival is curated by Wiepko Oosterhuis and Olga 
Mink. Accordingly to curators, the festival is “laboratory for ideas”, 
they invite participants to “step out of the existing frame of thought”. 
The festival presents “unexpected and playful approaches looking at the 
essence of economy, thus establishing a fresh point of view on the 
economic system and our society”. The Economia festival programme offers 
extensive program with keynote lectures, films, performances, 
installations, and conference - the 2nd edition of Renewable Futures.

Thematically, this year's conference is based on five characteristics of 
economy:

• Economy as evolution: economy is about development and evolution. The 
direction in which societies evolve is influenced by the type of 
economic relationships they develop.

• Economy as a game: economy is about rules and laws. Gaming is about 
learning the laws and rules of a game so that you get better at it and win.

• Economy as a fiction: economy is about ideas and faith. Credit has 
existed right from the start of societies, in the form of trust that A 
would pay B. Every form of an economic relationship is an idea, or to 
put it better perhaps a prejudice. Which means it can change.

• Economy as a market: economy is about supply and demand. The greatest 
and most misunderstood cliché́. Demand and supply is a way to describe 
life. Each influences the other in unpredictable and complex ways.

• Economy as magic: economy is both tangible and invisible. We are 
familiar with two forms of trade, goods and money. The one that you can 
handle and the other that exists only in the form of ones and zeros. The 
latter seems like pure magic. It is with good reason that some of these 
‘financial wizards’ call themselves ‘Master of the universe’.

Explore all these different roles of economy yourself!
http://thinkeconomia.com

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* Economia Festival Keynotes

28 April, 19:45 – 21:30
Age of Anger. Individual well-being as a necessity for economic growth.
Pankaj Mishra
Pankaj Mishra’s latest book Age of Anger couldn’t be more well-timed. He 
shows that this time is not unique: even the beginning of the twentieth 
century was full of destructive instinct, nationalism and terrorism.

29 April, 13:30 – 15:15
How digital technologies shape society. Does the same apply to economic 
mechanisms?
Evgeny Morozov
Evgeny Morozov is one of the best informed critics of cyber-utopianism 
of our time. In his books and articles, Morozov writes about the 
political and social implications of technology, and the crossroads our 
society is at.

29 April, 19:45 – 21:30
The economy of nature. An evolutionary biologist's view on life as an 
economic model
Geerat Vermeij
In his book 'Nature: An Economic History' (2004) Evolutionary biologist 
Geerat Vermeij summarizes economic ideas about ecosystems and evolution 
that he has been developing for several decades.

30 April, 15:00 – 16:45
A world of consumers. The epic history of consuming stuff
Frank Trentmann
Why we have too much stuff, and what can we do about it? Dr. Frank 
Trentmann will talk about the epic history of consumption, and the goods 
that have transformed our lives over the past 600 years.

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* Renewable Futures Conference Keynotes

Friday, April 28, 2017 at 10.00, Cinema 2
Hybrid Economies. In-Between Sharing and Selling, Networking and Fabricating
By Rasa Smite, Kristin Bergaust and Lily Diaz-Kommonen

The potential of hybrid economy lies on relations between a market-based 
system and sharing economies, between commerce and art. In their 
presentation, Rasa Smite, Kristin Bergaust and Lily Diaz-Kommonen will 
explore utopias and realities of hybrid economy. On the one hand, art 
today has become a source for creative ideas, ‘feeding’ nearly all other 
fields of society. On the other, artistic research claims to become an 
independent form of knowledge on its own. The presenters will be tracing 
both a way back to 90s Internet avant-garde ideas on collaborative 
networking and gift-economies, and to the promise of the 21st century’s 
digital currencies and peer-economies.


Friday, April 28, 2017 at 17.05, Cinema 2
Post Oil Utopia
By Olga Kisseleva

POST OIL UTOPIA is a multimedia project that is devoted to the global 
oil depletion. The concept of the project was conceived during Olga 
Kisseleva’s visit to Kuwait, a country that is one of the most striking 
examples of a mono-economy state. What will happen to this country if, 
in the near future, humanity ceases to depend so much on the country’s 
main source of income? POST OIL UTOPIA is an outright attempt to imagine 
a model of future society, functioning without the requisite dependence 
on the single resource. It is a utopian concept of an ideally organized 
system, expressed in the form of a performance.


Saturday, April 29, 2017 at 10.00
Rainbows And Pots of E.Coli: Speculations On Economic Micro-Evolution
By Raphael Kim

Rapid advances in biotechnology might bring evolutions of more than one 
kind: not only that of artificially-evolved lifeforms, but of our 
perceived functions of them within society.
In addition to their identity as workhorses – for the development of 
modern healthcare, sustainable food, energy and the environment – 
microbes and DNA could play compelling roles in stretching their 
application bases further in the context of becoming physical components 
of economic infrastructure. In his presentation, Raphael Kim will be 
exploring scenarios of bio-engineered finance through speculations 
grounded in scientific research and argues the values behind such an 
approach.


Saturday, April 29, 2017 at 17.05
A Counting for the Language of Modern-Day Economic Fictions
By Nicholas McGuigan, co-writer Thomas Kern

The goal of this presentation is to explore the language – accounting – 
that is driving modern-day economic fictions. Nicholas McGuigan and 
Thomas Kern will provide an insight into how the current degenerative 
economy is being driven by a monosyllabic language that supports an 
objective, linear view of reality.
The presenters will argue how the language of accounting is changing in 
order to begin transitioning towards a more holistic view of the world, 
paving the way for more regenerative economies. It is precisely this 
change in the language of business – from one of ac'count'ing – to one 
of accountability that enables creative collaborative futures for 
business, accounting and economic systems. Changing this language is 
critical.

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* Programme

http://thinkeconomia.com/articles/renewable-futures-conference-schedule

Day 1, Friday 28 April
10:00 – 17:30
Moderator: Dan Diojdescu

10:00
Theme: Economy as Evolution
Rasa Smite, Kristin Bergaust and Lily Diaz-Kommonen / RIXC & Liepaja 
University / Hybrid Economies: In-Between Sharing and Selling, 
Networking and Fabricating, Art and Commerce

10:35
Theme: Economy as Evolution
Alexia Mellor / Newcastle University / Interrogating the Local and 
Global: Participatory Approaches to Wicked Problems and The Economy
Enrico Benco and Dimitra Viveli / Go Sailing for a Change & To Dodeka / 
Exchange vs. Repetition: a call for balance through economy and art
Rose Marie Barrientos / independent researcher / The Artist as Economic 
Agent

12:50
Theme: Economy as Magic
Tamar Shafrir / Het Nieuwe Instituut / Min(t)ing Wealth in a 
Dematerialising World
Conor McGarrigle / Dublin Institute of Technology / Détourning Data
Matthew Wilson / independent artist / The Inner Sanctum in which the 
Infinite Expands
Camilla Boemio / AAC Platform, AICA International Association of Arts 
Critics, UNIPVM / The Intersectional Economy

14:15
Theme: Economy as Fiction
Meredith Degyansky / independent researcher / Informal Economies as 
Fictional Realities
Cecilia Wee and Dani Admiss / Royal College of Art / The Cult of the 
Mind: Posthuman Chronicles
Timothy Smith / Aalto University / Destruction, Impossibility, and 
Failure: Alternative Creative Economies in Art Education
Daniela de Paulis / ASCA, University of Amsterdam / Port City as Utopian 
City.

15:40
Theme: Economy as a Game
Stephanie Polsky / Goldsmiths College & Vienna University of Technology 
/ Dare to Lose
Michael Brodsky / Loyola Marymount University / Twitter Wars: Fighting 
Hans Solo
Josef Bares / independent artist / Creating Through Consuming: 
Shopping-based Research

Max Dovey / Institute of Network Cultures / Credit Worthy 


17:05
Theme: Economy as Fiction
Olga Kisseleva / independent artist / Panthéon-Sorbonne University Paris 
/ POST OIL UTOPIA

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Day 2, Saturday 29 April
10:00 - 17:30
Moderator: Rasa Smite

10:00
Theme: Economy as Evolution
Raphael Kim / Queen Mary University / Rainbows And Pots of E.Coli: 
Speculations On Economic Micro-Evolution

10:35
Theme: Economy as a Game
Milos Trakilovic / independent artist / A Shot In The Arm
Solvita Zarina / University of Latvia / Economy as a Game with Visual 
Design Guidelines
Fran Ilich and Gabriela Ceja / Diego de la Vega Coffee Co-op / Sabotage 
Tlacatlaolli Variable

Jenifer Wightman / Cornell & The New School / Waste is a Serious Lack of 
Imagination

12:50
Theme: Economy as a Market
Tamar Shafrir / Het Nieuwe Instituut / The Chimera of Cost
Korsten and De Jong / ArtEZ / Give-and-take
Elisa Oreglia, Janaki Srinivasan and Krish Raghav / SOAS, University of 
London / Supply, Demand, Middlemen: Digital Technologies and Markets in 
the Global South
Liene Jakobsone / Art Academy of Latvia / Speculative Supply For 
Fictional Demand

14:15
Theme: Economy as a Market, as Evolution
Stephanie Rothenberg / SUNY Buffallo / Trading Systems
Mikko Dufva / VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd / Imagining 
Alternative Future Economies
Pierangelo Dacrema and Brunella Bruno / Università degli Studi della 
Calabria & Bocconi University / The Death of Money

Helena Sederholm and Martti Raevaara / Aalto University / Space Between 
– Co-creation of Arts, Business and Technology

15:40
Theme: Economy as Evolution
Pablo Velasco / University of Warwick / Blockchain Morphology: an 
historical perspective on the affaire between money and networks

Enrique Encinas/ Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute / 
Illuminating Infrastructure
Matthew Wilson / independent artist / Mimetic Economies

Anna Maria Tekampe / State University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe / 
The Information Economy As Part of the "Creatio Continua"

17:05
Theme: Economy as a Fiction
Nicholas McGuigan / The Accountability Institute / A Counting for the 
Language of Modern-Day Economic Fictions

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The first publication of new Renewable Futures will be out
and presented in Economia conference!

We are happy to announce that on the occasion of Economia festival and 
2nd Renewable Futures conference, we have published the new volume of 
Acoustic Space series, with which we begin also new series, focusing on 
exploring the transformative potential of art in the post-media age. The 
1st Renewable Futures book includes papers from the 1st Renewable 
Futures Conference, and and an overview of the Fields exhibition (Riga 
2014), a large-scale post-media manifestation, jointly curated by Armin 
Medosch, Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits.
Authors and contributors: Domenico Quaranta, Martha Buskirk, Miško 
Šuvaković, Dieter Daniels, Andreas Broeckmann, Geoff Cox, Jacob Lund, 
Ieva Astahovska, Karla Brunet, Oksana Chepelyk, Edith Doove, Gabriela 
Galati, Julian Hanna, Lisa Jevbratt, Normunds Kozlovs, AnneMarie Maes, 
Conor McGarrigle, Armin Medosch, Jennifer no.e Parker, Daniela de 
Paulis, Helena Sederholm, Ilva Skulte, Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, 
Vygandas “Vegas” Šimbelis, Isidora Todorović, Polona Tratnik and Fields 
Exhibition artists.
Published by RIXC in Riga, and first presented in Eindhoven, April 28, 2017.

http://acousticspacejournal.com

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Conference chairs: Rasa Smite, Olga Mink, and Wiepko Oosterhuis

Conference International Scientific Board:
Katja Kwastek, Misko Suvakovic, Jussi Parikka, Dieter Daniels, Douglas 
Kahn, Lev Manovich, Laura Beloff, Lily Diaz-Kommonen, Kristin Bergaust

Conference Local Organizational Board:
Katja Kwastek, Daniëlle Arets, Annie Fletcher, Dan Diojdescu, Ingrid van 
der Wacht, Alain Heureux, CeesJan Mol

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Contacts:

Baltan Laboratories | Kastanjelaan 500, 5616 LZ Eindhoven, The Netherlands
http://baltanlaboratories.org
info at baltanlaboratories.org | + 31 40 2946848 | + 31 40 2946847
Facebook | Twitter

RIXC Center for New Media Culture in Riga
http://rixc.org | rixc at rixc.org | +371 67228478

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Support and partners:

Renewable Futures is European collaboration project led by RIXC Center 
for New Media Culture RIXC (LV) and involves six partners: Baltan 
Laboratories (NL), Ars Longa (FR), Oslo and Akershus University College 
of Applied Sciences (NO), Media Lab of Aalto University (FI), Hangar 
(ES) and Liepaja University (LV).

Renewable Futures conference and Economia festival is supported by EU 
Programme - Creative Europe, NordPlus, State Cultural Capital Foundation 
of Latvia, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Latvia, BRABANT C, 
creative industries of fund NL, DIT DUS, Van abbe museum, Mondriaan 
fonds, BROET BASEMENT, venturespring, yellow online, institute of 
network cultures, NAT LAB.

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