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<div>hello at Spectre!</div>
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<div>we are happy to announce that the newest issue (No 8) of the
"Acoustic Space" issue - ENERGY is out now, and in relation to
that we (RIXC + Renewable Network) also have organized an exhibition
"grow_ability", which introduces with artistic explorations
on "nature and food as energy resource".</div>
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<div>see below more information on both - journal and exhibition</div>
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<div>best</div>
<div>Rasa</div>
<div>http://renewable.rixc.lv</div>
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<div>ENERGY.</div>
<div>Scientific and Artistic, Utopian and Critical Visions</div>
<div>Acoustic Space (No 8).</div>
<div>Peer-reviewed Journal for Transdisciplinary Research on Art,
Science, Technology and Society<br>
<br>
Edited by Rasa Smite, Armin Medosch, Kerstin Mey, Raitis Smits</div>
<div>Published by RIXC (Riga) and MPLab of Liepaja university,
2011.</div>
<div>ISSN 1407-2858<br>
</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>* Energy makes change<br>
<br>
In human society, energy is the most essential resource driving its
economy and its future development. Yet, the currently used forms of
terrestrial energy production are non-sustainable, posing serious
danger to climate, people and the environment. Now, in the
twenty-first century, human society with its information technologies
needs more resources then ever before, thus sustainable development of
both energy and information technologies have become the key issues of
the present.</div>
<div>Building on the notion that saving-the-world scenarios can be
successful only if people from different fields become more
susceptible towards new ideas and new collaborations, this issue of
the Acoustic Space journal aims to become a cross-disciplinary
platform for innovative thought combining the results of both
scientific and artistic research.</div>
<div><br>
In this volume, scientists and artists, academic researchers, media
theorists, social scientists, activists and other lateral thinkers are
introducing their scientific and artistic, utopian and critical
visions on future terrestrial energy.<br>
</div>
<div>The publication covers a broad scope of "energy" topics under
4 main sections: "Information and energy", "Changing the
future landscape of sustainability", "Energy in nature and
society" and "Science and art of renewable energy
technologies".<br>
<br>
Authors: Eric Kluitenberg, Michel Bauwens, Ludger Hovestadt, Vera
Bühlmann, Sebastian Michael, Lina Dokuzovic, Julian Priest, George
Papanikolaou, Vasilis Kostakis, Andrew Gryf Paterson, John Reshaur
Enevoldsen, Jegan Vincent de Paul, Janis Kleperis, Liga Grinberga,
Imants Dirba, Ilze Klepere, Ingrida Sahta, Ilze Baltina, Juris Blums,
Bartaku, Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits.<br>
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Price: 20 EUR (including postal expenses).<br>
<br>
You can order a copy of journal by sending an e-mail with your request
to: rixc@rixc.lv<br>
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<br>
The Acoustic Space journal, was initially founded in 1998 by E-Lab /
RIXC (Riga) for new media culture and creative explorations within
digital networked environments and electro-acoustic space. Since 2007
Acoustic Space has come out as a peer-reviewed (refereed)
international journal for transdiscplinary research on art, science,
technology and society. It is published by MPLab (Art Research Lab) of
Liepaja University (Liepaja, Latvia) in collaboration with RIXC, The
Centre for New Media Culture (Riga, Latvia).<br>
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This issue of the journal is published with support of a grant from
Norway through the Norwegian Financial Mechanism in the framework of
the project "Development of New Media Art Education in Liepaja"
(LV0086), and co-financed by The State Cultural Capital Foundation
(Latvia).<br>
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<div>http://rixc.lv | http://mplab.lv</div>
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<div>GROW_ABILITY -</div>
<div>- artists explore sustainability issues from "nature as
resource of energy" perspective.<br>
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<div>http://renewable.rixc.lv<br>
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<div>"grow_ability" is an interdisciplinary art exhibition taking
place in kim? / RIXC Gallery at Spikeri from April 1 to May 8, 2011,
in Riga, Latvia.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>The exhibition addresses the issues of sustainability in relation
to our planet's ecology and energy from the "food as energy" and
"nature as resource of energy" perspectives. The exhibition
features three installations: Super Meal by Erik Sjödin (SE), Folk
Pharmacy by Serde (LV), and Talk to Me by RIXC artists collective
(LV).</div>
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<div>* SUPER MEAL by Swedish artist Erik Sjödin is collaborative
experiment (together with farmers, chefs and scientists) with the
aquatic plant Azolla - one of the worlds fastest growing plants,
which also is a rich source of nutrients, yet it is virtually
unexplored as food.</div>
<div>http://www.eriksjodin.net/</div>
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<div>* Latvian artists and culture researchers Signe Pucena, UÆis
Pucens, Ieva Vitola (the Interdisciplinary Art Group SERDE) and
Aigars LielbÇrdis (LU LFMI LFK, LU HZS) in the exhibition present
their project FOLK PHARMACY - an artistic interpretation of the use
of indoor and wild plants as food and folk medicine.</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>* Artists Raitis Smits, Rasa Smite and Martins Ratniks exhibit
the most recent project by RIXC - Talk to Me (Long Bean 2011) - that
examines the old assumption that plants which had been talked to grow
better. You are kindly asked to talk to the bean plants by using an
online remote interface http://rixc.lv/talktome, thus, presumably,
helping the "long bean" plants to grow better, faster and
longer.<br>
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Exhibition concept / curators: Raitis Smits and Rasa Smite.
Scenography: Rudolf Bekic. Production: RIXC - Raitis Smits, Daina
Silina, Agnese Baranova.</div>
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<div>Exhibition is organised by The Centre for New Media Culture RIXC
in collaboration with the Renewable Network, in the framework of the
Baltic-Nordic collaboration project "Art as Research: Energy"
supported by Nordic Culture Point, and co-financied by State Cultural
Capital Foundation of Latvia and Riga City Council.</div>
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Contacts and information: The Centre for New Media Culture RIXC, 11.
Novembra krastmala 35-201, Riga, LV-1050, Latvia. E-mail: <rixc
(at) rixc.lv>, Ph.: +371 67228478 (office)<br>
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http://renewable.rixc.lv<br>
http://twitter.com/rixcriga<br>
http://rixc.lv</div>
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