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Dear Spectre<br>
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please find below an announcement about two new publications -
TECHNO-ECOLOGIES 2, new volume of Acoustic Space journal, which is the
1st collection of the Media Art Histories 2013: RENEW conference
papers, and TALK TO ME book - on artistic research project exploring
human-plant communication.<br>
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Both published by RIXC (Riga) and Liepaja's University Art Research
Lab (Liepaja), and are available via amazon.com, or by ordering
directly from RIXC via e-mail: rixc@rixc.lv<br>
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http://www.amazon.com/Techno-Ecologies-II-Acoustic-Space-12/dp/993484<span
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http://www.amazon.com/Talk-Me-Rasa-Smite/dp/9934843404<br>
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best<br>
Rasa<br>
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Techno-Ecologies II. Acoustic Space #12<br>
Edited by Rasa Smite, Armin Medosch and Raitis Smits<br>
ISBN-13: 978-9934843419<br>
312 pages (English edition)<br>
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Techno-ecological perspectives have become now one of the key
directions in contemporary discourses and are part of a larger
paradigm shift from new media to post-media art. A range of practices
which were once subsumed under terms such as media art, digital art,
art and technology or art and science, have experienced such growth
and diversification that no single term can work as as a label any
more. Traditionally separated domains are brought together to become
contextual seedbeds for ideas and practices that aim to overcome the
crisis of the present and to invent new avenues for future
developments.<br>
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This is the 2nd volume in the Acoustic Space series that continues to
build a 'techno-ecological' perspective whereby new artistic practices
are discussed that combine ecological, social, scientific and artistic
inquiries. Edited and published in the context of the exhibition
Fields, it makes a perspective its own that sees art as a catalyst for
change and transformations.<br>
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This volume gives various insights into research tactics and
strategies which form the larger context of the FIELDS exhibition
which takes place in Riga, Latvia, The Arsenals Exhibition Hall of the
Latvian National Museum of Art (May 15 - August 3, 2014,
http://fields.rixc.lv) while the texts included here are mainly
contributions from two earlier conferences, Media Art Histories 2013:
RENEW, the 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art,
Science and Technology held in Riga, Latvia, October 8-11, 2013, and
the Art+Communication 2012 festival conference Art of Resilience ,
Riga, Latvia, October 5-6, 2012.<br>
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Contributors: Armin Medosch, Douglas Kahn, Kevin Hamilton, Katja
Kwastek, Lauren Fenton, Kuai Shen Auson, Vytautas Michelkevicius,
Roberta Buiani, Erich Berger, Laura Beloff, Tega Brain, Brad Miller,
Michel Bauwens, Claudia Roselli, Eric Kluitenberg, Heba Amin, Erandy
Vergara, Gavin MacDonald, Conor McGarrigle, James Warner, Brian Reffin
Smith, Saskia Korsten, Maryam Bolouri, Gabriela Galati, Amos Bianchi,
Asa Stahl, Kristina Lindstrom, Eric Snodgrass, Takis Zourntos, Marjan
Verstappen, Caroline Langill, Ebru Yetskin.<br>
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http://www.amazon.com/Techno-Ecologies-II-Acoustic-Space-12/dp/993484<span
></span>3412<br>
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TALK TO ME. Exploring human-plant communication<br>
By Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Martins Ratniks, with reflection by
Nishant Shah<br>
ISBN-13: 978-9934843402<br>
144 pages (color)<br>
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Everyone wants someone to talk to. Perhaps ancient Latvians, like
Prince Charles, who in a 1986 television interview stated I just come
and talk to the plants, may be right after all. Recent scientific
studies have proved that talking to plants may encourage their growth.
RIXC artists were keen on testing this concept by developing Talk to
Me, an online interface which allows people to talk to their plants
while away from home. The Talk to Me book introduces the process and
results of our artistic research project on human-plant communication.
The networked installations with live growing bean-plants were set up
and presented in Helsinki, Riga, Tallinn, Ventspils, Basel, Lueneburg
and Stavanger. Before the beans ripened they received over 13 000
online messages in different languages.</div>
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Bio<br>
Rasa Smite anad Raitis Smits are artists, researchers and innovators,
working with emerging media technologies since the roaring mid-90s.
They are key founders of the first Riga based electronic arts center
E-Lab, now - RIXC., and since 1997 they are working together with
artist, VJ and designer Martins Ratniks, collectively creating art
installations and digital avantgard projects.<br>
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