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<p>Hello on Spectre list,</p>
<p>this is a reminder - that the deadline for RIXC Festival
exhibition is coming soon - on June 7,</p>
<p>but we also announce the extended deadline for the 2nd Open
Fields conference (on artistic research), the topic of which this
year is:</p>
<p>VIRTUALITIES AND REALITITIES<br>
</p>
<p>the new deadline for the conference now is June 20, 2017<br>
</p>
<p>welcome to Riga in October 19-21, 2017!</p>
<p>best regards,<br>
Rasa<br>
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VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES
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The 2nd International Open Fields Conference on Artistic Research
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in the framework of RIXC Art Science Festival 2017
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October 19 – 21, 2017, Riga, Latvia
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://festival2017.rixc.org">http://festival2017.rixc.org</a>
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* DEADLINE EXTENDED FOR THE CONFERENCE
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– June 20, 2017
<br>
Apply here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://openfields2017.rixc.lv">http://openfields2017.rixc.lv</a>
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* DEADLINE CLOSES FOR THE EXHIBITION
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– June 7, 2017
<br>
Apply here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://exhibition2017.rixc.lv%E2%80%A8">http://exhibition2017.rixc.lv
</a>
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VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES aims to establish a space for artistic
interventions and conversations about the complex implications of
immersive technologies. Immersive technologies coupled with
superior virtual environments, artificial intelligence algorithms,
faster processors, and biometrics are launching a new era in
virtual experiences, entertainment and story-telling. At the same
time these technologies have the potential for implementing new
systems of invasive monitoring and control. What do these new
developments in VR/AR mean and how artistic research in this new
field can contribute for education, entertainment, social policy,
and systems of codified knowledge?
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This year's RIXC Art Science festival programme will feature the
2nd Open Fields conference on artistic research, as well as
workshops, performances and exhibitions, exploring the theme
“virtualities and realitites”. The conference and other festival
events will take place from October 19–21, 2017, in Riga's most
significant contemporary art venues – kim? Contemporary Art Center
and RIXC Gallery, as well as in the Art Academy of Latvia, and the
Latvian National Museum of Art.
<br>
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* Keynote Speakers:
<br>
<br>
Bruce STERLING, author, journalist, editor, and critic / Beyond
the Beyond / WIRED / USA – tbc.
<br>
Ellen PEARLMAN / Parsons / New School / Art-A-Hack / ThoughtWorks
/ New York, USA
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David ROTHENBERG / New Jersey Institute of Technology / USA
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and others – tbc.
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* About Open Fields
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<br>
The Open Fields conference is the annual gathering in Riga,
Latvia, for international scholars and artists working at the
intersection of arts, humanities and science. The conference was
launched in 2016 with the aim to create the Nordic-Baltic region
based platform for artistic research. It is taking place in the
framework of the RIXC Art Science festival. The 1st conference
edition took place in Riga, October 2016, gathering together 120
participants representing 60 universities from 30 countries
world-wide. The conference venues this year will be: the Art
Academy of Latvia, and the Latvian National Museum of Art, and we
expect to host 80-100 participants. We welcome proposals from
independent artists as well as university based
artists-researchers and scholars from different other fields, if
they have a relation and/or interest in art and other creative
contemporary practices.
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* VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES
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Immersive technologies coupled with superior virtual environments,
artificial intelligence algorithms, faster processors, and
biometrics are launching a new era in virtual experiences,
entertainment and story-telling. At the same time these
technologies have the potential for reinforcing stereotypes,
contributing to massive economic and social disruptions, and
implementing new systems of invasive monitoring and control.
What do these new developments in VR/AR mean for education,
entertainment, social policy, and systems of codified knowledge?
Like their predecessors the telephone, television, and mobile
phone, what are the impending new vistas and reduced horizons?
<br>
Biometrics and the uploading and tracking of personal data spans
areas from healthcare to advertising, with implications for law,
criminal justice, entertainment (gaming), education and sports.
Machine learning and algorithms are harvesting and making use of
big data in new and startling ways. Some of it allows pinpoint
accuracy in determining issues of public health, economics,
climate change, story-telling, political leanings and the
migration of populations. What does all this data combined with
new technologies mean? What are some current and future artistic
strategies that deal with this? Combined with the acceleration of
VR/AR and technologies of immersion, how will societies react?
<br>
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Taking place in the framework of RISK CHANGE EU Creative Europe’s
project, various festival events will explore relations between
“virtualities” and “realities” in our post-media society. The Open
Fields conference will discuss the socio-cultural and
neurobiological impacts of virtual and augmented reality, and
other immersive technologies. The conference participants will
also look at the places and movements from a socio-political
perspective, the mapping and charting of migrating cultures
particularly people and their data traces.
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The conference will be complemented by the festival exhibition
that will explore the changing role of art in society, its
transformative potential, and its relations to the sciences,
especially focusing on neomateriality, new aesthetics and other
critical qualities of the post-digital.
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* Proceedings
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The papers by conference participants will be published in
conference proceeding, which will come out in the Acoustic Space,
(double blind) peer-reviewed journal & book series. The call
for full paper submissions will be announced after the conference
on the Acoustic Space journal website:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://acousticspacejournal.com">http://acousticspacejournal.com</a>
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CALL FOR CONFERENCE PROPOSALS:
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DEADLINE EXTENDED: JUNE 20, 2017
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We welcome proposals by scholars, artists, artists-scholars,
designers, PhD researchers, media theorists, art historians,
curators, science philosophers, cultural innovators, critical
engineers and data designers, as well as scientists from different
Fields – biology, ecology, environment, digital technologies,
renewable energy, and others, who have experienced or see the
potential of collaboration with arts.
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THEMES:
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* augmented and virtual reality
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* 360-degree video and interactive story-telling
* biometrics, AI
and machine learning
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* tracing and charting the migrating cultures
* artistic and
scientific research practices
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* techno-ecological perspective
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* neomateriality and post-digital aesthetics
* digital art
archives and curating practices
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* data visualization and immersive environments
<br>
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Welcome to submit your conference proposal consisting of:
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- keywords 5–6,
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- an abstract 250 words,
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- biography of the author(s) 200 words each
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APPLY FOR CONFERENCE here > <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://openfields2017.rixc.lv">http://openfields2017.rixc.lv</a>
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DEADLINE EXTENDED: JUNE 20, 2017
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Notifications: July 15, 2017
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The Open Fields conference will be complemented by the festival
exhibition, presenting the most innovative approaches in artistic
research practices. The exhibition will be featuring 25 artworks.
It will take place in kim? Contemporary Art Center.
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APPLY FOR EXHIBITION here > <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://exhibition2017.rixc.lv%E2%80%A8">http://exhibition2017.rixc.lv
</a>
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DEADLINE: JUNE 7, 2017
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* Conference chairs:
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Ellen PEARLMAN / Parsons / New School / Art-A-Hack / ThoughtWorks
/ New York, USA
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Rasa SMITE / RIXC / Liepaja University / Latvia
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* The International Conference Scientific board:
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Lev MANOVICH / Cultural Analytics Lab / The Graduate Center, City
University of New York, USA
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Jussi PARIKKA / Winchester School of Art / University of
Southampton / UK
<br>
Geoff COX / School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus
University, Denmark
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Kristin BERGAUST / Oslo and Akershus University, Norway
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Laura BELOFF / IT University, Copenhagen / Finnish Bioart Society,
Helsinki, Finland
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Lily DIAZ-KOMMONEN / Head of Research Department of Media, Aalto
University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki,
Finland
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Ursula DAMM / Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
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Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS / Nida Art Colony, Vilnius Academy of
Arts, Lithuania
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Margrét Elísabet ÓLAFSDÓTTIR / Art Education at the University of
Akureyri, Iceland
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Ilva SKULTE / Riga Stradins University, Latvia
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Regine DEBATTY / we-make-money-not-art.com / UK/BE
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Piibe PIIRMA / Tallinn University / Estonian Academy of Arts,
Tallinn, Estonia
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Raivo KELOMEES / Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
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Aleksandra KOSTIC / Kibla / Risk Change project / Maribor,
Slovenia
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* Participation Fee / Travel / Accommodation:
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Due to limited funding this year, the participants will be asked
to take care about covering their own travel and accommodation
costs. We will provide you with official invitation letters,
encouraging to apply for travel support at your home universities.
Selected exhibition artists will be asked to cover all the artwork
production costs by themselves – we only will cover the costs
related to the exhibiting the works in Riga.
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However, limited amount of grants for covering support travel and
accommodation for independent artists and researchers will be
available too, primarily, for participants from Baltic and Nordic
countries, as well as Central and Eastern Europe. Partial support
can be given to participants from other countries.
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Please see for more information on the festival website: <a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://festival2017.rixc.org%E2%80%A8%E2%80%A8">http://festival2017.rixc.org
</a>
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The Festival is produced by RIXC / Riga, Latvia in collaboration
with EU programme's Creative Europe Risk Change project partners.
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* The Festival and Exhibition curators: Raitis SMITS and Rasa
SMITE / RIXC
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The Conference is organized by RIXC / Riga in collaboration with
the Renewable Futures Headquarters / Oslo, and Art-A-Hack / New
York, and Hybrid Lab Nordplus project academic partners: Liepaja
University, Aalto University and HiOA, Oslo and Akershus
University College of Applied Sciences.
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* Contact: rixc (at) rixc.org
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Address: Lencu iela 2, Riga, LV-1010, Latvia
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Phone: +371 67228478 (office), +371 26546776 (Rasa Smite)
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://rixc.org%E2%80%A8%E2%80%A8">http://rixc.org
</a>
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Support: EU Programme “Creative Europe”, Risk Change project,
Nordplus Hybrid Lab project, the State Culture Capital Foundation
of Latvia, Riga City Council, the Ministry of Culture of the
Republic of Latvia
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