TECHNO-ECOLOGIES. Inhabiting the deep technological spheres of everyday life
The international interdisciplinary academic conference in the framework of the 13th Art+Communication festival November 4 – 5, 2011, in Riga, Latvia. The conference gathers together artists, theorists, designers, environmental scientists, technologists, responsible entrepreneurs, activists and other lateral thinkers, who are engaged with the issues of social and ecological sustainability, and are interested in deeper understanding of technology. Technology can no longer be understood as an alterity (otherness) that stands in opposition to biological and social relationships. Going about our regular practices of everyday living we inhabit complex technological spheres of life that require a different, a more 'ecological' understanding of our relationship to technology. Beyond questions of finite resources and obvious forms of pollution and environmental degradation, attempts to develop sustainable relationships with technology and our living environment should take into account far more complex layerings of the way we inhabit our current technological ecologies. The conference aims to develop such a deeply informed ethical and philosophical perspective, which is indispensable, if we hope to find less hazardous routes into the future. "Techno-ecologies" concept for the Art+Communication festival and conference is developed by Eric Kluitenberg. Full concept text is avaiable at: http://www.rixc.lv/11/en/theme.html The conference is organized by RIXC and MPLab of Liepaja University - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONFERENCE PROGRAMME FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, DAY 1. 09.30 – Coffee and registration (at RIXC Media Space) 10.00 – 10.05 Welcome by Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits / RIXC (LV) / organizers. 10.05 – 10.15 Eric Kluitenberg / moderator (NL). Inhabiting the complex techno-ecologies of everyday life 10.15 – 12.15 Panel 1: TECHNOLOGY AND NATURE Moderator: Eric Kluitenberg (NL) Keynote 1: Ronald van Tienhoven / Next Nature (NL). The Nature Caused by People. (45 min) Grégory Lasserre / Scenocosme (FR). Scenocosme artwork. (15 min) Anne Sophie Witzke (DK). Technological ecologies in new media art. (15 min) Julian Oliver (NZ / DE). From Media Art to Critical Engineering. (15 min) Ricardo O'Nascimento, Javier Busturia. Plantas Parlantes, a collective work that draws new boundaries between human and nature. (15 min) Discussion: 15 min 12.15 – 13.00 Lunch-break 13.00 – 14.45 Panel 2: TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY Moderator: Eric Kluitenberg (NL) (Tele-)Keynote 2: – Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zielinski, Daniel Irrgang (DE). Variantology – Deep Time Relations in Arts, Sciences and Technology; and Anita Jóri (DE / HU): Presentation on the Vilém Flusser arhive. (45 min) Martin Howse (UK). Technology and the Plague. (15 min) Normunds Kozlovs (LV). Steam-punk's ideological critique of technology (15 min) Matze Schmidt (DE). SMA of the Energy Turn. What has Solar Technology to do with "restricted democracy" (15 min) Discussion: 15 min 14.45 – 15.00 Coffee-break 15.00 – 16.45 Panel 3: TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT Moderator: Rasa Smite (LV) Keynote 3: Erich Berger (FI). Field_Notes - Cultivating Grounds (45 min) Dr. phys. Liga Grinberga (LV). The end of technology routine. (15 min) Arne Hendriks (NL). The Increddible Shrinking Man. (15 min) Dr. phys. Ojars Balcers (LV). A couple of dozen nasty POPs and the International Reference Life Cycle Data System. (15 min) Discussion: 15 min SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, DAY 2. 09.30 – Coffee 10.00 – 12.00 Panel 4: TECHNOLOGY AND PEOPLE Moderator: Eric Kluitenberg (NL) Tatiana Goryucheva (RU/NL). Imagining democratic technology before its production: the case of food traceability. (20 min) Andrew Gryf Paterson (FI). Pixelversity 2012: Towards an ecogeographic perspective (20 min) Kyd Campbell (CA/DE). Open source, DIY, Grassroots and the sharing of fundamental living knowledge. (20 min) Gerard Rubio, Jordi Bari / BlablabLAB (ES). Ecology for precariety. (20 min) Lynn Pook (FR). on Aptium and other audio-tactile art works. (20 min) 12.00 – 13.00 Lunch-break 13.00 – 14.30 Panel 5: TECHNOLOGY, ART AND ECOLOGY Moderator: Eric Kluitenberg (NL) Heath Bunting (UK). Blood rank vs social network. (30 min) Niki Passath (AT). Making the environment talk (15 min) Mirae Rosner, Jesse Scot / memelab (CA / DE). SonicDrift: a locative media framework. (15 min) Dr. sc. soc. Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits (LV). Talk to me: The Long Bean project. (15 min) Discussion: 10 min 14.30 – 14.45 Coffee-break 14.45 – 17.00 Panel 6: TECHNOLOGY AND OPEN SYSTEMS Moderator: Rasa Smite (LV) Keynote 6: Thomas Thwaites (UK). The Toaster Project (45 min) Danja Vasiljev (RU / DE). Exploitation and re-examination of Network paradigms. (15 min) Dr. philol. Ilva Skulte (LV). The book – a house, a dream, a tool: practices of reading in the environments of converging media. (15 min) Dr. Zsofia Ruttkay (HU). Musea in the Digital Age. (15 min) Matthew Gardiner (AT). Origami, robotics, and gardening. (15 min) Discussion: 15 min - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - More info about the conference: http://rixc.lv/11/lv/konference.info.html Festival website: http://rixc.lv/11 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Publication: Conference papers and other articles on "Techno-Ecologies" theme will be published in the next Acoustic Space issue (No 11), which is international peer-reviewed journal for research on art, science, technology and society. Deadline for submitting papers will be January 31, 2012. Length of texts: between 2500 and 8000 words (i.e. 20 000 – 45 000 characters). Submitted texts should include: 1) short abstract (ca. 250 words, i.e. 1500 characters), 2) 5 – 6 keywords, and 3) short bio of the author (ca. 100 words, i.e. 800 characters). References should be either in APA or Harvard style. Language for submissions: English (all texts will be translated into Latvian as well). - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://rixc.lv/11 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
