Symposium for ART AND RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES August 13-16, Aizpute (Latvia)
The symposium for "Art and Renewable Technologies" will start on Thursday, August 13 held in Aizpute, Latvia. The symposium will gather together 30 artists, activists, technologists, scientists and researchers primarily from Nordic and Baltic countries, as well as from other European countries. Symposium participants will exchange their ideas and explorations that deal with renewable energy resources, alternative and ecological use of technologies and other sustainability related issues. - - - The symposium addresses 4 main themes: BIO / ECO-SYSTEMS: Environmental science and ecology - - - Ecosystem research - Permaculture and biosystem design - - - Biomass as renewable energy resource - - - Critical and alternative approaches to biotechnology SOLAR ENERGY: Sunlight as constant energy resource - - - Process of photosynthesis - Solar energy technologies OPEN SOURCE: Sustainability using open source / information approaches: in art and grassroots culture, ecology, architecture and environmental design MYTH & LEGENDS: Historical traditions and modern alternative solutions - - - Cultural transformation: energy in nature and in city - - - Future visions of terrestrial energy - - - Participants: Ulla Taipale (FI/ES), Victor Hugo Mondragon Franco (SE), Malin Lindmark Vrijman (SE), Mathieu Vrijman (SE), Bartaku (BE), Christina Stadlbauer (BE), Tiina Sööt (EE), Linda Vebere (LV), Andrew Paterson (SCO/FI), Gisle Froysland (NO), Julian Priest (DK), Jaanis Garancs (LV), Ainars Kamolins (LV), Reinis Rutkis (LV), Jaanis Liepins (LV), Mikelis Putrams (LV), Linda Krumina (LV), Daina Silina (LV), Terike Haapoja (FI), Rikke Luther (DK), Erik Sjödin (SE), Michel Bussien (SE), Martins Ratniks (LV), Dace Dzerina (LV), Rasa Smite (LV), Raitis Smits (LV), Signe Pucena (LV), Ugis Pucens (LV) - - - Location: The symposium will take place in artists residency center SERDE in Aizpute, a small town in Kurzeme region of Latvia. SERDE is located in old wooden historical building that also will be used as a specific case for which alternative and ecological approach in developing sustainable systems and renewable energy technologies can be explored and applied. http://www.serde.lv = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME DAY 1. Thursday, August 13 17.00 - 20.00 Introduction Meeting 21.00 Opening programme Open session / screenings / performances ... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DAY 2. Friday, August 14 09.30 - 10.00 Planning Meeting 10.00 - 11.30 [bio : eco] Andrew Gryf Paterson. PLATFORM ECOSYSTEMS AND PEDAGOGY (20-30 min) Erik Sjödin and Michel Bussien. BEYOND NATURE (20-30 min) Ulla Taipale. Capsula's CURATED EXPEDITIONS (20-30 min) 12.00-13.00 [bio : energy] Julian Priest. WHOIS ENERGY? (30 min) Reinis Rutkis. HYDROGEN AS ENERGY CARRIER - native and fuel cell systems. (20 min) 13.00 - 14.30 [bio : ethics] Ain?rs Kamoli?? and J?nis Liepi??. BIOETHICS AND/IN ART. (20 min) Terike Haapoje. PROJECT "CLOSED CIRCUIT - OPEN DURATION" and on use of scientific research technologies in art, and the impact of environmental ethics on art. (60 min) Discussion. 15.30 - 19.00 [bio : solar] Workshop [bio : solar]: HOW TO MAKE DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS. Conducted by Bartaku Workshop [bio : myth]. BEE ARCHITECTS - ON THE GEOMETRY OF BEE HIVES. Conducted by Christina Stadlbauer. + Field work / Work on collaborative projects / Individual work / ... 21.00 - Screenings and presentations: [electromagnetic : energy] Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, Linda Vebere/RIXC. Presentation of RIXC's projects: exhibitions WAVES (2006) and SPECTROPIA (2008), research projects SPECTRAL ECOLOGY and video SKRUNDA SIGNAL (2007). Open session / Films. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DAY 3. Saturday, August 15 10.00 - Planning Meeting / Discussions 10.30 - 11.30 [open source] Gisle Frøysland. INTO THE FREE AND OPEN: the piksel festival and related initiatives to provide sustainable resources for artists based on floss technologies. (30 min) Malin Lindmark Vrijman and Mathieu Vrijman. Sustainability using open source approaches on ECO TOURISM AND LOCAL COMMUNITY AWARENESS. (30 min) 11.30 - 12.10 [eco : systems] Tiina Sööt. UNDERSTANDING OF ECOLOGY IN HUMANITIES (20 min) Mi?elis Putr?ms. NEW OPORTUNITIES CREATED BY WOOD INNOVATION: how new materials shape timber construction; dendrolight. (20 min) 12.30 - 14.00 [myth & legends] Rikke Luther. WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH ALL THAT WATER (30 min) Christina Stadlbauer. THE BLACK BEE WENT TO TOWN or how the ever waste land came to have 50.000 new inhabitants (30 min) Victor Hugo Mondragon. ZEGACHE PROJECT IN MEXICO. Open Media relations, interpretation and subjectivity within the popular culture and the Media Art. (20 min) 15.00 - 19.00 Workshop [solar]: HOW TO BUILD SOLARBOTS MINIATURE KINETIC SCULPTURES DRIVEN BY LIGHT. Conducted by Gisle Frøysland. Workshop [myth]: NATURAL FARMING: LOCAL TRADITIONS OF MAKING 'MOONSHINE'. Conducted by Signe Pucena and U?is Pucens. + Open session / Field work / Work on collaborative projects / Individual work / ... 21.00 - Closing event / Screenings / Presentations Julian Priest. MINIMALIST SENSOR NETWORK PERFORMANCE "I SPEAK; I LIE". Open Session / Films. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DAY 4. Sunday, August 16 10.30 - 12.00 Closing Meeting (final discussions, evaluation, future planning) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = The outcomes of the symposium - new projects, artworks, co-productions - will be presented during the international art and science conference ENERGY that will take place in the framework of Art+Communication festival in Riga, October 8 - 10, 2009. (Call for proposals for Energy festival and conference is currently open - deadline August 31, 2009. http://rixc.lv/09) - - - Organisers and support: Symposium is organised by RIXC, the center for new media culture with the support of Nordic Culture Fund. http://rixc.lv http://www.nordiskkulturfond.org RIXC address: 11. Novembra krastmala 35-201, Riga, LV-1050, Latvia e-mail: [email protected] phone (office): +371 67228478 phone (mobile): +371 67228477 (Rasa ?mite) Symposium blog: http://renewable.rixc.lv/ RIXC on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rixcriga _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
