TRANSBIOTICS. Temporal Stability Points
XII International Festival for New Media Culture ART+COMMUNICATION 2010 in collaboration with “Textures" - the 6th European meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts Riga, June 14 - 20, 2010 http://rixc.lv/10/ This year the Festival for New Media Culture “Art+Communication" with the title "TRANSBIOTICS. Temporal Stability Points" will look at biotechnologies as means for artistic expression as well as challenge to the constantly changing materiality in arts. Festival programme will take place in collaboration with the 6th European meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSAeu 2010 conference), which is devoted to exploring materials, structures, surfaces and interfaces transformed by the networked media. http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/SLSAeu2010/home.htm * exhibition The exhibition "TRANSBIOTICS" will be held June 15 - 20 in kim? / RIXC gallery spaces in Spikeri (new location for contemporary arts exhibitions in Riga). American artist Paul Vanouse is participating with his installations "Latent Figure Protocol" and "Relative Velocity Inscription Device" where he using the human DNA as material for creating art. London based Latvian artists Zane Berzina together with architect Jackson Tan and an international group of scientists have created an interactive installation "E-Static Shadows" - a touch-sensitive "sculpture" exploring static electricity. British artist Andy Gracie with his installation "Deep Data" interprets experiments with bacteria performed in deep space environments. And Finnish artist Terike Haapoja (whose work "Entropy" was exhibited at kim?/ RIXC Gallery last year) will this year present her recent works "Dialogue" and "Succession", which explores interaction between human and non-human organisms. The exhibition will be supplemented by "Transbiotics" public lectures in Spikeri, taking place on June 16 and June 17, 2010, where one of the exhibition curators - Jens Hauser and philosopher Ainars Kamolins, will introduce biotechnology art as new materiality of textures, and exhibition artists will talk will talk about how they interpret this notion through their works. * performances On Thursday, June 17 at 18.00 in RIXC Media Space sound art performance and exhibition opening “Concord" by Latvian media artist Voldemars Johansons will take place. And on Friday, June 18 at 21.00 in RIXC Media Space the special festival evening event will feature live performance and video programme: Jürgen Reble and Thomas Köner will present their live performance "Materia Obscura" - an audio visual expedition into crystallized salts and dyes changing rhythm and structure constantly between moving images and opening a door to the dark and unperceivable material of our universe. The performance "Mucilaginous Omniverse" by Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand will present artistic experiments with sonicated bouncing silicone oil droplets. Meanwhile a movie "Planet A" by French artist Momoko Seto invites into a world of salt crystal formations which are slowly taking over the land by turning it into a physically beautiful but dried out saline desertŠ * SLSAeu conference During June 15 to 19, 2010, as a Day Programme, SLSAeu 2010 conference “Textures" will take place in Stocholm School of Economics in Riga. The SLSAeu 2010 conference is dedicated to exploring fabrics, structures, surfaces, and interfaces in a world that has been transformed to a large extent through technoscience and networked media. This transformed world is highly textured, partly through verbal and non-verbal 'texts' but also by mixtures of human-made and given environments whose complexity offers resistance to symbolic readings. Along the other conference streams - "Textuality and Materiality", "Architextures", "Biopalimpsests", "Tissue Cultures", two streams - “Networks and Sustainability" (chaired by Armin Medosch and Rasa Smite) and “Art as Research" (chaired by Kerstin May and Rasa Smite) wil be co-organized by RIXC and MPLab (Art Research Laboratory) of Liepaja University. "Network and Sustainability" stream interrogates the complex relationships between "network technology" and " network society", in order to reveal the multilayered texture of networks and to consider what potential network culture contains for sustainable development in technological, social and cultural fields. “Art as Research" stream is challenging the conventional notion of the role of art - by affirming that the art produce knowledge, and that the art can be scientific research approach, it claim the right for arts, to being an alternative form of knowledge and research on a par with other sciences. http://rixc.lv/10/lv/konference.html http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/SLSAeu2010/streams.htm * biotech workshop At a close of the festival, on Saturday, June 19 at Faculty of Biology, University of Latvia the biotechnology workshop “Tissue Engineering and Art" will be conducted by artists and directors of Australian Bioart Laboratory "SymbioticA" - Oron Catts and dr. Ionat Zurr. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Art+Communication FESTIVAL and SLSAeu 2010 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Monday, June 14 19.00 Opening of the Transbiotics exhibition and Art+Communication 2010 festival (kim? / RIXC Galleries in Spikeri, Maskavas iela 12/1). Tuesday, June 15 17.00 Opening of SLSAeu 2010 conference "Textures" (Stockholm School of Economics) 17.30 [Plenary Session]: Daina Taimina "Folding Mathematics, Craft and Art: Seeing what is between Folds". Wednesday, June 16 09.00-18.00 SLSAeu 2010 conference "Textures" (Stockholm School of Economics, Strelnieku iela 4a) 16.30-18.00 [Session] ART AS RESEARH (stream moderated by Kerstin Mey) - Christopher Hales "Learning from the SMARTlab Experience"; Mili John Tharakan "New Insights into Traditional Narrative Textile Craft Shaping the Future of Interactive Textiles and Technology"; Kathy High "BioArt Initiative: the failure of going too fast"; Signe Gr?be "Artwork - Witness of Time". 19.00 TRANSBIOTICS public lectures "Temporary sustainability points": Ainars Kamolins, Andy Gracie, Terike Haapoja (kim? / Spikeri, Maskavas ielas 12/1). Thursday, June 17 09.00-18.00 SLSAeu 2010 conference "Textures": 09.00-10.30 [Semi-Plenary Session] NETWORKS AND SUSTAINABILITY (stream moderated by Armin Medosch and Rasa Smite) - Felix Stalder "Sharing and surveillance. Two features of network culture"; 11.00-12.30 [Session] NETWORKS AND SUSTAINABILITY - Magda Tyzlik-Carver "Sustainability of Labour within Organized Networks"; Clemens Apprich "Reading the Digital City: New political technologies in the Network Society". 16.30-18.00 [Section] NETWORKS AND SUSTAINABILITY - Simon Biggs "Where and why creativity?"; Adnan Hadzi "Why Openness Matters: the Deptford.TV Project"; Ilze Black and Alexei Blinov "Local portals: Experiments in ubiquitous networks". 18.00 Voldemars Johansons "Concord" - performance and opening of the exhibition (RIXC Media space) 19.30 TRANSBIOTICS public lectures "Textures and materialitiy": Jens Hauser, Zane Berzina, Paul Vanouse (kim? / Spikeri). Friday, June 18 09.00-18.00 SLSAeu 2010 conference "Textures": 09.00-10.30 [Semi-Plenary Session] ART AS RESEARCH - Carole Gray and Heather Delday "A 'PEDAGOGY OF POIESIS' Possible futures for 'artistic' practice-led doctoral research" 16.30-18.00 [Semi-Plenary Session] ART AS RESEARCH - Jan Kaila "Artistic Research formalized into Doctoral Programs". 21.00 Performances: Evelina Domnitch, Dmitry Gelfand "Mucilaginous Omniverse", Thomas Köner, Jürgen Reble "Materia Obscura". Video: Momoko Seto "Planet A" (RIXC Mediju telpa., 11. Novembra krastmala 35, ieeja no Minsterejas ielas). Saturday, June 19 09.00-15.30 SLSAeu 2010 conference "Textures": 09.00-10.30 [Round Table] ART AS RESEARCH - chaired by Florian Dombois 11.00-13.00 [Session] ART AS RESEARCH - Kerstin Mey "Creativity, Imagination, Values - Why we need art as research; Janis Jefferies. Situated Knowledge: The Subjective and The Personal In Creative Arts Research; Christoph Brunner "Research-Creation / The Generation of Novel Textures"; Camille Baker "Art-as-Research for MINDtouch: participatory performance as research in mobile media". 14.00-15.30 [Plenary Session] ART AS RESEARCH - Henk Borghoff, Sher Doruff "Artistic Research: Non-Conceptualism, Realism and Contingency" 10.00-18.00 Workshop "Tissue Engineering and Art": conducted by SymbioticA (LU Faculty of Biology) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Organized by: The festival is organized by Centre for New Media Culture RIXC in collaboration with The Pilot Project of the Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art kim?, e-text+textiles and Art Research Laboratory MPLab, University of Liepaja. Supported by: State Culture Capital Foundation, Riga City Council, European Cultural Foundation, Nordic Culture Point, Centre Culturel Français de Riga, EEA Financial Mechanism/Norwegian Financial Mechanism, Hotel Elizabete, Embassy of Federal Republic of Austria, LU Faculty of Biology, the University of Western Australia, SymbioticA, Department of Culture and Arts of the Government of Western Australia, airBaltic, Dizaina Studija, Live Riga, Studija, Foto Kvartals, Rigas Laiks, Veto Magazine, Maksla Plus, Kultura.lv, Easyget.lv, Delfi.lv, Satori.lv - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://rixc.lv/10 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
