The Deadline to Apply for RENEWABLE FUTURES Conference and Festival in Riga, October 8-10, 2015, is extended:
I for Conference Abstracts - until April 20, 2015 II for Festival Proposals - until May 15, 2015 Please apply here: http://openconf.rixc.lv With best regards, Rasa Smite http://rixc.org http://renewablefutures.net http://acousticspacejournal.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - RENEWABLE FUTURES 2015: Transformative Potential of Art in the Age of Post-Media The 1st edition of new academic art and science conference series, complemented by the RIXC annual festival programme October 8-10, 2015, Riga, Latvia http://renewablefutures.net The Renewable Futures is a new conference series in the Baltic Sea and North European region that aims to invent new avenues for more sustainable and imaginative future developments. It will shape new contact zones between traditionally separated domains - art and science, academic research and independent creative practices, sustainable businesses and social engagement in the 21st century. The 1st conference edition will take place in Riga, from October 8-10, 2015, and it will primarily focus on exploring the transformative potential of art in the post-media conditions. Today, according to several voices - Rosalind Krauss, Lev Manovich, Peter Weibel and Domenico Quaranta - we have entered the post-media age; there is no any single medium anymore that dominates in contemporary media art practices that are rather engaged with contemporaneity and critical thinking. The huge diversity of "post-media art" was profoundly explored also in the Fields exhibition (Riga 2014, fields.rixc.org), curated by Raitis Smits, Armin Medosch and Rasa Smite. The Fields showed that art in post-media conditions contains highly transformative and visionary potential. However, symbolic and aesthetic qualities, as well as critical, investigative and confrontational aspects also proved to be just as important for "post-media art" to maintain a line between physical and mental, realities and utopias. THEMES: * post-media art, avantgarde practices and theories * 'slow' media art - preservation challenges for the museums * art and science - for building techno-ecological perspective * technopolitical investigations into the informational paradigm * Big Data and media visualizations * post-media architecture, sustainable design and open business * culture for sustainable development in the Baltic Sea Region & North Europe - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CALL FOR CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS: We welcome proposals by artists, curators, theorists, academic researchers and other lateral thinkers to share their research with regards to the above mentioned themes. CONFERENCE DEADLINE EXTENDED: April 20, 2015 Please submit your conference proposal (abstract 250 words, biography 200 words) at http://openconf.rixc.lv - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CALL FOR FESTIVAL PROPOSALS - ART WORKS, WORKSHOPS, PERFORMANCES AND SHOWCASE PRESENTATIONS: The conference will be complemented by a broad programme of the RIXC's annual "Art+Communication" festival, which in its 17th edition will manifest the "post-media situation" by changing its title and a shift - it will take a turn from the festival's initial focus on information & communication technologies paradigm to the broader and more contemporary discourse on art and science, culture and sustainability, with particular interest to explore and build techno-ecological perspective. This year's festival will feature a "post-media art" exhibition, workshops, performances and showcase presentations by artists, who in their work are blurring the boundaries between different disciplines. DEADLINE FOR FESTIVAL PROPOSALS EXTENDED: May 15, 2015 We encourage artists to submit their proposals for artworks / performances / showcase-presentations / workshops by sending a short description (250 words), a biography (200 words), as well as other complementing material (images, links, video, etc.) via e-mail: rixc (at) rixc.lv - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * Public Keynotes: John THACKARA Lev MANOVICH * Plenary Session Keynotes: Dieter DANIELS Domenico QUARANTA Katja KWASTEK Martha BUSKIRK Armin MEDOSCH Geoff COX * Conference chair: Rasa SMITE / Exhibition curator: Raitis SMITS * Conference International Advisory board: Dieter DANIELS, Douglas KAHN, Katja KWASTEK, Armin MEDOSCH, Regine DEBATTY, Gediminas URBONAS, Misko SUVAKOVIC, Jussi PARIKKA, Rob VAN KRANENBURG * Conference Regional (BSR/North Europe) Organizational Board: Chris HALES, Hege TAPIO, Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS, Kristin BERGAUST, Lily DIAZ-KOMMONEN, and other partners of Renewable Network * Contact: rixc (at) rixc.lv * More information: http://renewablefutures.net http://rixc.org You can also follow the RF conference news by subscribing Renewable list: http://db.x-i.net/mailman/listinfo/renewable Organizers: RIXC in collaboration with Art Research Lab of Liepaja University Partners: Renewable Network, NORTH Creative Network Project, Culturability BSR Project Support: State Cultural Capital Foundation, Riga City Council, Latvian Ministry of Culture, Creative Europa, EEA/Norway grants http://rixc.org
_______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
