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Message: 1 Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 12:41:49 +0300 From: Rasa Smite <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [spectre] CALL for Open Fields Conference and Exhibition proposals @ RIXC Festival Hello on Renewable list We are happy to announce about the extended call for Open Fields - the international conference focusing on artistic research, changing role of arts in societies, the transformative potential of arts, and its relation to the sciences. With the Open Fields, our intent is to build a common ground for more regular gatherings of Renewable Network - annual conferences in Riga, where to discuss respective topics, in the framework of RIXC's annual festival. We also welcome proposals for artworks, particularly we are interested in elaborate work by artists-researchers, PhD students, who are working in the contested territory between academic way of knowledge creation and contemporary art practices Looking forward seeing you in Riga in September 29-October 2! best Rasa - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Call for Open Fields Conference abstracts and Exhibition proposals DEADLINE Extended: June 20, 2016 APPLY NOW! http://festivalconf.rixc.lv More info: http://rixc.org/en/festival/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *OPEN FIELDS Conference and Exhibition* in the framework of *RIXC Art Science Festival 2016* Riga, September 29 ? October 1, 2016 Venue: National Library of Latvia Open Fields is the title of this year's international conference taking place in the framework of the annual RIXC Art Science festival in Riga. It brings together international scholars and artists, working at the intersection of arts, humanities and science. Open Fields will focus on artistic research, the changing role of arts, its transformative potential, and relation to the sciences. This call for participation invites contributions and conference paper proposals by scholars, artists, artists-researchers, art and media theorists, data designers and critical engineers, as well as doctoral students, and scientists from different Fields ? biology, ecology, environment, digital technologies, renewable energy, etc., who are engaged in experiencing the transformative potential of arts. For the exhibition and conference, we are looking for research that is located in the contested territory between academic knowledge production and independent creative practices. Open Fields will be investigating the use of data visualizations and other mappings of the contemporary. It will look into areas such as open commons, the future of social interaction, data representation and visualisation, critical design, sustainable infrastructures, eco-aesthetics, techno-ecologies, bio-hacking and other techniques of a transformative potential. No Field is excluded, yet there should always be a connection with art; it is highly likely that art works and conference papers will touch on several Fields, not one. It is such an enhanced understanding of transdisciplinarity that drives this undertaking. Research Questions: How art and other creative practices can meaningfully contribute to the environmental, technological and scientific challenges of our time? What kind of new knowledge can be created through artistic practice that collaborates with science, technology and other disciplines? And how to deal with contemporary aesthetics, which has undergone dramatic changes during the past decades and keeps changing again as influenced by current post-media situation, data visualization and other contemporary conditions? The Conference also will feature ?Playing Fields? session on contemporary taxonomy, maintaining a connection between the exhibition and the conference. It also will include ?Open Fields ? Book Review? (PechaKucha) session, providing an opportunity for the speakers to present their new books for other participants and the audience. * Conference keynote speakers: Christiane PAUL / New School / Whitney Museum / New York Jussi PARIKKA / Winchester School of Art / University of Southampton / UK and others - tbc. * Exhibition: The Open Fields conference will be complemented by the exhibition taking place in the new Exhibition Hall of National Library of Latvia. Partly curated, partly peer-reviewed, the Exhibition will represent works by artists, artists-researchers and data designers, who are challenging the notion of art and contemporary aesthetics by moving across, bringing together and converging different knowledge, various media and diverse Fields, as well as using scientific, cultural and social data as new artistic medium, and interpreting them in a new and meaningful ways. The Exhibition will be open from September 29 - November 6, 2016. * Proceeding: The papers will be published in conference proceeding, which will come out in the Acoustic Space, peer-reviewed journal & book series. The call for full paper submissions will be announced during the conference. http://acousticspacejournal.com Conference Chair: Dr. Rasa SMITE / RIXC / Art Research Lab, Liepaja University, Latvia Festival and Exhibition curators: Dr. Raitis SMITS, Ainars KAMOLINS, Dr. Rasa SMITE Playing Fields session will be organized and moderated by Armin MEDOSCH / Austria - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DEADLINE FOR CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS: June 20, 2016 We welcome proposals by scholars, artists, artists-scholars, designers, PhD researchers, curators, media theorists, art historians, science philosophers, cultural innovators, bio-hackers, critical engineers and data designers, as well as scientists from different Fields ? biology, ecology, environment, digital technologies, renewable energy, and others, who are engaged in the transformative potential of arts. Conference themes include: * investigating contemporaneity, its representation and experience in and through artistic practice and art-science research * data visualization, and its impact on art, science and contemporary aesthetics * art and science ? challenging new ways of knowledge creation and its representation * changing weathers ? networked responses to geophysical and geopolitical shifts across Europe and the globe * eco-aesthetics ? from sustainable architecture and critical design to techno-ecological art practices Conference proposal should consist of: * title and abstract (250 words) * 5-6 keywords, * and short author's biography (160 words). Please submit your proposals online: http://festivalconf.rixc.lv Notifications: June 22, 2016 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DEADLINE FOR EXHIBITION PROPOSALS: June 20, 2016 Partly curated, partly peer-reviewed, the Festival Exhibition welcomes proposals by artists, artists-researchers, artists-engineers, data designers, as well as practice-based doctoral students, who are challenging the notion of art and contemporary aesthetics by moving across, bringing together and converging different knowledge, various media and diverse Fields, as well as by those, who are using scientific, cultural and social data as new artistic medium, interpreting them in a new and meaningful ways. Artwork submissions should include: * description of idea and technical requirements (1-2 pages), * short biography and/or portfolio, * additional material (photos/video/links/etc.) Please submit your artwork proposal via e-mail to the address: rixc (at) rixc.org Additional material, if the files are larger then 5MB, should be sent via wetransfer.com. Notifications: June 30, 2016 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * About Open Fields Conference Following the last year's successful launch of Renewable Futures (renewablefutures.net ? the biannual travelling conference series) ? this year RIXC with its European partners from Changing Weathers project, and other collaborating institutions and universities from the Baltic Sea region and Europe, are introducing Open Fields, aiming to develop it towards an annual Riga based gathering for the discussion on artistic reseach, the changing role of arts in societies, art's transformative potential, and relations to sciences. http://rixc.org/en/festival/ * The International Conference Scientific Organizational board:?Dr. Lev MANOVICH / Software Studies Initiative / The Graduate Center, City University of New York, US Dr. Armin MEDOSCH / Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia / Initiator of the Technopolitics working group in Vienna, Austria PhD. Jussi PARIKKA / Winchester School of Art / University of Southampton / UK PhD. Geoff COX / School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark Prof. Kristin BERGAUST / Oslo and Akershus University, Norway Asoc. prof. Laura BELOFF / IT University in Copenhagen, Denmark / Finnish Bioart Society, Helsinki, Finland Dr. Lily DIAZ-KOMMONEN / Head of Research Department of Media, Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland Dr. Ursula Damm / Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany ? tbc. Dr. Andris TEIKMANIS / Vice-rector, Latvian Academy of Arts, Riga Dr. Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS / Nida Art Colony, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania PhD. Margr?t El?sabet ?lafsd?ttir / Art Education at the University of Akureyri, Iceland Andrew Gryf PATERSON / Pixelache Helsinki / SERDE / Aalto University ARTS Media department, Helsinki, Finland Regine DEBATTY / we-make-money-not-art.com, London, UK - tbc. Dr. Piibe PIIRMA / Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia Dr. Janis KLEPERIS / Hydrogen Laboratory, Solid State Physics Institute, Latvian University, Riga, Latvia and others ? tbc. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * The venue of the conference and exhibition: the new building of National Library of Latvia (http://www.lnb.lv/en/about-library/nll-building). * Organizer: RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture. * Partners: Conference and Exhibition is organized by RIXC in collaboration with Art Research Lab of Liepaja University, Arts Academy of Latvia and Changing Weathers - Creative Europe?s project partners (http://www.changingweathers.net/) * Exhibition partner: National Library of Latvia * Contact: rixc (at) rixc.org, Address: RIXC, Maskavas iela 4, Riga, LV 1050, Latvia Phone: +371-67228478 (office), +371-26546776 (Rasa Smite) * Support: Creative Europe, Cultural Capital Foundation of Latvia, Riga City Council, Latvian Ministry of Culture, and others. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - http://rixc.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- Dr Rasa Smite Artist and Founding Director of RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture in Riga, Assoc. Prof. in New Media Art at Liepaja University, Chief Editor of Acoustic Space, peer-reviewed book & journal series Contact:[email protected] Phone: +371-26546776 http://smitesmits.com http://rixc.org http://renewablefutures.net http://acousticspacejournal.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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