Hello on Spectre list!
Today we had opening of FIELDS exhibition in
Arsenals Exhibition Hall, Riga, featuring more
then 40 artworks, which are not only envisioning
future scenarios for more sustainable and
imaginative life, but also are tracing back in to
history of ecology and communication related art.
The exhibition shows huge diversity of
contemporary art practices, and it is very unique
show. It will be open till August 3, 2014 - so i
think it is very good idea to visit this summer
Riga 2014- European cultural capital, and to see
the exhibition!
The exhibition is complemented by performance
programme tomorrow, and conference Renewable
Futures - more info below
best
Rasa
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Fields Exhibition and Art+Communication 2014
Festival Opening programme presents
RENEWABLE FUTURES
International conference for art, science and cultural innovation
Riga 2014 - A European Capital of Culture Event
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http://fields.rixc.lv
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RENEWABLE FUTURES is a new conference series, the
launch of which will take place during the FIELDS
exhibition opening weekend on May 15-18, 2014 in
the framework of Riga - European Cultural Capital
programme. In a response to recent quests for a
more sustainable future and overcoming the crises
of the present, the conference aims to invent new
avenues for future developments by bringing
together traditionally separated domains. The
conference idea is inspired by the approach of
FIELDS Exhibition, which does not just look at
art in a narrow sense but takes into account all
kinds of creative practices that bring together
new ways of thinking, scientific knowledge,
aesthetics, technologies and social practices.
The conference aims to shape new contact zones
between academic research and diversity of
contemporary art practices, art and science,
sustainable businesses and social engagement in
the 21st century.
Programme:
THURSDAY, May 15
18:00 FIELDS Exhibition Opening
Arsenals Exibition Hall, Torna street 1 / free entrance
Friday, May 16
17:00 - 19:00 FIELDS / RENEWABLE FUTURES -
public lectures by artists and currators
Goethe Institute - Riga, Torna iela 1 (entrance
from Klostera street) / free entrance / please
register via e-mail: r...@rixc.lv
Armin MEDOSCH. The Broken Mirror: Art after the dreamworld of digital utopia
Misko SUVAKOVIC. Grey zones: Revisionisms and theory of art and politics
Ieva ASTAHOVSKA. Trajectories of search for new
space in Latvian art of the recent past -
visionary art and approximate art
20.00 Art+Communication Festival Concert and Performances
Spikeri Concert Hall, Maskavas street 4, Tickets
at bilesuparadize.lv - 9 EUR / 4,50 EUR (students)
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SATURDAY, May 17
Conference RENEWABLE FUTURES Day 1
ART AND SCIENCE. From Techno-Ecological Practices
to New Sustainability Theories
Goethe Institute - Riga, Tor¿a street 1 (entrance
prom Klostera street) / Free entrance
10:00 Artist Keynotes
Marko PELJHAN & Matthew BIEDERMAN. Integrative
Methodologies - Tactical Approaches to Some
Strategic Problems
Lisa JEVBRATT. Together - Seeing, Seeking and Knowing with an Other
Richard BARBROOK. Class Wargames:
Ludic subversion against spectacular capitalism
12:30 Session 1: Art+Science
Ainars KAMOLINS. On History and Philosophy of Art and Bio-Science
Annick BUREAUD. Art in the Future Tense. A Life, Bio Art and Synthetic Biology
Maja SMREKAR. Hu.M.C.C.: Transdisciplinary Guide through the Project
Regine DEBATTY. Artistic Exploration of the Meat
Industry. Or How to Reconnect with Your Burger?
14:00 Session 2: Techno-Ecologies
Olga MINK. New Sustainable Models for Future Collaborations
Darko Fritz. Nature Embedded Netculture
Annemie MAES. Intelligent Beehives
Eric SNODGRASS / Malmö University. Ecologies of
the Executable: A Few Interstratic Experiments
Klaus SCHAFLER. Hacking the Future and Planet
Ulrich EVERDING and Jonas BUECHEL. Empty Spaces
15:30 Participatory Session - PLAYING FIELDS -
Plant It! Wild Ontologies in the service of
activating history
Conducted by FIELDS exhibition curators - Armin MEDOSCH and Rasa SMITE
Participants: all artists from the FIELDS exhibition are welcome to join
19:00 - 01:00 FIELDS Exhibition Public Event
Programme during the Museum's Night
Arsenals EXibition Hall, Torna iela 1 / Free entrance
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SUNDAY, May 18 (Liepaja)
8:30 bus trip to Liepaja
RENEWABLE FUTURES - Conference Day 2
ART AS RESEARCH - From Transdisciplinary
Explorations and Participatory Culture to
Academic Inquiry
Liepaja University's Art Research Lab, Liepaja,
Kurmajas prospekts 13 / free entrance
13:00 Session 1: Art as Research - Exploring
Relation between Digital and Real Environment
Piibe PIIRMA. Hybrid Practice
Anna TRAPENCIERE. Intimacy and Private Space in Internet of Things Age
Janis GARANCS. Immersive environments as
self-adopting interfaces for participats
Anja MALEC. Out of the Black Box Inside the White
Cube - On Immersive Environments
Samir BHOWMIK. digGLAM: A Collaborative
Digitization Project for the Collections of
Gallen-Kallela Museum and its User Communities
14:15 Session 2: Art as Research - Theories, Practices and Methodologies
Raivo KELOMEES / Estonian Academy of Arts / Tartu
University. Transgressing Borders and Building
Norms: On Research-Based Artworks - Discussing
Interdisciplinary Artworks from Point of View of
Ordinary Visitor
Ásthildur Björg JÓNSDÓTTIR / Iceland Academy of
Arts / University of Rovaniemi / University of
Iceland. On Participatory Research
Lily DIAZ-KOMMONEN / Aalto University. Transformation Through Research
Margrét Elísabet ÓLAFSDÓTTIR / Lorna / Iceland
Academy of Arts. What is the scholar doing here?
Kristin BERGAUST / Oslo University College,
Faculty for Art and Design. Art in Society:
Artistic Methods as a Resource and Challenge for
Innovation in Education
Gisle FROYSLAND. On Pixel Festival
15:30 Session 3: Art as Research - Building Techno-Ecological Perspective
Isidora TODOROVIC. On Games for Social Changes
and as Art Research. Can you feel the spill (on
Kravtsovskoye oilfield)
Karla BRUNET. Art as Research: The Creative
Process of a Costal Project in Brazil.
Karl Heinz JERON. Wind Park Drone: The Humming of
Wind Turbines - Sound Art Action About the
Perception of Noise
Scott ELLIOTT / Aalto. On Architectural Interventions and Environmental Art
Simon GODDEK. Sustainable Challenges of Commercial Aquaponics
Vika SOKOLOVSKAJA. Upcycling design in context of contemporary fashion
Markus JOUTSELA. Exploring Food Packaging
Experiences for Lifestyles of Health and
Sustainability (LOHAS)
17:00 Session 4. New Media Art Showcase by Liepaja Art Research Lab students
Maija DEMITERE, MÇrti¿ EøELIS, JÇnis JANKEVICS etc.
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FIELDS Exhibition
Arsenals Exhibition Hall of the Latvian National Museum of Art
May 15 - August 3, 2014
The changing role of art in society is one where
it does not just create a new aesthetics but gets
involved in patterns of social, scientific, and
technological transformations. Fields, jointly
curated by Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Armin
Medosch, presents an inquiry into patterns of
renewal and transition. The curators asked which
expanded fields of artistic practice offer new
ideas for overcoming the crisis of the present
and developing new models of a more sustainable
and imaginative way of life.
From the 200 proposals received through
the public call, the curators have chosen 40
works from all over the world, but with a special
focus on Central, Eastern and Northern Europe.
Selected works are considered to be contextual
seedbeds for social change.
Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits are artists and
founding directors of RIXC, an art institution in
Riga, Latvia, whose Art + Communication festival
has become one of the most important festivals of
this kind in Europe and worldwide. Armin Medosch
is a curator, writer and artist based in Vienna,
Austria. The Fields exhibition is a follow-up
project to Waves 2006, which was also shown at
Arsenals in Riga, co-curated by Smite, Smits and
Medosch.
Fields presents a lively landscape of art
that challenges existing viewpoints and
deconstructs social issues, but also proposes
positive visions for the future. No single field
and associated label can do justice any more to
the diversity of contemporary art practices.
Typically, today, the most interesting practices
are transdisciplinary and transformative - they
rely on new combinations of existing
fields-as-in-disciplines, combining the artistic
with the social and the natural, the scientific
and the emotional, the sensible with the actual.
Fields opens up the contemporary field
for a free and associative play of radical
taxonomies, remixing and recombining existing
categories, thereby carrying out important
boundary work that gives a new shape to the
contact zones between art, science, technology
and social engagement in the 21st century.
The exhibition is accompanied by public
lectures, Renewable Futures conference as well as
artist performances and concerts.
Curators: Armin Medosch, Raitis Smits and Rasa Smite
Artists: OHO, Robert Adrian, Janis Borgs, Indulis
Bilzens, Boriss Avramecs, Hardijs Ledins, Roberts
Gobzins, Micky Remann, Aljosa Abrahamsberg,
Matthew Biederman, Marko Peljhan, Brian Springer,
Ernest Edmonds, Cecile Babiole, Erich Berger, Shu
Lea Cheang, Bureau d'etudes, Class Wargames, Ines
Doujak, John Barker, Hans A. Scheirl, Darko
Fritz, Gints Gabrans, Janis Liepins, Hanna
Haaslahti, Oioicollective, HeHe, Martin Howse,
Janis Jankevics, Karl Heinz Jeron, Lisa Jevbratt,
Javier Villegas, Charlie Roberts, Voldemars
Johansons, Michal Kindernay, Ondrej Vavrecka,
Milos Vojtechovsky, Annja Krautgasser, Pamela
Neuwirth, Franz Xaver, Markus Decker, Manu
Luksch, Annemie Maes / Okno, Hayley Newman,
Esther Polak, Ieva Auzina, Radix / David Strang,
Deborah Robinson, Simon Rundle, Bronac Ferran,
Martins Ratniks, Oliver Ressler, Rasa Smite,
Raitis Smits / RIXC, Natacha Roussel, Pieter
Heremans, Maja Smrekar, Isidora Todorovic, Andrea
Palasti, Luka Ranisaljevic, Superflex, YoHa,
Matthew Fuller
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Organizers
The new conference series will be launched by
RIXC / Renewable Network and ARS BALTICA in a
joint effort with Goethe Institute - Riga, The
Danish Cultural Institute in Latvia, Art Research
Lab of Liepaja University as well as by other
involved partner organizations, cultural
institutions, art universities and collaboration
networks. More then just building an other new
Baltic-Nordic collaboration platform, this event
aims to play a role of 'connector' - maintaining
links between different platforms and networks
existing in North European and Baltic Sea region,
as well as connecting them with the other
European countries and the rest of the world.
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Contacts
RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture
Maskavas street 10, R¥ga, LV-1050
e-mail: r...@rixc.lv
phone.: +371 67228478
Rasa Smite, RIXC / LiepU MPLab, festival director, r...@rixc.lv, +371 26546776
Agnese Baranova, RIXC / festical producer, agn...@rixc.lv,+371 29635167
Support
The Renewable Futures conference takes place in
the framework of Renewable Network - long-term
collaboration project supported by Nordic Culture
Point.
The Fields exhibition is supported by Riga 2014,
Riga City Council, Nordic Culture Point, State
Cultural Capital Foundation, Ministry of Culture
of the Republic of Latvia, Austrian Ministry of
Culture, EU Culture 2007-2013 programme, Nordic
Culture Point.
Partners
The Latvian National Museum of Art, Soft Control,
Techno-Ecologies, Goethe Institute in Riga,
French Institute in Latvia, Nordic Council of
Ministers' Office in Latvia, The Danish Cultural
institute, ARS BALTICA, Renewable Network.?
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