Dear all on Spectre list!<\/p>\n
We, RIXC in Riga, are preparing the next edition of our annual Art and Science festival, which under the title SPLINTERED REALITIES will take place in Riga and virtually from October 6-8, 2022, including Deep Europe symposium (Syndicate meeting) in Riga, keynotes and featured live streams from Liepaja, Karlsruhe and Oslo, and online participation from all over the world.<\/p>\n
Please see below is the call for the Conference abstracts with the deadline August 15, 2022, The (Virtual) Conference will take place from October 6-8, 2022, with<\/p>\n The festival and exhibition opening takes place on August 25, in Riga, and the exhibition will be on view until October 16, 2022, at\u00a0 Kim? contemporary art center in Riga, Latvia<\/p>\n More info: http:\/\/rixc.org<\/a> See you in Riga or online in October!<\/p>\n Best,<\/p>\n Rasa<\/p>\n – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – SPLINTERED REALITIES \u201cAn ecology of the virtual is .. just as pressing as ecologies of the visible world\u201d \u2013 Felix Guattari<\/p>\n RIXC in Riga is preparing the next edition of its annual Art and Science festival, which under the title SPLINTERED REALITIES will take place in Riga and virtually, including the exhibition opening program (August 25, 2022) followed by artist talks, guided tours, workshops and performances (August 25 \u2013 October 16, 2022), and the international conference event (October 6\u20138,\u00a0 2022).<\/p>\n The SPLINTERED REALITIES Conference of RIXC Festival, is the 5th edition of the Renewable Futures conference series. The Conference will take place from October 6 \u2013 8, 2022, as a hybrid event; the on-site part will take place at the RIXC gallery in Riga, hosting keynote speakers, panel curators, co-chairs and moderators, while most of the participants (selected through an open call) will be joining online, including in hybridity format sessions co-hosted by RIXC partners \u2013 NAIA in Karlsruhe, MPLab in Liepaja and FeLT in Oslo.<\/p>\n SPLINTERED REALITIES The SPLINTERED REALITIES Conference will be structured into a three-day program, with each \u201cSplinter Session\u201d focusing on a different area or field, identifying the key \u201csplinters\u201d and discussing how to make tentative steps towards reconstituting our realities, everyday lives, and communication with each other, now and into the future.<\/p>\n We want to meet in Riga and online, to talk, eat, play \u2013 and probably also cry \u2013 together, and imagine what it would take to build a world in which wars like the current Russian onslaught on Ukraine would become impossible. We choose such a perspective because our realism is neither that of military strategists, nor that of cultural pessimists. Instead, ours is a desperate realism \u2013 perhaps in the spirit of Guattari’s ecososphy, Latour’s terrestrial coexistence, or Haraway’s question of how to live on a damaged Earth.. Media ubiquity, pandemic concerns, and social divisions have landed us in a world of splintered realities \u2013 to live with? to heal? to care? to learn from nature?<\/p>\n We don’t expect to provide answers. Instead, the conference aims to be a forum for revising the \u201csplinters\u201d of our contemporary condition \u2013 affected moreover by ongoing military conflict.<\/p>\n The Conference will also look at creative practices that deal with \u201csplintered realities\u201d, showcasing what art can do and discussing what kind of (extended reality) technologies can help us to become more open (and sensitive) towards each other and our environments.<\/p>\n – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –<\/p>\n [Splinter Session 01: Deep Europe] on Day 1 (6 Oct) \u2013 \u201cin the rear-view mirror of history\u201d \u2013 will focus on the current situation in Europe, with a focus on the Baltics and Central and Eastern Europe, discussing and evaluating the \u201csplinters\u201d from the perspective of the past. Day 1 will feature the \u201cSyndicate Meeting\u201d, and artist presentations hosted by MPLab in Liepaja, which will be European Capital of Culture in 2027.<\/p>\n The \u201cSyndicate\u201d was an extended, informal network of artists and cultural practitioners based in Europe and beyond, that was active in the second half of the 1990s. Besides its online mailing list, the participants organised meetings for amicable encounters and professional exchange. We want to revive this format and again hold a Syndicate Meeting under the label of “Deep Europe”, a notion that does not refer to a particular territory, but to the awareness that identities and histories are always layered and entangled, a messy formation that cannot be ‘cleared up’, but that should rather be cherished and cultivated – in Europe, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n Session 01 curators: Andreas Broeckmann and Rasa Smite. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –<\/p>\n [Splinter Session 02: Naturecultures] on Day 2 (7 Oct) \u2013 \u201chow to live in the damaged world\u201d \u2013 will examine eco-feminist perspectives and other new ecosophies, learning from nature and our relations with it, in a search of new cultural theories and art practices that contribute towards goals of socio-ecological justice.<\/p>\n Day 2 will be hosted by the new Karlsruhe based art center \u2013 NAIA (Naturally Artificial Intelligence Art association), featuring presentations by Karlsruhe UNESCO Media Art city artists.<\/p>\n Session 02 curators and co-chairs: Anett Holzheid, Eva-Maria Lopez, Daria Mille \/ NAIA [Splinter Session 03: Living Technologies] on Day 3 (8 Oct) \u2013 will focus on how the \u201crelations between humans, other living organisms and machines\u201d are experienced and expressed today, in the face of environmental crises, global pandemics and the war in Ukraine \u2013 splinters that raise fears of domination, and evoke a sense of the uncanny. Might they also point to a world of possibilities of becoming, creation of new forms and behaviors? Can we co-create more balanced forms of existence?<\/p>\n Day 3 will be hosted by the FeLT project team from Oslo, Norway, who are also co-founders of the Renewable Futures conference series. It will also feature the Green Revisited Book presentation by editors Kristin Bergaust, Jens Hauser and Rasa Smite.<\/p>\n Session 03 curators: Kristin Bergaust, Jens Hauser and FeLT (Oslo) project team. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –<\/p>\n APPLY NOW! If you are interested in an on-site or virtual participation and contribution, please, submit your proposals (a short abstract and bio) for the RIXC Festival \/ Renewable Futures conference via the openconf system: 01-1 Deep Europe, Entangled Histories and Cultivated Futures, – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –<\/p>\n Registration Fees \/ Tickets<\/p>\n Early Bird fee: 18 EUR Producers and Contact:<\/p>\n The Festival is Produced by The RIXC Centre for New Media Culture. Partners:<\/p>\n The SPLINTERED REALITIES Festival and Conference partners are: NAIA\/Karlsruhe, MPLab\/Liepaja, FeLT\/Oslo.<\/p>\n Support:<\/p>\n The festival is supported by The State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia,\u00a0 Riga City Council, Goethe Institute, LG.<\/p>\n – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –<\/p>\n http:\/\/rixc.org<\/a><\/p>\n – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –<\/p>\n —
\nhttps:\/\/renewablefutures2022.rixc.lv\/openconf.php<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/festival2021.rixc.org<\/a><\/p>\n
\nCALL for Conference Proposals is OPEN!
\nDeadline for submissions \u2013 August 15, 2022
\nAPPLY NOW! Please send your submissions (short abstract and biography) via openconf system online: https:\/\/renewablefutures2022.rixc.lv\/openconf.php<\/a>
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\nThe 5th RENEWABLE FUTURES Conference (Hybrid \/ Virtual)
\nin the framework of RIXC Art Science Festival 2022
\nOctober 6 \u2013 8, 2022
\nRiga, Latvia \/ virtually from Liepaja, Karlsruhe, Oslo
\nhttp:\/\/rixc.org<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/festival2021.rixc.org<\/a><\/p>\n
\nConference
\nOctober 6 \u2013 8, 2022,
\nRiga (Hybrid and Virtual)<\/p>\n
\nTopics: Deep Europe, Entangled Histories, Cultivated Futures, New Ecosophies, Extended Realities<\/p>\n
\nTopics: NatureCultures, Eco-feminism, More-than-Human, Socio-Ecological Justice, Naturally\/Artificial IntIntelligences\u2026<\/p>\n
\nTopics: Techno-Ecological Sensoriums, AI and Biological Systems, Technologies of Sensible, Terrestrial Co-existence, Beyond Green\u2026<\/p>\n
\nCALL for Conference Proposals is OPEN!
\nDeadline for submissions \u2013 August 15, 2022<\/p>\n
\nhttps:\/\/renewablefutures2022.rixc.lv\/openconf.php<\/a>
\nrelated to the following topics:<\/p>\n
\n01-2 New Ecosophies and Extended Realities
\n02-1 NatureCultures, Eco-feminism and Socio-Ecological Justice,
\n02-2 More-than-Human and Naturally\/Artificial IntIntelligences
\n03-1 Techno-Ecological Sensoriums, AI and Biological Systems,
\n03-2 Technologies of Care, Terrestrial Co-existence, and Beyond Green<\/p>\n
\nFull fee: 36 EUR
\nStudents: 50% reduction.
\nConference Registration and Early Bird tickets will be available from July 15, 2022 via eventbrite system.
\nOn-site Exhibitions in kim? and RIXC gallery has a free entrance.
\nGuided Tours for groups can be booked for no charge via e-mail rixc@rixc.org<\/a><\/p>\n
\nFestival curators: Rasa Smite (rasa@rixc.org<\/a>) and Raitis Smits (raitis@rixc.org<\/a>)
\nFestival producer: Agnese Baranova (agnese@rixc.org<\/a>)
\nPR and information coordinator: Liva Silina (rixc@rixc.org<\/a>)
\nContact e-mail: rixc@rixc.org<\/a>
\nPhones: +371 29635167 (Agnese Baranova), +371 26546776 (Rasa Smite)
\nAddress: RIXC the Centre for New Media Culture, Lencu iela 2, Riga, LV-1010, Latvia<\/p>\n
\nDr. Rasa Smite
\nArtist and Founding Director of RIXC Art Science Center and Festival, Riga, Latvia
\nProfessor of New Media Art and Senior Researcher at the Art Research Lab (MPLab), Liepaja University, Latvia
\nResearcher at the Institute Art Gender Nature IAGN, FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel, Switzerland
\nVisiting Lecturer at MIT ACT – Art, Culture and Technology Program, Boston
\n+371-26546776 (whatsapp)
\nrasa@rixc.org<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/rixc.org<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/smitesmits.com<\/a><\/p>\n