[OpenGLAM] Fwd: [Renewable] CALL for Open Fields Conference and Exhibition proposals @ RIXC Festival

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Subject: 	[Renewable] CALL for Open Fields Conference and Exhibition 
proposals @ RIXC Festival
Date: 	Tue, 17 May 2016 13:02:50 +0300
From: 	Rasa Smite <rasa at rixc.lv>
Reply-To: 	rasa.smite at rixc.org
To: 	renewable at lists.rixc.lv



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

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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/

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*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

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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

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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

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* 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. Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir / 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.

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* 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.

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http://rixc.org

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-- 
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:rasa at rixc.org
Phone: +371-26546776
http://smitesmits.com
http://rixc.org
http://renewablefutures.net
http://acousticspacejournal.com




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