[artinfo] DEADLINE EXTENDED: CFP - Renewable Futures

[Rasa Smite]

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

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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

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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

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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

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* 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