[artinfo] CALL for Open Fields Conference and Exhibition proposals
Rasa Smite
rasa at rixc.lv
Tue May 17 15:33:34 CEST 2016
Call for Open Fields Conference abstracts and Exhibition proposals
DEADLINE Extended: June 20, 2016
APPLY NOW!
<http://festivalconf.rixc.lv>http://festivalconf.rixc.lv
More info: <http://rixc.org/en/festival/>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>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>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/>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>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/>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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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: <mailto:rasa at rixc.org>rasa at rixc.org
Phone: +371-26546776
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