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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 ANDÂ 
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 /Â 
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 VANÂ 
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




  
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