RIXC MĀKSLAS UN ZINĀTNES FESTIVĀLS 2016
Rīga, 28. septembris – 1. oktobris, 2016

TREŠDIENA, 28. septembris, 2016

12.00 – Festivāla preses konference
Latvijas Nacionālā bibliotēka, adrese: Mūkusalas iela 3
18.00 – Izstādes atklāšana: Time's Up (AT/AU) “Turntona, maza pilsēta jūrā”
RIXC galerija, adrese: 11. novembra krastmala 35, ieeja no Minsterejas ielas

CETURTDIENA, 29. septembris, 2016

14.00 – Reģistrācija konferencei
15.00 – Plenārsesija: The Contemporary Condition – Key Concepts (Aarhus University / Contemporaneity Research Group)
PUBLISKĀS VIESLEKCIJAS:
16.30 – Jussi PARIKKA (Winchester School of Art / University of Southampton / UK)
17.30 – Christiane PAUL (New School / Whitney Museum / US)
19.00 – Izstādes ATKLĀTIE LAUKI (Open Fields) atklāšana un oficiālā pieņemšana
Latvijas Nacionālā bibliotēka

PIEKTDIENA, 30. septembris, 2016

09.30 – Open Fields konferences 1. diena: LAIKMETĪGUMS / MĀKSLA KĀ PĒTNIECĪBA
Sesija: Liepājas Universitātes Mākslas pētījumu laboratorija / Tematiskās vieslekcijas / Paralēlās sesijas
17.00 – Open Fields grāmatu apskats 1 (sesija): diskusija, Armin MEDOSCH un Christiane PAUL.
Latvijas Nacionālā bibliotēka

SESTDIENA, 1. oktobris, 2016

10.00 – 16.00 Open Fields konferences 2. diena: EKOESTĒTIKA / MĀKSLA UN ZINĀTNE
Sesija: Changing Weathers projekta partneri / Tematiskās vieslekcijas / Paralēlās sesijas
16.00 – PUBLISKĀ VIESLEKCIJA: Monica BELLO (Arts at CERN / CH)
17.00 – 18.00 Open Fields grāmatu apskats 2 (20”x20 / Pecha Kucha formāts): autoru prezentācijas – Open Fields dalībnieki // festivāla noslēgums: mākslas & zinātnes kokteiļi
Latvijas Nacionālā bibliotēka

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FESTIVĀLA IZSTĀDES 

29. septembris – 2. novembris, 2016
Izstāde ATKLĀTIE LAUKI (Open Fields)
Galvenā festivāla izstāde ar 25 starptautisku mākslinieku darbiem
Atklāšana – 29. septembrī, 2016, 19.00.
Latvijas Nacionālā bibliotēka, adrese: Mūkusalas iela 3

28. septembris – 5. oktobris, 2016
Izstāde “Turntona, maza pilsēta jūrā”. Mākslinieki: Time's Up (Austrija)
Atklāšana – 28. septembrī, 2016, 18.00.
RIXC galerija, adrese: 11. novembra krastmala 35 (ieeja no Minsterejas ielas)

19. septembris – 2. oktobris, 2016
Izstāde “Impulsi. Jaunās skaņas dienas”
Liepājas Universitātes jauno mediju mākslinieku izstāde
Atklāšana – 19. septembrī, 2016, 20.00 // Performances un gidu vadītas ekskursijas pa izstādi – 30. septembrī, 21.00.
RISEBA Arhitektūras un mediju centrs "H2O 6", adrese: Durbes iela 4

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OPEN FIELDS Conference

PROGRAMME (SUMMARY):

WEDNESDAY, September 28, 2016

12.00 – Press Conference
14.00 – Changing Weathers Partner Meeting
18.00 – Opening of the Exhibition: Turnton, Small City on the Sea by Time's Up (AU/AT).
RIXC Gallery, Address: 11. Novembra Krastmala 35, entrance from Minsterejas iela

THURSDAY, September 29, 2016
14.00 – Conference Registration

15.00 – 16.30 Plenary Session: THE CONTEMPORARY CONDITION – SOME KEY CONCEPTS

Geoff COX / Verina GFADER / Jacob LUND / Anne KØLBÆK IVERSEN (Aarhus University's Contemporaneity Research Group / DK)

PUBLIC KEYNOTE LECTURES:

16.30 – 17.30 Situated Data: On Art Methods, Cultural Institutions and Infrastructure. Keynote talk by Jussi PARIKKA (Winchester School of Art / University of Southampton / UK)
17.30 – 18.30 Digital Art Now: Challenges of the Post-Digital Age. Keynote talk by Christiane PAUL (New School / Whitney Museum / US).
19.00 – The Opening of Open Fields Exhibition and RIXC Festival
The National Library of Latvia, Address: Mukusalas iela 3

FRIDAY, September 30, 2016
09.30 – 17.00 Conference Day 1: CONTEMPORANEITY / ART AS RESEARCH
Featured sessions by Liepaja university's Art Research Lab / Thematic keynotes / Parallel sessions
17.00-18.30 – Open Fields Book Review 1 (Featured session): book presentations by Armin MEDOSCH and Christiane PAUL, and discussion.

21.00 –

SATURDAY, October 1, 2016
10.00 – 16.00 Conference Day 2: ECO-AESTHETICS / ART AND SCIENCE
Featured session by Changing Weathers project partners / Thematic keynotes / Parallel sessions

16.00-17.00 Public Keynote Lecture: Monica BELLO (Arts at CERN / CH)
17.00 – 18.00 Open Fields Book Review 2 (20”x20 / Pecha Kucha format) presentations: by authors – Open Fields participants // Festival Closing: Art-Science Coctails
The National Library of Latvia

DETAILED PROGRAMME (Preliminary, V.1.0.)

THURSDAY, September 29, 2016

OPENING DAY
Venue: The National Library of Latvia, Address: Mukusalas iela 3

14.00 – Conference Registration

15.00 – 16.30 Plenary Session: THE CONTEMPORARY CONDITION – SOME KEY CONCEPTS
(contemporary contemporary; chronophobia; random access memory; real-time; presentism; arrested movement; migration; algo-rhythm; pre-acceleration; iconomy; time stamp; loop).

Geoff COX, Verina GFADER, Jacob LUND and Anne KØLBÆK IVERSEN / Aarhus University's Contemporaneity Research Group / DK

16.30-18.30 PUBLIC KEYNOTE LECTURES:

16.30 – 17.30 Jussi PARIKKA. Situated Data: On Art Methods, Cultural Institutions and Infrastructure

17.30 – 18.30 Christiane PAUL. Digital Art Now: Challenges of the Post-Digital Age

19.00 – The Opening of Open Fields Exhibition and RIXC Festival Reception
The National Library of Latvia, Address: Mukusalas iela 3

FRIDAY, September 30, 2016

DAY 1: CONTEMPORANEITY / ART AS RESEARCH

Venue: The National Library of Latvia, Address: Mukusalas iela 3

09.00 – 09.30 Registration

09.30 – 11.30Plenary Session(120 min):OPEN FIELDS: Artistic Research and Contemporary Aesthetics

Featured session with presentations by Open Fields exhibition artists

Moderated by Raitis SMITS, curator of Open Fields exhibition

Speakers (18 min + 1 question / 6 speakers):
Martin RUMORI. Narrative Immersion – Artistic Approaches to Binaural Auditory Display Research

Raphael KIM. Bio-hacking in Design: Living tools for Critique and Speculation?

Mauro MARTINO. Beautiful Science

Laura BELOFF. Art & Science projects flirting with the concept of the ‘Real’

Ellie IRONS. Vegetative Resistance: Weeds and Wildness in Human-Dominated Landscapes

Jan TORPUS, Andreas SIMON. Atmospheric Experience in An Affective-Responsive Environment

11.30 – 11.45 Coffee Break

11.45 – 13.00Parallel Session A (75 min) CONTEMPORANEITY: Complexity and Aesthetics
Moderated by Rasa SMITE
Speakers (14 min + 1 question / 5 speakers):
Lucy IRVINE. Made of Holes: Embodied Complexity and Emergent Form

Maryam BOLOURI. App-Art Aesthetics: Post Media Art as an Extension of Man’s Imagination

Luke PENDRELL. Terminal Velocity

Ágnes Karolina BAKK. Is There an Online Theatre with its Online Community? - Online Theatre Strategies for Creating New Communities

Pauline O'CONNELL. … the void of the jug …

11.45 – 13.00Parallel Session B(75 min.) DATA VISUALIZATION:
Moderated by
Speakers (14 min + 1 question / 5 speakers):
Marita BATNA. Beyond Representation: Data Visualization in Networked and Spatially Distributed Art Practices

Marinos KOUTSOMICHALIS. On Catalogue Aesthetics

Solvita ZARINA. Data Visualization Between Design and Artwork

Sandra ALVARO. Artistic Production and Embodied Information. Tracking Spaces of Transformation.

Martin SCHNEIDER. Towards Bottom-Up Interactive Dataviz

11.45 – 13.00Parallel Session C(75 min.) ART AS RESEARCH
Moderated by Kristin BERGAUST
Speakers (14 min + 1 question / 5 speakers):

Saskia KORSTEN, Marieke DE JONG. Enframing Korsten&DeJong
Aneta PANEK. Alchemy and Punk
Lena SÉRAPHIN. Another Alphabet
Irina DANILOVA. Where Topology meets with Typology
Sarah BURGER. (un)earhted

13.00 – 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 15.15 Parallel Session A (75 min): CONTEMPORANEITY
Moderated by Ainars KAMOLINS
Speakers (14 min + 1 question / 5 speakers):

Amy YOUNGS. Practicing Symbiosis: Experiments in Collaborative Teaching and Art Making between Science and Art

Vincenzo SANSONE. Theatre among Liveness, Divergence and Software Culture

Minka STOYANOVA. Performing Hypo-Linguistics

Adam HYDE. What Scientific Publishing has Learned from Art

Christian FAUBEL. Songs from my Analogue Utopia

Parallel Session B (75 min):ART AS RESEARCH: Baltic Case(Part I)

Moderated by Rasa SMITE

Speakers (14 min + 1 question / 5 speakers):

Thematic Keynote: Andris TEIKMANIS. Art, Research and Politics

Jurij DOBRIAKOV. An Expired Future: The Curious Case of Lithuanian Media Art

Raivo KELOMEES. Interactive Art as a Method of Preserving and Exhibiting Physical Artworks

Ance GRICMANE. Seeing the Sound – Synesthesia – the Phenomenon as Source of Inspiration

Vytautas MICHELKEVIČIUS. I am a scientist and I am a researcher; I am an artist, I am a curator, what am I?

 

Parallel Session C (75 min.) DATA VISUALIZATION & SONIFICATION: Raising the Ecological Awareness
Moderated by Raitis SMITS
Speakers (14 min + 1 question / 5 speakers):

Azadeh NILCHIANI. Sound Art, a Way to Ecological Awareness

Eva SJUVE. Dark and Dirty: Metopia

Rihards VITOLS. Woodpecker

Ryan JORDAN. And the Earth sang like a mad Beast

Matt PARKER. Vibrating the web: media infrastructures and the economy of noise

 

15.15 – 15.30 Break

15.30 – 16.45 Parallel Session A (75 min):CONTEMPORANEITY:Post-Human, Post-Digital, Post-Organic

Moderated by Regine DEBATTY

Deborah LAWLER-DORMER. Altercations: An autonomous avatar creation account

Anna Maria MONTEVERDI. Will there be Theatre in a Software Culture?

Raune FRANKJÆR, Patricia FLANAGAN. The cybercrafted posthuman: Introducing cyborganics

Bart VANDEPUT (Bartaku). Aronia m.BaBe: the Morphing of the Human With the Chokeberry

Owen KELLY. Digital Toolkits for Experimental Arts Organizations - tbc

15.30 – 16.45 Parallel Session B: ART AS RESEARCH: Baltic Case (Part II)
Featured Session by Art Researh Labof Liepaja University
Moderated by Ilva SKULTE
Speakers (15 min x 5 Speakers + 1 question each):

Dirk HOYER. Futura as a conceptual framework for Artistic Research

Raivo KELOMEES. Practice-based artistic doctoral research in Estonia: history, experience and results 

Chris HALES. Developing a Practice-led Arts Doctorate at Liepaja University

Aigars CEPLITIS. Rhizomatic Narratology In Spherical Cinema

Jānis GARANCS. Artistic Reflection on the Turbulent Virtual Landscape of Crypto-Currency Online Trading (2010-2016)

15.30 – 16.45ParallelSession C (75 min.)ART AS RESEARCH

15.30 – 15.45 Interactive Workshop-Presentation (15 min):Project Domino
Christina ELINGSEN, Frode FLEM, Tara ROLFSEN.

15.45 – 16.45 Performative Presentations (60 min): Situating Hybrid Knowledges: A Material-Discursive Archive
Mara-Johanna KOLMEL / Alice COLQUHOUN / Helena HUNTER / Mirko NIKOLIć

 

16.45-17.00 Break

 

PLENARY SESSION

17.00-18.30 – Open Fields Book Review (Part I: featured session): book conversation by Armin MEDOSCH and Christiane PAUL, based on their recently published books: “A Companion to Digital Art”, ed. by Christiane Paul, and “New Tendencies Art at the Threshold of the Information Revolution (1961 – 1978)” by Armin Medosch.

SATELLITE EVENT
21.00 – Performance programme and guided tour through the IMPULSES Exhibition by new media artists from Liepaja University's Art Research Lab (MPLab)
RISEBA Center for Architecture and Media “H2O 6”, Address: Durbes iela 4

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SATURDAY, October 1, 2016

DAY II: ECO-AESTHETICS / BIO-ETHICS / ART AND SCIENCE

09.30–10.00 Registration and Coffee

10.00-11.30 (90 min.) Plenary Session: CHANGING WEATHERS: Networked Response...
Moderated by Netta NORRO
Speakers (15 min + 1 question / 5-6 speakers):

Netta NORRO. Introduction on Changing Weathers 

Lucas VAN DER VELDEN. Living Earth – Dark Ecology

Erich BERGER. Hybrid Matters

Andrew Gryf PATERSON. Reflections on Soil Present(s), Past(s), Future(s)

Time's Up. Turnton, a Short History

Marko PELJHAN (video presentation)

 

11.30-11.45 Coffee Break

11.45-13.15 Parallel Session A (90 min) ECO-AESTHETICS: Techno-Ecologies in the Anthropocene
Moderated by Andrew Gryf PATERSON
Speakers (15 min + 1 question / 5 Speakers):

Yvonne VOLKART. Technologies of the Ecological in the Anthropocene
Cathy FITZGERALD. The Ecological Turn: Transversal Practice to Exit the Anthropocene.
Leonore BONACCINI, Xavier FOURT, Ewen CHARDRONNET. Aliens In Green
Karolina ŻYNIEWICZ. Bioart as a Laboratory Experiment
Grit RUHLAND. Randomness as a reSource

 

11.45-13.15 Parallel Session B (90 min) BIO-ETHICS: Scientific Experiments in Art
Speakers (15 min x 1 question / 5 speakers)
Moderatedby Lucas EVERS

Erich BERGER. Trust Me I'm an Artist: Inheritance

Alexandru RAEVSCHI (RAEVSKI). The project "Universe 69" / The influence of anthropogenic transformation and their reflection on human subconsciousness

Alana JELINEK. Ethics of Multi and Inter-Disciplinary Working with Artists

Ursula DAMM, Birgit BRUEGGEMEIER. Combat, Courtship and Advertising – How to Understand Scientific Experiments in Art

 

11.45-13.15 Session C (90 min) BIO-HACKING & ECO-POETICS
Moderated by Regine DEBATTY
Speakers (15 min x 1 question / 5 speakers)

Francisco Javier Fernandez GALLARDO, Audrey SAMSON. Peel that! Free-labour art at the Mouth of the Thames

Krista PĒTERSONE. Surveyor's Turn

Adilson SIQUEIRA. Scenics Ecopoéticas and Performative Artivistic Action

Danielle WILDE. BioHacking our Danish Town to Diversify Civic Imaginaries

Lisa ERB. To Combine Those – Pluriphony. Meta

13.15-14.15

14.15-15.45 Parallel Session A(90 min): ART AND SCIENCE: Institutions and Platforms
Moderated by Ainars KAMOLINS
Speakers (15 min + 1 question / 5 speakers)

Natalia FUCHS. Polytech. Science. Art: Institutionalization of Art & Science Research in Russia

Ela SPALDING, Emily ZHUKOV. Navigating Art and Science in Panama

Benjamin CADON, Julien BELLANGER. ArtLabo, an anti-disciplinary platform for a prospective and critical approach of art & science

Matteo LANFRANCHI. Stormo: Collective Intelligence between Art & Science

Joanna SZLAUDERBACH. Research Station on Planet B – Curatorial Practice Between (Citizen) Science & Art Exhibition

14.00-15.30 Parallel Session B (90 min) ART AND SCIENCE: Energy Innovation and Critical Design
Moderated by Raitis SMITS
Speakers (15 min + 1 question / 5 speakers)

Thomas ORTIZ, Cédric CARLES. Paleo-energetic : a Collaborative Counter-History of Energy Innovation.

Christina DELLA GIUSTINA. You are variations

Artis VOLKOVS. Solar Transport for Solar Civilization

Talis MUZIKANTS. Eco-Aesthetical Solar Tree in Urban Environment

Liene JAKOBSONE. The Purpose Of Uselessness. Critical and Speculative Approaches in Design

14.15-15.45 Parallel Session C (90 min.) TECHNO-ECOLOGIES: Workshop and Walk

Jamie ALLEN. Shift Register (workshop)

 

15.45-16.00 Break

 

16.00-17.00 Public Keynote Lecture:
Monica BELLO. Expanding curiosity through fundamental research in arts

17.00 – 18.30 Open Fields Book Review (Part II / 20 slides x 20 seconds / Pecha Kucha format) presentations (6 min each): by authors – Open Fields participants:
Rasa Smite. Open Fields (Acoustic Space Vol. 15), Lucas van der Velden, and other conference participants are invited to make their book presentations!
Please Apply! And send your book/presentation titles to rasa@rixc.org by September 26, 2016.

18.30 Festival Closing: Art-Science Coctails
The National Library of Latvia