The RIXC Art Science Festival symposium will take place on 22–23 October at the National Library of Latvia in Riga, featuring three thematic sessions, workshops, presentations, showcases, and discussions. Participation is free of charge, and those interested are encouraged to register in advance.

Free registration here: https://ej.uz/rixcfestival2026tickets

On the first day of the symposium, Thursday, 22 October, at 13:00 in the Conference Center of the National Library of Latvia, sociologist Philippe Sormani, this year’s festival keynote speaker, will lead a thematic session on experimentation as an artistic and scientific practice, introducing “Genealogies of Experimentation”. Drawing on Hans-Jörg Rheinberger’s experimental systems and Harold Garfinkel’s situated praxeology, participants will be invited to explore the question: “Where does an experiment begin in artistic practice?” In the first part of the session, festival artists, international participants, and young researchers from Latvia and the Baltics will present the experimental dimension of their artistic practice by sharing their works, processes, and experiments, while engaging in dialogue with Sormani and reflecting on them in the context of this year’s festival theme, “Climate Imagination”. With Sormani as one of the key figures in Swiss STS (Science and Technology Studies), the session’s discussion and workshop will also aim to lay the groundwork for the development of Art STS in Latvia and the Baltic region.

More information on the festival website:
https://festival2026.rixc.org/baltic-art-sts/