RIXC Fields residency.

We are happy to announce the first selected artists of the RIXC Immersive Art and Nature Residency Program! The artists were selected by RIXC in collaboration with partners: Zone Sound Creative (Taiwan), Photinus Studio (Ukraine), NAIA Naturally Artificial Intelligence Art Association (Germany) and Goethe Institut in Riga.

RIXC will be glad to host the first selected artists: Yuchin Chen (Taiwan), Krista Dintere (Latvia), Anna Manankina (Ukraine/Germany), Isabella Münnich (Germany), Oleksandr Sirous (Ukraine), Adnan Softić (Germany) and Ivo Tauriņš (Latvia).

 

RIXC RESIDENCY ARTISTS, 2025

JUNE, 2025
Adnan Softić (Germany)
in collaboration with Goethe Institut in Riga, within the framework of Resonance of Nature project

Adnan Softić. Photo: Alberto Novelli.

Adnan Softić (Germany) is a digital artist whose work blurs the boundaries between digital worlds and the physical environment. His work addresses the invisibility and communicative aspects of nature and offers a poetic and philosophical exploration of ecological issues. By utilising scientific data from polar research, his work makes it possible to experience climate-related changes in a world of sound.

Adnan Softic. KLIMATON - Listening to the Disappearing Landscape, 2023.

The residency takes place in collaboration with the Goethe Institut in Riga, within the framework of Resonance of Nature project. German artist Adnan Softić will collaborate with Latvian sound artists from Riga and Liepaja, engaging them in a joint sound composition and performance “Klimaton - Listening to the Disappearing Landscape”, using the artist's own “climate data” instrument, which uses data from the Arctic as sound source. The residency outcomes and performance will take place at the RIXC Art Science Festival 2025, Riga.

The sound object KLIMATON ARCTIC≈ 2020 is based on a seminal event in scientific research: At the end of 2020, the research expedition MOSAiC (Alfred Wegener Institute) returned from its Arctic voyage, having spent more than a year collecting data with a kilometre-long network of measuring stations. It is the largest scientific data collection from the region ever and possibly also one of the last large-scale recording of a disappearing landscape that is considered by scientists to be "the key witness of climate change".

The instrument is a hybrid between a sonification device and a music instrument - allowing an open approach to the data.

 

JULY, 2025

Krista Dintere (Latvia)

Krista Dintere. Forest Garden Greenhouse concert, 2021. Greenhouse Lab, RIXC Fields residence.

Krista Dintere is an artist from Liepaja, Latvia working in between the fields of Sound Art, Experimental Composition, Media arts and creative research. Recently focusing on site-specific installations and soundscape compositions which try to reveal the relationship between factuality of field recordings and fictional sonic worlds created using artistic interpretation. During the residency, the artist will create a new sound artwork. 

 

JULY–SEPTEMBER, 2025

Yuchin Chen (Taiwan)
in collaboration with Zone Sound Creative (Taiwan)

Yuchin Chen. Photo: Hsuan Li

Yuchin Chen is a Taiwanese multimedia artist, currently based in Berlin. Yuchin's works deal with the senses of harmony/disharmony and association/disassociation between the time, space and self, often from the perspective of digital mediation, signal translation, and listening to explore new forms of understanding and perceiving the environment around us.

Yuchin Chen. I hear that I am limestone by the sea, 2025.

"I hear that I am limestone by the sea” is an artistic research project that explores the boundaries of senses, materiality, and time through the study of limestone situated between ocean and land. Shaped over millennia by geological transformations, high temperatures, immense pressure, and the accumulation of biological remnants, limestone can be seen as a dynamic archive—one that stores and carries environmental data, including tectonic shifts, ecological changes, and geological and biological processes across oceanic and planetary scales, along with information yet to be deciphered. These archives are not closed or static but porous, permeable, and open, constantly exchanging with their surroundings. Through interactions with living organisms, water currents, waves, erosion, and renewal, limestone perpetually reinterprets its environment, forming a fluid epistemic field. The artwork engages with the materiality, structure, and composition of limestone, employing processes of deconstruction and casting to translate its internal, porous archive spaces into sculptural and sonic objects. By centering tactile perception and listening, the project experiments with and proposes an alternative mode of geological sensing. 

 

JULY–SEPTEMBER, 2025

Oleksandr Sirous (Ukraine)
in collaboration with Photinus Studio (Ukraine)

Oleksandr Sirous. Photo: Lelde Gūtmane

Oleksandr Sirous is a sound and media artist who works with big data sets and the principles of interaction and communication in web environments. He also creates complex simulation environments using AI. Recently, due to his work with game engines, he has turned more and more to the culture of video games and various game mechanics and new rules of interaction, thus finding new approaches at the intersection of the already established approaches in media art and video games.

Oleksandr Sirous, artwork visualization.

At RIXC Fields Residency, the artist proposes to transform the Salinas farmhouse environment into an active participant within his speculative narrative ecosystem. His project explores the threshold between material and immaterial worlds through evolving hybrid entities—machine-creatures that resonate with invisible forces and environmental signals.

Through building small robotic systems in the metal and wood workshops and cultivating living experiments in the greenhouse, he will create a network of adaptive objects—each reacting to and amplifying site-specific signals. These hybrid systems, inspired by the chaos of frontline ecologies and evolutionary algorithms, will generate a living infrastructure that evolves both digitally (through real-time simulations) and materially (through kinetic sculptures and terrarium-based organisms).

 

JULY–SEPTEMBER, 2025

Isabella Münnich (Germany)
in collaboration with NAIA Naturally Artificial Intelligence Art Association (Germany)

Isabella Münnich. Publicity photo.

Isabella Münnich is an interdisciplinary artist moving between digital technologies and physical interventions, reflecting on human perception, communication, interspecies relations and social belonging. Her practice combines scientific topics with artistic approaches, creating immersive installations and inviting active participation. She finds solace and inspiration in nature, filling her digital archive with textures, colors and shapes from local forests. Her current practice has a focus on early ecofeminist issues and the complex relationship between humans and mother earth.

Isabella Münnich. Weaving the Future, 2025.

At the RIXC Fields residency the artist will create the Weaving the Future artwork, 3D scans of natural elements such as unfolding flower buds as basis to form fabric objects, exploring their unique natural shapes and techno-methodogical glitches. Textile work is traditionally seen as women‘s work, often unnoticed or belittled, yet their knowledge is passed down from generation to generation, weaving our world. To sew is to imagine. The artwork will reflect on blossoming, growing, reproduction, future life forms, labor, waste, redundancy, female labor and future forms of life.

 

AUGUST, 2025

Ivo Tauriņš (Latvia)

Ivo Taurins. Forest Garden Greenhouse concert, 2020. Greenhouse Lab, RIXC Fields residence. Photo: Didzis Grodzs

Ivo Taurins is an artist who has graduated from the New Media Art Master’s program of the University of Liepaja. He has studied sound art at the Bauhaus-University Weimar, Media Art and Design Master’s program, Electro-Acoustic Music and Experimental Radio Studies subprogram. Ivo did an internship in room acoustics in the German company Müller-BBM GmbH. He has currently exchanged his perennial hobby of conducting and collecting analogue records for a deep technology of digital recording, examining its processing both in theory and practice.

During the residency, the artist will create a new sound artwork. 

 

AUGUST–OCTOBER, 2025

Anna Manankina (Ukraine/Germany)
in collaboration with NAIA Naturally Artificial Intelligence Art Association (Germany)

Anna Manankina. Publicity photo.

Anna Manankina is an interdisciplinary media artist, working in the field of digital technologies with video, VR and AR, installation, AI, 3D-animation with an emphasis on posthumanism and feminist practice. In her artistic statements, she covers a wide range of issues: from geopolitical situations and power structures to purely intimate spheres of life, addresses the topic of violence and gender identity, the position of women in artistic and social contexts.

Anna Manankina. Gardening State, 2025. Visualization.

The “Gardening State” is an interactive installation about re-growth, symbiotic relationships, and the digital gardening tools that we use to shape our common future. Firstly, this project consists of 3D printed sculptures, based on speculative species of plants and accompanying motion-reactive audio. While hoping for wilderness and sprouting in the gardens once destroyed, the artist still acknowledges that these gardens will never be like they once were. For instance, hundreds of thousands of square meters of Ukrainian soil are contaminated with hazardous substances and an additional 14 million square meters of land are polluted with remnants of destroyed military objects and ammunition. The purpose is to be proof of our existence, an echo of history and events, that are unfolding on Ukrainian soil.