Subject: Call Extended: Aug 29,2022 > SPLINTERED REALITIES Virtual
Conference @ RIXC Festival 2022
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 11:41:36 +0300
From: Rasa Smite <r...@rixc.lv>
Hello on Spectre list!
We have received many amazing proposals already – thanks so much to
those of you who have submitted their abstracts for SPLINTERED REALITIES
conference, taking place from October 6 - 8, 2022 (Riga / Hybrid / Virtual)!
However, as we have several requests (and due to the summer holidays in
Europe), we have decided to extend the deadline for SPLINTERED REALITIES
conference proposals until August 29, 2022! Please apply here:
https://renewablefutures2022.rixc.lv/openconf.php
Looking forward to seeing you soon in Riga and online!
Rasa
on behalf of co-chairs of the Splintered Realities conference
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The SPLINTERED REALITIES Conference takes place from October 6-8, 2022,
in Riga, Latvia and Virtually in Zoom. The Open Call Deadline is
extended until August 29, 2022.
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The RIXC Art and Science Festival 2022 and SPLINTERED REALITIES
Exhibition Opening takes place on August 25, in Riga. The Exhibition
will be on view until October 16, 2022, at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre
in Riga, Latvia
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More info: http://rixc.org
http://festival2022.rixc.org
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CALL for Conference Proposals is OPEN!
Deadline for submissions extended – August 29, 2022
APPLY NOW! Please send your submissions (short abstract and biography)
via openconf system online:
https://renewablefutures2022.rixc.lv/openconf.php
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SPLINTERED REALITIES
The 5th RENEWABLE FUTURES Conference (Hybrid / Virtual)
in the framework of RIXC Art Science Festival 2022
October 6 – 8, 2022
Riga, Latvia / virtually from Liepaja, Karlsruhe, Oslo
http://rixc.org
http://festival2022.rixc.org
“An ecology of the virtual is .. just as pressing as ecologies of the
visible world” – Felix Guattari
RIXC in Riga is preparing the next edition of its annual Art and Science
festival, which under the title SPLINTERED REALITIES will take place in
Riga and virtually, including the exhibition opening program (August 25,
2022) followed by artist talks, guided tours, workshops and performances
(August 25 – October 16, 2022), and the international conference event
(October 6–8, 2022).
The SPLINTERED REALITIES Conference of RIXC Festival, is the 5th edition
of the Renewable Futures conference series. The Conference will take
place from October 6 – 8, 2022, as a hybrid event; the on-site part will
take place at the RIXC gallery in Riga, hosting keynote speakers, panel
curators, co-chairs and moderators, while most of the participants
(selected through an open call) will be joining online, including in
hybridity format sessions co-hosted by RIXC partners – NAIA in
Karlsruhe, MPLab in Liepaja and FeLT in Oslo.
SPLINTERED REALITIES
Conference
October 6 – 8, 2022,
Riga (Hybrid and Virtual)
The SPLINTERED REALITIES Conference will be structured into a three-day
program, with each “Splinter Session” focusing on a different area or
field, identifying the key “splinters” and discussing how to make
tentative steps towards reconstituting our realities, everyday lives,
and communication with each other, now and into the future.
We want to meet in Riga and online, to talk, eat, play – and probably
also cry – together, and imagine what it would take to build a world in
which wars like the current Russian onslaught on Ukraine would become
impossible. We choose such a perspective because our realism is neither
that of military strategists, nor that of cultural pessimists. Instead,
ours is a desperate realism – perhaps in the spirit of Guattari's
ecososphy, Latour's terrestrial coexistence, or Haraway's question of
how to live on a damaged Earth.. Media ubiquity, pandemic concerns, and
social divisions have landed us in a world of splintered realities – to
live with? to heal? to care? to learn from nature?
We don't expect to provide answers. Instead, the conference aims to be a
forum for revising the “splinters” of our contemporary condition –
affected moreover by ongoing military conflict.
The Conference will also look at creative practices that deal with
“splintered realities”, showcasing what art can do and discussing what
kind of (extended reality) technologies can help us to become more open
(and sensitive) towards each other and our environments.
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[Splinter Session 01: Deep Europe] on Day 1 (6 Oct) – “in the rear-view
mirror of history” – will focus on the current situation in Europe, with
a focus on the Baltics and Central and Eastern Europe, discussing and
evaluating the “splinters” from the perspective of the past. Day 1 will
feature the “Syndicate Meeting”, and artist presentations hosted by
MPLab in Liepaja, which will be European Capital of Culture in 2027.
The “Syndicate” was an extended, informal network of artists and
cultural practitioners based in Europe and beyond, that was active in
the second half of the 1990s. Besides its online mailing list, the
participants organised meetings for amicable encounters and professional
exchange. We want to revive this format and again hold a Syndicate
Meeting under the label of "Deep Europe", a notion that does not refer
to a particular territory, but to the awareness that identities and
histories are always layered and entangled, a messy formation that
cannot be 'cleared up', but that should rather be cherished and
cultivated - in Europe, and elsewhere.
Session 01 curators: Andreas Broeckmann and Rasa Smite.
Topics: Deep Europe, Entangled Histories, Cultivated Futures, New
Ecosophies, Extended Realities
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[Splinter Session 02: Naturecultures] on Day 2 (7 Oct) – “how to live in
the damaged world” – will examine eco-feminist perspectives and other
new ecosophies, learning from nature and our relations with it, in a
search of new cultural theories and art practices that contribute
towards goals of socio-ecological justice.
Day 2 will be hosted by the new Karlsruhe based art center – NAIA
(Naturally Artificial Intelligence Art association), featuring
presentations by Karlsruhe UNESCO Media Art city artists.
Session 02 curators and co-chairs: Anett Holzheid, Eva-Maria Lopez,
Daria Mille / NAIA
Topics: NatureCultures, Eco-feminism, More-than-Human, Socio-Ecological
Justice, Naturally/Artificial IntIntelligences…
[Splinter Session 03: Living Technologies] on Day 3 (8 Oct) – will focus
on how the “relations between humans, other living organisms and
machines” are experienced and expressed today, in the face of
environmental crises, global pandemics and the war in Ukraine –
splinters that raise fears of domination, and evoke a sense of the
uncanny. Might they also point to a world of possibilities of becoming,
creation of new forms and behaviors? Can we co-create more balanced
forms of existence?
Day 3 will be hosted by the FeLT project team from Oslo, Norway, who are
also co-founders of the Renewable Futures conference series. It will
also feature the Green Revisited Book presentation by editors Kristin
Bergaust, Jens Hauser and Rasa Smite.
Session 03 curators: Kristin Bergaust, Jens Hauser and FeLT (Oslo)
project team.
Topics: Techno-Ecological Sensoriums, AI and Biological Systems,
Technologies of Sensible, Terrestrial Co-existence, Beyond Green…
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APPLY NOW!
CALL for Conference Proposals is OPEN!
Deadline for submissions extended – August 29, 2022
If you are interested in an on-site or virtual participation and
contribution, please, submit your proposals (a short abstract and bio)
for the RIXC Festival / Renewable Futures conference via the openconf
system:
https://renewablefutures2022.rixc.lv/openconf.php
related to the following topics:
01-1 Deep Europe, Entangled Histories and Cultivated Futures,
01-2 New Ecosophies and Extended Realities
02-1 NatureCultures, Eco-feminism and Socio-Ecological Justice,
02-2 More-than-Human and Naturally/Artificial IntIntelligences
03-1 Techno-Ecological Sensoriums, AI and Biological Systems,
03-2 Technologies of Care, Terrestrial Co-existence, and Beyond Green
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Registration Fees / Tickets
Early Bird fee: 18 EUR
Full fee: 36 EUR
Students: 50% reduction.
Conference Registration and Early Bird tickets are available through
Eventbrite.com
On-site Exhibitions in kim? and RIXC gallery – free entrance.
Guided Tours for groups can be booked for no charge via e-mail r...@rixc.org
Producers and Contact:
The Festival is Produced by The RIXC Centre for New Media Culture.
Festival curators: Rasa Smite (r...@rixc.org) and Raitis Smits
(rai...@rixc.org)
Festival producer: Agnese Baranova (agn...@rixc.org)
PR and information coordinator: Liva Silina (r...@rixc.org)
Contact e-mail: r...@rixc.org
Phones: +371 29635167 (Agnese Baranova), +371 26546776 (Rasa Smite)
Address: RIXC the Centre for New Media Culture, Lencu iela 2, Riga,
LV-1010, Latvia
Partners and Support
The SPLINTERED REALITIES Festival and Conference partners are:
NAIA/Karlsruhe, MPLab/Liepaja, FeLT/Oslo.
The festival is supported by The State Culture Capital Foundation of
Latvia, Riga City Council, Goethe Institute, LG.
Information support: we-make-money-not-art.com, echogonewrong.com,
arterritory.com, satori.lv
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Dr. Rasa Smite
Artist and Founding Director of RIXC Art Science Center and Festival,
Riga, Latvia
Professor of New Media Art and Senior Researcher at the Art Research Lab
(MPLab), Liepaja University, Latvia
Researcher at the Institute Art Gender Nature IAGN, FHNW Academy of Art
and Design, Basel, Switzerland
Visiting Lecturer at MIT ACT - Art, Culture and Technology Program, Boston
+371-26546776 (whatsapp)
r...@rixc.org
http://rixc.org
http://smitesmits.com
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