WEDNESDAY, October 7, 2015
opening day
12:00-13:00 PRESS CONFERENCE
Location: kim? Contemporary Art Center, Maskavas street 12/1, Spikeri Creative Quartier
Curators and participants introducing Festival Programme, Data Drift exhibition in kim? and Transformative Ecologies in RIXC Gallery
19:00-20:30 NORTH. TRANSFORMATIVE ECOLOGIES. Opening of the Festival Exhibition
Location: RIXC Gallery, 11. Novembra Krastmala 35, entrance from Minsterejas street
THURSDAY, October 8, 2015
DAY 1: RENEWABLE FUTURES CONFERENCE
Venue:Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Strelnieku street 4a
14:00 Registration and coffee
15:00 Plenary Session I: Thematic Keynotes:
Moderator: Rasa SMITE
Domenico QUARANTA. Notes on Postmedia and Other Posts
Armin MEDOSCH. Art and Technopolitics: Resist, Subvert, Accelerate!
17:00 Public Keynote:
John THACKARA. Green Hacking
Venue: Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Strelnieku street 4a
19:00 Reception:
Renewable Futures Conference and RIXC Festival Opening
Welcome words by Dace MELBARDE, Minister for Culture of the Republic of Latvia
Introductory words by Rasa SMITE and Raitis SMITS, Conference chairs
21:00 RIXC Art and Science Festival Opening Performances:
Venue: Spikeri Concert Hall, Maskavas street 4/1, Spikeri Creative Quartier
Tickets (7.50 / 4 EUR) – bilesuparadize.lv
Hildur GUDNADÓTTIR, electric cello
Bjørnar HABBESTAD, flute & Ellen RØED, video
Eriks KIRSFELDS, electroacoustic cello
Le RÉVÉLATEUR, audiovisual performance
Bas VAN KOOLWIJK, electronics & Gert-Jan PRINS, drums
Platons BURAVICKIS, electronic music
FRIDAY, October 9, 2015
DAY 2: RENEWABLE FUTURES CONFERENCE
Venue: Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Strelnieku street 4a
9:30-10:00 Registration and Coffee
10:00-11:45 Plenary Session II: Thematic Keynotes:
Moderator: Rasa SMITE
Dieter DANIELS. Revisiting the Readymade as Renewable Future
Geoff COX. Contemporary Conditions are Badly Known
Andreas BROECKMANN. Ecology/Machines: The Technologies of Eco Art
11:45-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-12:55 Parallel sessions:
Session 1A: ART AND TECHNOPOLITICS
Moderator: Armin MEDOSCH
Polona TRATNIK. Bio Art as Tactical Media (25 min)
Gerald NESTLER. The Future as a Derivative Technology at Present (25 min)
Session 1B: BIG DATA AND VISUALIZATIONS
Moderator: Andrew PATERSON
Mauro MARTINO. AI and visualizations (25 min)
SPIN Unit (Damiano CERRONE). The Invisible Image of the City (25 min)
13:00-14:15 (75 min) Parallel sessions:
Session 2A: ART, BIOLOGY AND COMPUTING
Moderator: Andreas BROECKMANN
Régine DEBATTY. Artists Merging the Biological and the Digital (15 min)
Ivan HENRIQUES, Theun KARELSE. Machine Ecology (15 min)
Laura BELOFF. What Flies Got To Do With It? (15 min)
Piibe PIIRMA. Hybrid Art and Estonian Experience (15 min)
Helena SEDERHOLM. Intersecting Art and Science in Basic Education (15 min)
Session 2B: MAPPING COMPLEXITY AND POSTMEDIA ARCHITECTURE
Moderator: Damiano CERRONE
Kim ALBRECHT. Culturegraphy (15 min)
Christophe GUIGNARD. Inhabiting and Interfacing the Cloud(s) (15 min)
Chaewon AHN. Ma(i)cro Visions: Utilizing Social Network Service data for a transformational process of urban social spaces (15 min)
Cecilia WEE, Dani ADMISS. Futuring Social Change: Crisis, Cognition and Agency (15 min)
Alan HOOK, Danielle BARRIOS-O’NEILL. Future Energy Networks and the Role of Interactive Gaming as Simulation (15 min)
14:15-15:15 Lunch
15:15-16:30 (75 min) Parallel sessions:
Session 3A: SLOW MEDIA ART AND NEW ECOLOGIES
Moderator: Régine DEBATTY
Daniela DE PAULIS. COGITO: Neuroscience and Radio Astronomy in Art (15 min)
Edith DOOVE. Slow/Networked Media Art and the Museum: Who Takes Care of Whom? (15 min)
Alice SMITS. Towards a New Ecology in Contemporary Land Art Practices (20 min)
Maren RICHTER, Klaus SCHAFLER. Grammar of Urgencies (15 min)
Daniel PLOEGER. Abject Digital Performance: Engaging the Politics of Electronic Waste (15 min)
Session 3B: THE CITY, NATURE AND CRITICAL DESIGN
Moderator: Margret OLAFSDOTTIR
Olga MINK. Baltan Laboratories – Open innovation strategies for art; tech; science and society (15 min)
Conor McGARRIGLE. Walking Code (15 min)
Krista PETERSONE. City Votes Nature: Space Against the Mediated Word (15 min)
Susana SOARES. Design for the New Natural in the Age of Post-Media (15 min)
Liene JAKOBSONE. Critical Design. Speculations on Future as a Critique of Today (15 min)
16:30-17:00 break
17:00 Public keynote:
Lev MANOVICH. Studying cultural trends using millions of Instagram photos
Venue: Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Strelnieku street 4a
19:00 Public Opening of DATA DRIFT Exhibition
Venue: kim? Contemporary Art Center, Maskavas street 12/1, Spikeri Quartier
Curators: Lev MANOVICH, Rasa SMITE, Raitis SMITS
Artists: SPIN Unit (EU), Moritz STEFANER (DE), Frederic BRODBECK (DE), Kim ALBRECHT (DE), Boris MÜLLER (DE), Marian DÖRK (DE), Benjamin GROSSER (US), Maximilian SCHICH (DE/US), Mauro MARTINO (IT/US), Periscopic (US), Pitch Interactive (US), Smart Citizen Team (ES), Lev MANOVICH / Software Studies Initiative (US), Daniel GODDEMEYER (DE/US), Dominikus BAUR (DE), Mehrdad YAZDANI (US), Alise TIFENTALE (LV/US), Jay CHOW (US), Semiconductor (UK), Rasa SMITE, Raitis SMITS / RIXC (LV), Martins RATNIKS (LV), Kristaps EPNERS (LV).
SATURDAY, October 10, 2015
DAY 3: [North-CN] RENEWABLE FUTURES CONFERENCE
Venue: Latvian National Library, Mukusalas iela 3
10:00-10:30 Coffee and Registration
10:30-11:45 (75 min) Plenary Sesssion III Thematic Keynotes:
Moderator: Hanna HOELING
Katja KWASTEK. A Voyage to the North Sea. Aesthetics of Tidal Art (35 min)
Martha BUSKIRK. The Artist as Collector – Digital Edition (35 min)
12:00-12:15 Coffee
12:15-14:00 (105 min) Parallel sessions:
Session 4A: RETHINKING EARTH SYSTEMS
Moderator: Hege TAPIO
Elizabeth MCTERNAN. Altitude Sickness: The Aerial View Of The Post-Romantic Sublime (15 min)
On Ni WAN. Cosmic Gun (15 min)
Laura BALLANTYNE-BRODIE. Earth System Aesthetics (15 min)
Margret OLAFSDOTTIR. Melting on Ice (15 min)
Jennifer (no.e) PARKER. Composing [De]Composition (15 min)
Oksana CHEPELYK. The COLLIDER project as a Model of “Post-Media Art” Combined Science, Public Space, History and New Technologies to Rethink Worldwide Changes. (15 min)
Session 4B: POSTMEDIA AND SLOW ART
Moderator: Geoff COX
Hanna HOELING. Between Slow and Fast: Time, Change, and Continuity in Media Installations (15 min)
Gabriela GALATI. Art, Modernism, Posthuman (15 min)
Angela BARTHOLOMEW. Suspended Disbelief. Gerald van der Kaaps’s
Hover Hover (1991) (15 min)
Vygandas Vegas SIMBELIS. Fault Aesthetics in Time Photography (15 min)
Karla BRUNET. Data bending: aesthetics, code and photography (15 min)
Hung-Han CHEN. Affective Embodiments of Subjectivities: the Auto-Affection of the Lived Body and the Affection-Images in Media Arts (10 min)
14:00-15:00 lunch
14:30-16:30 Parallel sessions:
Session 5A: BIOETHICS, ART AND SCIENCE
Moderator: Signe MEZINSKA
Ainars KAMOLINS. Communication and seduction of plants. RIXC’s Talk to Me Artwork (15 min)
Jānis LIEPINS. Biological comments on Gints Gabran’s artworks (15 min)
Brian DEGGER. Microbe-philia: Art Practices that Explore our Relationships with Microbial Symbionts (15 min)
AnneMarie MAES. The Scaffolded Sound Beehive (15 min)
Raivo KELOMEES. Truth and Trademark in Hybrid Artworks (10 min)
Hege TAPIO. On Next Eden (tbc) (10 min)
Session 5B: POSTMEDIA AND TRANS-EVERYTHING
Moderator: Andrew PATERSON
Elke REINHUBER. Counterfactualism as a Post-Media Strategy (15 min)
Ilva SKULTE. Post-media Reading: New Dimensions of Literature as Art (15 min)
Julian HANNA. Manifestos in the Post-Media Age (15 min)
Kaylee KOSS. Transeverythingsim: Gender Identity, Audiovisual Languages and Emerging Technologies (15 min)
Normunds KOZLOVS. The fatigue of Richard Rorty’s „ironic intelectual“- camp aesthetics in subcultural discourse (15 min)
Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS. Hand-drawn Visualisations and Maps as Research Texts in the Age of Big Data (15 min)
17:00 Closing Session: BOOK-REVIEW Pecha Kucha
Book presentations by authors: Lev MANOVICH, Dieter DANIELS, Martha BUSKIRK,
Katja KWASTEK, Ainars KAMOLINS, Helēna DEMAKOVA, Karla BRUNET, Raivo KELOMEES, Cecilia WEE, Ieva ASTAHOVSKA, AnneMarie MAES, Rasa SMITE, Raitis SMITS (tbc)