Preliminary Program & Registration for RIXC Festival: Plants Intelligence Symposium (online and onsite) is Open!

RIXC Center for New Media Culture – 25 Years! All events · Free admission

16.-18.10.2025

Riga, Latvia / Online

The Transition Ecologies Exhibition by Maija Demitere at the RIXC Gallery

The exhibition reflects on the shifting relationship between humans and nature, as old balances collapse and the need for new ecological connections emerges. 

04.09.–25.10.2025

RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2

INSERT#7 Issue Opening: Plant Intelligence Featuring AI Herbarium by Rasa Smite

In INSERT#7, read about the work of artists and researchers of  the Plants_Intelligence project “towards a vegetal aesthetics”, including Rasa Smite’s “AI Herbarium. Flowering Plants as Inventors of Their Own Existence”.

Thursday, 28.08.2025., at 18.00-21.00

Old Botanical Garden, Palm House, entrance at the corner of Talstrasse/Badweg, 8001, Zurich, Switzerland

Ivo Tauriņš (Latvia) captures field recordings at the RIXC Fields residency

We are glad to welcome the Latvian artist Ivo Tauriņš! the RIXC Fields residency! He has been selected for the RIXC Immersive Art and Nature Residency Program 2025.
Residency website: https://air.rixc.org/

16/08/2025

Among Plants Exhibition Featuring Artworks of the Plants_Intelligence Research Project

The Unter Pflanzen exhibition, curated by Kathrin Meyer and Yvonne Volkart, features artworks by Felipe Castelblanco, Julia Mensch, Rasa Smite, and Raitis Smits, created as part of the Plants_Intelligence research project funded by SNSF, as well as other works by artists who work with plants.

16.03–17.08.2025.

Museum Sinclair-Haus in Bad Homburg / Frankfurt, Germany

Multimedia artist Yuchin Chen (Taiwan) joins the RIXC Fields Residency!

We are pleased to welcome Taiwanese artist Yuchin Chen at the RIXC Fields residency! The artist has been selected for the RIXC Immersive Art and Nature Residency Program 2025, in collaboration with Zone Sound Creative (Taiwan).
Residency website: https://air.rixc.org/

25/07/2025

Artist Oleksandr Sirous (Ukraine) joins the RIXC Fields Residency!

Starting from July 12, 2025, RIXC is pleased to welcome the next artist at the RIXC Fields residency – Oleksandr Sirous (Ukraine)! He has been selected for the RIXC Immersive Art and Nature Residency Programme 2025 in collaboration with Photinus Studio (Ukraine).
Residency website: https://air.rixc.org/

14/07/2025

Raitis Smits participates in Riga Contemporary Art Fair 2025 programme

As part of Riga Contemporary, a programme of talks and performances will bring together artists, representatives from international galleries, art advisors, Baltic collectors, and other creative industry professionals, fostering meaningful discussions and engagement within the contemporary art scene.

12.07.2025, from 15:40 to 16:10

Hanzas Perons, Riga

Keynote Talk by Rasa Smite at the BIFoR meeting – “Atmospheric Forests. Immersive Visualisations for Climate Experiences”

The keynote takes place as part of the BIFoR Annual Meeting: Forest Trace and will be followed by a lunch time immersive exhibit: Atmospheric Forest by Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits.

24.06.2025., 11.50–13.30

Edgbaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre, Hornton Grange, UK

RIXC Art Science Festival 2025 announces the participating artists

This year’s RIXC Festival will delve into the “plant intelligence" theme, exploring ideas such as “learning like a plant” amidst the ongoing climate crises and the still scarcely unfolded relations between natural and artificial intelligence.

16.10. – 23.11.2025

Kim? Contemporary Art Centre / RIXC Gallery / Art Academy of Latvia