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CfP: Deadline for  the conference (only!) submissions – March 15, 2019
Apply Now! http://openfields2019.rixc.lv

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OF 2019: UN/GREEN, COM/POST/HUMAN, N/AI
The 4th Open Fields conference on Artistic Research, Science and Technologies and
RIXC Art Science Festival 2019
July 4 – 7, 2019, Riga
Venue: the National Museum of Art of Latvia

http://festival2019.rixc.org

The 2019 RIXC Festival 2019 aims at complicating the pervasively employed notion of “green” by providing a cross-disciplinary platform for the discussions and artistic interventions exploring one of the most paradoxical and broadest topics of our times. The festival will feature the “Un/Green” exhibition opening that takes place in the Latvian National Museum of Art, and the 4th Open Fields conference which aims to ‘un-green greenness', 'eco-systemically' reconnect 'post-human postures', and discover and unpack ‘Naturally Artificial Intelligences.’

'Green’, symbolically associated with the ‘natural’ and employed to hyper-compensate for what humans have lost, will be addressed as the indeed most anthropocentric of all colours, in its inherent ambiguity between alleged naturalness and artificiality. Are we in control of ‘green’? Despite its broadly positive connotations ‘green’ incrementally serves the uncritical desire of fetishistic and techno-romantic naturalization in order to metaphorically hyper-compensate for material systemic biopolitics consisting of the increasing technical manipulation and exploitation of living systems, ecologies, and the biosphere at large.***


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OPEN CALL

Alongside 'green', the central topic of this conference, the Open Fields 2019 organizers also welcome visionary and critically un-green, spectral-prismatic, post-anthropocentric, and socio-algorithmic proposals by artists, scientists, researchers and experts from different academic disciplines and professional fields.

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CONFERENCE

OF2019: UN/GREEN, COM/POST/HUMAN, N/AI
The 4th Open Fields conference on Artistic Research, Art and Science and Technologies
July 4-7, 2019
Venues: The National Museum of Art, Riga / Rucka Artist Residency, Cesis / RIXC Fields Residency, Talsi

You may submit proposals with regards to the following topics / sections:

* green/ungreen – 'symbolic green, ontological greenness and performative greening'
* biopolitics and ecotopia – beyond the anthropocene, towards multispecies relations

* ‘green’ intelligence – environment and naturally AI within algorithmic societies

* post-anthropocentric visions – 'nature culture' and eco-critique
* sensible ‘green’ – beyond the visual: acoustic, olfactive, chemical, etc.
* biosphere and technosphere - techno-ecological perspective of our planet and in Space
* prismatic – color theories, light and perception


The proposal should consist of title, 6 keywords, abstract (200 words), and biography (120 words).


DEADLINE for Conference Proposal submissions: March 15, 2019

APPLY online, using the openconf system:
http://openfields2019.rixc.lv 


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UN/GREEN (Ungreening Greenness)
RIXC Art Science Festival 2019 Exhibition
July 5 – September 20, 2019
The National Museum of Art, Riga

CLOSED! The call for the Artwork Proposals for the Un/Green Exhibition is closed (as of February 15, 2019, 23.59 EET). 

APPLY online, using the openconf system:

http://openfields2019.rixc.lv

– please submit your artwork proposal under the section:

* un/green exhibition – artworks

DEADLINE for  Artwork Proposals for the GREEN Exhibition is CLOSED!

The proposal should consist of title, short description (200 words), biography(120 words, in comments fields), and links to video (1-3 min) 


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OPEN FIELDS 2019 conference chairs and GREEN exhibition curators:
Raitis SMITS, Rasa SMITE and Jens HAUSER.

OPEN FIELDS Conference International Scientific Board:

Prof. Lev MANOVICH / Cultural Analytics Lab / The Graduate Center, City University of New York, US
Dr. Ellen PEARLMAN / Parsons / New School / Art-A-Hack / ThoughtWorks / New York, USA
Prof. Kristin BERGAUST / OsloMet-Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Ph.D. Jussi PARIKKA / Winchester School of Art / University of Southampton / UK
Ph.D. Geoff COX / Plymouth University, UK
Assoc. Prof. Laura BELOFF / IT University, Copenhagen / Finnish Bioart Society, Helsinki, Finland
Prof. Lily DIAZ-KOMMONEN / Head of Research Department of Media, Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland
Prof. Ursula DAMM / Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Dr. Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS / Nida Art Colony, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania
Ph.D. Margrét Elísabet ÓLAFSDÓTTIR / Art Education at the University of Akureyri, Iceland
Dr. Ilva SKULTE / Riga Stradins University, Latvia
Dr. Piibe PIIRMA / Tallinn University / Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
Ph. D. Raivo KELOMEES / Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
Regine DEBATTY / we-make-money-not-art.com / BE/UK/IT

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The festival is organized by RIXC Center for New Media Culture. The conference is co-organized by Art Research Lab / Liepaja University, RISEBA, Art in Society / OsloMET, and other Green Project partners.


Contact: rixc@rixc.org, +371-67228478 (RIXC office), +371-26546776 (Rasa Smite)


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http://festival2019.rixc.org (festival and conference website)


CONTACTS

rixc@rixc.org

+371 67228478 (office)

+371 26546776 (Rasa Smite)