RIXC is pleased to announce that the winners of the AUGE 2nd Call for Ideas: Challenges for Green and Digital Future (RIXC Riga Artathon) are Lauris Smits from Latvia (1st place) and Oleksandr Sirous from Ukraine (2nd place)!

The AUGE 2nd final event and AUGE NEXT exhibition opening will take place in May 23 at the Milan MEET Digital Culture Center, during which 1st place holder Lauris Smits will present his project's idea.

RIXC Riga artathon Blockchain, Art and Climate: Challenges for Green & Digital Future was part of the AUGE 2ND project funded by the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV) of the European Union.

Participants submitted projects on one of the following RIXC Riga artathon challenges:

- AI and Blockchain: Transforming Potential in Arts

- Art, AI and the Metaverse: Reality Shift

- Green Digital Utopia and Augmented Nature-Cultures

- Digital Future Challenges: Blockchain, Art and Economy

Project partners are MEET Digital Culture Center (Milan), Public Art Lab (Berlin), RIXC Center for New Media Culture (Riga), Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture (Barcelona), Laznia Center For Contemporary Art (Gdansk).

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