<nettime-ann> CfP: RENEWABLE FUTURES Conference - Deadline April 20, 2015

[Rasa Smite <rasa@rixc.lv>]

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Title: CfP: RENEWABLE FUTURES Conference - Deadline April 20, 201

Hello!

please see below an announcement on "call for proposals" for the forthcoming post-media art conference, which is the 1st edition of a new conference series entitled Renewable Futures, initiated by RIXC and its networks

With best regards,

Rasa Smite

http://rixc.org

http://renewablefutures.net

http://acousticspacejournal.com

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RENEWABLE FUTURES 2015:

Transformative Potential of Art in the Age of Post-Media

The 1st edition of new academic art and science conference series,

complemented by the RIXC annual festival programme

October 8-10, 2015, Riga, Latvia

http://renewablefutures.net

The Renewable Futures is a new conference series in the EU Baltic Sea region that aims to invent new avenues for more sustainable and imaginative future developments. It will shape new contact zones between traditionally separated domains - art and science, academic research and independent creative practices, sustainable businesses and social engagement in the 21st century.

The 1st conference edition will take place in Riga, from October 8-10, 2015, and it will primarily focus on exploring the transformative potential of art in the post-media conditions. Today, according to several voices - Rosalind Krauss, Lev Manovich, Peter Weibel and Domenico Quaranta - we have entered the post-media age; there is no any single medium anymore that dominates in contemporary media art practices that are rather engaged with contemporaneity and critical thinking. The huge diversity of "post-media art" was profoundly explored also in the Fields exhibition (Riga 2014, fields.rixc.org), curated by Raitis Smits, Armin Medosch and Rasa Smite. The Fields showed that art in post-media conditions contains highly transformative and visionary potential. However, symbolic and aesthetic qualities, as well as critical, investigative and confrontational aspects also proved to be just as important for "post-media art" to maintain a line between physical and mental, realities and utopias.

THEMES:

        * post-media art, avantgarde practices and theories

        * 'slow' media art - preservation challenges for the museums
    * art and science - for building techno-ecological perspective
  * technopolitical investigations into the informational paradigm
        * Big Data and media visualizations
     * post-media architecture, sustainable design and open business
* culture for sustainable development in the Baltic Sea Region & North Europe

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CALL FOR CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS:

We welcome proposals by artists, curators, theorists, academic researchers and other lateral thinkers to share their research with regards to the above mentioned themes.

CONFERENCE DEADLINE EXTENDED: April 20, 2015

Please submit your conference proposal (abstract 250 words, biography 200 words)

at http://openconf.rixc.lv

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CALL FOR FESTIVAL PROPOSALS - ART WORKS, WORKSHOPS, PERFORMANCES AND SHOWCASE PRESENTATIONS:

The conference will be complemented by a broad programme of the RIXC's annual "Art+Communication" festival, which in its 17th edition will manifest the "post-media situation" by changing its title and a shift - it will take a turn from the festival's initial focus on information & communication technologies paradigm to the broader and more contemporary discourse on art and science, culture and sustainability, with particular interest to explore and build techno-ecological perspective.

This year's festival will feature a "post-media art" exhibition, workshops, performances and showcase presentations by artists, who in their work are blurring the boundaries between different disciplines.

DEADLINE FOR FESTIVAL PROPOSALS EXTENDED: May 15, 2015

We encourage artists to submit their proposals for artworks / performances / showcase-presentations / workshops by sending a short description (250 words), a biography (200 words), as well as other complementing material (images, links, video, etc.) via e-mail: rixc (at) rixc.lv

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* Public Keynotes:

John THACKARA
Lev MANOVICH

* Plenary Session Keynotes:

Dieter DANIELS
Domenico QUARANTA
Katja KWASTEK

Martha BUSKIRK
Armin MEDOSCH
Geoff COX

* Conference chair: Rasa SMITE / Exhibition curator: Raitis SMITS

* Conference International Advisory board:

Dieter DANIELS, Douglas KAHN, Katja KWASTEK, Armin MEDOSCH, Regine DEBATTY, Gediminas URBONAS, Misko SUVAKOVIC, Jussi PARIKKA, Rob VAN KRANENBURG

* Conference Regional (BSR/North Europe) Organizational Board: Chris HALES, Hege TAPIO, Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS, Kristin BERGAUST, Lily DIAZ-KOMMONEN, and other partners of Renewable Network

* Contact: rixc (at) rixc.lv

* More information:

http://renewablefutures.net
http://rixc.org

You can also follow the RF conference news by subscribing Renewable list: http://db.x-i.net/mailman/listinfo/renewable

Organizers: RIXC in collaboration with Art Research Lab of Liepaja University

Partners: Renewable Network, NORTH Creative Network Project, Culturability BSR Project
Support: State Cultural Capital Foundation, Riga City Council, Latvian Ministry of Culture, Creative Europa, EEA/Norway grants

http://rixc.org

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