UN/GREEN: NATURALLY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCES

RIXC FESTIVAL 2019, THE 4TH OPEN FIELDS CONFERENCE ON ART-SCIENCE RESEARCH AND UN/GREEN EXHIBITION

July 27, 2018

OPEN CALL

Submissions for Exhibition – Closed!

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
Riga, The National Museum of Art / Cesis, Rucka Artist Residency / Talsi, RIXC Fields Residency

DEADLINE for Conference Proposal submissions: March 1, 2019

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

* green/ungreen – ‘symbolic green, ontological greenness and performative greening’
* post-anthropocentric vsions – ‘nature culture’ and eco-critique
* biopolitics – beyond the anthropocene, towards multispecies relations and open space research
* sensible ‘green’ – beyond the visual: acoustic, olfactive, chemical etc.
* ‘green’ intelligence – environment and naturally AI within algorithmic societies
* ‘prismatic’ – color theories, light and perception

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

APPLY NOW! (using openconf system):
http://openfields2019.rixc.lv

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EXHIBITION

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

DEADLINE for Artwork Proposals for the GREEN Exhibition: February 15, 2019

APPLY by using the openconf system – please submit under the section/topics (below):

* green exhibition – artworks

The proposal should consist of title, short description (200 words), biography (120 words), and links to video (1-3 min)
http://openfields2019.rixc.lv

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OPEN FIELDS 2019 conference chairs and GREEN exhibition curators:
Raitis SMITS, Rasa SMITE and Jens HAUSER*** (concept author).

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

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)

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