
RENEWABLE FUTURES 2015 Conference: 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.
The Renewable Futures is a new conference series in the Baltic Sea and North European 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, http://fields.rixc.lv), 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.
- post-media art, avantgarde practices and theories
- ‘slow’ / networked media art – preservation challenges for the museums (deadline extended!)
- art and science – for building techno-ecological perspective
- technopolitical investigations into the informational paradigm
- Big Data and media visualizations (deadline extended!)
- post-media architecture, sustainable design and open businesses (deadline extended!)
- art / culture for sustainable development in the North (deadline extended!)
CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR THE FESTIVAL & EXHIBITION:
* Public Keynotes:
Prof. Lev MANOVICH / The City University of New York
John THACKARA / Founding director of Doors of Perception
* Plenary Session Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Dieter DANIELS / Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) in Leipzig; Prof. Domenico QUARANTA / Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera; Prof. Katja KWASTEK / Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Prof. Martha BUSKIRK / Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts; PhD Armin MEDOSCH / University of Arts in Belgrade; Dr Geoff COX / Aarhus University
* Exhibition curator: Dr Raitis SMITS / Latvian Academy of Arts / Co-founder of RIXC
* Conference International Advisory board:
Dieter DANIELS, Douglas KAHN, Katja KWASTEK, Armin MEDOSCH, Regine DEBATTY, Gediminas URBONAS, Misko SUVAKOVIC, Jussi PARIKKA, Rob VAN KRANENBURG, Misko SUVAKOVIC
* Conference Regional (BSR/North Europe) Organizational Board:
Chris HALES, Hege TAPIO, Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS, Kristin BERGAUST, Lily DIAZ-KOMMONEN, Laura BELOFF, Raivo KELOMEES, Ilva SKULTE
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Partners: Renewable Network, NORTH Creative Network, Culturability BSR
Support: State Cultural Capital Foundation, Riga City Council, Latvian Ministry of Culture, Creative Europa, EEA/Norway grants
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