Deadline: 20 June 2016
\nCall for entries<\/p>\n
Call for Open Fields Conference abstracts and Exhibition proposals More info: http:\/\/rixc.org\/en\/festival\/<\/a><\/p>\n – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –<\/p>\n OPEN FIELDS Conference and Exhibition Open Fields is the title of this year’s international conference taking place in the framework of the annual RIXC Art Science festival in Riga. It brings together international scholars and artists, working at the intersection of arts, humanities and science. Open Fields will focus on artistic research, the changing role of arts, its transformative potential, and relation to the sciences. This call for participation invites contributions and conference paper proposals by scholars, artists, artists-researchers, art and media theorists, data designers and critical engineers, as well as doctoral students, and scientists from different Fields \u00e2\u20ac\u201c biology, ecology, environment, digital technologies, renewable energy, etc., who are engaged in experiencing the transformative potential of arts.<\/p>\n For the exhibition and conference, we are looking for research that is located in the contested territory between academic knowledge production and independent creative practices. Open Fields will be investigating the use of data visualizations and other mappings of the contemporary. It will look into areas such as open commons, the future of social interaction, data representation and visualisation, critical design, sustainable infrastructures, eco-aesthetics, techno-ecologies, bio-hacking and other techniques of a transformative potential. No Field is excluded, yet there should always be a connection with art; it is highly likely that art works and conference papers will touch on several Fields, not one. It is such an enhanced understanding of transdisciplinarity that drives this undertaking.<\/p>\n Research Questions: How art and other creative practices can meaningfully contribute to the environmental, technological and scientific challenges of our time? What kind of new knowledge can be created through artistic practice that collaborates with science, technology and other disciplines? And how to deal with contemporary aesthetics, which has undergone dramatic changes during the past decades and keeps changing again as influenced by current post-media situation, data visualization and other contemporary conditions?<\/p>\n The Conference also will feature \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Playing Fields\u00e2\u20ac\u009d session on contemporary taxonomy, maintaining a connection between the exhibition and the conference. It also will include \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Open Fields \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Book Review\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (PechaKucha) session, providing an opportunity for the speakers to present their new books for other participants and the audience.<\/p>\n * Conference keynote speakers:<\/p>\n Christiane PAUL \/ New School \/ Whitney Museum \/ New York * Exhibition: The Open Fields conference will be complemented by the exhibition taking place in the new Exhibition Hall of National Library of Latvia. Partly curated, partly peer-reviewed, the Exhibition will represent works by artists, artists-researchers and data designers, who are challenging the notion of art and contemporary aesthetics by moving across, bringing together and converging different knowledge, various media and diverse Fields, as well as using scientific, cultural and social data as new artistic medium, and interpreting them in a new and meaningful ways. * Proceeding: The papers will be published in conference proceeding, which will come out in the Acoustic Space, peer-reviewed journal & book series. The call for full paper submissions will be announced during the conference. Conference Chair: Dr. Rasa SMITE \/ RIXC \/ Art Research Lab, Liepaja University, Latvia – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –<\/p>\n DEADLINE FOR CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS:<\/p>\n June 20, 2016<\/p>\n We welcome proposals by scholars, artists, artists-scholars, designers, PhD researchers, curators, media theorists, art historians, science philosophers, cultural innovators, bio-hackers, critical engineers and data designers, as well as scientists from different Fields \u00e2\u20ac\u201c biology, ecology, environment, digital technologies, renewable energy, and others, who are engaged in the transformative potential of arts.<\/p>\n Conference themes include: Conference proposal should consist of:
\nhttp:\/\/festivalconf.rixc.lv<\/a><\/p>\n
\nin the framework of RIXC Art Science Festival 2016
\nRiga, September 29 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c October 1, 2016
\nVenue: National Library of Latvia<\/p>\n
\nJussi PARIKKA \/ Winchester School of Art \/ University of Southampton \/ UK
\nand others – tbc.<\/p>\n
\nThe Exhibition will be open from September 29 – November 6, 2016.<\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/acousticspacejournal.com<\/p>\n
\nFestival and Exhibition curators: Dr. Raitis SMITS, Ainars KAMOLINS, Dr. Rasa SMITE
\nPlaying Fields session will be organized and moderated by Armin MEDOSCH \/ Austria<\/p>\n
\n* investigating contemporaneity, its representation and experience in and through artistic practice and art-science research
\n* data visualization, and its impact on art, science and contemporary aesthetics
\n* art and science \u00e2\u20ac\u201c challenging new ways of knowledge creation and its representation
\n* changing weathers \u00e2\u20ac\u201c networked responses to geophysical and geopolitical shifts across Europe and the globe
\n* eco-aesthetics \u00e2\u20ac\u201c from sustainable architecture and critical design to techno-ecological art practices<\/p>\n
\n* title and abstract (250 words)
\n* 5-6 keywords,
\n* and short author’s biography (160 words).<\/p>\n