Kallað eftir erindum á ráðstefnuna UnGreen: Naturally Artificial Intelligence

‘UnGreen: Naturally Artificial Intelligence’
The 4th Open Fields conference on Art & Science Research and UN/GREEN Exhibition,
RIXC Festival 2019
July 4 – 7, 2019, Riga, Latvia
The RIXC Festival 2019 aims at complicating the pervasively employed notion of “green” by providing a cross-disciplinary platform for the discussions and artistic interventions exploring one of the most paradoxical and broadest topics of our times. The festival will feature the “Un/Green” exhibition opening that takes place in the Latvian National Museum of Art, and the 4th Open Fields conference which aims to ‘un-green greenness’, ‘eco-systemically’ reconnect ‘post-human postures’, and discover and unpack ‘Naturally Artificial Intelligences.
‘Green’, symbolically associated with the ‘natural’ and employed to hyper-compensate for what humans have lost, will be addressed as the indeed most anthropocentric of all colours, in its inherent ambiguity between alleged naturalness and artificiality. Are we in control of ‘green’? Despite its broadly positive connotations ‘green’ incrementally serves the uncritical desire of fetishistic and techno-romantic naturalization in order to metaphorically hyper-compensate for material systemic biopolitics consisting of the increasing technical manipulation and exploitation of living systems, ecologies, and the biosphere at large.***
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CONFERENCE
OF2019: UN/GREEN, COM/POST/HUMAN, N/AI
The 4th Open Fields conference on Art-Science Research, July 4-7, 2019
 Venue: The National Museum of Art, Conference Hall, Riga
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. You may submit proposals with regards to the following topics / sections:
* green/ungreen – ‘symbolic green, ontological greenness and performative greening’
* biopolitics and ecotopia – beyond the anthropocene, towards multi-species relations
* ‘green’ intelligence – environment and naturally AI within algorithmic societies
* post-anthropocentric visions – ‘nature culture’ and eco-critique
* sensible ‘green’ – beyond the visual: acoustic, olfactive, chemical, etc.
* biosphere and technosphere – techno-ecological perspective (within and beyond our planet)
* prismatic – color theories, light and perception

DEADLINE for Conference Proposal submissions: February 15, 2019
 APPLY NOW! (using the openconf system): openfields2019.rixc.lv
The proposal should consist of title, 6 keywords, abstract (200 words), and biography (120 words, in the “Comments” table).
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EXHIBITION
UN/GREEN Exhibition
 of RIXC Art Science Festival 2019 and EMAP / EMARE** network project, July 5 – September 20, 2019 The National Museum of Art, Riga
Alongside the Open Fields 2019 Conference, UN/GREEN, the large-scale exhibition, will be contributing towards the complicating, deconstructing and re-visiting the notion of ‘green’, and aiming to ‘un-green greenness’.
DEADLINE for artwork* proposals for the UN/GREEN Exhibition: February 15, 2019
APPLY online, using the openconf system: openfields2019.rixc.lv <emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fopenfields2019.rixc.lv&data=02%7C01%7Cmargretolafs%40unak.is%7C86e3fec6db6f4174caf608d6754feebb%7C7358e7f23c414c25bc0c81ef77b66995%7C0%7C0%…>
NB! please submit your artwork* proposal ONLY under the following section:
* un/green exhibition – artworks
The artwork* proposal should consist of: 1) title, short description (200 words), biography (120 words, submitted under “Comments” table) 2) plus visual material – link to video (max. 3 min, amateur video explaining the main idea behind the work) or PDF with images (one A4 page with images representing the idea).
* NB! artwork should be already created, the festival doesn’t have the budget for producing new works. For approved artworks, we are providing technical assistance, set up and maintenance during the exhibition. As we have limited funds this year, in a case of approval, we also will be encouraging the artists to to apply for additional funding for travel (and/or transportation of artwork) in their home country, if possible. The accommodation will be provided by us, and also travel costs, in the cases, when it is not possible to raise additional funds.
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OPEN FIELDS 2019 conference chairs and GREEN exhibition curators:
Raitis SMITS, Rasa SMITE, Jens HAUSER*** (‘un/green’ concept author)
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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 / 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
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* Notifications, Conference Registration, Travel and Accommodation
Notifications of acceptance – by March 11, 2019. The selected participants of the Open Fields 2019: UnGreen conference will be asked to register online; the Early Bird registration will be open from March 11, 2019. We also will be providing you with confirmation letters encouraging to apply for covering your travel and accommodation costs by your universities. There will be limited number of travel grants available for independent artists and researchers, particularly supporting artists from Eastern Europe and Baltics. More information on Registration Fees, Accommodation possibilities in Riga, and how to apply for travel grants, will be available on UNGREEN website: festival2019.rixc.org <emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffestival2019.rixc.org&data=02%7C01%7Cmargretolafs%40unak.is%7C86e3fec6db6f4174caf608d6754feebb%7C7358e7f23c414c25bc0c81ef77b66995%7C0%7C0%7…>
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* Organizers and Support
The festival is organized by RIXC Center for New Media Culture. The UN/GREEN Exhibition is a part of EMAP / EMARE** – European Media Art Residency Network project. The conference takes place in the framework of RISK CHANGE project, supported by Creative Europe, and it is co-organized by Art Research Lab / Liepaja University, RISEBA, Art in Society / OsloMET, and other Renewable Futures Network partners.
Contact: rixc@rixc.org <mailto:rixc@rixc.org> , +371-67228478 (RIXC office), +371-26546776 (Rasa Smite)
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