>Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:06:21 +0300
>From: Rasa Smite <rasa@rixc.lv>
>Subject: [spectre] Call for proposals - ENERGY conference and exhibition
> (art+communication festival)
>
>
>Dear Spectre people,
>
>Please see below CALL FOR PROPOSALS - for conference, exhibition and
>performances - for forthcoming Art+Communication festival, which
>this year's theme is - Energy.
>Deadline: August 31, 2009.
>
>best
>Rasa
>http://rixc.lv
>
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>ART+COMMUNICATION 2009: ENERGY
>XI International festival for new media culture
>October 8 - 10, 2009 in Riga, Latvia
>
>
>-- Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only be
>transformed. -- (The law of conservation of energy)
>
>
>The 11th edition of "Art+Communication" festival in Riga with this
>year's theme: Energy, will investigate the notion of 'sustainable
>development' from various perspectives - artistic, scientific,
>cultural, technological, social, architectural, and environmental.
>
>The main festival programme will take place in Riga, October 8 - 10,
>2009, featuring:
>_ International art and science conference (organized in
>collaboration with Art Research Lab of Liepaja University)
>_ Media art exhibition "Energy" (in RIXC gallery at Spikeri)
>_ Experimental film screenings, live performances, workshops and
>artists' presentations (in RIXC Media Space)
>
>
>- - - Conceptual background:
>
>Energy makes change (E=mc2)
>
>In nature, energy is found in many different forms - kinetic
>(avalanches), motion (wind), sound (thunder), water (rain), thermal
>(fire), electrical (lightening), magnetic (Earth's magnetic field),
>radiant (light), etc. Energy is involved in all processes that take
>place in Universe and on Earth.
>
>In human society, energy is the most essential resource driving its
>economy and its future development. Now, in the twenty-first
>century, it has turned out that human society with its information
>technologies need more resources to sustain its development then
>ever before. Yet, currently used forms of terrestrial energy
>production known today, have turned out to be finite,
>non-sustainable, posing a serious danger to the climate, people and
>environment.
>
>Creative ideas and new approach today is requested nearly in all
>fields, while sustainable development of both energy and information
>technologies have become key issues in nowadays. Smart devices and
>energy internet, clean and renewable energy resources, alternative
>and ecological design and production methods, open source and hybrid
>approaches to information technologies - are just few of the broad
>potential quests that could change the future landscape of
>sustainability.
>
>"The quest for a sustainable world may succeed, or it may fail. If
>it fails, the world will become unthinkable. If it works, the world
>will become unimaginable. In practice, people will experience mixed
>success". (Bruce Sterling)
>
>Yet, scenario of "saving the world" can only have any success, if
>people from different fields - scientists and artists, politicians
>and business people, theorists and practitioners, futurists and
>engineers, producers and consumers, etc. - will eventually be open
>for new ideas and new collaborations.
>
>The Energy festival will offer a space of exchange for an
>interdisciplinary group of participants, who will share their
>scientific and artistic, utopian and critical visions of future
>terrestrial energy.
>
>
>- - - Themes:
>
>I ENERGY IN NATURE AND SOCIETY: - The concept of energy and its
>various contexts: in Universe and on Earth - Invisible energy: in
>myths and legends, in nature and science - Energy technologies: in
>human life and in information society
>
>II ENVIRONMENTAL AND CULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY: - Environmental
>science research, climate change and ecology - Permaculture and
>biosystem design - Historical traditions vs. modern alternative
>solutions in urban planning and architecture - Transition theory and
>futuristic visions of sustainable living -
>
>III OPEN SOURCE, INFORMATION AND ENERGY: - Synergetic and
>co-relation between information and energy - Smart devices and
>Energy Internet - Sustainability using open source approaches: in
>art, culture, ecology, architecture, environmental design -
>IV ART AND ALTERNATIVE SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES: - Dye sensitized
>solar technologies - Green chemistry: new approach in biotechnology
>- Artistic explorations of clean and renewable energy technologies
>(sun, wind, water, tides, biomass, etc.) -
>
>
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>- - - Call:
>
>For Energy conference we welcome proposals by artists, science
>researchers, engineers, activists, sociologists, philosophers,
>architects, designers, futurists, and other lateral thinkers, who
>are engaged with the issues of sustainable development, in relation
>to the themes proposed above.
>
>The deadline for conference papers and exhibition proposals:
>August 31, 2009
>
>Please send your short abstracts (200 words) and bio (60 words) to e-mail:
>2009 ( at ) rixc.lv
>
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>
>- - - Organisers and support:
>
>
>Organised by RIXC, Center for New Media Culture (Riga, Latvia) with
>the support of State Culture Capital Foundation, Riga City Council,
>Nordic Culture Fund and Nordic Culture Point.
>
>Email: rixc( at )rixc.lv
>http://rixc.lv
>
>ENERGY festival website:
>http://rixc.lv/09
>
>Symposium Art and Renewable technologies blog:
>http://renewable.rixc.lv/
>
>RIXC on Twitter:
>http://twitter.com/rixcriga
>
>
>- - - Satellite-event series:
>
>The festival is prefaced by a series of satellite events - already
>past: Terike Haapoja's "Entropia" installation, a film programme
>Wonderful World (Riga, May 11, 2009), and forthcoming: Art and
>Renewable Technologies symposium (Aizpute, August 13-16, 2009),
>http://renewable.rixc.lv and Erik Hobijn's "Chemo-bar" performance
>(Riga, September 12, 2009).
>
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