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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:18:26 +0300
To: spectre@mikrolisten.de
From: Rasa Smite <rasa@rixc.lv>
Subject: [spectre] Symposium for ART AND RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES - starts
tomorrow
Dear Spectre,
Sympoisum for Art and renewable technologies starts tomorrow -
more info please see below and on symposium's blog:
http://renewable.rixc.lv
best regards
Rasa
http://rixc.lv
RIXC on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rixcriga
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Symposium for ART AND RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES
August 13-16, Aizpute (Latvia)
The symposium for "Art and Renewable Technologies" will start on
Thursday, August 13 held in Aizpute, Latvia. The symposium will gather
together 30 artists, activists, technologists, scientists and
researchers primarily from Nordic and Baltic countries, as well as
from other European countries. Symposium participants will exchange
their ideas and explorations that deal with renewable energy
resources, alternative and ecological use of technologies and other
sustainability related issues.
- - - The symposium addresses 4 main themes:
BIO / ECO-SYSTEMS: Environmental science and ecology - - - Ecosystem
research - Permaculture and biosystem design - - - Biomass as
renewable energy resource - - - Critical and alternative approaches
to biotechnology
SOLAR ENERGY: Sunlight as constant energy resource - - - Process of
photosynthesis - Solar energy technologies
OPEN SOURCE: Sustainability using open source / information
approaches: in art and grassroots culture, ecology, architecture and
environmental design
MYTH & LEGENDS: Historical traditions and modern alternative solutions
- - - Cultural transformation: energy in nature and in city - - -
Future visions of terrestrial energy
- - - Participants:
Ulla Taipale (FI/ES), Victor Hugo Mondragon Franco (SE), Malin
Lindmark Vrijman (SE), Mathieu Vrijman (SE), Bartaku (BE), Christina
Stadlbauer (BE), Tiina Sööt (EE), Linda Vebere (LV), Andrew Paterson
(SCO/FI), Gisle Froysland (NO), Julian Priest (DK), Jaanis Garancs
(LV), Ainars Kamolins (LV), Reinis Rutkis (LV), Jaanis Liepins (LV),
Mikelis Putrams (LV), Linda Krumina (LV), Daina Silina (LV), Terike
Haapoja (FI), Rikke Luther (DK), Erik Sjödin (SE), Michel Bussien
(SE), Martins Ratniks (LV), Dace Dzerina (LV), Rasa Smite (LV), Raitis
Smits (LV), Signe Pucena (LV), Ugis Pucens (LV)
- - - Location:
The symposium will take place in artists residency center SERDE in
Aizpute, a small town in Kurzeme region of Latvia. SERDE is located in
old wooden historical building that also will be used as a specific
case for which alternative and ecological approach in developing
sustainable systems and renewable energy technologies can be explored
and applied.
http://www.serde.lv
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SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME
DAY 1. Thursday, August 13
17.00 - 20.00 Introduction Meeting
21.00 Opening programme
Open session / screenings / performances ...
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DAY 2. Friday, August 14
09.30 - 10.00 Planning Meeting
10.00 - 11.30 [bio : eco]
Andrew Gryf Paterson. PLATFORM ECOSYSTEMS AND PEDAGOGY (20-30 min)
Erik Sjödin and Michel Bussien. BEYOND NATURE (20-30 min)
Ulla Taipale. Capsula's CURATED EXPEDITIONS (20-30 min)
12.00-13.00 [bio : energy]
Julian Priest. WHOIS ENERGY? (30 min)
Reinis Rutkis. HYDROGEN AS ENERGY CARRIER - native and fuel cell
systems. (20 min)
13.00 - 14.30 [bio : ethics]
Ain?rs Kamoli?? and J?nis Liepi??. BIOETHICS AND/IN ART. (20 min)
Terike Haapoje. PROJECT "CLOSED CIRCUIT - OPEN DURATION" and on use of
scientific research technologies in art, and the impact of
environmental ethics on art. (60 min)
Discussion.
15.30 - 19.00 [bio : solar]
Workshop [bio : solar]: HOW TO MAKE DYE SENSITIZED SOLAR CELLS.
Conducted by Bartaku
Workshop [bio : myth]. BEE ARCHITECTS - ON THE GEOMETRY OF BEE HIVES.
Conducted by Christina Stadlbauer.
+ Field work / Work on collaborative projects / Individual work / ...
21.00 - Screenings and presentations:
[electromagnetic : energy] Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, Linda
Vebere/RIXC. Presentation of RIXC's projects: exhibitions WAVES (2006)
and SPECTROPIA (2008), research projects SPECTRAL ECOLOGY and video
SKRUNDA SIGNAL (2007).
Open session / Films.
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DAY 3. Saturday, August 15
10.00 - Planning Meeting / Discussions
10.30 - 11.30 [open source]
Gisle Frøysland. INTO THE FREE AND OPEN: the piksel festival and
related initiatives to provide sustainable resources for artists based
on floss technologies. (30 min)
Malin Lindmark Vrijman and Mathieu Vrijman. Sustainability using open
source approaches on ECO TOURISM AND LOCAL COMMUNITY AWARENESS. (30 min)
11.30 - 12.10 [eco : systems]
Tiina Sööt. UNDERSTANDING OF ECOLOGY IN HUMANITIES (20 min)
Mi?elis Putr?ms. NEW OPORTUNITIES CREATED BY WOOD INNOVATION: how new
materials shape timber construction; dendrolight. (20 min)
12.30 - 14.00 [myth & legends]
Rikke Luther. WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH ALL THAT WATER (30 min)
Christina Stadlbauer. THE BLACK BEE WENT TO TOWN or how the ever waste
land came to have 50.000 new inhabitants (30 min)
Victor Hugo Mondragon. ZEGACHE PROJECT IN MEXICO. Open Media
relations, interpretation and subjectivity within the popular culture
and the Media Art. (20 min)
15.00 - 19.00
Workshop [solar]: HOW TO BUILD SOLARBOTS MINIATURE KINETIC SCULPTURES
DRIVEN BY LIGHT. Conducted by Gisle Frøysland.
Workshop [myth]: NATURAL FARMING: LOCAL TRADITIONS OF MAKING
'MOONSHINE'. Conducted by Signe Pucena and U?is Pucens.
+ Open session / Field work / Work on collaborative projects /
Individual work / ...
21.00 - Closing event / Screenings / Presentations
Julian Priest. MINIMALIST SENSOR NETWORK PERFORMANCE "I SPEAK; I LIE".
Open Session / Films.
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DAY 4. Sunday, August 16
10.30 - 12.00 Closing Meeting (final discussions, evaluation, future planning)
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The outcomes of the symposium - new projects, artworks, co-productions
- will be presented during the international art and science
conference ENERGY that will take place in the framework of
Art+Communication festival in Riga, October 8 - 10, 2009.
(Call for proposals for Energy festival and conference is currently
open - deadline August 31, 2009. http://rixc.lv/09)
- - - Organisers and support:
Symposium is organised by RIXC, the center for new media culture
with the support of Nordic Culture Fund.
http://rixc.lv
http://www.nordiskkulturfond.org
RIXC address: 11. Novembra krastmala 35-201, Riga, LV-1050, Latvia
e-mail: 2009@rixc.lv
phone (office): +371 67228478
phone (mobile): +371 67228477 (Rasa ?mite)
Symposium blog:
http://renewable.rixc.lv/
RIXC on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/rixcriga
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