October 8-10, 2015, Riga

The Renewable Futures is a new conference series in the Baltic Sea 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, fields.rixc.org), 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.

CALL FOR CONFERENCE PROPOSALS:

We welcome proposals by artists, curators, theorists, academic researchers and other lateral thinkers to share their ideas and research with regards to the following themes:
• post-media art, avantgarde practices and theories
• ‘slow’ media art – preservation challenges for the museums
• art and science – for building techno-ecological perspective
• technopolitical investigations into the informational paradigm
• Big Data and media visualizations
• post-media architecture, sustainable design and open businesses
• culture for sustainable development in the Baltic Sea and North European region

DEADLINE: March 20, 2015

Please submit your conference proposal (abstract 250 words, biography 200 words) via http://openconf.rixc.lv 

In a case of any problems with the openconf system, please don’t hesitate to contact us: rixc@rixc.lv

CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR THE FESTIVAL & EXHIBITION:

The conference will be complemented by a broad programme of the RIXC’s annual Art+Communication 2015 festival, which in its 17th edition will manifest the post-media situation by changing its title and a shift – it now takes a turn from the festival’s initial focus on information & communication technologies paradigm to the broader and more contemporary discourse on art and science, culture and sustainability, with particular interest on exploring and building techno-ecological perspective.

This year’s festival exhibition will also contribute in building post-media perspective. We invite artists to propose their works that by blurring the boundaries between different disciplines are developing visions for more sustainable and imaginative ways of life.

* Keynote speakers:

John THACKARA
Lev MANOVICH

* Plenary session keynotes:

Dieter DANIELS
Katja KWASTEK
Armin MEDOSCH
tbc.

* Conference International Advisory board:

Dieter DANIELS, Douglas KAHN, Katja KWASTEK, Armin MEDOSCH, Regine DEBATTY, Gediminas URBONAS, Misko SUVAKOVIC,
Rob VAN KRANENBURG, and others – tbc.

* Conference chair: Rasa SMITE
* Exhibition curator: Raitis SMITS

* Conference Regional (BSR/North Europe) Organizational Board: Chris HALES, Hege TAPIO, Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS, Kristin BERGAUST, and other partners of Renewable Network – tbc.

Contact: rixc@rixc.lv

You can also follow the RF conference news by subscribing Renewable list:
http://db.x-i.net/mailman/listinfo/renewable

More information: http://rixc.org

Organized by RIXC in collaboration with Art Research Lab of Liepaja University

Partners: Renewable Network, NORTH Creative Network Project, Culturability BSR
Support: State Cultural Capital Foundation, Riga City Council, Latvian 
Ministry of Culture, Creative Europa, EEA/Norway grants

RIXC Centre for New Media Culture has turned Café Europa containers into Riga Innovation Lab by offering 6 weeks long extensive and manifold programme of exhibitions and workshops focused on art and science, and 3D printing. The RIXC Innovation Lab programme together with artists and scientists from Latvia, Belgium and Baltic-Nordic countries particularly will host workshops exploring the themes such as urban ecosystems, fog and the future of water, 3D printing of sound (and other intangible and intuitive properties), food as energy in overpopulated future world, as well as visual perception and sensor/responsive technologies.

* We announce SHORT-NOTICE CALL FOR PARTICIPATION in two of the most exciting RIXC Innovation Lab events:

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Lab No 1: September 2-7
Urban Ecosystems by Annemie MAES and Fog workshop by Edwin van der Heide

September 2-5 (Part 1)
URBAN ECOSYSTEMS AND CITY HONEYBEES
Exhibition and workshop by Annemie MAES (BE).

The 4-day will continue to explore the complex world of honeybees, which artist and workshop leader Annemie Maes has extensively investigated for some years. The 4-days workshop will be started with an introduction on Urban OpenGreens project and the role of the honeybees within this ecosystem. Following, the participants will study the bees’ behaviour and architecture based upon insights from biology, art, design and materials science. The participants will explore specific structural patterns present in physical and biological environments (city/nature walk), from macrostructures to biological microsystems. Starting from the collection of gathered organic materials, the participants will develop novel, bio-inspired designs for bee houses. Participants are expected to collaborate in the discussions, with drawings and by creating objects.

BIO: ANNEMIE MAES has studied a masters in fine arts, a masters of cultural studies and a specialisation in anthropological documentary film. By founding the organizations Looking Glass and OKNO she has played a major role in organising the multi-media art scene in Brussels, bringing together artists and art spaces from different European countries to engage in workshops and open research labs. The current line of her artistic work focuses on ecological issues, as in the ongoing Open-Greens project: http://opengreens.net/

Saturday, September 6 (Part 2)
WHITE NIGHT 2014: Fog – art and science workshops and performance
1-day art and science workshop (that will follow Urban Ecosystems lab) will be conducted by artist Edwin van der Heide and scientists from the Institute of Solid State Physics of Latvian University (the partners of RIXC), who will experiment and show different ways how the fog is generated (in natural and artificial environments).

The workshop will be followed by the FOG – environmental sound and light performance by Edwin van der Heide that will take place in Spikeri quartier, in the framework of WHITE NIGHT – annual forum for contemporary culture.

BIO: EDWIN VAN DER HEIDE is an artist and researcher in the field of sound, space and interaction. He extends the terms composition and musical language into spatial, interactive and interdisciplinary directions. His work comprises installations, performances and environments. The audience is placed in the middle of the work and challenged to actively explore, interact and relate themselves to the artwork.

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Lab No 2: September 23-28

September 23-28
HABITUS: SEEING AND BELIEVING, LIFE AS AN IMAGE.
Exhibition and workshop on visual perception psychology, real-time mapping and “shadow” projections by Hanna HAASLAHTI (FI).

The workshop will start with a presentation of Hanna’s research and her art work – Habitus , with notes about the body painting tradition of the Hain people and introduction of the Gestalt laws of perception. She will continue with a lecture and workshop on “Seeing and Believing, Life as an Image”. Cameras connected to computers yield many applications, which has become necessary feature of contemporary life. In this lecture the participants will be looking at how the computer vision techniques have transformed from the malevolent all-seeing eyes of big brother to ubiquituos vision systems that feed our pleasure of being constantly watched. The participats will also take a look at the Gestalt laws of perception and how it can map the invisible space of connections between individual things. In the practical part, the participants will explore the kinect 3D sensor and will go through the principles of realtime mapping.

BIO: HANNA HAASLAHTI is a media and installation artist working and living in Helsinki. She explores structures and methods which connect individuals to communities. In her work, the balance between individual freedom and communal rules takes shape as interactive installations or photographic experiments. The basic elements of her minimalistic installations are light, shadow and interaction. She researches computer vision technology, generative and volumetric graphics in the development process of interactive spaces. She has graduated from Medialab, University of Art and Design Helsinki.
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DEADLINES:

Please apply for workshops by sending short motivation letter and your short biography to email: rixc@rixc.lv
The Deadline for the Lab No 1 – August 28 (Urban Ecosystems + Fog),
and the deadline for the Lab No 2 – (on Visual Perception) – September 9, 2014.
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PARTICIPATION AND TRAVEL

Participation is free
Plus: We can cover travel costs and accomodation for 2-3 participants from Baltic and Nordic countries, and 2-3 participants from other European countries

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The Exhibitions at Cafe Europa Riga Innovation Lab are open: Tue-Sun 12.00-18.00, Mon – closed.

Café Europa Riga is the project organized by RIXC Center for New Media Culture in collaboration with Riga 2014 and Mons 2015 – European Cultural Capitals.

Follow information about the Cafe Europa Riga prject and RIXC Innnovation Lab events on Riga 2014 portal: http://riga2014.org/riga_mons
and RIXC Facebook page: http://facebook.com/rixcriga

Support: Foundation Riga 2014,  Riga City Council, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, EU programme Culture, the State Culture Capital Foundation, Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium in Riga, Wallonia-Brussels Delegation in Warsaw, Wallonia-Brussels International, ABLV Charitable Foundation, Nordic Culture Point, Soft Control, Renewable Network, Laboratory of Hydrogen Energy Materials of the Institute of Solid State Physics of University of Latvia, Art Research Lab of Liepaja University.

The Folio platform is 50% dedicated to visual reproductions and enables reproductions of visual materials/photographs of up to 578 mm in width and 420 mm in height (double the A3 standard format). Artists and creators are invited to publish their artworks, photographs and visual works in high resolution (300dpi). We will welcome all narrative forms, from articles, commentaries, critiques, essays, contributions to the new vocabulary, drawings, reproductions, photographs, posters…

The FOLIO platform is a part of the European project Soft Control between 2012 and 2015, which provides the financial coverage of the quality printing of 1000 copies and promotion and distribution across Europe. We sincerely hope that Slovene public tenders in 2014 will provide the necessary funds to support the contributions, translations, proof reading, editing, design and national promotion and distribution of Folio magazine, which amounts to a 50% co-financing.

Folio is intended as a means of promotion of the ideas and aesthetics of contemporary artists; their work and artistic contexts in itself may not be considered as an earning instrument.

Previous editions are available at:
www.kibla.org/en/sections/folio/folio-online/

The final deadline to submit your contributions for the 2013/2014 edition is June 1st 2014. Texts in Slovene and English will be considered, and exceptionally also contributions in other languages, in case the editorial board should recognize an outstanding quality of such writings.

Please send any potential questions and/or materials (up to 50 MB) to the following e-mail address:

Aleksandra.Kostic@kibla.org
kibla@kibla.org

This is an open call for participating in the second edition of Spring Sessions at Hangar art production and research center based in Barcelona (Spain). The Spring Sessions are intensive and interdisciplinary meetings between artists and other professionals for developing a specific part of a larger research project.

The Spring Sessions provide the opportunity to an artist to invite a professional from another discipline to work together in the development of part of a larger research project within the framework of a one month residency in Hangar. One participant will be based in Barcelona and the other somewhere else. The person based elsewhere will be able to live in Hangar’s guest house during the development of the residency (one month).

This year’s edition seeks to support projects that address the issue of transferability in the ACT (Art, Science and Technology) field. We understand by transferability:
- The applicability of a result, knowledge or methodology in other contexts.
- Extension / transfer of the meaning of some concepts to other disciplines
- The process by which a sector assimilates an aspect, property, an attribute of another process and it is partially or completely transformed.
Some terms related to transferability are: socialisation, transmission, data, empathy, identification, protocol, community, hypertext or glossary, among others.
This call is addressed to those projects resulted from collaborations between artists and other profiles that carry out theoretical and / or practice research while contribute to the transfer of knowledge among heterogeneous areas.

More information:
http://gridspinoza.net/en/node/1047

Within the frame of:
Grid Spinoza & Soft Control

With the support of:
European Comission / Culture Programme 2007 – 2013

Welcome to our open call for an art residency in Porto, Portugal, at the Fine Art School of University of Porto (FBAUP) for the year 2014. The participant — whether a single author or a collective — shall develop a new work in Porto and follow the curatorial lines of the Technical Unconscious Project. The residence (one month) shall consider a dialogue with students and researchers from FBAUP. The new work is to be exhibited in 2014 at the collective exhibition of Technical Unconscious Project (part of SoftControl European Culture project).

Porto is a City in the North of Portugal whose contemporary reality links with an Industrial and Commercial past with a strong axis in Technical knowledge. Technical Unconscious project focuses in this particular condition and explores it as a XXI century practice: how to review the analogical condition in a technological society? How does a digital epistemology (XX century) inform our relations with the analogical apparatus (XIX century)? And today, how can we suggest a new dialogue revisiting the analogical? These three questions frame a critical position to conceive practical research within an academic context. The program explores different artistic practices so to expand on the potential of the artifactual. A special concern will be given to technique as human agency, namely through the recovery of authors like Simondon, linking the thrill with the modern and the technological of both XIX and XXI century societies.

The residency is curated by researcher and curator Inês Moreira, who has a long history in interdisciplinary and research based art projects.

Eligible projects:
New or ongoing art, or design, project exploring applied research on “obsolete” technical materials exploring it for a new creation. The project shall explore a conceptual dimension as well as material and technical skills, as the notions of repair, reuse, and transformation.
It is expected from the project to be developed at FBAUP that it includes the access and the use to wood, stone and/or to metal workshops; and it may include a collaborative processes with art and design students.

Eligible authors:
Artists and designers, whether individually or as a collective, with a relevant artistic portfolio and/or research experience, willing to spend one month in Porto so to explore the guide lines of Technical Unconscious Project. Open to artists of all ages, based in Europe. Portuguese artists are eligible and must complete the same application process.

Duration:
The residence lasts one month, any month from February till September 2014.

Conditions:
1. The artist, or collective, has to be based in Porto for the duration of the residence.
2. Technical Unconscious Project will contribute with (amounts before taxes):
— Artist fee: 1.500 euros.
— Accommodation in Porto for a month and work space at FBAUP.
— Production costs: 1.000 euros.
— Use of FBAUP equipment and some technical assistance (to define).
3. Travel costs up to 450 euros..
4. The author(s) selected from this open call will give a Master Class open to FBAUP students during the residency period.
5. The new work will be exhibited in Porto at Technical Unconscious exhibition during Fall 2014.

Selection procedure:
The application must be presented in a single .pdf and must include:
1. Artist´s biography and academic curriculum (up to 1000 words).
2. Description of previous research projects (500 words + up to 10 images).
3. Description of the proposed artistic project, with technical description (500 words + up 10 images).
4. Non-mandatory: catalogues, books or other material considered necessary shall be shipped to FBAUP/Softcontrol Project. After the selection process, all the application materials will be offered to the school´s library for future consultation.

IMPORTANT: Applications must be submitted in English, for review by selection committee.

The Selection Committee is composed by:
— Gonçalo Leite Velho, Technical Unconscious/SoftControl project coordinator at FBAUP
— Inês Moreira, Technical Unconscious/SoftControl project curator at FBAUP
— Franciso Laranjo, Diretor of FBAUP
— Marta Gracia, research project coordinator at Hangar, Barcelona
— Ksenija Orelj, curator at MMSU — Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka

Calendar:
Deadline for applications: 30th of December 2013 at 23:59h (GMT).
Announcement of the results: 15th January 2014.

For further submitting the application, please contact:
SoftControl/FBAUP: softcontrol@fba.up.pt

Application deadline: The call for entries closes on 15 December 2013, participants will be notified by the end of January 2014 via the Museum website http://www.mmsu.hr. The selected participants will be contacted personally via e-mail. Applications will be discussed by the five-member jury: Alen Floričić, Anja Bogojević, Branka Vujanović, Ksenija Orelj and Sabina Salamon.

Remarks for applicants:
1. The right to participate extends to individuals or collectives from the Republic of Croatia and other countries in EU.
2. Both already existing and new works are eligible for application. The applications are to be mailed to the following address: MMSU, Dolac 1/II, 51000 Rijeka, or by e-mail: mmsu.rijeka@gmail.com with a subject header ‘SoftControl Call for Entries’. Contact persons: Ksenija Orelj, ksenija.orelj@mmsu.hr, 385(0)51492619 and Ivo Matulić, ivo.matulic@mmsu.hr, +385(0)51492621.
3. Not more than two works can be submitted for the competition.
4. Applications without required documentation will not be considered by the jury and will be deemed incomplete.
5. Competition application form is available at HERE
6. Selected artists transport the works at their own expense.
7. Materials submitted alongside the application form (CD, DVD, photographs) are not returned to the applicant.
8. Fee per project amounts to EUR 400.00 (gross), while the maximum amount for the production of individual projects amounts to EUR 900.00 (gross).
9. Travel expenses and accommodation in the duration of maximum three nights are covered by the organiser.

Remarks for foreign artists:
The call for entries envisages two residencies for foreign artists who wish to realise their projects in public space. Residences are available in the duration of maximum 20 days in two periods between 1 April and 30 May. The application should be mailed to the following address: MMSU, Dolac 1/II, 51000 Rijeka, or by e-mail:  mmsu.rijeka@gmail.com with a subject header ‘SoftControl Competition – artist-in-residence’. APPLICATION FORM for residency

Remarks for the educational programme:
A separate educational programme (in association with Milica Đilas, senior museum educator) will be conducted on a public space intervention proposed by the artist and elaborated and realised in collaboration with a group of high school students.
The target group are high school students (age 16 and 17) who participated in 2013 in the research project High School Students in Public Space, which concerned public spaces and how young people use them, Default.aspx?art=571&sec=4
Individuals or collectives interested in entering can send a proposition by mail to the address: MMSU, Dolac 1/II, 51000 Riijeka, or by e-mail: mmsu.rijeka@gmail.com with a subject header ‘SoftControl – Educational Programme Call for Entries’.

APPLICATION FORM for Spajalica>Copula should contain:
1. A filled application form
2. A description enabling the jury an insight into the submitted work through appropriate documentation (sketch, photo, video etc).
3. A technical description of the executed work with location and duration (how the work is mounted and dismounted and the list of technical equipment)
4. A bill of costs for project realisation (with the included author’s fee and insurance fee, if needed)

Project description: Spajalica#2 / Copula#2
Starting from the often mentioned detachment of the museum zone, displacement from the public space as a consequence of involvement in programmatic tasks of collecting and safekeeping, this project raises the question of the manner of reactivating the public space and art’s presence in it.
In the wake of the initiative for different regulation of social space and leisure time, this project is interested in contemporary art practices which disturb the status quo and underline concealed, transposed or neglected contents in urban environment, regardless of the approach or medium the artists use.
This call for entries is open for proposals which will mark the Museum’s presence in its neighbourhood, abandoning traditional commemorative approaches and permanent sculptural solutions, transforming ‘passive’ narratives into physical and symbolic presence, by concentrating on current social issues and relations or connecting with everyday life practice on the borderline between public and private, facts and fiction. In the sense of media, the project supports performative and participatory works, urban interventions and outdoor installations whose audience – users or participants – cannot be predetermined. We seek approaches that open up the public space and address the audience that does not belong to the standard circuit of art-based events. The basic guidelines of the project are strengthening the presence of contemporary art in public space and communication between the Museum and its urban environment, especially in its close neighbourhood. We are particularly interested in how to open time in its social and public nature. As controversial points in today’s experience of time we see the lack of leisure time and lack of time for private relationships and sociability. This relates to the ever growing occupation with duties and work, marked as flexible working hours which engulf the meaning and existence of other forms of temporality. The dominant model of time becomes ‘the endless day’, the one in which we are fully busy, constantly on the move and already strained, and thus also restrained from the reality of time and current environment. In Copula we are interested in approaches that could oppose this accelerated experience of time and its subjection to the global capital race. Since the time to encounter art is primarily determined by the institutions’ or galleries’ fixed working hours and the audience’s disappearing free time, the overwhelming question is: can we extend our time for art in the open conditions of public space. What practices and which formats can highlight the feeling of mutual flow of time, mutual connection and creating attention? Relying on the model of a copula, by connecting utopian and practical scenarios, this project is trying to gather alternative models of utilising time and creating attention.

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COPULA#2 OPEN CALL RESULTS

Within the open call for temporary art projects in public space – Copula#2, a five-member jury (Anja Bogojević, Alen Floričić, Ksenija Orelj, Sabina Salamon i Branka Vujanović) chose twelve art projects that will be realized in April-May 2014 in the close surroundings of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art. The jury has also chosen two residencies for foreign artists and two educational programmes.

Pre-invited artists participating at Copula#2 are the following: Stéphane Querrec, Igor Eškinja and Josip Pino Ivančić.

Selected artists / interventions:

Kreativni Kolektiv Kombinat
Waiting Room for Brightening
intervention, passage of the Mali salon gallery

ARCHIsquad
UrgentArchitecture
open office for citizen’s counselling, MMSU zone

Holger Pohl
87 hours of Sculpture
installation, MMSU

Tanja Vujasinović
Mr. Lacković‘s Undelivered Neons
installation, MMSU zone

Rino Efendić
Out and About Rijeka
idling, roam

Tajči Čekada
What is Performance and What Do Performers Actually Do?
performance, stairs at the Hotel Bonavia

Luiza Margan
Eye to Eye with Freedom
performance, Delta

Dunja Tišma, Marija Kajapi, Una Rebić
Parkplayground
urban picnic, Delta

Kruno Jošt
Platform for Transdisciplinary Practices
urban lab, MMSU zone

Lucija Ukić and Sanja Gergorić
Traces
interventions, MMSU zone

Čiko and Flaneurs
What’s our life / If full of care / You have no time /To stop and stare?
interventions, Mali salon gallery zone

Mateja Bučar / DUM
The Unnoticed
performers and co-authors: Aja Zupanec, Martina Ruhsam, Ales Zorec, Ivan Mijačevič, Maja Kalafatič, Nina Pertot Weis
urban choreography, MMSU zone
Residencies / Interventions:

Katze und Krieg
Gold Everywhere
performance, MMSU zone
Educational programme:

Nika Rukavina
Sušak action
in collaboration with the pupils of the Technical School of Civil Engineering and mentors Branka Batričević and Asja Rukavina Bikić

MršaPetra
Street (as) Art
public space intervention in collaboration with teenagers

Multimedia Centre KIBLA offers a residential program

An art residency in Maribor in Slovenia is an opportunity for artists, curators and theorists of Europe who wish to explore their practice in a interdisciplinary field combining art, science and technologies – aimed at actualising culture phenomena which are emergent when art, science and public awareness are interconnected.

The invitation is targeting artists/cultural workers/theorists to explore science and technology researching combining creative forms of artistic experimentation and construction. A residency of three weeks of researching, working and exploring will be finalised with a result presented at the festival KIBLIX 2013 – leading to discussing, listening and sharing ideas and findings.

The gap between science and society has been shown to still exist, although surveys reveal a very positive and optimistic perception of what science and technology can actually do for humanity in terms of medical research, improvement of life quality, and opportunities for future generations. A better understanding of what is going on in our bodies, environment and society can be achieved by sharing knowledge on how to communicate with different target groups, opening closed scientific circles, displaying complex problems with creativity and simple practical methods.

Focuses/offers of a residency in Maribor:
- places adopted to working conditions for a focus research and a production using interdisciplinary artistic-scientific-technological models, methods and knowledge
- a honorarium, travel expenses (EU) and daily subsistence (accomodation and food)
- public presentation in a gallery space of an art-science-techno work, art-science-techno idea etc. at the festival KIBLIX 2013: Un_natural
- acceptable: urban social interventions and installations
- acceptable: models for a non-formal education connected to formal educational bodies

Contents frame of KIBLIX 2013: Un_natural:

Un_natural describes a substantive framework, which through a post-anthropocentric view overcomes the natural/social dualism. It expands the perspective that deconstructs the norms of participatory understanding of the various forms of life, thereby within the many constructed cultural imperatives evoking reflection on interdisciplinary opportunities for the
(co) existence of bios and techne.

The Wider Context – broadening the categories

The unfolding of the categories of the feminine, and with them the masculine as well, is not an isolated phenomenon; it opens much more. The perception of women as connections to nature, much more wild and unruly than civilized men that therefore less worthy, less capable of entering into society, more in need of control, etc., is merely an outline of the
framework which has started its journey of awareness of a broader society, a society which has yet to recognize it in all its manifestations and yet to develop new conceptualizations, social and practical tools for overcoming it.

But what happens when this wildness, this naturalness, begins to knowingly transform, changing technology and biotechnology? A plurality of forms will happen, but in
their social perception nature will become an outdated idea with lost meaning. The incidence of forms shows itself in a diversity which leaves behind sexual categories, which widens and redefines reproductive systems and learns anew comprehension/communication/coexistence. The wealth of phenomenon diversify not only sexual categories, but ways of
identification, communication, reproduction, visualizing, audiation, perceiving,politicizing, organizing, consuming… while at the same time raising complex questions about the regulation of new phenomena.

A residency is supported by European Union in a frame of a project Soft Control and it will last for 3 weeks.

An aplicant needs to provide a short bios with a list of most important projects done (with possible links to the on-line material) and a short concept for the residential proposition with possible visual material (drawings, photos, videos etc.).

Deadline for applications: 20th September 2013

The Selection Committee:
1.) Aleksandra Kostič, art historian and curator
2.) Lidija Pačnik Awais, producer, programme coordinator
3.) Žiga DObnikar, curator
4.) Dušana Nikolić Radosević, programme editor at Dom Omladine Beograd

A contact:
resident@kibla.org

Welcome to our open call for an art residency in Porto, Portugal, at the Fine Art School of University of Porto (FBAUP) in Fall 2013. The participant — whether a single author or a collective — shall develop a new work in Porto and follow the curatorial lines of the Technical Unconscious Project. The residence (one month) shall consider a dialogue with students and researchers from FBAUP. The new work is to be exhibited in 2014 at the collective exhibition of Technical Unconscious Project (part of SoftControl
European Culture project).

Porto is a City in the North of Portugal whose contemporary reality links with an Industrial and Commercial past with a strong axis in Technical knowledge. Technical Unconscious project focuses in this particular condition and explores it as a XXI century practice: how to review the analogical condition in a technological society? How does a digital epistemology (XX century) inform our relations with the analogical apparatus (XIX century)? And today, how can we suggest a new dialogue revisiting the analogical? These three questions frame a critical position to conceive practical research within an academic context. The program explores different artistic practices so to expand on the potential of the
artifactual. A special concern will be given to technique as human agency, namely through the recovery of authors like Simondon, linking the thrill
with the modern and the technological of both XIX and XXI century societies.

The residency is curated by researcher and curator Inês Moreira, who has a long history in interdisciplinary and research based art projects.

Eligible projects:
New or ongoing art, or design, project exploring applied research on “obsolete” technical materials exploring it for a new creation. The project shall explore a conceptual dimension as well as material and technical skills, as the notions of repair, reuse, and transformation. It is expected from the project to be developed at FBAUP that it includes
the access and the use to wood, stone and/or to metal workshops; and it may include a collaborative processes with art and design students.

Eligible authors:
Artists and designers, whether individually or as a collective, with a relevant artistic portfolio and/or research experience, willing to spend one month in Porto so to explore the guide lines of Technical Unconscious Project. Open to artists of all ages, based in Europe. Portuguese artists are eligible and must complete the same application process.

Duration:
The residence lasts one month, during November 2013.

Conditions:
1. The artist, or collective, has to be based in Porto for the duration of the residence.
2. Technical Unconscious Project will contribute with (amounts before taxes):
— Artist fee: 1.500 euros.
— Accommodation in Porto for a month and work space at FBAUP.
— Production costs: 1.000 euros.
— Use of FBAUP equipment and some technical assistance (to define).
3. Travel costs up to 450 euros..
4. The author(s) selected from this open call will give a Master Class open to FBAUP students during the residency period.
5. The new work will be exhibited in Porto at Technical Unconscious exhibition during Fall 2014.

Selection procedure:
The application must be presented in a single .pdf and must include:
1. Artist´s biography and academic curriculum (up to 1000 words).
2. Description of previous research projects (500 words + up to 10 images).
3. Description of the proposed artistic project, with technical description (500 words + up 10 images).
4. Non-mandatory: catalogues, books or other material considered necessary shall be shipped to FBAUP/Softcontrol Project. After the selection process, all the application materials will be offered to the school´s library for future consultation.

IMPORTANT: Applications must be submitted in English, for review by selection committee.

The Selection Committee is composed by:
— Gonçalo Leite Velho, Technical Unconscious/SoftControl project coordinator at FBAUP
— Inês Moreira, Technical Unconscious/SoftControl project curator at FBAUP
— Franciso Laranjo, Diretor of FBAUP
— Marta Gracia, research project coordinator at Hangar, Barcelona
— Ksenija Orelj, curator at MMSU — Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka

Calendar:
Deadline for applications: 21st of July 2013 at 23:59h (GMT).
Announcement of the results: Week of the 31st of July 2013.
Residency: From the 1st to 30th of November 2013.

For further submitting the application, please contact:
SoftControl/FBAUP: softcontrol@fba.up.pt

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Which Fields act as catalysts and underpin those artistic practices which offer the greatest potential for social change towards more imaginative and sustainable ways of living? Which pre-cursors in the last 30-40 years did exist and what can we learn from those often untold stories? Areas that we will be looking at include but are not restricted to
* real fields, fields as in agricultural fields, works relating to fields, food growing, water, seeds, plant ecologies and communications; eco-activism, agro-socio-political projects
* field as metaphor, semiotic field theories and meta-field theories; work as decoding and recoding of cultural patterns of social use of images;
* electromagnetic fields: and their experimental epistomologies (quantum field theory); notion of relational field (Burnham 1968); the epistemological implications of quantum theory in art
* gendered fields, field as a psychological relation, psychological and psycho-analytical field theories
* field theories of perception
* social field theories, theories of masses and of emotional ‘contagion’; relational field  theories, notion of culture as a relational field

If you have an art or artistic-research project that fits one of those categories or where you feel that it extends this concept, please send a short description to: fields@rixc.lv

This is a first round call, the deadline is 31st of May, 2013.

In 2013 we aim at organising a number of workshops and event, beginning with Transmediale 2013, where the initial matrix of Fields gets jointly developed. This work is a step to the launch of the final exhibition Fields from May 15 to August 03 as part of Riga Culture Capital 2014, at Arsenals Exhibition Hall of National Art Museum in Riga. Fields is co-curated by Armin Medosch, Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, and will get produced by RIXC in collaboration with a growing number of networks and partners.

http://hangar.org/en/news/soft-control-convocatoria-oberta-per-a-projectes-interdisciplinars/

Deadline for applications: The 21st of April 2013 at 00:00h (GMT +1).
Announcement of the results: Week of the 29th of April 2013.
Residency: From the 1st to 30th of June 2013

Hangar OPEN CALL FOR SPRING SESSIONS #1.PDF

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Contact:
*Marta Gracia*
Programes de recerca
*HANGAR.ORG* | marta@hangar.org
T: 0034 93 308 40 41 ext 26
Passatge del Marquès de Sta. Isabel, 40 08018 Barcelona

Enter 6: Biopolis calls for theory and practice based proposals addressing uncertainty of the division between natural and artificial, novel approaches in interaction between body and data.

Let us ask questions about future of life, ethics of scientific intrusion into exclusivity of the nature. Least but not last we will examine entanglement of our bodies and technology.

Keywords: Artificial vs. Natural, Bacteria, BCI, Bio-signals, Bioart, Bioethics, Biotechnology, Body, DNA, EEG, Genetics, Handicap , Implants, Mutation, Nature, Neolifism, Next nature, Perception, Prosthetics, Science, Synthetic life, Transgenic, Wetware

Among the artists and researchers pre-negotiated to participate there are: Darina Alster (CZ), Veselina Dashinova (BG/UK), Jalila Essaïdi (NL), Jakub Jansa (CZ), Pavel Karafiát (CZ), Jakub Ludma (SK), Martina Michalíková (SK), Jan Nálepa (CZ), Marie Polákova (CZ/AT), Michal Pustějovský (CZ), Tomáš Vavříček (CZ), Frederik de Wilde (BE) and others…

We invite your participation too!

Extended submission deadline for artworks, papers, posters:7th of March 2013

Submit your artwork here!

Organized by CIANT in partnership with NTK | National Technical Library.

Contact: info@ciant.cz

www.ciant.org

ENTER: BIOPOLIS | 6th Art-Sci-Tech Biennale | April 4-6

http://festival-enter.cz/2013/participate-2/opencall/

CATCH FORUM | Symposium on Art, Tech & Handicap | April 6 | part of ENTER

http://catch.ciant.cz/forum/

MEDIA ART HISTORIES 2013: RENEW
The 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
October 8 – 11, 2013, Riga, Latvia

The 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Renew, will be hosted by RIXC and held in Riga, Latvia, October 8 – 11, 2013, coinciding with the international festival for new media culture Art+Communication. It will host three days of keynotes, panels and poster sessions on the histories of networked digital, electronic and technological media arts.

Confirmed keynote speakers:

• Prof. Dr. Peter WEIBEL / ZKM,
• Prof. Dr. Erkki HUHTAMO / UCLA,
• & t.b.a.

Besides general topics of the call, the theme of Renew, Media Art History 2013 addresses current tendencies in sustainability quests from various perspectives. As media art is based on increasingly out-dating technology and it is dependent on energy (electricity) the conference will discuss sustainable approaches towards the issues of producing, preserving and representing media artworks – how to ‘renew’ them through both – tools and histories. By focusing on networked media arts, the Renew conference will cover a broad range of topics to include early communication art (mail, fax, radio, satellite, etc.), net.art and net.radio, open source and network culture, locative media and wireless communities, hybrid networks and electromagnetic art, and last but not least – artistic investigations in sustainability, and future visions of art within the convergence of information and energy technologies.

Proposed topics:

• Histories of networked art and media technologies
• Archiving, preserving and representing new media art
• Media archaeology
• Paradigm shift – from new media to post-media conditions in art
• Writing histories of media art across Eastern Europe and the Baltics
• Revising the geospatial aspects – for writing comparative media art histories
• Resilient networks and emerging ‘techno-ecological’ art practices
• Multifarious potential of expression in media art – ‘new imagery’ of our times

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EXTENDED DEADLINE for abstracts: February 15, 2013.
Notification of acceptance will be announced by March 25, 2013.
Individual proposals should consist of a 250-word abstract with title and brief biography/CV.
Proposals and inquiries regarding submissions should be made on http://www.mediaarthistory.org  web-site.
Call for papers SUBMISSION PAGE: http://moodle.donau-uni.ac.at/renew/openconf.php

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Selected papers from the conference will be published in Acoustic Space and other venues. Founded in 1998 by E-Lab as artistic journal for sound art, networked audio experiments and new media culture, since 2007 Acoustic Space comes out as peer-reviewed journal for transdisciplinary research on art, science, technology and society, published by RIXC & Art Research Lab of Liepaja University.

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The conference will be complemented by a variety of affiliated events, including the Art+Communication festival, with a thematically related media art exhibition, experimental film and video screening programme, live performances, concerts and workshops.

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MAH 2013 Renew Conference Chairs: Rasa SMITE and Raitis SMITS
Honorary Board: Jasia REICHARDT, Itsuo SAKANE, Peter WEIBEL, Douglas DAVIS, Robert ADRIAN
Renew Conference Advisory Board: Eric KLUITENBERG, Armin MEDOSCH, Inke ARNS, Andrey SMIRNOV, Jussi PARIKKA, Edwin van der HEIDE, Mark TRIBE, Gediminas URBONAS, Marko PELJHAN, Nishant SHAH, Edward SHANKEN, Darko FRITZ, Tatiana BAZZICHELLI, Frieder NAKE
MAH Conference Series Board: Erkki HUHTAMO, Tim LENOIR, Machiko KUSAHARA, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Oliver GRAU, Douglas KAHN, Linda HENDERSON, Sean CUBITT, Martin KEMP and Paul THOMAS

http://rixc.lv/2013

This open call for a residency requires an intensive and interdisciplinary research on a field of art and science theory, researching artistic works and other related theoretical, scientific and artistic works for developing a specific theoretical expertise/analises connected to a specific niche of the Technological Unconscious.

A residency opportunity is going to be announced on March 1, and is going to happen in Maribor in March 2013 (it is negotiable).

The project Soft Control is a platform where artists, scientists and other cultural operators open their laboratories and their research projects to a specialised and non-specialised audience. At the same time the project is a framework for artist and scientist constructively sharing knowledge and cultural models of critical thinking, activism and experimentation.

Selection procedure
The application must be in  pdf format (sent by e-mail) and must include:
1. A brief biography of the artist (2500 characters including spaces).
2. Curriculum vitae (2500 characters including spaces).
3. Brief description of the research field (2500 characters including spaces).
4. Description of the research project including (2500 characters including spaces):
- description of the main frame of an idea and a description of a part of the project to be developed in Maribor
- work plan for the development of the project in Maribor

The Selection Committee:
1.) Aleksandra Kostič, art historian and curator
2.) Dejan Pestotnik, multimedia producer
3.) Stjepan Mikec, project manager at Project manager at INTK – Institute
of Advanced Technologies and Communications
4.) Žiga Dobnikar, curator
5.) Pavel Sedlak, arts manager, curator, editor, freelance journalist
IMPORTANT: applications which do not include the required information and/or exceed the extension limits will not be considered.

For further information and submitting the applications, please contact
Lidija Pačnik Awais
lidija@kibla.org
Tel.: +386 – 059-076-372

International Conference MutaMorphosis, Prague, Czech Republic, December 6–8, 2012

MutaMorphosis: Tribute to Uncertainty

International Conference

December 6–8, 2012, Prague, Czech Republic

Call for Abstracts
Deadline: July 1, 2012
http://mutamorphosis.org/2012/important-dates/call-for-abstracts/

We invite you to respond to the Tribute to Uncertainty theme and/or to address one of the 21 streams of interest led by 28 conference Attractors.

http://mutamorphosis.org/2012/tribute-to-uncertainty/
http://mutamorphosis.org/2012/attractors-streams-of-interest/

Submission page: http://mutamorphosis.org/2012/submit

Do you have something original to say about our world that is increasingly fuzzy, unstable and chaotic? Are you interested in how crisis, uncertainty and complexity can come together in order to question the known as well as predict and/or model yet unknown? Do you want to share projects intrinsically linking domains of scientific, artistic and technological research and creativity that can be introduced as relevant tools for better understanding of our common future?

The aim of this Call for Abstracts is to provide opportunity for community of interdisciplinary practitioners to get engaged in a transformative conversation on mutant futures.

Feel free to address conference Attractors and respond to a specific stream of interest in order to get involved with other interested individuals and collectives in structured collaborative efforts before, during, and hopefully also after the conference. Research groups formed by the Attractors -who serve as the Reviewers- will be expected to elaborate on the general theme Tribute to Uncertainty while turning attention to concrete research objectives as defined by the streams.
The results should be curated panels, roundtables, workshops as well as publications.
Priority will be given to innovative and challenging proposals.

For more information about MutaMorphosis conference (planned publications, preparatory committee, partnerships) please visit mutamorphosis.org.

For updates join also these channels:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/mutamorphosis.mutalogues/
http://www.facebook.com/MutaMorphosis
https://twitter.com/MutaMorphosis

On behalf of the MutaMorphosis Preparatory Committee,
Pavel Sedlak | CIANT | http://www.ciant.org