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TRANSBIOTICS.

Temporal Stability Points

XII International Festival for New Media Culture ART+COMMUNICATION 2010
in collaboration with “Textures" - the 6th European meeting of the 
Society for Literature, Science and the Arts
Riga, June 14 - 20, 2010
http://rixc.lv/10/


This year the Festival for New Media Culture “Art+Communication" with 
the title "TRANSBIOTICS. Temporal Stability Points" will look at 
biotechnologies as means for artistic expression as well as challenge to 
the constantly changing materiality in arts.
Festival programme will take place in collaboration with the 6th 
European meeting of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts 
(SLSAeu 2010 conference), which is devoted to exploring materials, 
structures, surfaces and interfaces transformed by the networked media.
http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/SLSAeu2010/home.htm

* exhibition

The exhibition "TRANSBIOTICS" will be held June 15 - 20 in kim? / RIXC 
gallery spaces in
Spikeri (new location for contemporary arts exhibitions in Riga). 
American artist Paul Vanouse is participating with his installations 
"Latent Figure Protocol" and "Relative Velocity Inscription Device" 
where he using the human DNA as material for creating art.
London based Latvian artists Zane Berzina together with architect 
Jackson Tan and an international group of scientists have created an 
interactive installation "E-Static Shadows" - a touch-sensitive
"sculpture" exploring static electricity. British artist Andy Gracie 
with his installation "Deep Data" interprets experiments with bacteria 
performed in deep space environments. And Finnish artist Terike Haapoja 
(whose work "Entropy" was exhibited at kim?/ RIXC Gallery last year) 
will this year present her recent works "Dialogue" and "Succession", 
which explores interaction between human and non-human organisms.

The exhibition will be supplemented by "Transbiotics" public lectures in 
Spikeri, taking place on June 16 and June 17, 2010, where one of the 
exhibition curators - Jens Hauser and philosopher Ainars Kamolins, will 
introduce biotechnology art as new materiality of textures, and 
exhibition artists will talk will talk about how they interpret this 
notion through their works.

* performances

On Thursday, June 17 at 18.00 in RIXC Media Space sound art performance 
and exhibition opening “Concord" by Latvian media artist Voldemars 
Johansons will take place.

And on Friday, June 18 at 21.00 in RIXC Media Space the special festival 
evening event will feature live performance and video programme: Jürgen 
Reble and Thomas Köner will present their live performance "Materia 
Obscura" - an audio visual expedition into crystallized salts and dyes 
changing rhythm and structure constantly between moving images and 
opening a door to the dark and unperceivable material of our universe. 
The performance "Mucilaginous Omniverse" by Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry 
Gelfand will present artistic experiments with sonicated bouncing 
silicone oil droplets. Meanwhile a movie "Planet A" by French artist 
Momoko Seto invites into a world of salt crystal formations which are 
slowly taking over the land by turning it into a physically beautiful 
but dried out saline desertŠ

* SLSAeu conference

During June 15 to 19, 2010, as a Day Programme, SLSAeu 2010 conference 
“Textures" will take place in Stocholm School of Economics in Riga. The 
SLSAeu 2010 conference is dedicated to exploring fabrics, structures, 
surfaces, and interfaces in a world that has been transformed to a large 
extent through technoscience and networked media. This transformed world 
is highly textured, partly through verbal and non-verbal 'texts' but 
also by mixtures of human-made and given environments whose complexity 
offers resistance to symbolic readings.

Along the other conference streams - "Textuality and Materiality", 
"Architextures", "Biopalimpsests", "Tissue Cultures", two streams - 
“Networks and Sustainability" (chaired by Armin Medosch and Rasa Smite) 
and “Art as Research" (chaired by Kerstin May and Rasa Smite) wil be 
co-organized by RIXC and MPLab (Art Research Laboratory) of Liepaja 
University.

"Network and Sustainability" stream interrogates the complex 
relationships between "network technology" and " network society", in 
order to reveal the multilayered texture of networks and to consider 
what potential network culture contains for sustainable development in 
technological, social and cultural fields. “Art as Research" stream is 
challenging the conventional notion of the role of art - by affirming 
that the art produce knowledge, and that the art can be scientific 
research approach, it claim the right for arts, to being an alternative 
form of knowledge and research on a par with other sciences.

http://rixc.lv/10/lv/konference.html
http://www.e-text-textiles.lv/SLSAeu2010/streams.htm


* biotech workshop

At a close of the festival, on Saturday, June 19 at Faculty of Biology, 
University of Latvia the biotechnology workshop “Tissue Engineering and 
Art" will be conducted by artists and directors of Australian Bioart 
Laboratory "SymbioticA" - Oron Catts and dr. Ionat Zurr.

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Art+Communication FESTIVAL and SLSAeu 2010 CONFERENCE
PROGRAMME

Monday, June 14
19.00 Opening of the Transbiotics exhibition and Art+Communication 2010 
festival (kim? / RIXC Galleries in Spikeri, Maskavas iela 12/1).

Tuesday, June 15
17.00 Opening of SLSAeu 2010 conference "Textures" (Stockholm School of 
Economics)
17.30 [Plenary Session]: Daina Taimina "Folding Mathematics, Craft and 
Art: Seeing what is between Folds".

Wednesday, June 16
09.00-18.00 SLSAeu 2010 conference "Textures" (Stockholm School of 
Economics, Strelnieku iela 4a)
16.30-18.00 [Session] ART AS RESEARH (stream moderated by Kerstin Mey) - 
Christopher Hales "Learning from the SMARTlab Experience"; Mili John 
Tharakan "New Insights into Traditional Narrative Textile Craft Shaping 
the Future of Interactive Textiles and Technology"; Kathy High "BioArt 
Initiative: the failure of going too fast"; Signe Gr?be "Artwork - 
Witness of Time".

19.00 TRANSBIOTICS public lectures "Temporary sustainability points": 
Ainars Kamolins, Andy Gracie, Terike Haapoja (kim? / Spikeri, Maskavas 
ielas 12/1).

Thursday, June 17
09.00-18.00 SLSAeu 2010 conference "Textures":
09.00-10.30 [Semi-Plenary Session] NETWORKS AND SUSTAINABILITY (stream 
moderated by Armin Medosch and Rasa Smite) - Felix Stalder "Sharing and 
surveillance. Two features of network culture";
11.00-12.30 [Session] NETWORKS AND SUSTAINABILITY - Magda Tyzlik-Carver 
"Sustainability of Labour within Organized Networks"; Clemens Apprich 
"Reading the Digital City: New political technologies in the Network 
Society".
16.30-18.00 [Section] NETWORKS AND SUSTAINABILITY - Simon Biggs "Where 
and why creativity?"; Adnan Hadzi "Why Openness Matters: the Deptford.TV 
Project"; Ilze Black and Alexei Blinov "Local portals: Experiments in 
ubiquitous networks".
18.00 Voldemars Johansons "Concord" - performance and opening of the 
exhibition (RIXC Media space)
19.30 TRANSBIOTICS public lectures "Textures and materialitiy": Jens 
Hauser, Zane Berzina, Paul Vanouse (kim? / Spikeri).

Friday, June 18
09.00-18.00 SLSAeu 2010 conference "Textures":
09.00-10.30 [Semi-Plenary Session] ART AS RESEARCH - Carole Gray and 
Heather Delday "A 'PEDAGOGY OF POIESIS' Possible futures for 'artistic' 
practice-led doctoral research"
16.30-18.00 [Semi-Plenary Session] ART AS RESEARCH - Jan Kaila "Artistic 
Research formalized into Doctoral Programs".
21.00 Performances: Evelina Domnitch, Dmitry Gelfand "Mucilaginous 
Omniverse", Thomas Köner, Jürgen Reble "Materia Obscura". Video: Momoko 
Seto "Planet A" (RIXC Mediju telpa., 11. Novembra krastmala 35, ieeja no 
Minsterejas ielas).

Saturday, June 19
09.00-15.30 SLSAeu 2010 conference "Textures":
09.00-10.30 [Round Table] ART AS RESEARCH - chaired by Florian Dombois
11.00-13.00 [Session] ART AS RESEARCH - Kerstin Mey "Creativity, 
Imagination, Values - Why we need art as research; Janis Jefferies. 
Situated Knowledge: The Subjective and The Personal In Creative Arts 
Research; Christoph Brunner "Research-Creation / The Generation of Novel 
Textures"; Camille Baker "Art-as-Research for MINDtouch: participatory 
performance as research in mobile media".
14.00-15.30 [Plenary Session] ART AS RESEARCH - Henk Borghoff, Sher 
Doruff "Artistic Research: Non-Conceptualism, Realism and Contingency"
10.00-18.00 Workshop "Tissue Engineering and Art": conducted by 
SymbioticA (LU Faculty of Biology)

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Organized by:

The festival is organized by Centre for New Media Culture RIXC in 
collaboration with The Pilot Project of the Latvian Museum of 
Contemporary Art kim?, e-text+textiles and Art Research Laboratory 
MPLab, University of Liepaja.

Supported by:

State Culture Capital Foundation, Riga City Council, European Cultural 
Foundation, Nordic Culture Point, Centre Culturel Français de Riga, EEA 
Financial Mechanism/Norwegian Financial Mechanism, Hotel Elizabete, 
Embassy of Federal Republic of Austria, LU Faculty of Biology, the 
University of Western Australia, SymbioticA, Department of Culture and 
Arts of the Government of Western Australia, airBaltic, Dizaina Studija, 
Live Riga, Studija, Foto Kvartals, Rigas Laiks, Veto Magazine, Maksla 
Plus, Kultura.lv, Easyget.lv, Delfi.lv, Satori.lv

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http://rixc.lv/10

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