RIXC Center for New Media Culture (Riga, Latvia) announces the open call for the 7th Open Fields Conference 2024 proposals! The Open Fields conference takes place as part of the RIXC Art Science Festival 2024 in Riga, Latvia and online from October 23 to 25, 2024. This year, the festival and conference with the title Symbiotic Sense(s) explores art, technology, and collective intelligence from the perspective of sensual perception and extended cognition.
Deadline for submissions – August 30, 2024! Please send your submissions (short abstract and bio) via openconf system online HERE:
https://openfields2024.rixc.lv/openconf.php
The Open Fields conference is the RIXC’s festival based gathering bringing together international scholars and artists to discuss topics related to artistic research, the changing role of art in societies, and art and science collaboration.
The Symbiotic Sense(s) festival and conference, positioned at the intersection of symbiotic art aesthetics and visionary scientific paradigms, aims to embrace symbiotic thinking, inspiring cultural conversations on collaboration and fostering collective action towards a more symbiotic future.
The festival will take place in Riga and virtually, including the exhibition opening program at the National Library of Latvia on October 23, 2024 (on-view until December 7, 2024) and the international conference event (October 23–25, 2024).
Focusing on symbiotic senses as a key perspective, this year’s festival and conference will explore its relation to extended cognition and collective intelligence ideas, calling for the urgent need for new visions, artistic and utopian projects in cultural evolution. The idea posits that symbiosis defines our existence, highlighting our complete interdependence on our environment and planetary system.
We welcome proposals by interdisciplinary researchers, artists, artists-researchers, designers, Ph.D. students, curators, media theorists, art historians, science philosophers, cultural innovators, critical engineers as well as scientists from different fields.
If you are interested in an on-site or virtual participation and contribution, please, submit your proposals (a short abstract and bio) for the RIXC Festival / Open Fields conference via the openconf system HERE:
https://openfields2024.rixc.lv/openconf.php
related to the following topics:
1. Sensing machines and artificial life
2. Extended cognition and externally sensory systems
3. Symbiotic Sciences and collective intelligence
4. Nature cultures and naturally-artificial environments
Festival website:
https://festival2024.rixc.org/
More information:
http://rixc.org/
OPEN FIELDS 2024 Conference Chairs and SYMBIOTIC SENSE(S) Exhibition Curators:
Rasa SMITE, Raitis SMITS (Latvia).
The RIXC Festival is produced by The RIXC Centre for New Media Culture.
Contact e-mail: rixc@rixc.org
Support:
State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, Riga State City Council, Creative Europe program in the framework of the EMAP Expanded project, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Latvia.
