Antipodes - Acceleration & Creativity in France and New Zealand
by Harry Silver
ANTIPODES - Acceleration & Creativity in France and New Zealand
19 - 20 September. AUT, Auckland.
22 - 23 September. Massey, Wellington.
www.colab.aut.ac.nz/antipodes
Dear ADA community - We welcome collaboration and partnership on the Antipodes initiative, please contact us on the details below and stay tuned for further event details.
Colab has partnered with French Embassy in New Zealand and the College of Creative Arts at Massey University on a new initiative to explore critical, collaborative and creative responses to the uncertainty and acceleration of social/cultural change in France and New Zealand.
The world is changing rapidly. For societies, individuals and organisations, traditional ways of coping with social, economic and technological transformations are no longer effective. We need new ideas for how we may thrive in the context of mobile capital, climate change, inequality, and the greatest global movement of people, as migrants and refugees, in history. We believe that the creative arts and the core concept of creativity have much to offer to this conversation. Co-creation, design thinking, creative communities, digital and interactive arts and place-based research all are critical drivers of innovation for governments, cities and businesses. They provide mechanisms for discourse, celebration, reflection, community- building and coping with pervasive change.
We are especially interested in what happens at the interface of technological innovation and creative practice. How are two emergent and integrative phenomena, the ubiquity of the digital and the rise of design, redefining what creativity means and how creative people work? How do different rhythms and settings of social life (the city, academia, the economy, mainstream and sub-cultures.) interact to create new experiences, and what is the role of creative arts in this process? How does the slow pace of research foster creative innovation?
In keeping with these sentiments, between 19th and 23rd of September 2016 a visit of French creative professionals and organisations will take place in Auckland and Wellington.
This visit will explore aspects of this broad rubric of creativity as a driver of, and way of coping with, increasingly rapid change. It is expected that these first contacts, besides providing an opportunity for sharing of ideas and best practices around creative ecologies, will lay the ground for French and New Zealand organisations to engage in a deeper dialogue and explore new opportunities for collaborating in the future.
We welcome collaboration and partnership with organisations and individuals on this initiative. If you'd like to collaborate or partner with us, please do contact us:
AUCKLAND: Harry Silver - Public Liaison Co-ordinator, Colab, AUT. hsilver(a)aut.ac.nz
WELLINGTON: Linda Baxter - Senior Project Manager, College of Creative Arts, Massey. L.Baxter(a)massey.ac.nz
NATIONAL: Raynald Belay - Head of the Scientific and Cultural Office, French Embassy in New Zealand. raynald.belay(a)diplomatie.gouv.fr
Best regards.
Harry Silver
Public Liaison Co-ordinator
Colab, Auckland University of Technology
P 09 921 9566 M 027 246 5332 E harry.silver(a)aut.ac.nz W colab.aut.ac.nz
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Fwd: Call for OPEN FIELDS conference @ RIXC Festival, Riga
by Julian Priest
FYI
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Call for OPEN FIELDS Conference abstracts and RIXC Festival Exhibition
proposals
Deadline: June 20, 2016
APPLY NOW!
http://festivalconf.rixc.lv <http://festivalconf.rixc.lv/> (for conference)
rixc (at) rixc.org <http://rixc.org/> (for exhibition)
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OPEN FIELDS – International Conference and Exhibition
@ RIXC ART SCIENCE FESTIVAL 2016
Riga, September 29 – October 1, 2016
Venue: National Library of Latvia
http://rixc.org/en/festival/
Open Fields is the title of this year's international conference taking
place in the framework of the annual RIXC Art Science festival in Riga.
It brings together international scholars and artists, working at the
intersection of arts, humanities and science. Open Fields will focus on
artistic research, the changing role of arts, its transformative
potential, and relation to the sciences. This call for participation
invites contributions and conference paper proposals by scholars,
artists, artists-researchers, art and media theorists, data designers
and critical engineers, as well as doctoral students, and scientists
from different Fields – biology, ecology, environment, digital
technologies, renewable energy, etc., who are engaged in experiencing
the transformative potential of arts.
For the exhibition and conference, we are looking for research that is
located in the contested territory between academic knowledge production
and independent creative practices. It will look into areas such as open
commons, the future of social interaction, data representation and
visualisation, critical design, sustainable infrastructures,
eco-aesthetics, techno-ecologies, bio-hacking and other techniques of a
transformative potential. No Field is excluded, yet there should always
be a connection with art; it is highly likely that art works and
conference papers will touch on several Fields, not one.
* Conference Keynote Speakers:
Christiane PAUL / New School / Whitney Museum / New York
Jussi PARIKKA / Winchester School of Art / University of Southampton / UK
and others – tbc.
The Conference also will feature Playing Fields session on contemporary
taxonomy, maintaining a connection between the exhibition and the
conference. Moderated by Armin MEDOSCH, this participatory session will
involve both independent curators and the exhibition artists in an
active discussion about the classification issues of art in postmedia
age, by using RIXC Festival exhibition as a case for it.
At the close of the conference, Open Fields Book Review – PechaKucha
session will take place, providing an opportunity for the speakers to
present their new books and other publications for the audience.
Exhibition: The Open Fields conference will be complemented by the
exhibition taking place in the new Exhibition Hall of the National
Library of Latvia. Partly curated, partly peer-reviewed, the Exhibition
will represent works by artists, artists-researchers and data designers,
who are challenging the notion of art and contemporary aesthetics by
moving across, bringing together and converging different knowledge,
various media and diverse Fields, as well as using scientific, cultural
and social data as new artistic medium, and interpreting them in a new
and meaningful ways.
The Exhibition will be open from September 29 –
November 6, 2016.
Proceedings: The papers will be published in conference proceeding,
which will come out in the Acoustic Space, peer-reviewed journal & book
series. The call for full paper submissions will be announced during the
conference and on the Acoustic Space journal website:
http://acousticspacejournal.com <http://acousticspacejournal.com/>
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DEADLINE FOR CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS:
June 20, 2016
We welcome proposals by scholars, artists, artists-scholars, designers,
PhD researchers, curators, media theorists, art historians, science
philosophers, cultural innovators, bio-hackers, critical engineers and
data designers, as well as scientists from different Fields – biology,
ecology, environment, digital technologies, renewable energy, and
others, who have experienced or see the potential of collaboration with
arts.
Conference Themes:
* investigating contemporaneity – its representation and experience in
and through artistic practice and art-science research
* data visualization – and its relation to contemporary aesthetics
* art and science – challenging new ways of knowledge creation and
representation
* changing weathers – networked responses to geophysical and
geopolitical shifts across Europe and the globe
* eco-aesthetics – from sustainable architecture and critical design to
techno-ecological art practices
Conference proposal should consist of:
* title and abstract (250 words),
* 5–6 keywords,
* short author's biography (160 words).
Please submit your proposals online:
http://festivalconf.rixc.lv <http://festivalconf.rixc.lv/>
Notifications: June 22, 2016
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DEADLINE FOR EXHIBITION PROPOSALS:
June 20, 2016
Curated and peer-reviewed, the Festival Exhibition welcomes proposals by
artists, artists-researchers, artists-engineers, data designers, as well
as practice-based doctoral students, who are challenging the notion of
art and contemporary aesthetics by moving across, bringing together and
converging different knowledge, various media and diverse Fields, as
well as by those, who are using scientific, cultural and social data as
new artistic medium, interpreting them in a new and meaningful ways.
Artwork submissions should include:
* description of idea and technical requirements (1–2 pages),
* short biography and/or portfolio,
* additional material (photos/video/links/etc.)
Please submit your artwork proposal via e-mail to the address:
rixc (at) rixc.org <http://rixc.org/>
Additional material, if the files are larger than 5MB, should be sent
via wetransfer.com <http://wetransfer.com/>.
Notifications: June 30, 2016
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* About Open Fields
Following the last year's successful launch of Renewable Futures
(renewablefutures.net <http://renewablefutures.net/> – the biannual
travelling conference series) – this year RIXC with its European
partners from Changing Weathers project, and other collaborating
institutions and universities from the Baltic Sea region and Europe, are
introducing Open Fields, aiming to develop it towards an annual Riga
based gathering for the discussion on artistic reseach, the changing
role of arts in societies, art's transformative potential, and relations
to sciences.
http://rixc.org/en/festival/
* The International Conference Scientific board:
Prof. Lev MANOVICH / Software Studies Initiative / The Graduate Center,
City University of New York, US
PhD. Armin MEDOSCH / Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum
University, Belgrade, Serbia / Initiator of the Technopolitics working
group in Vienna, Austria
PhD. Jussi PARIKKA / Winchester School of Art / University of
Southampton / UK
PhD. Geoff COX / School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University,
Denmark
Prof. Kristin BERGAUST / Oslo and Akershus University, Norway
Asoc. prof. Laura BELOFF / IT University in Copenhagen, Denmark /
Finnish Bioart Society, Helsinki, Finland
Dr. Lily DIAZ-KOMMONEN / Head of Research Department of Media, Aalto
University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland
Dr. Ursula Damm / Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Dr. Andris TEIKMANIS / Vice-rector, the Art Academy of Latvia, Riga
Dr. Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS / Nida Art Colony, Vilnius Academy of Arts,
Lithuania
PhD. Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir / Art Education at the University of
Akureyri, Iceland
Andrew Gryf PATERSON / Pixelache Helsinki / SERDE / Aalto University
ARTS Media department, Helsinki, Finland
Regine DEBATTY / we-make-money-not-art.com
<http://we-make-money-not-art.com/>, London, UK
Dr. Piibe PIIRMA / Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
Dr. Janis KLEPERIS / Hydrogen Laboratory, Solid State Physics Institute,
Latvian University, Riga, Latvia
Conference Chair: Dr. Rasa SMITE / RIXC / Art Research Lab, Liepaja
University, Latvia
Festival and
Exhibition curators: Dr. Raitis SMITS, Ainars KAMOLINS, Dr. Rasa SMITE
The venue of the conference and exhibition: the new building of the
National Library of Latvia http://www.lnb.lv/en/about-library/nll-building
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* Conference Registration Fee / Travel / Accommodation
Please see for more info at the festival
website: http://rixc.org/lv/festival/
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Organizer: RIXC Center for New Media Culture.
Contact: rixc (at) rixc.org <http://rixc.org/>
Address: Maskavas iela 4, Riga, LV-1050, Latvia
Phone: +371 67228478 <tel:%2B371%2067228478> (office), +371 26546776
<tel:%2B371%2026546776> (Rasa Smite)
Partners: Conference and Exhibition is organized by RIXC in
collaboration with the Art Research Lab of Liepaja University, the Art
Academy of Latvia and Changing Weathers – Creative Europe’s project
partners (http://www.changingweathers.net
<http://www.changingweathers.net/>). Exhibition partner: the National
Library of Latvia
Support: EU Program Creative Europe, the State Culture Capital
Foundation of Latvia, Riga City Council, the Ministry of Culture of the
Republic of Latvia, and others.
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NZ Open Source Awards 2016 - nominations close Monday 13 June
by Bronwyn Holloway-Smith
Kia ora folks,
There are 6 days left to get nominations in for the NZ Open Source Awards.
The awards happen every 2 years, and aim to raise awareness of the free and
open source advantage for New Zealand by telling powerful success stories
based on real achievements.
Perhaps of particular interest to the people on this list: there is a
category for Open Source use in the Arts - for the outstanding use of free
and open source approaches in creative endeavours and the arts in New
Zealand. The other categories may be of interest too:
http://nzosa.org.nz/categories/
Nominate here: http://nzosa.org.nz/nomination/
There is no monetary award (alas!) but there is a healthy dose of fame and
glory, plus finalists get wined and dined at Te Papa at the awards
ceremony. As a past winner I can highly recommend these experiences!
I'm a judge this year, so I can't make nominations myself, but I can think
of more than a handful of people on this list who really ought to be up
there on the stage getting recognition for their projects.
You know what to do :)
Bronwyn
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