RIXC Art Science Festival 2024: Symbiotic Sense(s)

This year's RIXC Art Science festival with the title Symbiotic Sense(s) will take place from October 23-25, 2024, in Riga, Latvia and online, exploring art, technology, and collective Intelligence from the perspective of sensual perception and extended cognition. The Symbiotic Sense(s) festival, 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 key event of the festival is the Symbiotic Sense(s) exhibition, which will open at the National Library of Latvia on October 23, 2024 featuring artworks by both Latvian and international artists. The exhibition will be accompanied by a conference on the symbiosis between art and science, for which artists and researchers are welcome to submit proposals by September 10, 2024. The festival program will also include the opening of the Deep Sensing exhibition at the RIXC Gallery and a workshop on art and AI by artist Rosemary Lee.

Through exhibitions, performances, workshops, and conference discussions, the festival will explore themes such as: extended cognition, externally sensory systems, naturally-artificial environments, sensing machines, artificial life, symbiotic sciences, nature-cultures, and collective intelligence.

The international Open Fields conference taking place from October 23–25, 2024 at the Neiburgs Hotel, National Library of Latvia and online will bring together Latvian and international scholars and artists to discuss topics related to artistic research, the changing role of art in societies, and art and science collaboration.

Symbiotic Sense(s) invites participants to reconsider the boundaries between self and other, human and machine, and natural and artificial, aiming to embrace symbiotic thinking, inspiring conversations on collaboration and fostering collective action towards a more symbiotic future.

The conference will feature talks 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 related to the following topics:

- sensing machines and artificial life
-extended cognition and externally sensory systems
-symbiotic Sciences and collective intelligence
-nature cultures and naturally-artificial environments

At the intersection of symbiotic art aesthetics and visionary scientific paradigms, the festival's key event – the Symbiotic Sense(s) exhibition – will be on view from October 24 to December 7, 2024 at the National Library of Latvia, presenting artworks by international and Latvian artists reconsidering the boundaries between self and other, human and machine, and natural and artificial. The exhibition will feature artworks by artists from the European Media Art Platform (EMAP), as well as Latvian and other internationally renowned artists.

As part of the program, the Deep Sensing exhibition by Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, which has been exhibited in Milan (Italy) and Taipei (Taiwan), will open on October 24, 2024 at the RIXC Gallery and will be on view for the first time as part of the RIXC festival in Riga until December 7, 2024.

Festival program:
Festival: October 23–25, 2024
Open Fields conference (festival pass required) : October 23–25, 2024, Neiburgs Hotel, Jauniela 25/27; National Library of Latvia; online on Zoom.
Symbiotic Sense(s) exhibition (free entry): October 24–December 7, 2024, National Library of Latvia. Opening: October 23, 2024, at 18.00.
Deep Sensing exhibition (free entry): October 25–December 7, 2024, RIXC Gallery, Lencu iela 2. Opening: October 24, 2024, at 18.00.

More information:

https://festival2024.rixc.org/

http://rixc.org/

Host or Publisher RIXC Center for New Media Culture