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| <nettime-ann> Out Now! OPEN FIELDS book, Acoustic Space Vol. 15 |
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OUT NOW! OPEN FIELDS. Art and Science Research Practices in the Network Society Acoustic Space, Vol. 15 Edited by Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Armin Medosch RIXC: Riga, September 29, 2016 http://acousticspacejournal.comThe Open Fields volume presents artistic research that is located in the contested territory between academic knowledge production and independent creative practices. Open Fields is constituting the interwoven histories of art and science in the digital age, whereby investigating the changing role of art in network society. Open Fields claims that art with its transformative potential, critical, investigative as well as symbolic and aesthetic qualities, is among those disciplines that are capable to reflect upon current realities, complexity of our society, facing challenges of our time.
We are proposing to look at those Fields from different perspectives, dedicating one section to studies from Eastern European and North. But this regional focus also comes with a different intellectual orientation to discourses which leave the safe zone of disciplinary academia behind and engage with Open Fields: with the interchanges and crossings between practices which are barely sustained by one discipline alone.
With the Fields exhibition in 2014 we have opened multiple conversations about how art can not only criticize and thereby provide a mirror for society, but how it can also more directly intervene in material and social structures. We are now continuing this discussion asking:
How can art and other creative practices meaningfully contribute to the environmental, technological and scientific challenges of our time?
We are raising this question by dedicating the first chapter to the contemporary aesthetics and its immediate forerunners, starting around 40 years ago; this is followed by the chapter on media art histories in Eastern Europe. The third chapter allows bringing together specific issues in artistic research with speculative and phenomenological, and philosophical questioning. And last but not least, the forth chapter gives an insight into some of more recent exhibitions and art projects in which artists by creating “open fields” works are challenging the notion of art and contemporary aesthetics. They are 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 mediums, and interpreting them in a new and meaningful ways.
The book consists from the following sections: I Early Digital Art And Contemporary Aesthetics In Network Society II Media Art Histories In Eastern Europe III Speculative Archeologies: The Open Fields Of Art And Science IV Transformative Ecologies: From Changing Weathers To Open FieldsThe book combines a selection of papers presented in the Media Art Histories 2013 Renew conference held in Riga, October 8-11, 2013, and visual review of Transformative Ecologies exhibitions in Mons and Riga (2015). This volume also includes new texts – such Christiane's Paul “From Archives to Collections: Digital Art In/Out of Institutions” which is based on her keynote speech delivered at the Open Fields conference, taking place in Riga during September 29 – November 2, 2016, in the framework of RIXC's annual festival. Our festival this year was focusing on new aesthetics, contemporary conditions, digital practices and the post-media situation. Since the first festival took place twenty years ago, the festival has grown and developed into a larger annual gathering in Northern Europe for international scholars and artists working at the intersection of arts, humanities and science. The Open Fields edition aims to present the most innovative approaches in artistic research, and to discuss the changing role of the arts, their transformative potential, and relation to the sciences. (http://openfields.rixc.org)
Authors and contributors:Christiane Paul, Ernest Edmonds, Jamie Allen And Ryan Jordan, Laura Beloff, Rajashree Biswal, Jim Boulton, Brogan Bunt, Dana Catona, Ksenia Fedorova, Darko Fritz, Simon Hagemann, Roddy Hunter, Aleksandra Kaminska, Raivo Kelomees And Stacey Koosel, Jung-Yeon Ma, Vytautas Michelkevičius And Lina Michelkevičė, José A. Oliveira, Aneta Panek, Andrew Gryf Paterson, David Thomas.
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Available on Amazon.com: https://www.amazon.com/Fields-Science-Research-Practices-Network/dp/9934843455/ or by ordering directly from RIXC Publishing rixc@rixc.org More info: http://acousticspacejournal.com- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
OPEN FIELDS. Art and Science Research Practices in the Network Society Edited by Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Armin Medosch Acoustic Space, Vol. 15Peer-reviewed journal & book series for transdisciplinary research on art, science, technology and society.
ISSN 1407-2858 ISBN 978-9934-8434-5-7 Published by RIXC, Riga & LiepU MPLab, Liepaja(RIXC Center for New Media Culture, Riga & Liepaja University's Art Research Lab, Liepaja)
CONTENTS 7 Introduction by editors - Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits and Armin Medosch9 Christiane Paul. From Archives to Collections: Digital Art In/Out of Institutions
I EARLY DIGITAL ART AND CONTEMPORARY AESTHETICS IN NETWORK SOCIETY 20 Roddy Hunter. Curating the Network-as-Artwork after Globalisation30 José A. Oliveira. The Art of Systems and the Systems of Art: Theory and Practices 43 Simon Hagemann. Performing the Web: Aspects of the Communication Network in Performance
50 Jim Boulton. Error 404 – Why Archive the Web?55 Darko Fritz. Agents of Social and Political Change in the Early Digital Arts from the Netherlands 62 Rajashree Biswal. The Politics and Dynamics of Web Based Art Practice in India in the Post 1990s
80 Ernest Edmonds. Network Art from the Birth of the Internet to Today II MEDIA ART HISTORIES IN EASTERN EUROPE88 Aneta Panek. Ingenious Dillettantes – Night Patrol – Punk in Poland. Transgressions, subversions and détournements in experimental music and cinema in West Berlin, Warsaw and Łódź in the 1980s 100 Raivo Kelomees, Stacey Koosel. Privacy Experiments in Public and Artistic Spaces 111 Dana Catona. Human Body Related Works in Performance, Video and New Media – from the ‘60s to the Present in Romania 118 Ksenia Fedorova. Transmediality, Transliteracy, Transduction and Aesthetics of the Technological Sublime 129 Vytautas Michelkevičius, Lina Michelkevičė. Unwritten Histories of Extinct Media Art in Lithuania: From the 2000s of Great Promise to the Multidirectional 2010s 143 Andrew Gryf Paterson. Reflections on Soil Future(s), Past(s) and Present(s)
III SPECULATIVE ARCHEOLOGIES: THE OPEN FIELDS OF ART AND SCIENCE 158 Laura Beloff. Art as A Playground for Evolution165 Jung-Yeon Ma. Renewing the Story of the CTG: Haruki Tsuchiya’s Research on Energy 172 David Thomas. The Crystal Stereoscope: The Architectural Reconstruction of Modern Vision 177 Jamie Allen, Ryan Jordan. Signal Aesthetics. Stroboscopic Arts and Sciences 200 Aleksandra Kaminska. Audible Walls, Breathing Vaults, and the Fantastic Sites of Re-Imagination 211 Brogan Bunt. Cutting Sections from Cars: at the Medial Margins of Media Art
IV TRANSFORMATIVE ECOLOGIES: FROM CHANGING WEATHERS TO OPEN FIELDS223 Transformative Ecologies. North Creative Network Initiative and Exhibitions 237 Open Fields. The Exhibition and Conference / RIXC Art Science Festival 2016 252 Changing Weathers. Networked Responses to Geophysical, Geopolitical and Technological Shifts Across Europe. Collaborative Project
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Contact: RIXC Publishing / RIXC Center for New Media Culture Address: Maskavas iela 4, Riga, Latvia, LV 1050 +371-26546776 rixc@rixc.orgSupport: State Cultural Capital Foundation / Ministry of Culture of Republic of Latvia / Co-Funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, in the framework of Changing Weathers project http://changingweathers.com /
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-- Dr Rasa SmiteArtist and Founding Director of RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture in Riga,
Assoc. Prof. in New Media Art at Liepaja University, Chief Editor of Acoustic Space, peer-reviewed book & journal series Contact: rasa@rixc.org Phone: +371-26546776 http://smitesmits.com http://rixc.org http://renewablefutures.net http://acousticspacejournal.com _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list nettime-ann@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann