Call for Participation – Fields – Riga, Latvia – deadline 31 May 2013

In 2013 we aim at organising a number of workshops and events, beginning with Transmediale 2013, where the initial matrix of Fields gets jointly developed. This work is a step to the launch of the
final exhibition Fields from May 15 to August 03 as part of Riga Culture Capital 2014, at Arsenals Exhibition Hall of National Art Museum in Riga. Fields is co-curated by Armin Medosch, Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, and will get produced by RIXC in collaboration with a growing number of networks and partners.

If you have an art or artistic-research project that fits one of those categories or where you feel that it extends this concept, please send a short description to: fields[@]rixc.lv

Read more: http://rixc.lv/14/index.html

Fields starts from the assumption that the changing role of art in society is one where it becomes a critical interloper in patterns of social, scientific, and technological transformations. The range of practices which were once subsumed under terms such as media art, digital art, art and technology, art, and science have experienced such growth and diversification that no single term can work as a signpost any more. Fields is about mapping those expanded fields of artistic practices which are contextual seedbeds for ideas and practices aiming at overcoming the crisis of the present, inventing new avenues for future developments by bringing together traditionally separated domains. Fields is about new ecological and transversal trends in art, outlining potential future trajectories for multifarious types of activities that merge politics, technology, ecology, gender, semiology.