RICX
Art and Communication festival

at:
RIXC, The Center for New media culture
Riga Latvia

15.05. - 18.05.2003

presenting:
space navigable music, audio-visual performance

about the festival

The 6th International ART COMMUNICATION festival will comprise a series of events from May 15-19, 2003 conceptually located at the intersection of information networks and post-modern architectonics; while physically located in Latvia in Riga, as well as in Karosta, Liepaja and at the VIRAC Radiotelecope in Irbene.

The Media Architecture international conference will take place in Riga, from May 16-17. Discussions will include: how lessons from the social dynamic of 'virtual 'networks, can be applied to the creation of open, public physical spaces; designs for process-based architecture, and hybrid spaces; and how mapping/positioning and wireless networking impact on notions of space time and social organization. Taking place in a central, but derelict section of Old Riga the theme of 'transformation of place' through networking (both physical and virtual) will be manifest in the conferences various facilities through installations, include evening programmes of media synesthesia (visible sound/audible light), as well as by the official initiation of an ambitious engineering project for the creation of Media Space - a new headquarters for RIXC.

Closing programme: acoustic space lab Finally, for the closing section of the festival, participants will be brought to the Irbene Ratio Telescope, a former Soviet military satellite dish (d=32m) where participants from the 2001 Acoustic Space Lab symposium will present their interpretations of data they gathered from scanning the planets, communication satellites and surrounding environment with this powerful telescope.

full festival program:
15.05.2003 _ 19:00
FESTIVAL OPENING Opening of festival exposition
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16.05.2003 _ 10:00 - 18:00
CONFERENCE: DAY 1 [MEDIA ARCHITECTURE]
How lessons from the social dynamic of 'virtual 'networks, can be applied to the creation of open,public physical spaces; discussion on designs for process-based architecture, and hybrid spaces.

Panel 1 [ urban geographies and networked media / process-based architecture ]

Frans Vogelaar / KHM / Cologne, DE , invOFFICE / Amsterdam, NL
Tuomas Toivonen / AULA / Helsinki, FI
Francesca Ferguson / Urban Drift / Berlin, DE
Lev Manovich / San Diego, USA
Herve Trioreau / Paris, FR
Carl Biorsmark, Kristine Briede / K@2 / Liepaja, LV
Alex Adriaansens / V2 / Amsterdam

Panel 2 [ hybrid space / open source -media- architecture ]

Eric Kluitenberg / de Balie / Amsterdam, NL
Tania Gorucheva / Media Art Lab / Moscow, RU
Tim Boykett, Andreas Mayrhof / Times Up / Linz, AT
Luke Jerram, Bristol / UK
Tamas Szakal / Leipzig, DE
Michael Mastrototaro, Sabine Maier, Christoph Theiler / MACHFELD / Vienna, AT

Performance:
* space navigable sound / LAb[au] / Brussel, BE
* PING SONIC / Voldemars Johansons / Riga, LV
* SEMEMA-INDUSTRIAL.NET / Girts Korps / Riga, LV
* CELLULAE.NET / Jaanis Garancs / DE-LV
* Screening of the films: HOMING, GIFT un CULTURAL QUARTIER by Mike Stubbs / UK,
..KYOTO - RAW MATERIAL ON SUBLIME BEAUTY, Wolf Kahlen / DE.

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17.05.2003 _ 11:00 -17:00
CONFERENCE: DAY 2 [MEDIA ARCHITECTURE]
Exploring potential of mobile media for social geography and locative art. How mapping - positioning and wireless networking impact on notions of space time and social organization.

Panel 3 [ cell-space: mapping-positioning and wireless networks ]

Marc Tuters / GPSter / Montreal, CA
Ewen Chardronnet / Ellipse / Paris, FR

Marko Peljhan / Projekt Atol / Ljubljana, SI - tbc.)
Wayne Piekarski / UniSA, AU
Jaanis Garanchs / Cologne, DE, Riga, LV - Cellulae.net
Adam Hyde / r a d i o q u a l i a / London, UK-NZ

Panel 4 [ locative media and psychogeography ]

Konrad Becker / Public Netbase / Vienna, AT
Brian Holmes / Paris, FR-US
Aske Hopman, Esther Polak, Tom Demeyer, Marleen Sticker / de Waag / Amsterdam, NL
Leonore Bonaccini, Xavier Fourt / Bureau d'etudes / Paris, FR
Ted Pikul / 0100101110101101.ORG / Bologne, IT - VOPOS - Life Sharing
Performance:
* LSP#2, Edvin van der Heide, Amsterdam/NL, laserperformance.
* SENSOR DUO performance by Cecile Babiole, Paris/FR and Atau Tanaka, JP-FR
a performance with two artists onstage: one producing sound and the other manipulating image, both articulated by movements of the arms and body. Sensor systems are the instruments turning gesture into digital information. They interpret a unified compositional concept - one in light and the other in sound.
* COMMA DATA SPACE, Adam Hyde, NZ,UK.
* SPECTROSPHERE by Clausthome (music) and MR/F5 (video), LV
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18.05.2003 _ 9:00 -17:00
FESTIVAL CLOSING PROGRAMME, Irbene Radiotelescope