Recently an interest in green lifestyles, alternative energy resources and other sustainable issues has grown, hence demanding radically new perspective to be built, which we call “techo-ecological.”
RIXC’s initiated Renewable Network artists have teamed up with scientists, rural inhabitants and urban communities to develop new ideas for more sustainable and more imaginative future – making edible solar batteries, installing bio-energy plants in a pond, developing interfaces for human-plant communication, growing bees in the city and mapping their routes across the city, creating celulouse enzymes for providing food solutions in an overpopulated future world.

Biographies

Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits are artists, curators and researchers, working with science and emerging media technologies since 1990s. They are key founders of RIXC, The Center for New Media Culture in Riga and its annual festival; they are also chief editors of Acoustic Space – peer-reviewed publication series. Rasa Smite holds her PhD in sociology of culture and media (from Riga Stradins univeristy) and works as associate professors in new media art at Liepaja University. Raitis Smits has received his doctoral degree in arts from the Art Academy of Latvia, where he works as assistant professor. http://rixc.org, http://renewable.rixc.lv

Termin: Mittwoch, 13. Januar 2016, 19:00 Uhr

Ort: Hörsaal, Karl-Haußknecht-Straße 7, 99423 Weimar

Kontakt:
Organised by the Chair of Media Environments 
Prof. Ursula Damm

Marienstraße 5, Raum 304
99423 Weimar
Telefon:. +49 3643 / 58-3607
E-Mail: ursula.damm [at] uni-weimar.de