new conference series and european platform for art, science and technoecologies
UPCOMING EVENT
RF2018: Hybrid Labs Symposium
May 30 – June 1, 2018
LOCATION
Espoo/Helsinki, Finland
Aalto University Campus
Call for papers, artist presentations, and posters: abstract submission deadline – March 5, 2018
Apply NowThe changing role of art in society is one where it does not just create a new aesthetics but gets involved in patterns of social, scientific, and technological transformations. The Renewable Futures aims to shape new contact zones between traditionally separated domains, and bringing together art and science, culture and digital technologies, sustainable businesses and social engagement of the 21st century.
Manifesting the transformative potential of art in the age of post-media – by challenging existing viewpoints, deconstructing social issues, and proposing positive visions for the future
By expanding our previous Nordic Baltic cooperation networks we are building new European platform for artists and scientists who are engaged in techno-ecological research
Facilitating new knowledge production through art and science collaboration, and transforming the cutting edge ideas into sustainable social realities and techno-ecological practices
By bringing together new ways of thinking, scientific knowledge, aesthetics, technologies and social practices, the conferences aim to develop new models for a more sustainable and imaginative way of life
Showcasing most innovative art practices that are transdisciplinary and transformative, and combine the artistic with the social and the natural, the scientific and the emotional, the sensible with the actual
Organising art & science symposiums, urban & rural workshops, participatory research and public education projects, our network aims at increasing the participation level, inclusion and social impact
conference series,
The RF network was founded in 2009 by artists and scientists from Baltic Nordic countries seeking solutions to sustainable development. FIELDS, a large scale international art exhibition in Riga – Cultural Capital of Europe 2014 showed the results of this collaboration. With the support of Creative Europe, the RF initiative was transformed into a new conference series. The first conference took place in Riga (2015), and the second – in Eindhoven (2017). The third conference will take place in May 30–June 1, 2018 in Espoo. With the title HYBRID LABS SYMPOSIUM it aims at connecting university science labs with artist spaces.
Events are organised by partners and taking place in different countries of Europe - Latvia, The Netherlands, Norway, Finland, France, Spain full project programme here
CO-FUNDED BY THE CREATIVE EUROPE PROGRAMME OF THE EUROPEAN UNION. INTERESTED IN BECOMING A SPONSOR? CONTACT US
RIXC Center for New Media Culture (Latvia)
Lenču iela 2, Rīga, LV-1010, Latvia
Baltan Laboratories (The Netherlands)
info@baltanlaboratories.org
baltanlaboratories.org
Postbus 4042, 5604 EA Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences (Norway)
post@hioa.no
http://www.hioa.no
PO box 4 St. Olavs plass, NO-0130 Oslo
Media Lab of Aalto University (Finland)
mlab-arts@aalto.fi
medialab.aalto.fi
P.O.Box 16500, FI-00076 Aalto, Finland