Renewable Futures is a conference series that originated in the Baltics and the North European region with an aim to invent new trajectories for more sustainable and imaginative future developments. This edition will be online, hosted by FeLT in collaboration with Creative Europe project GREEN. We welcome paper proposals from researchers and artists of interdisciplinary practices from fields such as contemporary art, artistic research, art theory, media art, design and architecture, applied artificial intelligence, artificial life, robotics, life sciences, art education and other relevant practices. We invite presentations of artistic and transdisciplinary research projects, as well as examples and discussions of applied projects and entries to a screening program curated for online presentation.
Deadline for submissions is the 6th of September 2021. For more information and submissions, see https://feltproject.no/
The conference is online only and will take place from the 4th to the 6th of November 2021.
Additional workshops will be offered on the 7th of November. Specially invited keynote speakers and presentations will be included in the program.
4TH RENEWABLE FUTURES CONFERENCE – THE FUTURES OF LIVING TECHNOLOGIES
November 4-6, 2021
Oslo / Online
The Renewable Futures Network was established in 2008 and strives to facilitate new contact zones between traditionally separated domains – art and science, academic research and independent creative practices, sustainable businesses and social engagement.
The 4th Renewable Futures Conference questions how we experience and express life and the sense of aliveness today. Actualized by our current global pandemic, we invite artistic, academic or applied research perspectives on relations and intersections between human beings, living environments and machines. This might evoke a sense of the uncanny and a fear of domination and surveillance. It might also reveal a world of possibilities of becoming, creation of new forms and behaviors. Could we co-create a more balanced existence? Can we enhance our senses and communication to become beings that are more adapted to co-existence with our environments and other species?
The interdisciplinary artistic research project FeLT (Futures of Living Technologies) hosts the conference in conjunction with the Creative Europe project GREEN (Green Revisited: Encountering Emerging Naturecultures).
To propose a paper presentation (artistic or academic research presentation, applied project presentation): Please submit an abstract of maximum 300 words in English. Please submit in PDF format. This will be assessed by RF-FeLT’s scientific committee.
The abstracts should contain:
– Title and 3 to 5 keywords
– Names of contributors
– Institutional affiliation (if applicable)
– Presentation format: i.e. live online, video presentation or other, 15 minutes.
– Which themed track is the most relevant?
– Project description and objectives
– Contextualization
– Questions and/or problem for discussion
– Possible results or outcomes
– The abstract must not exceed 300 words and may contain web links to artistic material
NEW DEADLINE:
Abstracts must be submitted by the 6th of September
Presenters will be notified by September 7th
SCREENING PROGRAM
November 4-6, 2021
Oslo / Online
In parallel, we invite proposals for a curated screening program presented as a special event. To propose an artistic presentation for online screening: Please submit an introduction of the work in maximum 300 words in English, include a link to uploaded material. Please submit in PDF format. This will be assessed by curators Jens Hauser and Kristin Bergaust. See below for more information.
We welcome submissions of screen based artistic work at the intersection of ecology, art and technology. We will present a screening and remote performance program curated for Renewable Futures 4th conference-FeLT. Formats include (but are not limited to) art films or clips, art documentation, remote and/or interactive performative contributions specifically developed for online formats.
Abstract and submission to screening program:
The abstracts should contain:
– Title and short description 3 to 5 keywords
– Names of contributors
– Institutional affiliation (if applicable)
– Describe your contribution in terms of artistic ideas, context and intended presentation: art films or clips, art documentation, remote and/or interactive performative contributions developed for online formats. Please state in your contribution that you have the rights for publication of all elements included in your work before you submit it.
– Please upload to an online service (vimeo, youtube, google) Make sure it is made available to us, send us passwords and invitations on submitting your work. We can not process file transfers or facilitate other means of receiving work.
– Include web links to artistic material. Make sure it is accessible, remember passwords
– The abstract must not exceed 300 words.
NEW DEADLINE:
Abstracts must be submitted by the 6th of September
You will be notified by September 7th if your contribution is included or not