<nettime-ann> Now: Hybrid War, Fragile AI, etc. at GLOBAL CONTROL Conference in Riga

[Rasa Smite <rasa@rixc.lv>]

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Hello on Nettime list

Today is the 2nd day of the Global Control, RIXC festival and Open  
Fields 2018 conference. As this event is marking Latvia's 100 year's  
anniversary, our intent was to highlight some hot topics.

On the opening day we had the lecture by Bruce Sterling on Ukraine's  
“multicolor revolution”, and five years of armed struggle online and  
on the ground”. We were discussing the hybrid war and its frontlines –  
since I have been always thinking that we have the main one here in  
Baltics, yet Bruce Sterling argued that the frontline is actually  
everywhere on this globe. More than that, above all the government  
interests, there are the oligarchs who have the main impact. Perhaps,  
this explains the case in Latvia – this year Riga is hosting the first  
Riga Biennial with 100 artworks, and 6 million EUR budget; this money  
is not national money, of course, but by oligarchs (banks, Russia,  
this is unclear); just to compare, from the national money (Latvia  
Anniversary support program) the Global Control conference was granted  
with 15 thousand EUR.

So, the discussions on who controls the world in the “algorithmic  
society”, for what purpose the private data can be used, and whether  
or not we are in under the “global control”? May be not yet, as AI has  
turned out to be fragile and neural networks sometimes do make wrong  
recognitions – accordingly to Mauro Martino, director of IBM Visual AI  
Lab, who was also the keynote lecturer in our Global Control  
Conference, which is continuing still today, and will end this  
afternoon with all of the participating going with the bus to Kemeri  
bog for a swamp sound walk.

Please find below the full program of this year's festival, as we have  
also other amazing keynotes, and hosting more then 80 international  
participants both academics and independent artists and theorists, as  
well as about 60 more master and doctoral students from different  
universities are attending and participating.

Best regards,
Rasa


Open Fields 2018: Global Control
The 3rd International Conference on Art, Science, Technologies and Humanities
September 13-15, 2018, Riga, Latvia
The National Library of Latvia


Marking the centennial anniversary of independent Latvia and Baltic  
countries, this year's festival takes up the call by becoming a space  
for artistic interventions and hot-button conversations addressing the  
complexity and future of digital society, especially with regards to  
ubiquitous surveillance and data privacy.

The anniversary festival conference titled GLOBAL CONTROL is taking  
place in the framework of RICK CHANGE, Creative  Europe's network  
project. It investigates the globally and locally urgent issues of our  
digital society from three main perspectives:

* Hybrid Wars and Post-Truth
The first, “hybrid war”, is particularly relevant in the context of  
the Baltic states independence celebration year, when continuous  
“post-truth” propaganda in media and tensions around military training  
in this region are on the rise. We also discuss the issue of “fake  
news”, its consequences on global politics, and its impacts on  
individual nations.

* Surveillance and Immersive Technologies
The second perspective deals with “surveillance and immersion”; as we  
all are under surveillance, we need to become aware of both the  
enormous scale of “watching”, as well as the potential “depth” of  
watching due to the development of immersive technologies.

* The Next Big Privacy
The third, concerns “the next big privacy” issue, discussed from a  
“data politics” perspectives – What is the future of our social media?  
How can we feel safe about our data we publish on the internet today?,  
and How to maintain trust with the next generation?

These are just a few of critical topics that are discussed and  
explored in this year’s RIXC Festival through a series of public  
keynotes, “Open Fields 2018” conference, artistic interventions,  
thematic panel presentations, open public discussions, performances,  
and workshops. The featured event is the the Opening of the Global  
Control and Censorship exhibition that aims to expand the public  
debate about ever-present surveillance and censorship methods.

The main festival events take place from September 13 – 15, 2018, in  
the National Library of Latvia. The broad festival program will be  
closing with the Swamp Radio and Acoustic Surveillance program on  
September 15, 2018, featuring artistic interventions and immersive  
sound installations in Kemeri Bog.

The exhibition Global Control and Censorship is open until October 21,  
2018, in the Exhibition Hall of the National Library of Latvia.


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OPEN FIELDS 2018: GLOBAL CONTROL conference

The third “Open Fields” conference – “Global Control”,takes place from  
September 13-15, 2018 in the National Library of Latvia, gathering  
together more then 80 participants – artists, researchers, scientists,  
technology innovators, designers, theoreticians and activists from 25  
countries world-wide.

* Keynote Lectures:

Thursday, September 13 at 16.00
* Bruce STERLING / novelist and journalist, futurist, media critic
* Jens HAUSER / researcher and curator in art and bio media
* Bernhard SEREXHE / art historian, expert for electronic and digital  
art, author, curator


Friday, September 14 at 16.00
* Jasmina TESANOVIC / author, feminist, political activist, and filmmaker
* Mauro MARTINO / artist, designer, inventor and educator / Visual AI Lab, IBM
* Ellen PEARLMAN / New media artist, critic, curator and writer /  
Parsons/New School University, ThoughtWorks Arts

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Bruce STERLING / US-IT-RS. Multicolor Revolutions

Bruce Sterling describes media events in the Ukraine after the  
Euromaidan, the Novorussia secession and five years of armed struggle  
online and on the ground. This presentation includes a lot of images  
from his private collection of separatist and loyalist Ukrainian  
propaganda, along with some papers that Bruce discovered in the  
Yanukovych Palace while sleeping in the abandoned secret-service  
headquarters of Ukraine’s former President. Since the Euromaidan  
“Color Revolution,” this kind of covert media struggle has been  
professionalized by the likes of “Fancy Bear,” so it’s of interest to  
see how “computational propaganda” looked back when it was much more  
amateurish, awkward, comical and confused. Since Bruce is a science  
fiction writer rather than an intelligence operative, this speech will  
end with a few mild speculations about how the new media culture of  
armed struggle and frozen conflicts may go in the near future.

Keywords: media, propaganda, virality, Russia, Ukraine revolution, secession

Biography
Bruce Sterling is a novelist and journalist. While acting as  
“Visionary in Residence” at Art Center College of Design in 2008, he  
wrote “Shaping Things,” one of the first books about the Internet of  
Things. In 2008 he was the curator of the Share Festival in Turin, on  
the theme of Italian digital manufacturing. He was one of the original  
columnists for Make magazine and wrote the cover story for the first  
issue of WIRED. His most recent book is a work of fiction titled  
“Pirate Utopia”. Bruce Sterling lives in Turin, Belgrade and Austin.

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Dr. Bernhard SEREXHE / DE. Total control: towards a new humanity

Whereas not so long ago digital forms of communication were seen as  
the hope for new forms of democratic participation, they have recently  
been converted and perverted into ideal door openers for the perfect  
control of billions of people. Being at the mercy of overwhelmingly  
powerful authorities of control and censorship has become the conditio  
humana, the basic condition of our culture and society. We have become  
accustomed to this situation, just as we are not deterred by the  
myriads of video cameras on the way to work or on our way back home.  
And this resignation paired with our love of ease and selfishness  
invites a new totalitarianism to install a new society with a  
pre-programmed divide between an elite of hyper-agile information  
users and a broad mass of interactive consumers restlessly zapping  
futile audio-visual products and services offered at dumping prices in  
order to control all of their practices and preferences. This  
re-coding of humanity will result in the worst of all  
totalitarianisms, that of a brave new world, in which everyone will be  
content, well-informed of everything he or she should know in order to  
play a useful role in society, but remaining ignorant of everything,  
which does not need to be known and consequently permanently amused to  
the point of complete satiety.

Keywords: control, surveillance, social profiling, social credit  
system, totalitarianism

Biography
Dr. Bernhard Serexhe, Karlsruhe, has studied sociology, psychology,  
art history, philosophy, educational science; research restauration  
studies for the Monuments Historiques de France, publications on  
romanesque architecture, Ph. D. thesis on the architecture of the  
Cathedral Saint-Lazare in Autun, Burgundy (France), University of  
Freiburg (Germany); manifold exhibitions and publications on the  
impact of digital technologies on art and society since 1995  
consultant for the Council of Europe, and for international NGOs and  
cultural institutions.
1994-97 curator of ZKM | Media Museum at ZKM | Center for Art and  
Media Karlsruhe (Germany)
1998-05 head of ZKM | Museum Communications department
2006-16 chief curator ZKM | Media Museum Karlsruhe
Since 1998 lecturer at State Academy of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, and  
Universities of Berne, Basel and Karlsruhe, CAFA Beijing, 2008-12  
professor for aesthetics and media theory at Istanbul BILGI-University.
2010-14 director of European Unions Research Project:  
www.digitalartconservation.org
Since 2016 independent international curator and certified expert for  
electronic and digital art; lecturer for the conservation and curation  
of media art at the University of Berne, Switzerland.

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Jens HAUSER / DE-DK-FR. Ungreening Greenness

Are we in control of ‘green’? The entanglement between symbolic green,  
ontological greenness and performative greening poses challenges  
across disciplines: ‘green’, symbolically associated with the  
‘natural’ and employed to hyper-compensate for what humans have lost,  
needs to be addressed as the most anthropocentric of all colours, in  
its inherent ambiguity between alleged naturalness and artificiality.  
There has been little reflection upon greenness’ migration across  
different knowledge cultures, meanwhile we are green-washing  
greenhouse effects away. Far from having universal meaning, ‘green’  
marks a dramatic knowledge gap prone to systematic misunderstandings:  
Engineers brand ‘green technologies’ as ecologically benign, while  
climate researchers point to the ‘greening of the earth’ itself as the  
alarming effect of anthropogenic CO2 emissions.
A morbid odour clings to the charm of the pervasive trope of greening  
everything, from mundane ‘green burials’ to transcendental ‘greening  
the gods’, and even ‘green warfare.’ Despite its broadly positive  
connotations, ‘green’ incrementally serves the uncritical desire of  
fetishistic and techno-romantic naturalization in order to  
metaphorically hyper-compensate for indeed material systemic bio and  
necropolitics consisting of the increasing technical manipulation and  
exploitation of living systems, ecologies, and the biosphere at large  
– the generalized, and very ‘un-green’ mechanization, automation,  
standardization, interchangeability, and hierarchization of parts.

Keywords: greenness, postanthropocentrism, media studies,  
transdisciplinarity, necro/biopolitics

Biography
Jens Hauser is a Copenhagen and Paris based media studies scholar and  
art curator focusing on the interactions between art and technology.  
He holds a dual research position at both the Department of Arts and  
Cultural Studies and at the Medical Museion at the University of  
Copenhagen, and leads the (OU)VERT research initiative for Greenness  
Studies. He is also a distinguished affiliated faculty member of the  
Department of Art, Art History and Design at Michigan State  
University, where he co-directs the BRIDGE artist in residency  
program. Hauser is also the chair of the European Society for  
Literature, Science and the Arts’ annual 2018 conference in Copenhagen.

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Jasmina TESANOVIC / US-RS. Internet of Women Things, IoWT

It was my idea to have an open-source connected home of the future. My  
scheme was accepted by brave new geeks, brilliant people, but mostly  
male. They gave the house, “Casa Jasmina,” my name: I am grateful for  
that, but the house is not altogether comfortable. People are diverse  
and live in bubbles of limited human understanding. Men and women,  
poets, philosophers, musicians, architects, designers, engineers — we  
might try to classify them as idealists or realists — the people in  
cloud bubbles, or the people in ground bubbles.
Now, a project like Casa Jasmina — is it a hands-on, practical,  
maker’s project struggling up toward ideals, or is it a set of ideals  
searching for grounded realities that might prove that high concepts  
are possible? Is it a house for the cloud-bubble people, those who  
invent their own cloud-world before crashing into the ground (or at  
least landing on it, now and then, to pick up supplies)? Or is a  
grounded launch-pad for aspiration, where the ground-bubble people  
assemble tools to reach for the sky?

Keywords: Internet of Women Things, IoWT, critical thinking, design  
fiction, Casa Jasmina

Biography
Jasmina Tesanovic is a Feminist and political activist (Women in  
Black; CodePink) and a writer, journalist, musician, translator and  
film director. In 1978 she promoted the first feminist conference in  
Eastern Europe, “Drug-ca Zena” (Belgrade). With Slavica Stojanovic she  
designs and creates the first feminist publishing house in the  
Balkans, “Feminist 94?, lasting for 10 years. She is the author of  
“Diary of a Political Idiot”, translated in 12 languages: a real time  
war diary written during the 1999 conflict in Kosovo. Since then she  
has been publishing her works on blogs and other media, always  
connected to the Internet.

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Mauro MARTINO / IT-US. Fragile AI: Visualizing perturbations of  
Artificial Neural Network

After the publication of the paper “Intriguing properties of neural  
networks” in 2013 by Christian Szegedy, we have discovered that  
learning algorithms are vulnerable. Input data visually  
indistinguishable from “normal” input are specifically tuned so as to  
fool or mislead the machine learning system.
How is it possible that neural network-based image classifiers  
exchange the photo of a panda for a gibbon, and do it with a very high  
level of confidence, almost 100%? We are faced with a more fragile AI  
than we thought.
At the talk we will observe what happens during an attack on neural  
networks, we will enter into the layers and the neurons and filters of  
dozens of Deep Neural Network models, to discover their beauty and  
fragility.

Keywords: artificial intelligence, neural network, visualization, deep  
learning, adversarial examples

Biography
Mauro Martino is the founder and director of the Visual AI lab at IBM  
Research, with offices in Cambridge, US, and Professor of Practice at  
Northeastern University in Boston.
His works have been featured in important scientific journals such  
Nature, Science, PNAS, among all, and textbooks about data  
visualization: “Data Visualization”, “The Truthful Art”, “The Best  
American Infographics” 2015 and 2016 editions.
Mauro is an award-winning designer whose projects received the Gold  
Medal at The 2017 Vizzies Visualization Challenge by National Science  
Foundation, Innovation by Design Award by Fast Company, Kantar  
Information is Beautiful Award. His projects have been shown at  
international festivals and exhibitions including Ars Electronica,  
RIXC Art Science Festival, Global Exchange at Lincoln Center, the  
Serpentine Gallery, London.

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Dr. Ellen PEARLMAN / US. Biometrics and Total Control

Though big data and fake news make the most headlines, the future of  
real global control will develop around a ‘quantified self’ including  
a deep dive into biometrics. Areas include the honing of facial  
recognition and eye scanning algorithms, genetic profiling, immersive  
experiences profiling (i.e. like Facebook data gathering, except  
around experiential preferences in AR/VR/MR), brain computer  
interfaces and the semantic/dream brain, and artificial intelligence  
algorithmic selectivity. The use and abuse of this information will be  
subject to nation state dictates ranging from socially conscious  
societies to rogue dictatorships. Using the arts practices developed  
in the ThoughtWorks Arts Residency and Art-A-Hack(TM), based in New  
York City, this presentation examines how arts practice can shed light  
on the implications of this coming storm.

Keywords: biometrics, arts practice, algorithms, AI, Machine learning,  
big data

Biography
Dr. Ellen Pearlman, a Fulbright World Learning Specialist in Art, New  
Media and Technology is on faculty at Parsons School of Design/New  
School University in New York City. She is Director of the  
ThoughtWorks Arts Residency, President of Art-A-Hack(TM) and Director  
and Curator of the Volumetric Society of New York. Her brain opera  
“Noor” was the world’s first fully immersive interactive brain opera  
in a 360 degree theater in Hong Kong, and she is working on a new  
brain opera, AIBO using emotionally intelligent artificial intelligence.

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PROGRAM

Opening Day. Thursday, September 13

15.00 - Registration and Coffee

16.00 – Opening Keynotes. HYBRID WARS AND GLOBAL SURVEILLANCE
Moderated by Rasa SMITE and Raitis SMITS

Bruce STERLING. Multicolor Revolutions
Jens HAUSER. Ungreening Greenness
Bernhard SEREXHE. Total Control: Towards a New Humanity

19.00 – GLOBAL CONTROL AND CENSORSHIP Exhibition and RIXC Festival  
Opening. Guided tour through the exhibition by curators: Bernhard  
SEREXHE and Lívia NOLASCO-RÓZSÁS.

Artists: Artist Collective “3/8” (LV), aaajiao (CN), Hamra ABBAS (KW /  
US), Selma ALAÇAM (DE), Halil ALTINDERE (TR), Daniel G. ANDÚJAR (ES),  
Zach BLAS (US / GB), Osman BOZKURT (TR), James BRIDLE (GB / GR), Alice  
CAVOUKDJIAN dite GALLI (FR / DE), Hasan ELAHI (BD / US), Finger  
Pointing Worker + Kota TAKEUCHI (JP), Kaspars GROŠEVS (LV), Michael  
GRUDZIECKI (PL / DE), KIT-KASTEL (DE), Frédéric KRAUKE (DE), Marc LEE  
(CH), Virginia MASTROGIANNAKI (GR), Erik MÁTRAI (HU), Ruben PATER  
(NL), Dan PERJOVSCHI (RO), Ma QIUSHA (CN), Pēters RIEKSTIŅŠ (LV),  
Oliver RESSLER (AT), Bernhard SEREXHE (DE), Christian SIEVERS (DE),  
Alex WENGER (CH / DE) & Max-Gerd RETZLAFF (DE).


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Day 1. Friday, September 14

9.00 - Registration and Coffee
10.00-11.30 – Panel A1. ALGORITHMIC SOCIETY AND SURVEILLANCE
Moderated by Gary Zhexi ZHANG
Pablo De Soto. From the Sputnik to the Stack: Radical Cartography in  
the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Maciej OŻÓG. Media Art as a Critical Analysis of Surveillance in Hybrid Space
Conor MCGARRIGLE. The Data Pharmakon
Pascal GLISSMANN. Observational Practices and Global Control: Object America
Monica TOLIA. Technologies of Lived Abstraction: Future Present
Varvara GULJAJEVA. The age of surveillance capitalism and dataveillance

11.45 - Coffee
11.45 - 13.00 – Panel B1. HYPERCONTROL AND PRIVACY
Moderated by Gary Zhexi ZHANG
Colette TRON. Toward An « Art Of Hypercontrol » ?
Mitch GOODWIN. Mechanised Ecologies – The Atmospherics Of Automation  
And Emergent Systems Of Control
Raivo KELOMEES, Stacey KOOSEL. Privacy Experiments In Public And  
Artistic Spaces
Vincenzo SANSONE. The Cultural And Artistic Goals Of Urban Screens And  
Media Facades: The Betrayed Promises
Elke REINHUBER. Shadow Reflex – And What Comes

13.00-14.00 – Lunch. Tour through the exhibition

14.00–15.30 – Panel C1. POST-HUMAN AND AI
Moderated by Gary Zhexi ZHANG
Violeta Vojvodic BALAZ. AI and Virtual Well-being
Kathryn BLAIR. Logical Conclusion: Analog Methods for Exploring Algocracy
Waiwai/Hiuwai CHAN, John BRUMLEY. Crafting Images for Electoral  
Campaign with Artificial Intelligence
Niels BONDE. Facial Recognition
Daniela MITTERBERGER, Tiziano DERME. The Savage Mind
Budhaditya CHATTOPADHYAY. Post-immersion: Towards a Discursive  
Situation in AR/VR

15.30 - Coffee
16.00 - Keynote Lectures II. TOTAL CONTROL AND FRAGILE NETWORKS
Moderated by and Rasa SMITE and Raitis SMITS

Jasmina TESANOVIC. The Internet of Women Things
Mauro MARTINO. Fragile AI: Visualizing perturbations of Artificial  
Neural Network
Ellen PEARLMAN. Biometrics and Total Control

18.30 – Dinner with Curators
Tickets – 25 EUR (available at the registration desk).
Venue: Restaurant TINTO, Elizabetes iela 61

19.00 – Performances
MACIEJ OŻÓG PL, JASMINE GUFFOND AU/DE, STELIOS MANOUSAKIS GR/NL, MARTA  
SMILGA LV, PURVA BRIGĀDE LV, CLAUSTHOME + MĀRTIŅŠ RATNIKS LV, TRIHARS  
LV/US
22.00 – DJ’I: MARIS G, GTS, RAIMONDS MEŽAKS, IVOLINNEN, MEDNIS, ARTURS F,
PA + RAGAVA (LIVE!), NIKOTĪNS, DEELIS, VJ: MLADA // Tickets – 6 EUR /  
3 EUR (student discount) / for registered conference participants  
admission free.
Venue: TU JAU ZINI KUR, Tallinas iela Creative Quartier.

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Day 2. Saturday, September 15

9.00 - Coffee

10.00-10.55  Panel A – AI AND ARTISTIC RESEARCH
Moderated by Gary Zhexi ZHANG
Kristin BERGAUST, Stephanie HOEBEKE, Haakon Haraldsen ROEN.
Stefano NICHELE, Benjamin BOCQUILLON, Heidi DAHLSVEEN, Henrik LIENG.
The convergence of art and artificial intelligence at OsloMet.

11.00 - 12.30 Panel B. AR/VR AND EMPATHY
Moderated by Raitis SMITS
Karolina MAJEWSKA. VR is an Empathy Switch
Ilva SKULTE, Normunds KOZLOVS. Technopoetical Elements Of Media  
Constructed Reality: Age Of Algorithmic Imagination
MOON Martina Zelenika. A Secret Way Of Communication: The Perfect  
Language That The Global Control System Can Not Control
The Miha Artnak. Fake Good News (artistic intervention)
Tivon RICE. The Voices of Nandimul X (VR film)
Dani PLOEGER. Frontline (360-video immersive installation)

12.30 - 12.45 - Coffee

12.45 – 14.15  Panel C. AUGMENTED ECOLOGIES
Moderated by Rasa SMITE
Jasmine GUFFOND. The Web Never Forgets  (web performance)
Bianca HLYWA. Untitled As For Now
Marc DaCosta. Making Sense of the Ether
Jade BOYD. Wave-lengths Hitherto Undetected
Oksana CHEPELYK. Virtual and Natural, Global Data and Local Ecosystem:  
Ukrainian Case Study
Jakub PALM. Artilect-Driven Nanotechnology Against Egalitarianism? (6  
min video)
Gary Zhexi ZHANG. The Ecological Turn: Aesthetics of Decentralisation

14.15 – Lunch
15.00  – the Bus Trip to Kemeri bog.

16.00 – Arriving in Kemeri. SWAMP RADIO – guided tour through the swamp.
Sound installations by Ivo TAURINS, Krista DINTERE, Chelsea POLK, and  
the students from Liepaja University's MPLab (Art Research Lab) and  
MIT Art, Culture and Technology program, in collaboration with Swamp  
Pavilion (swamp.lt), curated by Nomeda and Gediminas URBONAS in the  
Venice Architecture Biennale.

21.00 – Returning from Kemeri

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Sunday, September 16, 2018

The participants are invited to visit RIXC Headquarters and Gallery,  
where the exhibition “Kissing Data” by artists Karen LANCEL and Hermen  
MAAT takes place. The exhibition is the outcome of the first RIXC  
residency project, taking place in the framework of EMARE / EMAP  
platform, supported by Creative Europe. Live performance and the  
opening of the exhibition took place during the White Night,  
contemporary culture forum, on September 8, 2018:
http://rixc.org/en/home___/0/628/


We also encourage to visit numerous other art events and exhibitions  
taking place in Riga, this September.

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* Organizers:

The Open Fields conference is organized by RIXC in collaboration with  
Liepaja University’s Art Research Lab and Renewable Futures Network.
This year, the Open Fields conference is taking place in the framework  
of the Centenary of the Republic of Latvia Celebration Programme.

* Conference Proceedings

The selected papers will be published in the next volume of the  
Acoustic Space, double blind peer-reviewed journal & book series. The  
call for papers will be announced shortly after the conference.

http://acousticspacejournal.com

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 OF2018: GLOBAL CONTROL Conference Steering Committee ad Co-Chairs:

Prof. Rasa SMITE / RIXC / MIT ACT, USA / FHNW, Switzerland / Liepaja  
University, Latvia
Prof. Kristin BERGAUST / OsloMet-Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Dr. Ellen PEARLMAN / Parsons / New School / Art-A-Hack / ThoughtWorks  
/ New York, USA
Assoc. Prof. Raitis SMITS / RIXC / MIT ACT, US / Art Academy of  
Latvia, Riga, Latvia

* OPEN FIELDS Conference International Scientific Board:

Prof. Lev MANOVICH / Cultural Analytics Lab / The Graduate Center,  
City University of New York, US
Ph.D. Jussi PARIKKA / Winchester School of Art / University of  
Southampton / UK
Ph.D. Geoff COX / Plymouth University, UK
Prof. Kristin BERGAUST / Oslo and Akershus University, Norway
Assoc. Prof. Laura BELOFF / IT University, Copenhagen / Finnish Bioart  
Society, Helsinki, Finland
Prof. Lily DIAZ-KOMMONEN / Head of Research Department of Media, Aalto  
University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Helsinki, Finland
Assoc. Prof. Yvonne Volkart, the Institute of Aesthetic Practice,  
Academy of Art and Design Basel, FHNW, Switzerland
Prof. Ursula DAMM / Bauhaus University Weimar, Germany
Dr. Vytautas MICHELKEVICIUS / Nida Art Colony, Vilnius Academy of  
Arts, Lithuania
Ph.D. Margrét Elísabet ÓLAFSDÓTTIR / Art Education at the University  
of Akureyri, Iceland
Dr. Ilva SKULTE / Riga Stradins University, Latvia
Dr. Piibe PIIRMA / Tallinn University / Estonian Academy of Arts,  
Tallinn, Estonia
Ph. D. Raivo KELOMEES / Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
Regine DEBATTY / we-make-money-not-art.com / UK/BE
Aleksandra KOSTIC / Kibla / Risk Change project / Maribor, Slovenia

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RIXC festival curators: Rasa SMITE and Raits SMITS



The festival is organized by RIXC Center for New Media Culture.

RIXC Festival producers and contacts – Agnese Baranova (exhibition,  
agnese@rixc.org) and Daina Silina (conference, daina@rixc.org), PR and  
information – rixc@rixc.org

Contacts: rixc@rixc.org, +371 67228478, +371 26546776

Support: The State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, Riga City  
Council, Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, the Ministry  
of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, Latvia’s Centenary Programme,  
Risk Change project, EMARE / EMAP platofrm project, Goethe-Institut,  
ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, National Library of Latvia,  
Art Research Lab (MPLab) of Liepajas University, RISEBA University.

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