{"id":8803,"date":"2025-10-14T08:58:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kim.lv\/?p=8803"},"modified":"2025-10-14T08:58:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T05:58:56","slug":"rixc-art-and-science-festival-2025-plants-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kim.lv\/en\/rixc-art-and-science-festival-2025-plants-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"RIXC Art and Science Festival 2025: Plants Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Opening Day: October 16, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">11:00 Press Conference and Tour<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">18:00 Festival Exhibition Opening<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Exhibition and guided tours are free of charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For group tours, please send a request to rixc@rixc.org<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>Plants Intelligence: Exhibition<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Artists:<\/strong> U\u0123is Albi\u0146\u0161 (LV), Ursula Biemann (CH), Felipe Castelblanco (CO\/CH), Karine Bonneval (FR), Gints Gabr\u0101ns, Arnis R\u012btups (LV), Nicholas Kahn &amp; Richard Selesnick (FR\/US), Julia Mensch (AR\/CH), Marc Lee (CH), Ay\u00ebnan Quinchoa Juajibioy (CO), Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits (LV), Zheng Bo (CN).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Curators:<\/strong> Yvonne Volkart (CH), Raitis Smits (LV)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Dates:<\/strong> October 17 \u2013 November 23, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Venue:<\/strong> Kim? Contemporary Art Centre \/ Address: Sporta iela 2, Riga, Latvia<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Opening hours:<\/strong> Tuesday \u2013 Sunday: 12:00\u201318:00<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u201cPlants are our fellow travelers: humans completely live on them. Before the background of the <\/em><em>current wasting of the world, we need to rethink other ways &#8211; vegetal ways \u2013 of worlding: ways <\/em><em>that do not consume the world, but (re)produce it.<\/em><em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2014 Yvonne Volkart<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This year, Riga-based RIXC Center for New Media Culture celebrates its 25th anniversary. Since its founding, local collaboration and international networking have been at the heart of RIXC\u2019s development. In this spirit, the 2025 festival is created together with key partners from Latvia, the Baltic-Nordic region, Europe, and world-wide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Over the years, RIXC has gradually developed a discourse of techno-ecologies at the intersection of art, science, and technology, exploring topics such as renewable futures, ungreening greenness, ecodata, post-sensorium, crypto art and climate, and symbiotic realities. This year\u2019s leading theme, Plants Intelligence, is shaped in close collaboration with RIXC\u2019s distinguished partners \u2014 the Basel-based research team of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)-funded project Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant, which over the past four years has investigated how plant evolution and vegetal intelligence can inspire new methods, knowledge, and aesthetic approaches in both lifestyle change and the arts. Their research findings \u2014 spanning Indigenous knowledge and ethnobotany, critiques of extractive agriculture, experiments in organic breeding, and explorations of how plants sense, adapt, and relate to light and atmosphere \u2014 provide the theoretical basis for RIXC\u2019s anniversary festival edition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This year\u2019s public keynotes will be delivered by Argentinian philosopher and researcher Noelia Billi, Latvian eco-feminist and art theorist Jana Kukaine, and Swiss art and media theorist Yvonne Volkart \u2014 proponent of vegetal theory and principal investigator of the Plants_Intelligence research project. Together, their voices trace South\u2013North and East\u2013West tangents of vegetal mutual learning, opening spaces for shared thought.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The main festival program will take place October 16\u201318, 2025, in Riga, featuring the opening of the Plants Intelligence exhibition at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre and a symposium at the Art Academy of Latvia, with artist talks, research presentations, film screenings, and live performances. It will also present the Resonances of Nature project with a workshop, an interactive sound installation and performance, created through French, German, and Latvian collaborations. Further highlights include XR showcases by artists from the RIXC Field Residency, Taiwan-based Zone Sound, and Karlsruhe\u2019s NAIA, along with the Symbiotic Futures Baltic\u2013Nordic meeting.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The program is developed together with RIXC\u2019s local, institutional, and international partners, each contributing unique perspectives to this anniversary edition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">More info: <a href=\"http:\/\/festival2025.rixc.org\">http:\/\/festival2025.rixc.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Organizers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">RIXC Centre for New Media Culture<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>Festival Curators:<\/strong> Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>Producer:<\/strong> Agnese Baranova (<span class=\"s1\">agnese@rixc.org<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>PR and Information:<\/strong> L\u012bva Sili\u0146a (<span class=\"s1\">rixc@rixc.org<\/span>, +371 25358541)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>Symposium coordinator:<\/strong> Daina Sili\u0146a (<span class=\"s1\">daina@rixc.org<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>Producer assistant:<\/strong> Lelde G\u016btmane<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening Day: October 16, 2025 11:00 Press Conference and Tour 18:00 Festival Exhibition Opening &nbsp; Exhibition and guided tours are free of charge. 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