Roberta Buiani attended in Riga two joint events: “Textures,” the sixth European meeting of the society for literature, science and the arts, as well as Art + Communication, the 12th International Festival of New Media Culture Riga, June 15 – 20. The events culminated in the major exhibition “Transbiotics. Temporal Stability Points“. Roberta’s wide, intense and inspired reportage is in Noema‘s n.blog, with reviews, comments, interviews, images and videos.
Photo by Didzis Grodzs
From Roberta’s first post:
“I am back from a week of intense work and discussion in Riga, where I was given the chance to “double-dip” in two joint events: “Textures,” the sixth European meeting of the society for literature, science and the arts, as well as Art + Communication, the 12th International Festival of New Media Culture. The latter featured a series of exhibitions and performances organized by RIXC (the Center for New Media Culture) and taking place at Kim? at Spikeri (beautiful neighborhood just off the railway station and the massive city market), as well as the RIXC space itself ( performances ). the series of events culminated in the major exhibition “Transbiotics. Temporal Stability Points,” which focused on the “emerging biotechnologies as means for artistic expression” and challenged the ever-changing notion of “materiality” in the arts. A series of other events enriched the already busy schedule of events: an installation at the of Latvian National library by Brigita Ozolins and the exhibition “Patterns of Relationships by Latvian artist Gundega Strautmane. Finally, Symbiotica and the department of biology at the university of Latvia offered a one day Tissue culture engineering workshop.”
