Jury:

RASA SMITE / RAITIS SMITS

http://re-lab.net

Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits are media artists and curators, founders of the electronic arts and media centre "E-LAB" in Riga, initiators and coordinators of Riga net radio OZOne, founders and moderators of the international Internet audio/radio mailinglist "Xchange".

RASA SMITE (1969)
EDUCATION:
1988 - 1993 Latvian Academy of Arts
1993/1994 Visual and Performing Arts School in Kampen, the Netherlands

RAITIS SMITS (1966)
EDUCATION:
1986 - 1993 Latvian Academy of Arts
1993/1994 Visual and Performing Arts School in Kampen, the Netherlands

Since 1993 work together in media art and culture field.

Since 1996 work in new media field - developing of E-LAB infrastructure and promoting of the new media art and culture development in Latvia.

Since 1997 research on 'real time' audio and Internet radio development, work on development of the Interface for alternative Internet broadcasters Network.

MEDIA PROJECTS & ACTIVITIES (co-ordinators/curators)

1998 - Internet audio/radio mailing list "Xchange" <http://xchange.re-lab.net> / founders and moderators / since December 1997

- printed issue (season magazine-book) "Acoustic.Space" about Internet radio / editors and publishers / 1st issue - March 1998;

- E-LAB infrastructure developing project "Re-LAB network" - independent and non-commercial open Web- and Real Audio server for artists, musicians, cultural projects / co-ordinators

- new media culture exchange project "Art+Communication III" -media workshop series (monthly) with invited media artists and theorists, musicians and DJs / co-ordinators / starting March 1998

- every Tuesday night live broadcasting programs in Internet at net radio OZOne / since November 1997 / program co-ordinators

1998.oct.- nov. lecture course in Latvian Arts academy "New media"

1998. 25.-29. nov. The third new media festival " Art + communications III" in Riga - 'Xchange Unlimited' organisers and conference "Baltic Interface Net" organisers organizesana.

1997, Nov. 12 -15 The Second new media festival "Art+communication II" in Riga -

"Xchange on-air session" / organisers

1997, since July Net.audio Web-project "Xchange" <http://ozone.parks.lv/Xchange>

1997, since March Riga Internet radio "OZOne" (E-LAB project)

<http://ozone.re-lab.net> / initiators, founders and co-ordinators

1996, since January Establishing and developing of the Electronic Arts & Media Center

"E-LAB " in Riga (Latvia) / initiators, founders and co-ordinators

<http://re-lab.net>

1996, Nov. 22-23 The first new media conference/festival in Latvia "Art+Communication" / initiators and organisers

CONFERENCES, FESTIVALS, NEW MEDIA EVENTS (participation)

1998.g. 26.-29.nov.- organisers of new media festival 'Xchange unlimited', Riga.

1998.g. 7-11.oct.- "Comm_X_Change" - "live net.radio"project coordinators in Basel

1998.g. 7.-12.sept. - "Ars Electronica 98", Linz, project "Xchange 56h Live" coordinators

1998.g. 1.-10. aug.- seminar "Interactive Screen" Banff/Canada

1998.g. 10.-20.july - "Polar Circuit-2" Tornio/Finland - net.radio workshop organisers

1998.g. 1.-4.july - conference "Art Servers Unlimited" London - "Net.radio night" coordinators

1998.g. 4.-10.june - conference "Berlin Net.Radio Days'98" Berlin

1998.g. 1.-10.may - bienal "Artgenda" - "Net.radio workshop" organisers

1998.g. 23.-25.apr.- conference "Partnership for culture" / "Shaking hands - making conflicts" Stockholm

1997, Oct. 29 - Nov.1 - conference "From Practice to Policy"/ "Towards European Media

culture" (Rotterdam/Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

1997, Oct. 12 - 14 - new media conference "Freedom"/ "Interstanding II"
(Tallinn, Estonia)

1997, Sept. 25 - 28 - *workshop "Cyberfeminism Internationally"/ project - summer of content "Hybrid workspace" at Documenta X (Kassel, Germany) /

(*Rasa Smite only)

1997, July 28 - August 4 - workshop "Deep_Europe" / project - summer of content "Hybrid workspace" at Documenta X (Kassel, Germany)

1997, July 15 - 25 - media arts workshop "Polar circuit" (Tornio, Finland)

1997, May 22 - 25 - 'Nettime' conference "Beauty and the East" (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

1997, April 30 - May 4 - New media conference "Geo_Info" at media art biennial WRO'97

(Wroclaw, Poland)

1997, April 11 - 15 - V2_EAST Syndicate conference "LEAF", Videopositive festival (Liverpool, UK)

1997, February 10 - lecture "Latvian media art" at SCAN media institute

(Groningen, The Netherlands)

(*Rasa Smite only)

1997, January 29 - net.art conference "Anti With-e"/ Backspace lecture series

(London, UK)

1996, October - "Metaforum III" in Budapest (Hungary)

1996, September - "Documentation Meeting " /DEAF/, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)

1996, September - "Media and Ethics", Helsinki (Finland)

1996, November - "Interstanding", Tallinn (Estonia)

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND ART PROJECTS (artists):

1997, September 8 - 14 - net art group project "Remote-C" at Ars Electronica festival (Linz, Austria)

1997, May - *media exhibition "Balet" in Riga (Latvia)
(*Raitis Smits only)

1996, October - Internet art project "Refresh"

1996, October - II. International Biennial "Spatia Nova" in St.Petersburg (Russia)

1996, September - Video-installation at conference "Media and Ethics" in Helsinki (Finland)

1996, August - Computer Art festival "New Bodies", Maribor (Slovenia)

1996, May - France & Baltic Videoart Festival in Vilnius (Lithuania)

1996, May - July - Annual SCCA-Riga exhibition "Geo-Geo" in Pedvale Open Air Art Museum in Sabile (Latvia)

1996, May 30 - July 7 - music and environmental art project "Biosport" in Riga (Latvia)

1996, January - Environmental art project "Farm, a=o" in Riga (Latvia)

1995, April - Environmental art project in city "Mistery'95" in Riga (Latvia)

1995, May - Videoart exhibition "House" in Riga (Latvia)

1995, summer - Land art project "Pedvalisms - 95" in Pedvale Open Air Art Museum in Sabile (Latvia)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (artists):

1996, May - Videoinstallation "The Hedgehog Coat" in Art & Performances Club "Secret Experiment" in Riga (Latvia)

1995, September - Installation "50 / 50" in Art Gallery M6 in Riga (Latvia)

1995, September - Action "Free-flowing" in Art & Performances Club "Secret Experiment" in Riga (Latvia)

1995, April - Installation/slide-show "Projection in several dimensions" in Foreign Art Museum in Riga (Latvia)

1994, December - Installation/slide-show "Ritual" in Goethe institute in Riga (Latvia)

 

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