Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits are artists and researchers, who lecture extensively on topics such as art, science and emerging technology intersections, new media art and preservation of artworks using digital technologies. Their topics also include creative networking, techno-ecologies and art in post-media conditions.
They are giving keynote talks, lectures and artist presentations in conferences (as well as in festivals, universities, museums), masterly combining media theory, science philosophy and history of modern art with their own experience of creative networking and artistic practice, which has been particularly innovative and visionary already for two decades now.
Forthcoming Lectures
Lecture course Expanded Field Radio and Acoustic Immersions
at MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology
Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits
September – December, 2019, MIT Cambridge, US
Dr. Rasa Smite
Professor in New Media Art program in Liepaja University
Lecturer at RISEBA Architecture and Media Center H2O 6, Riga
Selected video
Creative Networks. Shifts from “Techno-Scientific” to “Techno-Ecological” Paradigm
Keynote lecture by Rasa Smite
Conference “Synthesize!”, Art and Design School (HGK), Basel
Recent Lectures and Keynotes
Fields – Manifesting the Transformative Potential of Arts in the Age of Post-Media
Re:Trace 7th International Conference for Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Denube University Krems, Austria, 2017
Creative Networks. From Internet Radio Experiments to Techno-Ecological Art Practices
“Art and Context” seminar, University of Agder, Faculty of Fine Arts. Kristiansand, 2016
Renewable Futures. Ecological perspective in contemporary media art
Bauhaus University, Weimar, 2016
Renewable Futures. Building Techno-Ecological Perspective in Art and Science
“Get A-life” seminar, Piksel festival, Bergen, 2015
Renewable Futures. Art and Science Join Forces in Building Techno-Ecological Perspective.
Tehniska Museet, Stockholm, 2015
Renewable Futures and Techno-ecological Art Practices
Keynote lecture, iWeek festival conference, Liepaja, 2015
Renewable Network and Techno-Ecological Art Practices
“Art, Ecology and New Media” Symposium Toulouse University, Toulouse, 2015
Fields [Exhibition]. Techno-Ecological Art Practices
Keynote lecture. “Cultural Haritage as a Resource” symposium, Serde Artist Residency Center, Aizpute, 2015
Transformative Potential of the Arts. On crossovers of science and technology, social interaction and environmental innovation
“Crossovers Culture and Technology” Conference, Mons, 2015
Renewable Futures. Exploring Transformative Potential of Arts in the Age of Post-Media
“Education Changing Institutions” Conference, Oslo and Akershus University College, Oslo, 2015
Art as Research
Doctoral conference, Art Academy of Latvia. 2013
Renewable Futures and Emerging Techno-Ecological Art Practices
Art+Communication festival conference, Riga. 2012
Dr. Raitis Smits
Professor at Visual Communication department, Art Academy of Latvia
Lecturer in New Media Art program, Liepaja University
Giving lectures and workshops focusing on art, science and emerging technology intersections, new media art and preservation of artworks using digital technologies.
Recent Lectures
Digital Art and Archiving in the 21st century
Lecture at ACT, MIT program in Art, Culture and Technology, MIT Cambridge, US, 2018
Fields – Manifesting the Transformative Potential of Arts in the Age of Post-Media
Re:Trace 7th International Conference for Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Denube University Krems, Austria, 2017
Renewable Futures. Ecological perspective in contemporary media art
Bauhaus University, Weimar, 2016
Emerging Techno-Ecological Art Practices - the Poetics of Green Energy
CCRMA, Stanford University, Stanford, 2015
Renewable Futures. Art and Science Join Forces in Building Techno-Ecological Perspective.
Tehniska Museet, Stockholm, 2015
Preservation and representation of new media art.
Aalto University, Helsinki, 2015
Emerging Techno-Ecological Art Practices. Shifts from new media to post media situation in art.
Pikslaverk festival for electronic arts, Reykjavik, 2015
Faculty of Media Hochschule Darmstadt, Dieburg, 2014
Bacteria Battery No. 5
FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel. 2013
Art as Research
Doctoral conference, Art Academy of Latvia. 2013
Renewable Futures and Emerging Techno-Ecological Art Practices
Art+Communication festival conference, Riga. 2012
An Artistic Approach in a Quest for Sustainable Future
UC Santa Barbara. 2011
Between Art and Science. RT-32 Acoustic Space Lab
UC Santa barbara. 2011
Recent Workshops
Bacteria Battery workshop (How to build DIY microbial fuel cell)
Bauhaus University, Weimar. 2016
Second LCCA Summer School, Rucka manor, Cesis. 2015
3D Biolab Art & Science, Maison Du Design, Mons. 2015
Alternative Art Fair Alt_Cph14, Copenhagen. 2014
Dutch Technology Week, Eindhoven. 2013
FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel. 2013
