. announcement of the wedding between art and agriculture during a three month period of exhibit in Kalmar konstmuseum During the exhibit time both practical and theoretical work will be done to prepare for the actual wedding. we have divided the show into three parts, which all have one seminar part and one or more interventions in the room and outside. as follows: 1. The family tree organic inventory, creating guestlist. Seminar, kids workshop and exhibition. Invited people with deep knowledge of art respectively farming, will bring/send their suggestions of individuals, movements, groups and directions to kultivator beforehand. This material will be placed in a charcoal drawing of a family tree. The tree will be constructed roughly around the suggestions we begin with, but it will continously grow, organically and non-absolute, nor objective or scientific, during the exhibitions first month. Artists will be working in the museum with the drawing, taking in suggestions and additional material along the way. If possible, students from Kalmar Högskola would work on a software to digitalize the charcoaltree, also in the room, and on the net in this period. 2. Land reform and open source? Discussing ownership and accessibility, seminar, exhibition and new Land/Source reform. Seminar with: Julian Priest http://www.banffcentre.ca/faculty/faculty_member.aspx?facId=3009 (streaming) lecture over back to the land movement and the early internet and open source groups from west coast US. Appr. 1/2 hour Maria LindmarkSE lecture of swedish land reform, history of ownership of land and other approaches to dividing and sharing land. Appr. 1/2 hour Andrew Paterson SCO/FI Tapio Mäkelä FI/UK Jonas Löhnn, “National board of swedish Jak bank” interest free alternative banking moderator: Jonas Gren The seminar (invited speakers and audience) produces a statement about ownership and accessibility. The statement from the seminar is posted on the glasswall of the exhibition room, and on a series of pallets with topsoil. The pallets are mobile gardens that will be planted and worked on during this phase of the exhibition. In the "new land/source reform" the pallets will be given away after the exhibition is over, and placed where their statements about ownership and accessability makes sense. (Institutions? public places? – still to be worked out) The filmed lectures from the seminar are projected in the room/on the net during this phase. . 3. Goes Ornamental Producing imagery. Work and exhibition, finishing party. Visual artists works in the room with ornamental studies in preparation for the wedding. The ornamental studies are corresponding to the information collected in the earlier stages of the exhibition, that remains in the room, but are autonomuos as far as function is concerned. The Ornamental studies examines the visual possibilities of the relation, going back to peasant decorative painting and forward to high tech ecosystem installations of today. Working artists are Erik Sjodin , http://www.eriksjodin.net/, "Supermeal" Gijs Freeling http://www.gijsfrieling.nl/ NL Floor Wesseling http://www.floorwesseling.nl/play/city-derbies/ NL Benn Sena da Silva, DK Marlene Lindmark http://www.marlenelindmark.com/picturs.html SE Terike Haapoja http://www.terikehaapoja.net/2009/ FIN Michiel Bussien "sheep lawn mower" Sisters of Sättra This will alter the officelike room of the two initial phases to a studio space, with several working artists and students, material sketches and ready objects mixed. The Ornamental phase and the whole exhibition closes with a masquerade party with the costumetheme: Ornamental studies for a wedding between art and agriculture.

. organic inventory, creating guestlist. Invited people with deep knowledge of art respectively farming, will bring/send their suggestions of individuals, movements, groups and directions to kultivator beforehand. This material will be placed in a charcoal drawing of a family tree. The tree will be constructed roughly around the suggestions we begin with, but it will continously grow, organically and non-absolute, nor objective or scientific, during the exhibitions first month. Artists will be working in the museum with the drawing, taking in suggestions and additional material along the way. If possible, students from Kalmar Högskola would work on a software to digitalize the charcoaltree, also in the room, and on the net in this period.

. “traditional knowledge have grown as a tradition that is being shared, it has grown cumulatively and collectively, it is what makes it deeply distinctive, international copyright is based on the idea of one individual who has certain rights, which builds on the idea of one person who has made an innovation and this is not the way knowledge works” /Dr Vandana Shiva Discussing ownership and accessibility, seminar, exhibition and new Land/Source reform. Seminar with: Julian Priest http://www.banffcentre.ca/faculty/faculty_member.aspx?facId=3009 (streaming) lecture over back to the land movement and the early internet and open source groups from west coast US. Appr. 1/2 hour Maria LindmarkSE lecture of swedish land reform, history of ownership of land and other approaches to dividing and sharing land. Appr. 1/2 hour Andrew Paterson SCO/FI Tapio Mäkelä FI/UK Jonas Löhnn, “National board of swedish Jak bank” interest free alternative banking moderator: Jonas Gren The seminar (invited speakers and audience) produces a statement about ownership and accessibility. The statement from the seminar is posted on the glasswall of the exhibition room, and on a series of pallets with topsoil. The pallets are mobile gardens that will be planted and worked on during this phase of the exhibition. In the “new land/source reform” the pallets will be given away after the exhibition is over, and placed where their statements about ownership and accessability makes sense. (Institutions? public places? – still to be worked out) The filmed lectures from the seminar are projected in the room/on the net during this phase.

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. Producing imagery. Work and exhibition, finishing party. Visual artists works in the room with ornamental studies in preparation for the wedding. The ornamental studies are corresponding to the information collected in the earlier stages of the exhibition, that remains in the room, but are autonomuos as far as function is concerned. The Ornamental studies examines the visual possibilities of the relation, going back to peasant decorative painting and forward to high tech ecosystem installations of today. Working artists are Erik Sjodin , http://www.eriksjodin.net/, “Supermeal” Gijs Freeling http://www.gijsfrieling.nl/ NL Floor Wesseling http://www.floorwesseling.nl/play/city-derbies/ NL Benn Sena da Silva, DK Marlene Lindmark http://www.marlenelindmark.com/picturs.html SE Terike Haapoja http://www.terikehaapoja.net/2009/ FIN Michiel Bussien “sheep lawn mower” Sisters of Sättra This will alter the officelike room of the two initial phases to a studio space, with several working artists and students, material sketches and ready objects mixed.

. Gijs Frieling, http://www.gijsfrieling.nl/index_en.html

. Erik Sjödin, http://www.eriksjodin.net/

. Floor Wesseling, http://floorwesseling.nl/

. Marlene Lindmark, http://www.marlenelindmark.com

. Benn Sena

. Terike Haapoja, http://www.terikehaapoja.net/index.htm

. Sisters of Sättra

. Michiel Bussien, more pictures comming

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. videoclip with song "Uphill" made for the wedding by audio composers Shuffle

ABOUT ORGANIZED NETWORKS Training Programme for Cultural Network Management Riga, December 3 – 5, 2009 By addressing issues of cultural sustainability with focus on networking, the Training Programme for cultural network management entitled “Organized Networks” will take place in Riga, December 3 – 5, 2009, gathering together representatives from more then 20 cultural organisations, new media centers and networks from Baltic, Nordic and other European regions, as well as Caucasus countries. The Training Programme is co-organised by the RIXC, the Center for new media culture (Latvia) and partners from Finland (Pixelache festival, MARIN Association), Norway (Piksel, iolab, Atelier Nord), Iceland (Lorna), Sweden (Kultivator, C-Studio/Interactive Institute, New Media Meeting), Denmark (FieldWork, WindFestiva/Energy Academy), Lithuania (KCCC), Latvia (Association for Cultural NGOs), the Netherlands (Baltan Laboratories), Armenia (ACCEA/NPAK) and Georgia (Center for Contemporary Art – Tbilisi, GeoAir). . . . Conceptual background The current global crisis motivates us again to think of “how to remake the world” as many of methods used previously have turned out finite and unsustainable. New approach in terms of both – design and production today is urged nearly in all fields, including culture. The idea of “networks” is not new, but it contains potential that hasn’t been exploited to a great extent yet. New media networks have already more then ten years of experience. Translocal as well as local networking has played an important role in supporting operation of small-scale cultural organisations. However, networks as such are not only virtual structures, there are people and real technical infrastructures behind them, and our network culture also are facing the same sustainability issues. How to work out new strategies and methodologies for improving and developing more sustainable translocal cooperation practice (“organized networks”). And how to develop new network-based models for facilitating individual / local cultural organisations (“network nodes”)? An idea of “organized networks” (as proposed by Ned Rossiter, Geert Lovink) considers, if network can be seen as a new form of institution, and argues that it is relevant not only to work out new methodologies for networking practice – i.e. tools and protocols (agreed ways to support activity in the network), but also to discuss ‘collaborative value system’ (dealing with issues such as funding, internal power plays, and the demand of “accountability” and “transparency”, etc.). The Training Programme will investigate, what strategies “organized networks” can offer for sustainable development of cultural sector, and translocal cooperation in particular. The Training Programme will specifically focus on evaluating the cultural network practice of Baltic-Nordic-EU region. This will include NICE and Pixelache festival networks, Baltic-Nordic artists residency programmes, Nordic funding structure, future development of new media art centers, their local and translocal cooperation strategies, etc. The ways how networks can create and sustain their own infrastructure will also be discussed. Geographically, the Programme also aims to enhance European cultural area by drawing out new cultural cooperation axis connecting Nordic, Baltic and Caucasus regions on the Northern and Eastern border of Europe. With regard to the conceptual content, the Training Programme will explore the potential of emerging interdisciplinary cooperation among the fields of arts, science and sustainable (information and energy) technologies, in order to set up a common ground for developing Art and Renewable Energy Network and to discuss possible future co-projects. It also will be disucssed how artists, new media activists, renewable technology researchers, social software developers, open source activists, designers of autonomous and alternative infrastructures who already work together, deal with sustainability issues, discussing how may cultural organizations and their networks benefit from these artistic innovations for building their future sustainability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Locations: Public lectures: Spīķeri, kim? building, 3rd floor, Maskavas iela 12/1, Riga (near Central Market). Training programme: RIXC Media Space, 11. Novembra krastmala 35, entrance from Minsterejas iela (in Old Town). . . . Organisers: RIXC, the Center for New Media Culture in cooperation with Association for Contemporary Culture NGOs (Latvia) and international partners. . . . Contact: rixc@rixc.lv tel. +371-26546776 (Rasa Smite) tel. +371-67228478 (RIXC office) . . . Support: European Culture Foundation, Nordic Culture Point, State Culture Capital Foundation, Hotel Elizabete.