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Rasa Šmite and Raitis Šmits |
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 Rasa Šmite (Latvia) and Raitis Šmits (Latvia) are artists and new media activists, founders of the E-LAB (1996), RIXC (2000) and “Art+Communication” festival in Riga, Latvia (1996).
Since 1997 interested in “acoustic space” research: they are initiators and founding members of the net.radio OZONE (1996) and XCHANGE network (receiving PRIX Ars Electronica in 1998); editors of the “Acoustic Space” publication series (since 1998); organisers of the "Acoustic Space Lab" symposium in the Irbene Radiotelescope (2001). In collaboration with r a d i o q u a l i a, Clausthome and VIRAC they have developed live-installation and streaming project „Solar Radio Station” (Dortmund, 2006); together with Armin Medosch were curating international exhibition "Waves" (Riga, 2006); their recent project "Spectral Ecology" (2007), research and exhibition, is an ongoing collaboration with French artists from Spectral Investigations Collective.
Rasa Šmite and Raitis Šmits are the initiators, founders and participants of a number of networked media co-projects, networks and mailinglists (NICE, Locative Network, Trans-European Cultural Mapping (TCM), etc.). Since 1996 they have organised and participated in numerous conferences, exhibitions, symposiums and festivals; lecturing in Latvian Arts Academy, Riga Stradina and other universities; they have been experts and members of various boards on new media culture.
Rasa Šmite presently is director of the RIXC center for new media culture, researcher at the Art Research Lab (by Liepaja Pedagogical Academy) and is studying PhD. in social sciences at the Riga Stradina University.
Raitis Šmits is teaching in Visual Communication Dept. of the Latvian Arts Academy and working as programme leader of net.radio OZONE and artistic director of the RIXC.
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