This year's festival explores art, technology, and collective intelligence from the perspective of sensual perception and extended cognition.
The festival, positioned at the intersection of symbiotic art aesthetics and visionary scientific paradigms, aims to embrace symbiotic thinking, based on a close collaboration between nature and culture, combining individual responsibility with collective action towards a more symbiotic future.
Within the festival the international conference Open Fields will take place in the Hotel Neiburgs from the 23rd until the 25th of October. Latvian and international scholars and artists will discuss topics related to artistic research, the changing role of art in societies, and art and science collaboration. Tickets for the conference could be bought here.