Open Fields is the title of this year’s international conference and exhibition taking place in the framework of the annual RIXC Art Science festival in Riga, from September 29 until October 1, 2016, focusing on new aesthetics, contemporary conditions, digital practices and post-media situation. The exhibition will continue until November 2, representing 25 works by 35 artists, artists-researchers and data designers, taking place in the new Exhibition Hall of the National Library of Latvia. OPEN FIELDS Conference and Exhibition @ RIXC Art Science Festival Riga, September 29 – October 1, 2016 Contemporary and networked responses to geophysical, socio-political and cultural shifts in European landscapes ... Open Fields is the title of this year’s international conference and exhibition taking place in the framework of the annual RIXC Art Science festival in Riga, from September 29 until October 1, 2016, focusing on new aesthetics, contemporary conditions, digital practices and post-media situation. Since the first  festival issue took place twenty years ago, the festival has grown and developed itself into the annual gathering for international scholars and artists, working at the intersection of arts, humanities and science. The Open Fields festival edition aims to present the most innovative approaches in artistic research, and to discuss the changing role of arts, its transformative potential, and relation to the sciences. Registration is open for the Conference and you can read the programme here The Open Fields conference will be connected to the festival's featured exhibition taking place in the new Exhibition Hall of the National Library of Latvia. Partly curated, partly peer-reviewed, the exhibition will represent 25 works by 35 artists, artists-researchers and data designers, who are challenging the notion of art and contemporary aesthetics. They are moving across, bringing together and converging different knowledge, various media and diverse Fields, as well as using scientific, cultural and social data as new artistic medium, and interpreting them in a new and meaningful ways. Download more information on the event: RIXC-Festival-ENG-020916