The annual RIXC Art Science Festival, held from September 20–22, 2023, in Riga, Latvia, focused on artificial intelligence, NFT art, and crypto and blockchain technologies. It explored how the new generation of internet technologies (also known as Web 3.0*) is reshaping the landscape of art and culture in the context of one of today’s major global challenges – climate change.
On Thursday, September 21, 2023, the opening of SensUs. Augmented Nature-Cultures Augmented Reality (AR) Exhibition took place at the Latvian National Museum of Natural History, followed by a guided tour through Riga’s Esplanade Park.
The SensUs AR exhibition featured 8 virtual artworks created by artists from Riga (Latvia) and Karlsruhe – Jung Eun Lee, Isabella Münnich, Anna Manankina, Jurģis Peters, Sabīne Šnē, Rihards Vītols, Zane Zelmene.
The exhibition curators Daria Mille, Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits invited the artists to use augmented reality (AR) to make visible the invisible processes in urban nature, explore the symbiotic relationship between social and ecological systems, and trace the historical and contemporary trajectories of nature-culture sites in the city.
