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October 22 - 22, Riga, National Library of Latvia... RIXC's 2026 festival takes Climate Imagination as its organising theme, treating it as a field where artistic practice, scientific research, and environmental data intersect. The three-day programme brings together an international exhibition, the first Baltic Science and Technology Studies
Date: 10–13 September A four-day contemporary art festival now in its fourth edition, coordinating exhibitions and events across Accelerator, Bonniers Konsthall, Filmform, Fylkingen, Index, Konsthall C, Tensta Konsthall, and others, under a specially commissioned curatorial theme (this year, teenage gloom and late-night moods, curated by Joel Valabrega)
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Place: RIGA, RIXC Gallery Time: May 28 – July 18, 2026 Artificial intelligence is frequently described as a black box—a system so complex that even its creators struggle to explain how particular outputs emerge. As increasingly consequential decisions are delegated to machine learning systems, this opacity has become one of
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APARAAT APART — Studio Visit Krišjānis Beļavskis & Johanna Sandels Krišjānis Beļavskis works across sculpture, installation and text, circling around labour, value and authorship. He describes his approach as parasitical — less as critique, and more as a way of latching onto existing systems and seeing what they give back. In one