RIXC Art Science Festival 2026: CLIMATE IMAGINATION

This year’s RIXC Art Science Festival, taking place from October 22–23, 2026, at the National Library of Latvia in Riga, explores CLIMATE IMAGINATION as a cultural and scientific field where art, technology, and environmental research intersect. As climate change reshapes ecosystems, infrastructures, and everyday life, the festival aims to bring together artists, researchers, and practitioners to explore imagination as a critical capacity for sensing and rethinking our relationships with the Earth.

The festival’s exhibitions, symposium, and workshops aim to create multisensory encounters with environmental change, exploring how artistic practices – from immersive media and XR to data visualisation and environmental sensing – can expand how climate processes are perceived and imagined.

PROGRAMME

Thursday, October 22 

Artistic Experimentation / Climate Imagination

10:00 Press Conference & Exhibition Preview

13:00 Symposium Session 1: Baltic ArtSTS: Artistic Experimentation Workshop 

16:00 Keynote: Philippe Sormani

18:00 Official Festival & Exhibition Opening: Climate Imagination, National Library of Latvia

Friday, October 23

Sustainable Productions / Extending Climate Realities

12:00 Symposium Session 2: EMAP: Sustainable Art Productions + exhibition artist presentations

14:30 Symposium Session 3: SensUs: Extending Climate Realities – from fieldwork and ecological research to immersive/XR artistic experimentation

18:00 Prompted Evolution exhibition opening, RIXC Gallery

REGISTER NOW for the festival:

- Full Festival Pass

- Day Tickets

-Session Tickets

More:

https://rixc.org/

https://festival2026.rixc.org/