CV

C.V.

Participation in international art- and cultural events (selection)

2024

•  Sonic Saturday – Ars Electronica Festival / Linz, Austria

• Re-Connect Art 2024: 4th international performance and multimedia festival / Prague, Czechia

• ISEA 2024 “Everywhen” – 29th International Symposium on Electronic Art / Brisbane, Australia

2023

• RIXC Art Science Festival 2023: CRYPTO, ART AND CLIMATE / Riga, Latvia

• ISEA 2023 “Symbiosis” – 28th International Symposium on Electronic Art / Paris, France

2022

•  Expanded Animation 2022: Synaesthetic Syntax – Ars Electronica Festival / Linz, Austria

•  ISEA 2022 “Possibles” – 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art / Barcelona, Spain

2021

•  Open Fields 2021: PostSENSORIUM The 6th Open Fields conference
•  ENN6 Conference: ‘Gaslight’ Narratives In Virtual Landscapes: Narratological Implications Of Technologically Mediated And Immersive Media

2020

• Everything Flows Arts Festival (virtual residency and festival )
• ISEA2020 “Why sentience?”- The 26th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Montreal, Canada
• EVA-LONDON 2020 – The 30th international Electronic Visualisation & the Arts conference, London, U.K.
2017
• Open Fields / RIXC art and science festival, Latvian Museum of Art and Latvian Art Academy, Riga
2016
• Open Fields / RIXC art and science festival, Latvian National Library, Riga
2012-2013:
• The 5th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Riga
• Travelling exhibition “United States of Europe” / The Lab
(Lodz, Helsinki, Vilnius, Guimaraes, Nicosia, Dresden, Sofia, Paris, Cork, Brussels)
2011:
• “Staro Riga 2011” Light Festival, Riga
• ISEA 2011. Istanbul, Turkey
2010:
• Festival ‘New Media Meeting: 2010’, Visualisation Center, Norrkoping, Sweden
• Festival ‘CAMP Pixelache’, Kerava Art Museum, Finland
2009:
• Exhibition & seminar & ‘Interactive Futures’09: Stereo’, Vancouver, Canada
• International city arts festival, Cesis, Latvia
2008:
• ‘Spectropia’, Festival ‘Art+Communication ‘, ‘Riga Artspace’ gallery
2007:
• ‘Waves’, Festival ‘Art+Communication‘, RIXC, Riga
• ‘StereoVision’, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Florida, U.S.A.
2006:
• ‘Spectography‘- Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
• Festival ‘Bandits Mages’, Bourges, France
• Festival TECHNE’06, Istanbul, Turkey
2005:
• Festival “Étonnante Lettonie” – Point Ephémère/Paris, Labomedia/Orleans;
La Filature/Mulhouse; Contemporary Art Museum/Strasbourg
• ‘Break the ICE’ show – City Theatre, Reykjavik, Iceland
• Interactive Multimedia Culture Expo (IMCEXPO), Chelsea Art Museum, New York
• ‘Bodies in Play’ – Banff New Media Institute Summit, Banff, Canada
• Festival ‘Transmediale 05’, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2004:
• ISEA2004, International Symposium for Electronic Arts, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki (Finland)
• Pixxelpoint 2004, International digital Art Festival, Nova Gorica, Slovenia
2002:
• Vison – Image and Perception, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
• Ars Electronica Festival 2002: Unplugged / CAMPUS (KHM student selection), Linz, Austria
• 6th International Browserday, De Balie, Amsterdam
• Infotopia/The Infogolem, V2_Organisation, Rotterdam
2001:
• 5th International Browserday – competition finals – Volksbuehne, Berlin
• Interstanding 5, media art festival Tallinn, Estonia
2000:
• EXPO 2000 World Exhibition Hanover – Ars Baltica, German pavilion
• ArtGenda ‘2000, Helsinki
1999:
• Baltic Sea Media Space / TEMP, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki
1998:
• Ars Electronica Festival / Infowar (prize-winning project ‘Xchange’)
• ArtGenda’98, European young artists’ show, Stockholm
1997:
• Ars Electronica Festival, openX, Internet project ‘RemoteC’ (‘Ars Electronica Center’ commission)

Solo-shows:

“Parallel Landscapes” Daugavpils University art gallery (2012) Daugavpils, Latvia
“Studies of Spatial Subversions” Riga Art Space Gallery (2011) Riga, Latvia
“The Anisotropic View of Presence” RIXC Galerija (2009) Riga, Latvia
“Paysages Parallèles” Galerie Haïdouc (2006) Bourges, France
+≈x  SAT- Society for Art & Technology (2003) Montreal, Canada
E=+<X  Galerie KHM Projektraum (2002) Cologne, Germany
JG.KKH.SE:99  Galleri Mejan (1999) Stockholm, Sweden
J.G./S.E.  Slepenais Eksperiments (1995) Riga, Latvia

Prizes, Nominations, Grants

• • Prix Ars Electronica 1998: award of distinction .net category (project “Xchange” together with Rasa Šmite & Raitis Šmits)
  • Honorary Mention: 6th International Browserday Competition (2002) project “Cell[ular] Flux”
  • Nominations 2002 and 2003 ‘Digital Sparks’ (“Germany’s best student projects”)

ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE GRANTS

• European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists – EFFEA (2023/2024 residency at Re-connect Art (CZ)
in partnership with IN OUT (PL), Arts Mutants (FR))
• Xarkis, Cyprus / Everything Flows (2020, virtual/online residency)
• City Theatre, Reykjavik, Iceland (2005)
NordScen artist-in-residence project grant
• V2_Lab, Rotterdam (2004)
ExStream / PlayList European Residencies – P.E.R. (grant, 2004)
• SAT – Society for Art & Technology, Montreal (2003)
NIFCA (Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art) artist-in-residence grant
• Spritzenhaus & LEM (Labor f. Elektronische Medien), Hamburg (1999)
Grant by Culture Ministry (Kulturbehörde) of Hamburg

OTHER GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS

• Latvian Cultural Capital Foundation
– scholarships & grants (2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2013, 2017, 2020)
• Nordic Culture Point / KKnord (Mobility Programme) mobility project grants (2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013)
• Sleipnir, Nordic Council of Ministers (travel grants 2004, 2005)
• Latvian Ministry of Culture, “New media artist scholarship” for 12 months 2004/2005
• APEXchanges – European Cultural Foundation (travel grant, 1999)
• C. Erik Levins Foundation (Stockholm) (grants in 1996, 1997, 1999)
• Jauna Akademija Foundation (Riga) (grant, 1998)
• Soros Contemporary Art Centre – Riga (travel grant, 1998)
• W. Smiths Foundation (Stockholm) (grant, 1997)
• The Soros Foundation – Latvia (travel-grant, 1997)
• The Rotary Club – Stockholm (scholarship, 1995)
• The Swedish Institute (grant, 1995)
• Valdmana Fonds (Stockholm) (grant, 1995)
• Latvian Academic Organization in Sweden (grant, 1995)

Selected Catalogues, Publications

• “BIOS project “Future Cinema. The Cinematic Imaginary After Film” 2002/2003
  – ed. Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel | ZKM, Karlsruhe & The MIT Press, Cambridge
• „Stereovision” – exhibition catalogue, 2007 – Contemporary Art Museum, USF
  University of South Florida
• “IMC EXPO 2005” exhibition catalogue, Studio IMC, New York
• Project “Xchange Network”. CyberArts 98, Ars Electronica Center, Linz
• Project “Remote C”. CyberArts 97, Ars Electronica Center, Linz
• ISEA2004 exhibition catalogue

Education

Academy of Media Arts (KHM), Cologne, Germany (MA diploma)
Academy of Arts (HfbK), Hamburg, Germany (guest studies)
The Royal University of Fine Arts (KKH), Stockholm, Sweden (guest studies)
Latvian Academy of Art, Riga (BA diploma):