RASA SMITE (LV, b. 1969) and RAITIS SMITS (LV, b. 1966) are media artists,
organisers and net activists, based in Riga, Latvia. They are co-founder of the
Electronic arts and media centre E-LAB (1996) and The Center for New Media Culture RIXC (2000) in Riga, and organisers of the annual International new media culture festivals "Art+Communication" in Riga (since 1996).
Since 1997 their activities are mainly devoted to 'acoustic explorations':
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development of riga net radio OZONE and global net.radio network and mailinglist
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Xchange (since 1997). The most recent project initiated by Rasa Smite and Raitis Smits, together with Derek Holzer (Amsterdam), is Acoustic Space Research Lab - an ongoing collaboration between RIXC, Projekt ATOL (Ljubljana), L'Audible (Sydney) and Radioqualia (Amsterdam-London-Adelaide). As the pilot event of this project, in summer 2001 they organised International symposium on sound art, radio and satellite technologies, which took place in Irbene Radiotelescope in Latvia.
http://ozone.re-lab.net
http://xchange.re-lab.net
http://acoustic.space.re-lab.net
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