Biography
Rasa Smite is an artist and researcher working in the intersection of art, science and immersive technologies.
She is co-founder of RIXC Center for New Media Culture in Riga, and a series editor of Acoustic Space publications as well as co-founder of NAIA, Naturally Artificial Intelligence Art association in Karlsruhe. Rasa holds PhD in sociology of media and network culture.
Currently she is a Professor in Liepaja University, and Researcher at Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Switzerland; recently she also has been a Lecturer at the MIT Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) Program in Boston, US (2018-2021), and Guest Professor in Academy of Art and Design (HfG) in Karlsruhe, Germany (2019-2020).
In her artistic practice, Rasa works together with artist Raitis Smits and scientists creating visionary and interdisciplinary artworks exploring techno-ecological perspective, human-plant communication, nature-cultures and climate topics. Their artworks, including pioneering Internet radio project Xchange (1998) as well as more recent immersive VR experience Atmospheric Forest (2020), among other, have been awarded (Ars Electronica 1998, Falling Walls – Science Breakthrough 2021), and shown widely – in Venice Architecture Biennale 2018, ZKM Karlsruhe, HEK in Basel, Ars Electronica in Linz, Beijing Art and Technology Biennale, ONX Studio New York, OCADU Onsite Gallery in Toronto, and other representable venues and cultural institutions in Europe, North America and Asia.