Rihards Vitols

My work is about relationships with nature, environment and technology. I am driven by the desire to design speculative devices for different environments and enjoy the unknown results and interaction to environments. I see my role as a mediator between environment and my work and it is important for me to observe this interaction. By utilizing scientific methodology I visualize the results in objects, prints and video formats that are represented as artifacts of events.

In 2015 I graduated with a masters degree in New Media Art from Liepaja University (LV), part of this studies he spent in Bauhaus-University Wiemar (DE). Between 2015–2017 he was studying in the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) where he graduated with a masters degree. Currently I am a PhD student at DXARTS in University of Washington. I have participated in several exhibitions: 2018–1019 Latvian National Museum of Art “UN/Green”, The Exhibition Hall Arsenals of the Latvian National Museum of Art “The Future State”; Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre "100 in Latvian Art”; 2019 Austria MAK-Museum of Applied Arts Vienna; Belgium 2015 Maison du Design “Transformative Ecologies”; France 2018 MINATEC “Experimenta”; Italy 2014 co-author for Latvian showroom in “Venice Architecture Biennial”; Netherlands 2017 “Dutch Design Week”.