[spectre] V2_Newsletter July/August 2009

[Joris Van Ballegooijen]

V2_ Newsletter: July/August 2009

http://www.v2.nl


V2_Events: Test_Lab: What Crisis?!

July 9, 8–11pm, V2_Ground floor, Eendrachtstraat 10, Rotterdam
Web: http://www.v2.nl/events/test_lab-what-crisis
Admission: free

Crisis or no, we’ll engage in artistic reflection on the current state
of the world with a new generation of artists in this edition of
Test_Lab. V2_’s international selection of five of the most promising
graduation projects from European art academies shows that crisis can
also lead to new opportunities and insights.

With: David Hahlbrock (DE), Academy of Media Arts Cologne; Cesar Harada
(FR); Dot Mancando (TH); Thomas Thwaites (UK), Royal College of
Art; Sander Veenhof (NL), Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Opening: Mieke
Gerritzen, respondent: Koert van Mensvoort. Followed by a live
performance from TokTek.

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V2_Lab: Summer Sessions

The V2_Lab has invited three artists for a brief summer residence during
July and August. In these Summer Sessions, artists Melissa Coleman,
Tarik Barri and David de Buyser will work on projects in the respective
areas of wearable technology, augmented reality and ecology. The Summer
Sessions were created to make technology developed at the V2_Lab
available to rising young talents and to stimulate their artistic
development with the help of the expertise present at the V2_Lab.

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V2_Archive: Media Culture Education Program

V2_Archive is currently working to compile a database of sources that
will provide a basis for media culture education at Dutch secondary
schools. Various museums and institutions have provided documents and
fragments of media artworks that will be included in teaching packs
focusing on themes such as identity, privacy and the body. Students in
the teacher training programs at AHK and Artez will use the packs in
lessons.

Follow the project’s progress on the blog at
http://projectmediaculture.web-log.nl/.

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V2_Events: Sharewear at 5daysoff

Di Mainstone and V2_Lab’s successful 2008 wearable project Sharewear
can be seen on July 16 at the Netherlands Media Art Institute in
Amsterdam during the 5daysoff festival. Former V2_ staffer Nicky
Assmann’s Circuit Dress will also be on view in the festival’s
extensive wearables program.

For the full program, see “wearables” at http://www.5daysoff.nl.

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V2_Events: September 2009

Much of the V2_ team will be away on vacation in August. Nonetheless, we
will be working steadily on a number of productions planned for
September and October 2009.
Coming up at V2_:


Sept. 1 (provisional date): The Ecology of Design: Everything is
Made of Something. A Life&Art discussion night devoted to Lars
Spuybroek’s book The Architecture of Continuity, published
last year by V2_.

Sept. 11, 12, 13: Festival Wereld van Witte de With. V2_ will of
course again be present at the three-day festival in and around
Rotterdam’s Witte de Withstraat. We will soon announce our program on
the website.

Oct. 16 – Nov. 22: V2_ presents Bernie Lubell: A Theory of
Entanglement. The first big Dutch exhibition of the fascinating
installations of American artist Bernie Lubell. Produced in
collaboration with FACT of Manchester.


And, of course, there’ll be a new Test_Lab every other month, and the
continuation of the Life&Art series.

Our next newsletter goes out at the end of August. See you next season!