[spectre] V2_Test_Lab: Artistic Interfaces, 12/03/2009

[V2_]

V2_Events: Test_Lab: Artistic Interfaces
V2_ Ground floor, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam. March 12, 2009, 8 p.m.
Admission: free.

This event will be streamed live at http://live.v2.nl

Test_Lab is a bi-monthly public event organized by V2_ Institute for
the Unstable Media that provides an informal setting for the
presentation, demonstration, testing, and discussion of artistic
research and development (aRt&D).

In this edition of Test_Lab, the outcome of artistic experiments in
(counter-) intuitive Artistic Interfaces will be elaborated upon by
interaction maker and researcher Kristina Andersen.  While designers
aim to advance interfaces to more intuitive use, through notions such as
metaphor, artists often take a radically different approach, by
incorporating counter-intuitive responses. This tension will be
exemplified through demonstrations of the intuitive software design of
Watch That Sound (Jacques van de Veerdonk and V2_Lab), a preview
of the adaptive physical space of Liquid Space 6.0 (Studio
Roosegaarde), and the body interface and tangible interaction prototypes
of Dark Matter (Tom Heene and the Center for User Experience
Research, KU Leuven) and Cubebrowser Ludwig Zeller). The
audience, in the tradition of Test_Lab, is once again invited to
actively engage with the demonstrated works and put their use to the test.

Full program description: www.v2.nl

Kristina Andersen
www.lockergirl.com

The Watch That Sound tool is a co-production between Jacques van de
Veerdonk and V2_Lab. www.watchthatsound.nl

CubeBrowser is a project by Ludwig Zeller in collaboration with Martin
Nawrath, Nando Nkrumah, Bernd Voss, Charlotte Krauss, Andreas Muxel,
Heinz Nink and Lasse Scherffig.
www.cubebrowser.de

Dark Matter is a project initiated by media artist Tom Heene and the
Center for User Experience Research - CUO (KU Leuven, Dries De Roeck &
Dirk Bollen). It is developed in collaboration with LAHAAG (Pieter
Heremans & Gert Aertsen), NODEBOX (Lievn Menschaert & Tom De Smedt) and
WICA (UGent, Kris Vanhecke & Tom Deryckere). Dark Matter is an Art&D
project funded by the IBBT (Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband
Technology). It has the support of XenICs and iMAL (Center for Digital
Cultures and Technology).
soc.kuleuven.be/com/mediac/artd

Liquid Space 6.0 was developed by Daan Roosegaarde and the Studio
Roosegaarde team (Peter de Man, Axis Stuifmeel and project staff).
www.studioroosegaarde.net

For more information, please contact Michel van Dartel,
E: michel at v2.nl
T: +31 (0)10 2067272.