[spectre] V2_Newsletter December 2010

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V2_Newsletter, December 2010
www.v2.nl

The Politics of the Impure
V2_Publishing

A new V2_ publication is out! The Politics of the Impure is an explicit 
attempt to forge a new creation myth: one of a wilderness that is not 
pure but technological. It investigates the urge for the pure but also 
advocates a much deeper need for the impure, not to reinstate a new 
organicism or back-to-nature movement but to trace progression to a 
point where all modernist values reverse, where technology becomes an 
agent for the impure and the imperfect. Technology, long an agent for 
homogeneity and purity, is now turning into one for heterogeneity and 
global contingency.

http://www.v2.nl/publishing/the-politics-of-the-impure

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Perform!
December 2, 2010 | 8--11 p.m.
V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam
Admission: Free

An evening with Chris Salter and TeZ. V2_ has invited Chris Salter to be 
a guest curator for four months starting in December. To kick off his 
main project, the Performative Ecologies expert meeting, taking place 
early next year, Salter will introduce his book Entangled and the 
research topics he will focus on in his curatorship. TeZ presents his 
immersive installation and performance ANHARMONIUM, which investigates 
spatial awareness via light reflections of water waves.

http://www.v2.nl/events/perform

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V2_AR: Reality, Check!
December 16, 2010 | 12--6 p.m.
Gouvernestraat 133, Rotterdam
Admission: free (reservation required)

V2_ will hold the third Augmented Reality Expert meeting as part of the 
V2_AR Ecosystem series. The primary goal will be to identify current 
developments in the field beyond the hype. Our keynote speaker will be 
Professor Martin Wiedmer, director of the Institute for Research in Art 
and Design in Basel. The main part of the day will be dedicated to 
artists' presentations in the field. Attendance is free, but a 
reservation is required.

http://www.v2.nl/events/reality-check

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Test_Lab: Tools for ARt
December 16, 2010 | 8--11 p.m.
V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam
Admission: free

After the expert meeting, we'll throw the doors open for a new Test_Lab 
edition. In Test_Lab: Tools for ARt, we'll dig through the AR toolbox 
and take a close look at all the technologies inside. With live 
demonstrations of AR technologies and artworks.

http://www.v2.nl/events/tools-for-art

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Palm Top Theater Workshops
November 27, 2010 -- January 8, 2011

In the Palm Top Theater Workshops at V2_, students are developing new 
content for i3DG, a new analog application for the iPhone and iPad that 
generates a 3D experience. We'll exhibit their work in the Palm Top 
Theater exhibition from January 22 to February 13, during and after the 
International Film Festival Rotterdam. More than 800,000 people have 
already watched a movie about the project on our YouTube channel -- 
check it out on our website.

http://www.v2.nl/events/palm-top-theater

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V2_Archive Sales

The V2_Archive is making a final sale of audio editions that were 
released between 1993 and 2003. This is a unique opportunity to listen 
to some very interesting works from our Archive, which we are making 
available for a limited period.

http://www.v2.nl/archive/sales/
http://store.v2.nl

V218 - "The Great New World In Environment And Acceleration" is 
compilation CD of several Manifestations at V2_ with works by Pedro 
Bericat, The Haters, Rui Kuivila, Alex Adriaansens/Joke Brouwer, Barney 
Haynes, Steina Vasulka/Michael Saup, among others (1993). Includes a 
booklet with an opening text by Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta.

V221 - "Snake, Rattle, Roll / Degenerates in Dreamland" - are two 
radioplays on CD by Gregory Whitehead, the first one won the Prix Futura 
in Berlin in 1993 (1995). With booklet and complete text of the plays.

V227 - "just about now" is CD based on a sound exhibition with Frans de 
Waard, Carsten Nikolai, Ryoji Ikeda, Peter Duimelinks, Francisco Lopéz, 
Roel Meelkop (1998).

V228 - "La Selva - sound environments from a neotropical rain forest" by 
Francisco Lopéz (1998). Comes with an extensive booklet on concept, 
theory and project specificities.

V229 - "WrK" are Toshiya Tsunoda, Hiroyuki Iida, Jio Shimizu and m/s 
(Minoru Sato), and this CD and booklet features their work as expressed 
in m/s' text on concerning sound as a physical vibration and audio 
signal transmission system of this (1999).

V230 - "just about now" (2) is a compilation CD-catalog based on the 
same name exhibition, curated by Shinichi Yanai and Roel Meelkop (2000). 
Included in the booklet features an introduction by Brandon LaBelle, and 
texts by the partipant artists, such as m/s, BMB.con, Peter Duimelinks, 
Frans de Waard, Edwin van der Heide, Jio Shimizu, Masahiro Miwa, Roel 
Meelkoop & Reignier Schimmel, Toshiya Tsunoda, and Justin Bennet.

V231 - "b [] + 2.7K" by Kozo Inada + *0, two Japanese minimal artists 
working with the microwave sound spectrum (2001).

V233 - "Favorites" by Roel Meelkoop, double release LP and CD with 
differing tracks (2003).


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