[spectre] V2_Newsletter September 2011

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*V2_Newsletter September 2011*

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*Blowup: Every Artist, a Journalist*

August 25, 20:00 -- 23:00

V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10

Admission: 5 EUR, Students: Free

http://www.v2.nl/events/blowup-every-artist-a-journalist


Featuring: Lino Hellings 
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/lino-hellings> (NL), Alfredo Cramerotti 
<http://www.v2.nl/events/Alfredo%20Cramerotti> (UK), Gair Dunlop 
<http://www.v2.nl/events/Gair%20Dunlop> (UK)

This edition of Blowup will examine the tension between documentary 
methods and artistic expression, and address where notions of truth and 
beauty fit in this mix. In an era of a massive data onslaught that 
individuals struggle to cope with, the documentary image continues to 
offer us a human face on information, sometimes elegantly summarising a 
complex situation. But what balance needs to be struck between honest 
portrayals of reality and artistic license?

The next edition of Blowup, entitled The Era of Objects will take place 
at September 29 with special guests Julian Bleecker (US), Alexandra 
Deschamps-Sonsino (UK), Anab Jain (IN/UK).

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*Test_Lab: Summer Sessions 2011*

September 1, 20:00 -- 23:00

V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10

Admission: Free

http://www.v2.nl/events/test_lab-summer-sessions-2011


Demonstrations: Kasia Molga 
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/kasia-molga> (PL) | Julie Legault 
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/julie-legault> (CA) | Jelle Valk 
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/jelle-valk> andOlav Huizer 
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/olav-huizer> of artist collective WERC 
(NL) | Xiaowen Zhu 
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/xiaowen-zhu-6731665395fb> (CH) | 
E-Textile Workspace represented by Ricardo O'Nascimento 
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/ricardo-nascimento> (BR), Meg Grant 
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/meg-grant> (NZ/NL),Leonie Urff 
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/leonie-urff>(NL), and Anja Hertenberger 
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/anja-hertenberger> (DE/NL) Critical 
respondent: Hicham Khalidi 
<http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/hicham-khalidi> (artistic director, 
TAG) Music: AFTA-1 <http://www.v2.nl/archive/people/afta-1>

Every year, V2_ invites a small group of up-and-coming artists to spend 
their summer at V2_Lab for an intense short-term residency. Check out 
the wonderful projects made this summer in V2_'s Lab! The evening will 
be closed with summer cocktails and live music by acclaimed Los Angeles 
based producer AFTA-1.

After the show in Rotterdam the Lab team will travel to Istanbul for a 
second Test_Lab presentation at ISEA2011 at September 17.

http://www.v2.nl/events/summer-sessions-isea-2011


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*Protei: Preview and Exhibition*

Exhibition: Festival Wereld van Witte de With, September 9,10,11

V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10

http://www.v2.nl/events/protei-exhibition


This summer, V2_ hosted an international team of designers and engineers 
on the development of Protei_006, the first full-scale version of the 
autonomous sailing robot that will clean oil spills in the oceans. The 
exhibition as part of Festival Wereld van Witte de With will feature all 
early prototypes and a documentary about the working process. Initiator 
Cesar Harada will give a tour through the exhibition for participants of 
the 24 uur cultuur program at Sunday September 11 at 15:00.

*Preview: Wereldhavendagen September 2*

Marconistraat 85, Rotterdam

RSVP: reservations at v2.nl

Press and visitors of "Wereldhavendagen" are welcome to come to the 
preview and press conference of Protei in the harbor of Rotterdam 
September 2, 17:00. Location: Projectruimte Hofman & Zonen 
(Marconistraat 85, Rotterdam).

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*The Sympathy of Things*

New publication by Lars Spuybroek

29,50 EUR Now Available!

http://www.v2.nl/publishing/the-sympathy-of-things


"We have to find our way back to beauty," writes Lars Spuybroek in the 
introduction to The Sympathy of Things. In this book Spuybroek argues 
that we must "undo" the twentieth century -- the age in which the 
sublime turned from an art category into a technical reality. This leads 
him to the aesthetical insight of the nineteenth-century English art 
critic John Ruskin, from which he distils pointers for our time.

Steven Shaviro on The Sympathy of Things: "The Sympathy of Things is a 
stirring call to action; an amazing reconstruction of the ideas of the 
Victorian sage John Ruskin; and, above all, a visionary look at the 
inner life of things. Lars Spuybroek makes the case that aesthetics is 
first philosophy, and proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital 
age."?

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