[spectre] V2_ newsletter May 2013

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V2_Newsletter May 2013
www.v2.nl

Arjen Mulder on Marnix de Nijs’ Exploded Views
v2.nl/archive/articles/navigating-the-collective-unconscious
Arjen Mulder wrote a beautiful essay ‘Navigating the Collective
Unconscious’ about Marnix de Nijs’s work Exploded Views 2.0. He
writes: It is the most beautiful work of interactive media art I have
ever seen. But its most peculiar aspect is that neither its beauty nor
its meaning reside in the interactivity of the piece. You can read the
complete essay on the V2_website.

On the Threshold of Beauty: pre-sale has started
v2.nl/publishing/on-the-threshold-of-beauty
You can now pre-order Kees Tazelaar’s remarkable account of the
beginnings of electronic music in the Netherlands On the Threshold of
Beauty. In this lavishly illustrated book Tazelaar meticulously
reconstructs the birth and evolution of electronic music in the
Netherlands from 1925 till 1965. It is the story of the development of
electronic music at the Philips research laboratory, the collaboration
between Xenakis, Le Corbusier and Varèse on the now legendary Philips
Pavilion at the 1958 World Expo, and the first studios for electronic
music in the Netherlands with key figures like Dick Raaymakers and
Gottfried Michael Koenig. Pre-order now at the V2_webshop and get a
discount of 5 euro’s (22.50 instead of 27.50).

New research project: Habakkuk
v2.nl/lab/projects/habakkuk
Habakkuk is the new research project of the V2_lab. It researches and
re-enacts an improbable but true historical top secret project from
World War II. You can read more about it on the V2_ website.

Annual Report 2012
v2.nl/organization/annual-reports
The annual report for 2012 gives a full overview of the activities of
V2_ in 2012. The pdf, with text in Dutch, can be downloaded on the
website.

Kees Tazelaar podcast at RWM
v2.nl/lab/blog/kees-tazelaar-podcast-part-ii
The second part of Radio Web Macba's podcast with the Dutch composer
of electronic music Kees Tazelaar – author of On the Threshold of
Beauty – is online. It features electronic compositions chosen by Kees
Tazelaar, with both historical works (Ton de Leeuw, Ligeti,
Raaymakers, Ponse), and recent ones (Raviv Ganchrow, Wouter Snoei,
Sergio Luque). Listen or download on the website of RWM.

V2_ recommends: Speculative Art Histories Symposium
2– 4 May 2013
Witte de With
Witte de Withstraat 50
3012 BR Rotterdam
www.wdw.nl/event/speculative-art-histories-symposium
The symposium Speculative Art Histories takes place from 2 till 4 May
at Witte de With in Rotterdam. Keynote speakers are Reza Negarestani,
Bertrand Prévost, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Kerstin Thomas, and Lars
Spuybroek whose book The Sympathy of Things was published by V2_.