[spectre] V2_ Newsletter July 2015

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V2_Newsletter July 2015


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July is the month for the Test_Lab Graduation Edition. So before you
go on holidays, stop by at V2_ on the 9th of July to see some
outstanding art and design work created by a new generation of artists
and designers graduating in emerging arts across Europe. In the middle
of Summer V2_ participates in the Open Set Summer School and hosts a
wearables workshop, an urbanism workshop, and a workshop by Superflux.
And if you read this on time: tonight (Friday 26 June) the two-day
exhibition An Encyclopedia of Media Objects opens at 19:00h.


An Encyclopedia of Media Objects

26–27 June 2015
Opening 26 June 19:00h
V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam

v2.nl/events/an-encyclopedia-of-media-objects

What is an encyclopedia? What are media? What is an object? Students
of the Piet Zwart Institute Media Design Masters programme invite you
to look at these issues. Twelve installations and one choreography
present a taxonomy of disappearing, human and non-human, introvert and
collected media objects. With work by Lucas Battich, Manetta Berends,
Julie Boschat Thorez, Cihad Caner, Joana Chicau, Cristina Cochior,
Solange Frankort, Arantxa Gonlag,  Anne Lamb, Benjamin Li, Yuzhen
Tang, Ruben van de Ven & Thomas Walskaar.


Design to Robotic Production

1–4 July 2015
V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam

v2.nl/events/hyperbody

The D2RP studio from the Hyperbody Robotic Building of TU Delft
explores and develops novel possibilities of implementation and
integration of robotics in architectural design at V2_. D2RP has
designed and tested a series of purposeful, performative and informed
design-to-production processes through workshops and hard work to
eventually realize a one-to-one building prototype. The work of D2RP
will be presented and exhibited at V2_ on from 1 till 4 July. Free
entrance! For a more detailed program: v2.nl/events/hyperbody


Test_Lab: Graduation Edition 2015

9 July 2015
20:00–23:00h
V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam

v2.nl/events/test_lab-the-graduation-edition-2015

Young people are the innovators and change agents of society,
revealing the future to us by creating it. Therefore, at the end of
every academic year, V2_ takes a close look at a selection of
outstanding art and design work created by young artists and designers
graduating in emerging arts across Europe. In this special edition of
V2_’s Test_Lab you will discover which topics are being addressed by
this new generation of artists and designers, and find out what their
motives, positions, methodologies, and media of choice are. This
year’s graduation edition of Test_Lab will showcase another remarkable
and thought-provoking selection of installations, demonstrations,
prototypes and experiments, including a domestic surgical robot,
office coffee pot voyeurism, a lamp based on bioluminescent
micro-organisms, ecological space engineering, an immaterial labor
union, photo camera design subversion, and the cleanest Nissan Micra
in the world. Featuring Frank Kolkman, Mathijs van Oosterhoudt,
Bastian Hoffmann, Jos Volkers, Teresa van Dongen, Dries Depoorter, and
Lídia Pereira.


Community Meetup Summer Edition
16 July 2015
17:00–20:00h
V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam

v2.nl/events/community-meetup-drinks-iii

On the 16th of July we are back with another Community Meetup & Drinks
on the groundfloor of V2_. Time to (re)connect with all old and new
friends of V2_ to meet, chat, drink and connect in an informal
setting. In this special summer edition of the Community Meetup we
show work from an artists from within our community: Fanny Hagmeier.
We will also present the artists selected for the Summer Sessions, our
yearly short-term residency taking place on the ground floor of V2_.
As usual our Cocktail Designer is serving free, specially designed
Unstable_Cocktails as long as supplies last!


Open Set Workshops at V2_

30 July 2015: Workshop Urban Architecture
v2.nl/events/open-set-2013-workshop-urban-architecture
31 July 2015: Workshop Wearables
v2.nl/events/open-set-workshop-wearables
3–5 August 2015: Superflux Workshop
v2.nl/events/open-set-superflux-workshop
V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam

The fourth edition of the Open Set Summer School will take place in
Rotterdam from 26 July till 8 August with a two-week long intensive
series of workshops, public interventions, film-screenings and
lectures. Open Set aims to promote and enhance the social value of
design by facilitating debates around the theme 'Designing Experience:
Moment – Stage – Memory' from a rich diversity of cross-disciplinary
perspectives and socially engaged cultural practices. Three of the
Open Set workshops take place at V2_. On July 30th artist and
architect Füsun Türetken together with design critic Max Bruinsma lead
a one-day long workshop on Urban Architecture. A day later there is a
Workshop Wearables led by Ricardo O’Nascimento. And from 3 till 5
August designer and co-founder of studio Superflux Anab Jain leads a
three-day long workshop investigating the theme 'Designing Experience:
Moment – Stage – Memory'. The Superflux workshop is already fully
booked, but there are still tickets for the one-day workshops. For
practical information and full programme at www.openset.nl



Giving and Taking nominated for AICA prize

http://v2.nl/publishing/giving-and-taking

We’re very happy that the V2_book Giving and Taking, Antidotes to a
Culture of Greed, edited by Sjoerd van Tuinen and Joke Brouwer, is
nominated for the AICA Certificate. The jury nominated three books
from the period 2012–2014 and writes about Giving and Taking: 'Mixing
essays and interviews Giving and Taking makes a lively collection with
a sharp diagnosis of the present and a view towards the future.' You
can order the book in our webshop to judge for yourself.


The activities at V2_ are made possible thanks to financial support
from the Creative Industries Fund NL, the City of Rotterdam, and DOEN
foundation.