[spectre] Alex Adriaansens (1953-2018)

[Juan Matias Schüttenberg]

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Condolences to the community.
On Jan 2, 2019 12:24, "Eric Kluitenberg" <epk at xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Thank you so much Andreas for posting this - through your posting I frist
> found out about Alex’s passing away, having talked to him several times
> during his arduous last few years.
>
> Nothing more to say than that I wish to pay my respects to Alex, a
> beautiful person and a deeply respected professional in our little ‘field’,
> I will dearly miss our accidental encounters..
>
> A really sad start of the new year..
>
> Eric
>
> > On 31 Dec 2018, at 07:13, Andreas Broeckmann <ab at MIKRO.IN-BERLIN.DE>
> wrote:
> >
> > Alex Adriaansens, artist, curator and long-time director of the
> Rotterdam-based V2_Organisation, V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media, passed
> away yesterday, 30 December 2018, after several years of struggling with
> cancer. For over thirty-five years, Alex was active in the field of art and
> technology, as an initiator, an organiser, and as an advisor. His influence
> on many of us was enormous. He projected an amazing, passionate engagement
> with art and with the ways in which new technologies impact society.
> Perhaps even more importantly, he was one of the most gentle, friendly and
> optimistic people I can think of. This optimism, coupled with a clear
> vision and a strong sense of urgency for what needs to be done, fuelled his
> work and put the V2_ Organisation, and many of the projects that Alex was
> involved in, among the most influential initiatives in new media art since
> the 1980s. Now he leaves behind his wife, Angelica, and will be missed
> immensely by many others, as a friend and colleague, mentor, and as one of
> the guiding spirits of a whole international scene.
> >
> > Alex Adriaansens was born in 1953 (on Valentine's Day) and studied at
> the art academy in Den Bosch from 1972 to 1976. In 1981, he, together with
> Joke Brouwer and a whole group of artists and activists, set up the artist
> collective "V2" which became, in 1986, the V2_Organisation, Institute for
> the Unstable Media. The organisation grew and moved to Rotterdam in 1994,
> developing a regular program of exhibition, performance, festival, workshop
> and publication activities, which it continues after Alex, due to his
> declining health, passed on the directorship to Michel van Dartel last
> summer.
> >
> > In the course of more than three decades, many of the now hotly debated
> topics of digital culture – from interactivity and virtual reality, to
> social media and artificial intelligence – were pioneered in exhibitions,
> conferences and book publications by V2_, under the directorship of Alex
> Adriaansens and Joke Brouwer. Alex was not an egocentric leader, but a
> deeply social, collaborative animal who, rather than insisting on this or
> that, stimulated things to evolve and to happen. This turned all the
> projects he was involved in into permeable platforms in which he would
> collaborate to achieve the best possible results, piloting ideas and
> concepts which would often reach the mainstream media and art circles only
> years later. The 1987 "Manifesto for the Unstable Media" remains a crucial
> document of the critical avantgarde spirit that infused the early years,
> insisting on the necessity to engage the new electronic and digital
> technologies both aesthetically and politically.
> >
> > For Alex, whatever the situation was, there was no other way than to go
> on, to imagine the next step, to push ahead. In this moment of loss and
> sadness, there is nothing better to do in his spirit. Pause, mourn, and
> press on.
> >
> > Andreas Broeckmann
> >
> >
> > (There will probably be a funerary service on 7 January 2019 at 11:00
> hrs in Rotterdam.)
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