<div dir="ltr"><div>V2_ Newsletter December 2013<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.v2.nl">www.v2.nl</a></div><div><br></div><div>No holiday season yet at V2_. We will have two events in December, the topics are space travel and food. And we’ll serve you some meat of the future!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Blowup: Outer Space as Extreme Scenario</div><div>12 December 20:00 – 22:00</div><div>V2_ Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotterdam</div><div><a href="http://v2.nl/events/blowup-outer-space-as-extreme-scenario">v2.nl/events/blowup-outer-space-as-extreme-scenario</a></div>
<div>Join us for an evening exploring the extreme scenario of outer space: containing our visions, dreams, hopes, and nightmares for the future of space exploration, travel, and living. The speakers will take us on a journey through designing disasters to test astronauts to inner space as extreme scenario, from Afrofuturism to the darkest visions of where our ventures into the heavens can take us. The evening will also feature the unveiling of a new art commission Paper Moon by Ilona Gaynor and Craig Sinnamon, which will be on show until January 10th.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Test_lab: Art Meat Flesh</div><div>19 December 20:00 - 23:00</div><div>V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotterdam</div><div><a href="http://v2.nl/events/test_lab-art_meat_flesh">v2.nl/events/test_lab-art_meat_flesh</a></div>
<div>Will the turkey be served alive? Can meat be resurrected? Or made from nonliving material? SymbioticA director Oron Catts -- the first person to ever eat lab-grown meat -- will host this special Christmas edition of Test_Lab on the fact, fiction, hype and mythology of advanced food-technologies. As is custom to Test_Lab, the audience is invited to assess and try everything themselves. If you are still in the dark about what to serve your guests for Christmas and want to try something radical, you may want a taste of what the more eccentric figures in the lab-grown meat debate will serve in this revolutionary cooking battle. This event also inaugurates V2_’s own kitchen.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On the Threshold of Beauty</div><div>Kees Tazelaar’s book On the Threshold of Beauty in now available in the V2_ webshop. It makes a perfect Christmas gift!</div><div><a href="http://webshop.v2.nl/v2-webshop/t-series/on-the-threshold-of-beauty">webshop.v2.nl/v2-webshop/t-series/on-the-threshold-of-beauty</a></div>
<div>In On the Threshold of Beauty Kees Tazelaar meticulously reconstructs the birth and evolution of electronic music in the Netherlands from 1925 till 1965. It is th compelling 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. The book is lavishly illustrated. Order here: <a href="http://webshop.v2.nl/v2-webshop/t-series/on-the-threshold-of-beauty">webshop.v2.nl/v2-webshop/t-series/on-the-threshold-of-beauty</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ebooks at V2_</div><div><a href="http://v2.nl/publishing/e-books">v2.nl/publishing/e-books</a></div><div><a href="http://v2.nl/publishing/the-vibrancy-effect">v2.nl/publishing/the-vibrancy-effect</a></div>
<div>As you might know, we make ebooks at V2_ as well. Several are free downloads, such as the Blowup Readers (available as epub, mobi and pdf). There are two new ones coming up real soon. One is about Cecilia Johnson’s Iron Ring project, the other one is the result of a Book Sprint we did in Aalborg, Denmark, as part of an expert meeting and workshop on ‘extreme scenario’s’. And then there’s the real sleeper: The Vibrancy Effect, edited by Chris Salter, with contributions by bright minds like Andrew Pickering and Sally Jane Norman. This ebook costs 7,99 (download from the NAi-bookstore) but it comes with video’s and we think it’s worth the price. As a teaser we put the texts by Chris Salter and Tagny Duff online.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Watch that Sound in Surinam</div><div><a href="http://v2.nl/lab/blog/watch-that-sound-in-surinam">v2.nl/lab/blog/watch-that-sound-in-surinam</a></div><div>Watch that Sound is a digital tool for children and young people to learn and play with the composition and processing of sound and images. V2_lab has worked on the technical realization of this tool, an idea of music instructor Jacques van de Veerdonk. Recently Watch that Sound traveled to Surinam on invitation by Dutch embassy in Paramaribo. Children from the village Matta were the first ones to work with the new version of Watch that Sound.</div>
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