Re: [spectre] Alex Adriaansens (1953-2018)

[yukiko shikata]

*A*lex was open, warm, and experimental in mind and attitude,
*L*et me be  independent and collaborative.
*E*ncouraged and inspired me a lot.
*X*xx...my deepest condolences...

Yukiko Shikata



> On 31/12/2018 07:13, Andreas Broeckmann 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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Re: [spectre] Alex Adriaansens (1953-2018)

[Danja Vasiliev]

Alex let me join V2_ at the time when I was a student in Rotterdam and
ever since he was present in my life -- at V2_ events, at Ars,
Transmediale and most recently at a party at Weise7 where both Alex and
Angelica partied with us until 4am.

Many times Alex encouraged me and showed me the right direction as a
mentor and his experience in starting and running V2_ was always a huge
inspiration, for all of which i can only say -

THANK YOU ALEX


Danja


On 31/12/2018 07:13, Andreas Broeckmann 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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Re: [spectre] Alex Adriaansens (1953-2018)

[Ana Peraica]

Many thanks Andreas for such a nice e-mail. Alex was a great teacher and a 
friend, and helped many of us make our first steps into media art circles, by 
connecting directly, suggesting, sending published and yet unpublished 
readings, writing recommendation letters…. 

I am vey sorry I would not be there for his farewell in Rotterdam. 
Ana 

> On Jan 2, 2019 12:24, "Eric Kluitenberg"  > 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  > > 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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Re: [spectre] Alex Adriaansens (1953-2018)

[Juan Matias Schüttenberg]

Send please some link from his work that  he would consider to share. To
learn more about the colleague.

Condolences to the community.
On Jan 2, 2019 12:24, "Eric Kluitenberg"  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 
> 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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> > Info, archive and help:
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Re: [spectre] Alex Adriaansens (1953-2018)

[Eric Kluitenberg]

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  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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Re: [spectre] Alex Adriaansens (1953-2018)

[Neural magazine]

Alex Adriaansens was simply one of the best persons I’ve ever met among 
thousands. 
Trough the foundation and development of V2_ he put Rotterdam on the map as one 
of the leading cities in new media art since the early stages. He has enabled 
an important part of the whole European media art scene, directly or 
indirectly, including countless international initiatives. 

With a tireless, highly skilled and joyful attitude he has masterly lead V2_ as 
a perennially evolving system, adapting to the radical changes happened through 
more than three decades.  
He has been an enlightened, generous, amusing and strategic person, still 
showing incredible energies, focus and commitment even in the last hard years, 
always supported by the equally tirelessly brave Angelica.

I had the lucky chance to spend a bit of time with him in various events and 
places, and easily noticed how he was always interested to listen to other 
people, allowing himself to “feel the pulse” of the scene, in order to conceive 
his next steps. He was so committed to progress and always “go on” that he was 
paying less attention to the past and its preservation; once I helped him to 
retrieve a couple of second-hand copies of his historical “book for the 
unstable media” (1992), as he was running short of them.
Adriaansens was a true icon, with the very rare quality, in the art world, of 
proving no need to boost his ego, and, on the contrary, sharing the mission to 
support countless artists, ideas, and projects, using the institution as a tool.

He was articulating himself through V2_ as a whole working system, never 
stopping producing and discussing the cleverly defined “unstable media”. 
A master in involving talented people, primarily through and at V2_, he has 
been a model for many, to be inspired from and admire for his qualities. 
Media art and its community have lost one of the most important protagonists, a 
key, brilliant, and delightful person.

Alessandro Ludovico

[archived at http://neural.it/2018/12/alex-adriaansens-v2_-1953-2018/]

> On 31 Dec 2018, at 07:13, Andreas Broeckmann  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 

Re: [spectre] Alex Adriaansens (1953-2018)

[Shu Lea Cheang]

Alex!

For years, years, at transmediale conferences and other (im)possible 
occasions,  I turned my head, there seated Alex... and Angelica!


He fought bravely, passionately through the curves of treatment, 
standing tall.


at the year end, at the junction of a new year. the loss is tremendous 
and heartbroken.


condolence.

sl


On 31.12.18 07:13, Andreas Broeckmann 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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