V2_ Newsletter: July/August 2009 http://www.v2.nl
V2_Events: Test_Lab: What Crisis?! July 9, 8–11pm, V2_Ground floor, Eendrachtstraat 10, Rotterdam Web: http://www.v2.nl/events/test_lab-what-crisis Admission: free Crisis or no, we’ll engage in artistic reflection on the current state of the world with a new generation of artists in this edition of Test_Lab. V2_’s international selection of five of the most promising graduation projects from European art academies shows that crisis can also lead to new opportunities and insights. With: David Hahlbrock (DE), Academy of Media Arts Cologne; Cesar Harada (FR); Dot Mancando (TH); Thomas Thwaites (UK), Royal College of Art; Sander Veenhof (NL), Gerrit Rietveld Academy. Opening: Mieke Gerritzen, respondent: Koert van Mensvoort. Followed by a live performance from TokTek. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- V2_Lab: Summer Sessions The V2_Lab has invited three artists for a brief summer residence during July and August. In these Summer Sessions, artists Melissa Coleman, Tarik Barri and David de Buyser will work on projects in the respective areas of wearable technology, augmented reality and ecology. The Summer Sessions were created to make technology developed at the V2_Lab available to rising young talents and to stimulate their artistic development with the help of the expertise present at the V2_Lab. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- V2_Archive: Media Culture Education Program V2_Archive is currently working to compile a database of sources that will provide a basis for media culture education at Dutch secondary schools. Various museums and institutions have provided documents and fragments of media artworks that will be included in teaching packs focusing on themes such as identity, privacy and the body. Students in the teacher training programs at AHK and Artez will use the packs in lessons. Follow the project’s progress on the blog at http://projectmediaculture.web-log.nl/. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- V2_Events: Sharewear at 5daysoff Di Mainstone and V2_Lab’s successful 2008 wearable project Sharewear can be seen on July 16 at the Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam during the 5daysoff festival. Former V2_ staffer Nicky Assmann’s Circuit Dress will also be on view in the festival’s extensive wearables program. For the full program, see “wearables” at http://www.5daysoff.nl. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- V2_Events: September 2009 Much of the V2_ team will be away on vacation in August. Nonetheless, we will be working steadily on a number of productions planned for September and October 2009. Coming up at V2_: Sept. 1 (provisional date): The Ecology of Design: Everything is Made of Something. A Life&Art discussion night devoted to Lars Spuybroek’s book The Architecture of Continuity, published last year by V2_. Sept. 11, 12, 13: Festival Wereld van Witte de With. V2_ will of course again be present at the three-day festival in and around Rotterdam’s Witte de Withstraat. We will soon announce our program on the website. Oct. 16 – Nov. 22: V2_ presents Bernie Lubell: A Theory of Entanglement. The first big Dutch exhibition of the fascinating installations of American artist Bernie Lubell. Produced in collaboration with FACT of Manchester. And, of course, there’ll be a new Test_Lab every other month, and the continuation of the Life&Art series. Our next newsletter goes out at the end of August. See you next season! ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre