V2_ Newsletter, March 2009
V2_ Events: Rotterdam Museum Night March 7, 8 p.m. – 2 a.m. Admission: Free On Rotterdam’s Museum Night, V2_ will hold a preview of the installation Liquid Space 6.0 by Rotterdam artist Daan Roosegaarde (known for projects including the Sustainable Dance Floor at the club WATT). VJ Barbara Nordhjem will transform V2_ into the ideal visitors’ lounge using video projections based on the Liquid Space series. http://www.rotterdamsemuseumnacht.nl ______________________________________________________________________ V2_Events: Test Lab Artistic Interfaces March 12, 8 p.m. Admission: Free In this edition of Test_Lab, the outcome of artistic experiments in (counter-) intuitive Artistic Interfaces will be elaborated upon by interaction maker and researcher Kristina Andersen. While designers aim to advance interfaces to more intuitive use, through notions such as metaphor, artists often take a radically different approach, by incorporating counter-intuitive responses. This tension will be exemplified through demonstrations of the intuitive software design of Watch That Sound (Jacques van de Veerdonk and V2_Lab), a preview of the adaptive physical space of Liquid Space 6.0 (Studio Roosegaarde), and the body interface and tangible interaction prototypes of Dark Matter (Tom Heene and the Center for User Experience Research, KU Leuven) and Cubebrowser (Ludwig Zeller). The audience, in the tradition of Test_Lab, is once again invited to actively engage with the demonstrated works and put their use to the test. This event will be streamed live at http://live.v2.nl _______________________________________________________________________ V2_Organisation: Dick Raaymakers An additional staging could be added to the series of successful performances of The Graphic Method Bicycle. V2_ is talking to Yokohama’s Festival for Arts and Social Technology about a final performance this summer in Japan. As there are currently no plans for a Japanese translation of the monograph, Dick Raaymakers fans will have to content themselves with the English edition. It can, of course, be ordered from Japan in our online store. http://store.v2.nl ________________________________________________________________________ V2_Organisation: The Patchingzone* After working as manager of the V2_Lab for eleven years, Anne Nigten is proceeding with her own organization, The Patchingzone, beginning in January 2009. The organization will be an official spin-off of V2_ but will operate independently. Read the interview with Anne Nigten at www.v2.nl or visit www.patchingzone.net ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
