V2_ Newsletter January 2014 http://www.v2.nl
A new year, and we are looking forward to realize exciting new projects. And a good start is that we can finally announce there will be a Dutch Electronic Art Festival in this year! Save the Date: DEAF2014 21 May – 25 May 2014 Various locations, Rotterdam http://v2.nl/lab/blog/save-the-date-deaf-2014 We are happy to announce that DEAF 2014 will take place in Rotterdam from 21 – 25 May, with an exhibition that will run from 21 May till 9 June 2014. The theme of DEAF 2014 is The Progress Trap. DEAF wants to look beyond the 'innovation horizon' of tomorrow and explore the future through unusual and extreme scenarios of innovation and technological progress. Stay tuned for more. Now Out: Outer Space as Extreme Scenario, Blowup Reader 7 http://v2.nl/archive/articles/outer-space-as-extreme-scenario-blowup-reader-7 Outer Space as Extreme Scenario is the seventh in the series of Blowup Readers released by V2_. The collection contains a range of specially-commissioned and previously published pieces which investigate how the exploration of outer space has inspired and challenged artists, designers, thinkers, and the general public. It forms part of the ongoing research into Innovation in Extreme Scenarios carried out by V2_Lab. It’s a free download, so come and grab your copy at the V2_site. De Derde Dinsdag in January at V2_ 21 January 20:00 – 23:00 V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotterdam http://v2.nl/events/de-derde-dinsdag-januari-2014 Want to know what you should not miss in Rotterdam next month? The cultural talk show The Third Tuesday – in Dutch De Derde Dinsdag – provides a high speed update with short interviews, performances, film previews, theater and live music. The January edition is hosted by V2_, and the special guest is Guus Beumer, the director of the New Institute. Kees Tazelaar at Club Transmediale 27 January 15:00 HAU, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin http://v2.nl/lab/blog/kees-tazelaar-at-ctm On Monday 27 January Kees Tazelaar presents his book On the Threshold of Beauty at Club Transmediale in Berlin. His lecture will be on Electronic Music Pioneers in the Netherlands, and there will be sound diffusions of works by Jan Boerman, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Dick Raaijmakers, and many others. More info on the website of CTM: www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2014/. Elsewhere in Rotterdam: Vertical Cinema at Arminius 24 January 19:45 – 21:30 Arminius, Museumpark 3, Rotterdam http://www.verticalcinema.org http://www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/nl/iffr-2014/evenementen/vertical-cinema/ As part of the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Sonic Acts presents Vertical Cinema at Arminius on 24 January. Ten commissioned large-scale works by internationally renowned experimental filmmakers and audiovisual artists will be screened on a 8,5-metre vertical screen. The screening will take place only once at IFFR. One day earlier, on 23 January at Lantaren Venster, media-archeologist Erkki Huhtamo elaborates on verticality as a cultural phenomenon in his lecture ‘Up and Down the Shaft of Time: An Archeology of Verticality’. A special Vertical Cinema workshop organised by Sonic Acts in cooperation with Piet Zwart Institute and Filmwerkplaats Rotterdam will be hosted by V2_. Complete info via http://www.verticalcinema.org. ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
