The residency of Po-Ting Lee is part of a collaboration between V2_Lab and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.
suggest surprising, or sinister spatial relationships within LA's social and physical landscapes; concerts with custom made instruments; a bluetooth performance, and more... This Test_Lab is organized in cooperation with The New Institute.
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'What does it mean to imagine that everything exists equally in the world, and that human beings have no more status than atoms or alpacas? Object-oriented ontology (“OOO”) puts things (rather than human beings, science or social relations) at the heart of studying what it means to exist. It is a new philosophical movement that has had a decisive influence on the work of both artists and exhibition-makers. A discussion with philosopher Graham Harman, curator Michelle Kasprzak and lecturers Kevin Love and Francis Halsall will address implications for the artwork as object. Kasprzak will be addressing specifically how this philosophy is used and interpreted by artists and curators, drawing on her recent experiences of curating Speculative Realities and composing the Speculative Realities reader for the Blowup series at V2_.'
Programme:
6pm Screening:
Elizabeth Price:
User Group Disco
6.30pm Discussion:
With Graham
Harman, Michelle Kasprzak, Kevin Love and Francis Halsall
More info: www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/event/ooo
]]>Both of them Chris Salter and the duo of Dmitry Gelfand and Evelina Domnitch now received a honorary mention for the Prix Ars Electronica 2013. Chris Salter received his for the Xenakis re-enactment N_Polytope: Behaviors in Light and Sound After Iannis Xenakis; Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfland got one for their work Memory Vapor (portablepalace.com/memoryvapor.html).
The Vibrancy Effect explores the question of what matter does, to us and the world, and is available from the webshop of the NAi: www.naibooksellers.nl.
]]>The reconstruction has to be finished before the 21st of June. The week after the first exhibition will be on show: the – by now traditional – exam exhibition of students of the Piet Zwart Institute. It opens on the 28th of June. Come and have a look!
]]>Balance-Unbalance is an event which sees art as a catalyst to explore intersections between nature, science, technology and society in an era of unprecedented ecological threats and transdisciplinary possibilities. The conference theme, Future Nature, Future Culture[s] is aimed to provoke discourse around what the elusive future might hold and how transdisciplinary thought and action could be used as tools for positive change. Anne Nigten and Michel van Dartel's presentation is scheduled for June 1st.
ISEA2013 is an international symposium of electronic art and ideas that this year takes place in Sydney, Australia. ISEA2013 showcases media artworks from around the world and provides a platform for the lively exchange of future-focused ideas. The conference has several subthemes, one of which is Ecologies and Technologies . This theme approaches the interrelationship of nature, culture and technology which is at the centre-stage of contemporary life. ISEA2013, as its website states, explores technology as both the problem and the solution, celebrating the role of the artist as innovator and provocateur. Anne Nigten and Michel van Dartel's presentation is scheduled for June 11th, as part of the panel Eco-activism.
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The E-textile Summer Camp’s 2013 theme will be Soft + Slow Electronics. Many of us as engineers, designers and artists are working with soft materials such as textiles and paper, exploring the potential of soft, malleable and flexible electronics. Our practices often involve techniques that require intensive hand work, often resulting in long production processes. Some of the techniques we employ are almost archaic, but because we see value in making our own materials in our own ways, old-fashioned and slow techniques often come into play. We propose to see these practices as "slow", rather than "time consuming".
In today’s society "slowness" has gained positive connotation and acknowledgement through movements like Slow Food, Slow Cities and Slow Design Principles. These movements not only embrace the amounts of physical time consumed in a process, but also the social and cultural impacts resulting from slow processes.
During the Summer Camp, we propose a celebration of slowness within soft electronics practices. We will look at techniques that take time to master and accomplish with skill, such as weaving, paper making, origami folding, pleating, embroidery, crochet, block printing and so on. Together we will explore what values slowness adds to our practices, and what values our practices contribute to society.
Around 20-30 eTextiles practitioners from around the world can participate in this event. The application deadline is May 15th 2013. Visit etextile-summercamp.org for the application form and detailed info.
Please note that the eTextile Summer Camp is intended for eTextile practitioners. If you are interested in eTextiles and seeking an introduction to the field, the content of the event is not suitable for you.
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V2_ continues however as an international hub for the arts and design, in which the boundaries of contemporary arts in a technological culture are explored. A development which has been the focus of V2_ since 30 years, and is still at the heart of society.
Due the financial cuts V2_ has less to spend. But also in 2013 we will organise challenging public events, like the successful Test_Labs and Blowups. V2_ will present at least one large exhibition in Rotterdam, as well as several smaller events. The lab will carry on as a place for artist-in-residencies (like the summer sessions), and as a place for research and art productions, often in collaboration with international partners. V2_ continues to publish books, both in printed and electronic format. And V2_ is totally committed to the DEAF biennial, of which the next edition is planned for 2014.
For those who know V2_ well, the lab has moved to the ground floor. The third floor of the building will be occupied by the CBK (Centre for the Visual Arts) of Rotterdam. The financial restructuring of V2_ meant we had to say good-bye to quite a few people who have worked hard over the past years and made V2_ into what it is now. Simon de Bakker and Artm Baguinski now pursue their own careers, V2_ hopes to have the opportunity to collaborate with them in the near future. Joris van Ballegooijen, who used to do the PR, is now secretaris/grant officer e-Cultuur with the Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie. Mercedes Langhorst now works for the IFFR. V2_ continues a collaboration with the e-textile project of Piem Wiertz, but she will be at the arts academy of Utrecht and the design academy Eindhoven. Sofia Bustorff who did an amazing job archiving video and other material over the past four years, is now in Brussels.
Now that the reorganisation is done, we are looking forward to the upcoming projects. Check our website regularly to keep updated on our projects, or, become friends on Facebook if you prefer that. There are also many video’s of past events on Vimeo. Be surprised! Just like we continue to be pleasantly surprised by the project proposals we receive from artist and designers.
V2_ is proud to congratulate all three artists on their achievements, specially since they have all worked with V2_ as artist-in-residence during the years.
Stanza came to V2_ in 1986 for the Artitexture event. Stanza (then as Bourbonese Qualk with Simon Crab) installed the "designed wallpaper" exhibition and showed the Artitexture video (which was recently made part of the Dutch heritage by NIMk).
His current winning work Capacities: Life In The Emergent City captures the changes over time in the environment
(city) and represents the changing life and complexity of space as an
emergent artwork. Capacities goes beyond simple single user interaction
to monitor and survey in real time the whole city and entirely represent
the complexities of the real time city as a shifting morphing and
complex system. The jury considered his work was found
to have effectively represented, both aesthetically and, above all,
technically, city life in real time, monitoring boroughs of London to
show the complexity of an urban location in real time as a system in
perpetual mutation.
http://www.stanza.co.uk/capacities/index.html
Antonine Schmitt was an artist-in-resident at V2_Lab, where he developed World Wide Ensemble, shown during DEAF07. About his winning project City Lights Orchestra - a visual symphony for city
windows, Schmitt states at night, each connected
computer illuminates the window of its office, of the home
and blinks, pulsates, beats, fades in and out, each
according to its own score, but all in rhythm with all the
others. The smart phones in the street do the same. The Share
Festival is inviting all of Turin to take part in the
collaborative crowd-sourcing event on November 10, 2012.
http://www.citylightsorchestra.net/about_en.html
Mark Shepard was a V2_ summer resident in 2010, where he started developing Sentient City Survival Kit, a work that has put him on the AR (augmented reality) radar, and that was later shown at DEAF 2012. The jury of the Share Prize 2012 argued that "Sentient City" by Mark Shepard received an Honorary Mention as it
poignantly questions such fashionable concepts as a "Smart City" based
on the internet of things and ubiquitous computing. Offering us an
artistic survival kit against an over-coded environment, he prepares us
for life in a dystopian sentient city.
http://survival.sentientcity.net/
Since 2007, the aim of the Share Prize is to discover, promote and support contemporary art in our global and digital age. The competition is open to all artists that explore issues concerning our society today, in which globalisation and the pervasive reach of technology and new media have become the object of artistic interest, against a backdrop of continuing, non-stop change. The Share Prize was launched in 2007 as a cornerstone of the Share Festival, held in Torino (Italy).
Piemonte Share Festival is an annual event held in Torino-Italy, dedicated to contemporary art and culture in all its global dimensions and interconnections with the Internet and new media. Share Festival was founded in 2005 by Simona Lodi and Chiara Garibaldi. The festival is organized by the cultural association The Sharing. Every year an overarching theme, encapsulated in the title of the event, brings the festival alive with exhibitions, video screenings, in-depth conferences, symposiums, workshops and performances.
]]>The residency of Po-Ting Lee is part of a collaboration between V2_Lab and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.
Open any DOTS issue, and you will be amazed by a great motion-cover giving you an impression of the issue’s theme and vibe. Dots #1′s Cover was especially made by Nick Lievendag and Lianne Kuijpers to give Dots a kickstart into the world of art and creativity (watch it here: http://vimeo.com/35255352). The second issue was covered by audiovisual composer and software developer Tarik Barri, and the upcoming #3… well you have to just wait and see..
Now DOTS gives you the opportunity to see your work featured as motion-cover in issue #4, themed ‘I spy with my little eye’!
In #4, DOTS takes an alternative and positive look at the world to surpass the current vibe of crisis and shows beautiful projects from unexpected angles. The financial crisis is an opportunity, the glass is half full, and every con has a pro. How do you see your future?
Of course we need a great gate-way to this positive world of issue #4. This could be your motion cover! Are you a young creative maker under the age of 30, and you like to be featured in DOTS? You can participate in the cover contest by sending us your design for a DOTS cover, inspired by our theme and the British duo Addictive TV (They will be mainfeatured in DOTS #4. Check the report from earlier this week to find out more about them)
Submit your video before the 15th of November (Your video should be 30 seconds max., 1024 x 768 pixels minimum, shot in HD and have sound). From the contenders we pick our top 5, who will be published on our website. Online visitors will vote to decide who’s the winner!
The winner will of course see it’s video proudly featured as motion-cover of DOTS #4, but will also get a great spot in the magazine in our regular item ’10 questions’. On top of that the winner gets a Palm Top Theater with which you can play 3D video’s from your iPhone.
Original article in DOTS website: www.dotsmagazine.com
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A few of the sites will remain, hosting of these websites is kindly sponsored by Byte.nl.
And yes, the title of this post is wrong, because you will actually be served with a 301 status code ;)
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