V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media, founded in 1981, is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.Stephen Wilson, Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology, MIT Press, 2002, p. 862.
V2- presents, produces, archives, and publishes art created with new technologies, fostering debate on these issues. It provides a platform where artists, scientists, software and hardware developers, researchers, and theorists from various disciplines can share their findings and insights.
It was the main organizer of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival, which evolved from the Manifestations for the Unstable Media that V2_ had been organizing since 1987.Christiane Paul. A Companion to Digital Art. 2016. p. 62
Over the years V2_ has collaborated with many artists and theorists, including for instance: Stelarc,Stelarc at v2.nl. Accessed 04.12.2019. Orlan,Orlan at v2.nl. Accessed 04.12.2019. Symbiotica,EVENING OF.. SYMBIOTICA at v2.nl. Accessed 04.12.2019. Dick Raaymakers, Michel Waisvisz, Francisco López, Brian Massumi, Manuel de Landa, Paul Virilio, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Knowbotic Research, Ulrike Gabriel, Achille Mbembe, and Rem Koolhaas.REM KOOLHAAS at v2.nl. Accessed 04.12.2019.
Events and Residencies V2_ has organized many residencies for emerging artists in the field of art & technology. Including amongst others the following thematic group exhibitions;
Manifest (1987) Machine Aesthetics (1997) Palm Top Theater Exhibition (2011) Data in de 21st Century (2015) The Gig Is Up (2016) To Mind is to Care (2020) Reasonable Doubt (2022) Waterworks (2022) Becoming Geological (2022) presence (Un) presence (2023) .NewArt { collection;} at V2_ (2023) {class} - On Consequences in Algorithmic Classification (2023) [up]loaded bodies (2024)
Publications V2_ has published a number of books on interactive art and related subjects like sociology, media theory, biology, and technological innovation.
1990s Book for the Unstable Media, 1992 Interfacing Realities, 1997 TechnoMorphica, 1997 The Art of the Accident, 1998
2000s Machine Times, 2000 Book for the Electronic Arts, 2000 TransUrbanism, 2002 My First Recession, 2003 Making Art of Databases, 2003 Information Is Alive, 2003 Feelings Are Always Local, 2004 Understanding Media Theory, 2004 aRt&D, 2005 Interact or Die!, 2007 Dick Raaijmakers, Monografie, 2008 The Architecture of Continuity, 2008
2010s The Politics of the Impure, 2010 From Image to Interaction, 2010 The Sympathy of Things, 2011 Vital Beauty, 2012 Iedereen Een Kunstenaar, 2014 Een Stuk Van Mij Gaat Een Paar Keer, 2014 Giving and Taking, 2014 On the Threshold of Beauty, 2014 The War Of Appearances: Transparency, Opacity, Radiance, 2016 Wat Is Community Art?, 2016 Machines Will Make Better Choices Than Humans, 2016 Everyone Is An Artist, 2016 To Mind is to Care, 2016
2020s 40 Years of V2_, 2021 Sandra Trienekens: Participatieve kunst, 2021 Marije Baalman: Composing Interactions, 2022 Achille Mbembe: The Earthly Community, 2022 Van Tuinen & Brouwer (eds.): Technological Accidents, Accidental Technologies, 2023
References
External links V2_ website