V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media, founded in 1981, is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in

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, 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

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, which evolved from the Manifestations for the Unstable Media that V2_ had been organizing since 1987. Over the years V2_ has collaborated with many artists and theorists, including for instance:

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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 at V2_'' (2023) *'' - On Consequences in Algorithmic Classification'' (2023) *'' poaded 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
{{Authority control New media art Art in Rotterdam