V2

V2 Lab Building on Eendrachtsstraat in Rotterdam

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

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.

(text taken from wikipedia)

The booklet "Participatieve Kunst" by Sandra Trienekens was sold out and is now for free available as a PDF.

Residencies

V2_ has organized many residencies for emerging artists in the field of art & technology. Currently V2_ hosts different programs such as RiT (Realities in Transition), Summer/ Winter Sessions and Studio Quantum. Through Open Calls it is possible to apply.

The booklet "Everyone is an artist" by Ruben Jacobs was sold out and is now for free available as a PDF.

Publications

V2_ publishes books about art, new media and media theory. V2_Publishing’s books connect practice and theory and link disciplines such as sociology, architecture, media theory, biology and technological innovation.

The E-pub "Stories of Interbeing Weaving Stories, Voices and Technologies" was part of the interdisciplinary residency program “The Digital Flying Carpet” that took place in 2022 and 2023. (a collaboration between Women Connected and V2_ ) This publications is for free available through the online store of V2_.

A wide selection of the publications, e-pubs and books are for sale ánd many free to download. You can find all publications here and all the free PDF's here.

Publications:

Book for the Unstable Media, 1992
Interfacing Realities, 1997
TechnoMorphica, 1997
The Art of the Accident, 1998

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

The Politics of the Impure, 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

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