[spectre] V2_ book launch: aRt&D (4 June 2005)

[richard de boer]

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aRt&D: Research and Development in Art

book launch, debate & live cinema performance
date: Saturday 4 June 2005, 17:00-20:00 CET
location: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotterdam (NL)
more information / live webcast: http://www.v2.nl/
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We would like to ask your attention for the newest publication of 
V2_Publishing and NAi Publishers, aRt&D: Research and Development in Art.

aRt&D lays open a new investigative field of art that emerged in the 
last few decades as a result of media and technology influences. This 
book introduces the diversity of this new art domain to a broader 
audience. It is the first book that is entirely dedicated to artistic 
research and development.

In the past decades a new international trend has emerged within the 
arts, usually referred to as ‘electronic’, ‘digital’, or ‘interactive’ 
art. In the 1980s, artists mainly worked with radio and video, where in 
the last fifteen years digital media and network technologies have 
emerged as their instruments of choice. This new art domain is 
characterized by collaboration between artists, designers, engineers and 
scientists, who join forces in researching and experimenting with new 
opportunities for using technology for artistic ends.

aRt&D: Research and Development in Art not only provides a unique 
insight in the art practice through essays in which artists write about 
their personal experiences, it also develops a theoretical framework for 
these projects. The book contains contributions by the award-winning 
performance group Blast Theory, media artist Thecla Schiphorst, art 
critics Josephine Bosma and Rudolf Frieling, media theorist Andy 
Cameron, curators Mark Hansen and Inke Arns, philosopher Andrew 
Benjamin, and many others. Timothy Druckrey, expert in this field, 
evaluates the importance of artistic research and development so far. 
aRt&D positions itself as a pioneering work: it is the first book ever 
published that focuses in depth on interdisciplinary research and 
development from an artistic perspective.

Book launch celebration on Saturday 4 June 2005

On the occasion of the new book publication by V2_Publishing and NAi 
Publishers, aRt&D: Research and Development in Art, V2_ is hosting a 
public debate and live cinema performance on Saturday 4 June. You are 
welcome to join us on this book launch celebration.

The book launch presents an informal yet critical debate between Marga 
Bijvoet, Andy Cameron, Marnix de Nijs and Christa Sommerer, moderated by 
Sally Jane Norman, on how the art practice changed over the last few 
decades as a result of media and technology influences. The debate will 
be wrapped up with the live cinema performance Rotor by the Belgian 
multimedia artists Boris and Brecht Debackere. This program can also be 
followed via live streaming on the V2_ website.

date: Saturday 4 June 2005, 17:00-20:00 CET
location: V2_, Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotterdam (The Netherlands)
more information & live webcast: http://www.v2.nl/


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V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media
Eendrachtsstraat 10, 3012 XL Rotterdam, NL
PO Box 19049, 3001 BA Rotterdam, NL
Tel + 31 10 206 72 72 | Fax + 31 10 206 72 71
E-mail info AT v2.nl | URL http://www.v2.nl
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