[spectre] V2_Newsletter, March 2009

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V2_ Newsletter, March 2009


V2_ Events: Rotterdam Museum Night

March 7, 8 p.m. – 2 a.m. Admission: Free
On Rotterdam’s Museum Night, V2_ will hold a preview of the installation
Liquid Space 6.0 by Rotterdam artist Daan Roosegaarde (known for
projects including the Sustainable Dance Floor at the club WATT). VJ
Barbara Nordhjem will transform V2_ into the ideal visitors’ lounge
using video projections based on the Liquid Space series.

http://www.rotterdamsemuseumnacht.nl

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V2_Events: Test Lab Artistic Interfaces

March 12, 8 p.m. Admission: Free
In this edition of Test_Lab, the outcome of artistic experiments in
(counter-) intuitive Artistic Interfaces will be elaborated upon by
interaction maker and researcher Kristina Andersen. While designers
aim to advance interfaces to more intuitive use, through notions such as
metaphor, artists often take a radically different approach, by
incorporating counter-intuitive responses. This tension will be
exemplified through demonstrations of the intuitive software design of
Watch That Sound (Jacques van de Veerdonk and V2_Lab), a preview
of the adaptive physical space of Liquid Space 6.0 (Studio
Roosegaarde), and the body interface and tangible interaction prototypes
of Dark Matter (Tom Heene and the Center for User Experience
Research, KU Leuven) and Cubebrowser (Ludwig Zeller). The
audience, in the tradition of Test_Lab, is once again invited to
actively engage with the demonstrated works and put their use to the test.

This event will be streamed live at http://live.v2.nl

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V2_Organisation: Dick Raaymakers

An additional staging could be added to the series of successful
performances of The Graphic Method Bicycle. V2_ is talking to
Yokohama’s Festival for Arts and Social Technology about a final
performance this summer in Japan. As there are currently no plans for a
Japanese translation of the monograph, Dick Raaymakers fans will have to
content themselves with the English edition. It can, of course, be
ordered from Japan in our online store.

http://store.v2.nl

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V2_Organisation: The Patchingzone*

After working as manager of the V2_Lab for eleven years, Anne Nigten is
proceeding with her own organization, The Patchingzone, beginning in
January 2009. The organization will be an official spin-off of V2_ but
will operate independently. Read the interview with Anne Nigten at
www.v2.nl or visit www.patchingzone.net