V2 Institute for the Unstable Media
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V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media, founded in 1981, is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.[1]
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.[2]
Over the years V2_ has collaborated with many artists and theorists, including for instance: Stelarc,[3] Orlan,[4] Symbiotica,[5] 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.[6]
V2_ has organized many residencies for emerging artists in the field of art & technology. Including amongst others the following thematic group exhibitions;
- Manifest[0] (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)
