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Protei Presentation at MARIN
On Friday January 20th Piem Wirtz and Alvaro Takiuti presented Protei at the Natural Propulsion Seminar of the Dutch Maritime Research Institute (MARIN).
Performative Wearables
Since wearable technology pieces are often designed to be interactive, and in most cases are presented to an audience in some sort of way, we thought it was interesting to do a thought experiment: can every ‘wearable’ be considered a ...
Fashioningtech.com Features V2_ Summer Sessions
Guest blogger for "fashioningtech.com" Valerie Lamontagne interviewed this year's participants of V2_'s Summer Session program about the works they developed. Each day, from today on, Valerie will publish one interview on Syuzi Pakhchyan's famous ...
50 Years of Dutch Media Art at STRP
With seven installations on show at the popular STRP festival – kicking off again in Eindhoven on Friday, November 18 – V2_ can call itself an official purveyor of 50 years of media art in the Netherlands.
Dick Raaymakers wins Art+Technology Award 2011
Composer and theatre maker Dick Raaymakers is to receive the Witteveen+Bos Art+Technology Award 2011 for his entire oeuvre. The award ceremony will take place in the Bergkerk Church in Deventer on November 10, 2011 and will be celebrated with a ...
Anouk Wipprecht on Intimacy 2.0
Anouk Wipprecht, fashion designer and former "Summer Sessionista" at V2_Lab, talks about the new designs she made for the successful Intimacy series together with Studio Roosegaarde.
Protei Wins 3rd Prize in VIDA 13.2 Competition
Protei has won third place in the Vida 13.2 Art & Artificial Life International Competition. The project, represented by Cesar Harada will receive €8,000 and will be part of an exhibition in Madrid.
Kick off DEAF2012
The Dutch Electronic Art Festival - DEAF - makes a big come back next year. The 2012 edition of DEAF takes place from May 16 till June 3 in both Rotterdam and Amsterdam, and explores ‘The Power of Things’.
Unveiling Protei_006
Protei_006, the first full-scale prototype sailing robot that could clean oil spills in the ocean was unveiled for the first time to the audience at the press conference that took place at the Protei team’s workshop last Friday September 2nd 2011.
Knitting Typewriter
The eTextiles Workspace group (Anja Hertenberger, Leonie Urff, Ricardo O Nascimento and Meg Grant) started their project "TK Series" as part of the V2_ Summer Sessions 2011. The project takes the form of a typewriter that produces knitting.
Testing Protei 005.6 on the water
On Saturday July 23rd and almost six weeks before the unveiling of Protei +006 during the World Port Days (September 2) and its presentation in the World of Witte de With festival (September 9, 10, 11), the Protei team travelled to De Kaag to test ...
CALL: Labs Show DEAF 2012
V2_Lab and Baltan Laboratories (Eindhoven) launch a CALL FOR PROPOSALS from media labs around the world for recently produced artworks to be featured at the next edition of the Dutch Electronic Art Festival taking place from April 19-22, 2012 in ...
… and yes, they can float!
While trying to make a revolution in the streets of The Hague to save the arts in the Netherlands, another kind of revolution was taking place in Rotterdam…
Statement performed at the protest meeting
A statement performed at the protest meeting at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam by Jeremiah Day.
RE: wins WRO Audience Award
RE: by Carolien Teunisse and Bram Snijders wins the 2011 WRO Media Art Biennale Alternative Now Audience Award
Curious Corner: Valérie Lamontagne Part III
The last part of the Q&A with Valérie Lamontagne. Questions by Syuzi Pakhchyan (Fashioning Tech) & Simone de Waart (Material Sense).
Response New Media & Art Institutions To Governmental Cuts
Netherlands, 15 June 2011. Source of innovation is eliminated
"Starting to feel more like a real workshop!"
Although it’s been a short week in Holland, the protei team knows no days off! For the past two weeks the team has been working really hard to set a comfortable and creative environment for the development of the protei 006.
Curious Corner: Valérie Lamontagne Part II
Q&A with Valérie Lamontagne Part 2 . Questions by Deborah Hustic (Body Pixel) & Francesca Granata (Fashion Projects). Next part will continue with more questions from Syuzi Pakhchyan (Fashioning Tech) & Simone de Waart (Material Sense).
