Past Events
Smart Talk: The Real World
V2_ curator Michel van Dartel will sit down with Bas Heijne, eteam, Sander Veenhof and Jos de Mul to talk about augmented reality. Their chat is part of De Unie in Debat’s Smart Talk discussion and debate series, taking place at the Rotterdamse ...
World Premiere Order
Everyone who’s anyone in Rotterdam will be walking down the V2_ red carpet for the premiere of Selfcontrolfreak's interactive feature film "Order." His first full-length work follows the hugely successful online, interactive Selfcontrolfreak ...
De Derde Dinsdag #3
Want to know where to go in cultural Rotterdam the coming month? De Derde Dinsdag previews all the best music, art, performance, theatre, and debate on the agenda in an entertaining evening program brought to you by Bonheur, Witte de With, RAiR, ...
Occupy Rotterdam: Economic Summit For Worried Citizens
V2_ hosted the Occupy Rotterdam movement’s one-night "Economic Summit for Worried Citizens." Occupy Rotterdam asked four economists from the region to reflect on their reader's letter to the Volkskrant of february 1997. In this letter these ...
Ultimaker and RepRap Evening
V2_ invites the Ultimaker and RepRap community to get together at the Lab and fine-tune their machines.
One Day Conference: The Internet of Things
V2_ hosted the one day Conference "The Internet of Things" organized by Council and hybridLiving.
Blowup: Show Me The Money
What pricetag do you put on priceless experiences and objects? Join us in discussion getting to the root of notions of "value" and "culture" with cultural economist Diane Ragsdale, artist-economist Hans Abbing, and researcher and artist Saul Albert.
Test_Lab: Who Wants To Be...?
Test_Lab: Who Wants to Be…? is a social experiment in the form of a raucous game show developed by art collective The People Speak. All visitors chip in 10 EUR in advance to enter the game, after which they brainstorm, argue, and vote on how to ...
Things We Love and Love to Hate About Marshall McLuhan
"Things We Love and Love to Hate About Marshall McLuhan (and cybernetics)" is a lecture by Arjen Mulder, organized as part of the "Blowup: We Are All Crew" program to acknowledge the 100th anniversary of Marshall McLuhan’s birth. Comments and ...
Strategic Arts Initiative 2.0
InterAccess and V2_ present "Strategic Arts Initiative 2.0", a re-installation of the seminal 1986 telepresence exhibition "Strategic Arts Initiative" (SAI).
Blowup: We Are All Crew
"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." - Marshall McLuhan. Join us for a weekend of telepresent artworks, film, lectures and parties celebrating the centenary of the birth of communications and media guru, Marshall McLuhan. ...
ISMAR 2011: Hello Worlds
V2_ is organizing the exhibition "Hello Worlds" for the 10th International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality in Basel, Switzerland.
Blowup: The Era of Objects
Beyond the flying car: join top designers Julian Bleecker (Nokia, Near Future Laboratory), Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (Really Interesting Group), and Anab Jain (Superflux) in an exploration of speculative design.
Summer Sessions ISEA2011
In this special edition of V2_'s Test_Lab program at ISEA2011, a selection of the outcome of the Summer Sessions 2011 will be presented. As it is custom to V2_'s Test_Lab, the projects will be demonstrated live and the audience will be invited to ...
Pilot Workshop Watch that Sound
WTS, LantarenVenster and V2_ present a new version of the educational software tool "Watch That Sound". On Friday, September 16, primary school students demonstrate in a pilot workshop how they create their own soundtracks using this unique software ...
Protei Exhibition
This summer, V2_ hosted an international team of designers and engineers on the development of Protei_006, the first full-scale version of the autonomous sailing robot that will clean oil spills in the oceans. The exhibition as part of Festival ...
Protei Press Conference
V2_ and the Protei team invite you to come to the press preview and presentation of Protei, an autonomous sailing robot for cleaning up oil spills in the ocean, during the Wereldhavendagen on September 2nd, 2011 in the port of Rotterdam.
Test_Lab: Summer Sessions 2011
New artworks by Kasia Molga, Julie Legault, Xiaowen Zhu, E-textile Workspace, Jelle Valk and Olav Huizer, developed at V2_ during this year's Summer Sessions. Music by AFTA-1.
Blowup: Every Artist, A Journalist
This edition of Blowup will examine the tension between documentary methods and artistic expression, and address where notions of truth and beauty fit in this mix.
Translife - Media Art China 2011
After the overwhelming success in 2008 of the media art exhibition Synthetic Times – 95,000 visitors in three weeks! – the National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) decided to make it a recurring triennial event. The Chinese like to take the bull by ...
