photo: Carina Hesper
Michel van Dartel
Director of V2_ and Research Professor at CARADT
Michel van Dartel (b. 1976) is Director of V2_Lab for the Unstable Media and Research Professor at the Avans Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology (CARADT). He holds an MSc in cognitive psychology and a PhD in artificial intelligence.
Alongside his work at CARADT and V2_, Michel is figurehead of the Art route of The Dutch National Research Agenda (Nationale Wetenschapsagenda, NWA) and member of the taskforce Professional Doctorate Arts+Creative as well as the ISEA International Advisory Committee. He also acts as an advisor and independent curator. As an advisor, he sat on committees of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Taskforce for Applied Research (SIA), Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Amsterdam Fund for the arts, Creative Industries Fund NL, Mondriaan Fund, Dutch Culture, Van Beek-Donner foundation, Willem de Kooning Academy, Piet Zwart institute, ShanghaiTech University, Festival Ars Electronica, Future Everything, the Nam June Paik Art Center and the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre. His curatorial work includes the thematic group exhibitions Data in the 21st Century (V2_, 2016), The Value of Nothing (TENT, 2014, co-curated with Jesse van Oosten), The Progress Trap (The New Institute, 2014, co-curated with Boris Debackere and Michelle Kasprzak) and The Power of Things (Dutch Electronic Art Festival, 2012, co-curated with Alex Adriaansens and Michelle Kasprzak).
Michel also is a manuscript reviewer for conferences and journals including the Inter-Society for Electronic Arts (ISEA), Balance-Unbalance and Leonardo, and he is the editor and author of numerous scientific and artistic articles and books, including Aesthetics in the Wild (2016), The Vibrancy Effect (2012, edited with Chris Salter and Harry Smoak), New Aesthetic, New Anxieties (2012, with David Berry, Michael Dieter, Michelle Kasprzak, Nat Muller, Rachel O’Reilly and José Luis de Vicente) and the artist publications Machines Will Make Better Choices Than Humans (2016, with Douglas Coupland) and The Iron Ring (2014, with Cecilia Jonsson).
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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 ...
This edition of Blowup will be a "Book Sprint." From June 17 to June 21 we invite a group of leading thinkers, writers and artists to an intensive four day writing session, in which they will start and finish writing a book together. Daily updates ...
New artworks by Carina Hesper, Constantijn Smit, Tom Verbruggen (aka TokTek), Jon Stam, and Simon de Bakker developed at V2_ during this year's Summer Sessions.
For three evenings in August, DEAF is invited to Nantes (France) to play & mix.
AVmotional Platform in Bucharest presents "AV Dutch," a night devoted to recent developments in Dutch audiovisual culture. The program includes film, music, dance and a presentation by V2_’s Michel van Dartel.
Test_Lab: Summer Sessions 2014 presents the outcomes of this year's Summer Sessions residencies. Six projects will be demonstrated live and the audience will be invited to ‘test’ the artworks hands-on.
A two-day exhibition. Nine students of the Willem de Kooning's Digital Craft program present new work: objects to inspire and make us wonder and reflect on our relationship with electronic, networked and digital media.
V2_ invites Creative Mornings for an early meetup. The subject this morning will be 'Commitment'.
The first theme meeting of the Living Lab Sensible Sensor Reyeroord: Participatie & Design in de Smart City.
The expert meeting "The Vibrancy Effect", curated by Chris Salter, discussed the fundamental theoretical division between "living" and "non-living."
Two years after the start of The Patching Zone, founder Anne Nigten decided that it is time for an overview of the organization and all its projects so far. This resulted in the book ‘Real Projects for Real People, volume 1’, that will be ...
META.MORF 2010 - New.Brave.World is a new Biennial for Arts and Technology in Norway organized by the Trondheim Electronic Arts Centre (TEKS). The first edition is curated by Alex Adriaansens and Espen Gangvik, director of TEKS.
ISMAR is an international academic conference on Mixed and Augmented Reality in Seoul. In 2010 V2_ selected three artworks for the related exhibition; Boris Debackere was a keynote speaker.
Exhibition by students of Edwin van der Heide from the Media Technology MSc program, i.c.w. University of Leiden.
V2_ brings its Test_Lab format to Germany by organizing a special edition of Test_Lab Summer Sessions 2010 at the International Symposium on Electronic Art in Dortmund.
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 ...
Op 8 april wordt bij V2_, als onderdeel van de serie 'Tegenlicht Meetups Rotterdam' van VPRO Tegenlicht, de aflevering 'de Rijdende Robots' vertoond en besproken.
Showroom MAMA presents The Internetional, a two-day symposium focusing on one of the most important areas of visual culture today: the Internet.
'Machines Will Make Better Choices than Humans' features three essays by Douglas Coupland and is available in the V2_Webshop for only EUR 4.50
Interview (Dutch) with Michel van Dartel for the DEAF2012 blog, by John de Weerd.
(e-Book) What are the ethical, aesthetic and political stakes in understanding a world view in which humans are no longer at the centre?
New Aesthetic New Anxieties is the result of a five day Book Sprint organized by Michelle Kasprzak and led by Adam Hyde at V2_ from June 17–21, 2012. (Free Download)
Interview with Michel Van Dartel and Artem Baguinski about live coding, by Silvia Scaravaggi. Published in the Italian magazine Digicult.
Action Plant explores a speculative proposal to empower threatened species of plants with the ability to flee from their aggressors.
SHAREWEAR is an investigative fashion and technology collaboration involving Di Mainstone and V2_.
A short interview with Michel van Dartel on the New Aesthetic and the booksprint at V2_ (June 2012).
Eva Kekou interviews V2_'s Michelle Kasprzak for Furtherfield (2014).
Paper by Michel van Dartel and Anne Nigten presented at ISEA 2013, Sydney.
Art- and design-led (re-)imagining of urban sensing technologies by Roy Bendor (TU Delft), Richard Vijgen, and V2_Lab for the Unstable Media.
Together with Jesse van Oosten, V2_'s Michel van Dartel moderates the public programme 'Fieldwork Friday' at TENT, Rotterdam.
V2_ is the production partner for a new project by Renzo Martens' Institute for Human Activities.
Michel van Dartel talks about 'speculative design' in an interview for the arts magazine Kunstlicht.
Michel van Dartel will give a presentation on independent art spaces on 20 October in Shenzhen.
Michel van Dartel is the new figurehead of the Art route.
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