V2_Newsletter May 2013 www.v2.nl Arjen Mulder on Marnix de Nijs’ Exploded Views v2.nl/archive/articles/navigating-the-collective-unconscious Arjen Mulder wrote a beautiful essay ‘Navigating the Collective Unconscious’ about Marnix de Nijs’s work Exploded Views 2.0. He writes: It is the most beautiful work of interactive media art I have ever seen. But its most peculiar aspect is that neither its beauty nor its meaning reside in the interactivity of the piece. You can read the complete essay on the V2_website.
On the Threshold of Beauty: pre-sale has started v2.nl/publishing/on-the-threshold-of-beauty You can now pre-order Kees Tazelaar’s remarkable account of the beginnings of electronic music in the Netherlands On the Threshold of Beauty. In this lavishly illustrated book Tazelaar meticulously reconstructs the birth and evolution of electronic music in the Netherlands from 1925 till 1965. It is the story of the development of electronic music at the Philips research laboratory, the collaboration between Xenakis, Le Corbusier and Varèse on the now legendary Philips Pavilion at the 1958 World Expo, and the first studios for electronic music in the Netherlands with key figures like Dick Raaymakers and Gottfried Michael Koenig. Pre-order now at the V2_webshop and get a discount of 5 euro’s (22.50 instead of 27.50). New research project: Habakkuk v2.nl/lab/projects/habakkuk Habakkuk is the new research project of the V2_lab. It researches and re-enacts an improbable but true historical top secret project from World War II. You can read more about it on the V2_ website. Annual Report 2012 v2.nl/organization/annual-reports The annual report for 2012 gives a full overview of the activities of V2_ in 2012. The pdf, with text in Dutch, can be downloaded on the website. Kees Tazelaar podcast at RWM v2.nl/lab/blog/kees-tazelaar-podcast-part-ii The second part of Radio Web Macba's podcast with the Dutch composer of electronic music Kees Tazelaar – author of On the Threshold of Beauty – is online. It features electronic compositions chosen by Kees Tazelaar, with both historical works (Ton de Leeuw, Ligeti, Raaymakers, Ponse), and recent ones (Raviv Ganchrow, Wouter Snoei, Sergio Luque). Listen or download on the website of RWM. V2_ recommends: Speculative Art Histories Symposium 2– 4 May 2013 Witte de With Witte de Withstraat 50 3012 BR Rotterdam www.wdw.nl/event/speculative-art-histories-symposium The symposium Speculative Art Histories takes place from 2 till 4 May at Witte de With in Rotterdam. Keynote speakers are Reza Negarestani, Bertrand Prévost, Elisabeth von Samsonow, Kerstin Thomas, and Lars Spuybroek whose book The Sympathy of Things was published by V2_. ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre