Michel van Dartel
Most Recent Affiliation(s):
- V2_Lab, _Director
ISEA Bio(s) Available:
ISEA2022
Michel van Dartel 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).
ISEA2020
Michel van Dartel is Director of V2_Lab for the Unstable Media and Research Professor at the Avans Centre of Applied Research for Art, Design and Technology, The Netherlands. He holds an MSc in cognitive psychology and a PhD in artificial intelligence. Alongside his work at V2_ and Avans, Michel also acts as an independent curator; as an advisor to funds, academies and platforms such as the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Willem de Kooning Academy, and Festival Ars Electronica; and as a manuscript reviewer for conferences and journals such as ISEA and Leonardo.
He also is the editor and author of numerous scientific and artistic articles and books. Michel’s books include 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).
His recent thematic group exhibitions include 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).
ISEA2019
Michel van Dartel 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 V2_ and Avans, Michel also acts as an independent curator for art venues such as Tent, Mu and Tetem and biennials such as the Dutch Electronic Art Festival. He is an advisor to the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research; a member of the professional boards of the Piet Zwart Institute and Willem de Kooning Academy; a supervisory board member for the Fiber platform, a council member for DutchCulture | TransArtists; a manuscript reviewer for Leonardo; and the editor and author of numerous scientific and artistic articles and books.
ISEA2011
Michel F. van Dartel, Ph.D, is curator at V2_, the Institute for the Unstable Media, where he developed the event series Test_Lab, a platform to demonstrate, test, present, and/or discuss contemporary artistic research and development (aRt&D). Prior to his current appointment at V2_, he worked at Maastricht University as a researcher in the cognitive sciences. Michel holds an MSc. in Cognitive Psychology and a Ph.D in Artificial Intelligence.
Last Known Location:
- Netherlands the
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Title: Test_Lab: Summer Sessions 2011
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ISEA2011
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Title: Towards Ecological Autarky
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ISEA2013
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Title: The Innovation Potential of Sensory Augmentation for Public Space
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ISEA2019
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Title: An Invitation to DANCE: Making Sense of Viewer Interaction in Installation Art
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ISEA2020
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Title: The Different Histories of Electronic Art in the V2_ Archive
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ISEA2022
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