“Activating Archival Research at V2_” presented by Altena
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Session Title:
- Summit on New Media Art Archiving: Archive Presentations
Presentation Title:
- Activating Archival Research at V2_
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Abstract:
V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam that strives to build a ‘living archive’ of electronic art, based on documentation of more than 40 years of activities by V2_. This short presentation reflects on the work of three researchers who were commissioned to do archival research connected to the V2_archive in 2022. They presented their findings both in the form of a text and as part of a monthly radio programme by V2_. These commissions were part of V2_’s effort to show that it possible to tell different and diverse histories of electronic art.
