V2_

Interdisciplinary center for art and media technology.

31/08/2026

Meet Summer Sessions resident 🎱 ⭐️

Julie van Essen is an interdisciplinary artist who builds immersive installations exploring intangible digital concepts such as algorithms, blockchain, and AI. Blending fashion, technology, and performance, she distorts digital aesthetics into speculative worlds, using glitch and error as tools of resistance against extraction.

During her Summer Sessions residency, Julie is developing The algo[rhythm]ic body, applying Shintaro Miyazaki’s theory of “Counter-Algorhythmics” to her practice. Rather than refusing technology, the project asks what happens when we shift our relationship to digital systems and bend their rhythms towards our own human, biological ones.

For the project, Julie is constructing a latex corset embedded with sensors, reclaiming this historical tool of restriction as a site for embodied resistance. Responding to breath, body movement and stretch, the corset generates a soundscape in which the body acts not as a passive subject, but as an active instrument within the system it inhabits.

See The algo[rhythm]ic body in progress during the Summer Sessions Test_Lab at V2_ on 3 & 4 September.

Free entrance!! More info via the link in bio👾

28/08/2026

Next Thursday & Friday at V2_: Test_Lab with Realities in Transition 2

We showcase the project realized by the artists of this year’s Realities in Transition residency at V2_Lab. The work will be demonstrated live, and you’re invited to test the artwork hands-on.

With residents Mohsen💤 , Elli Koliniati and Iyi Bisseck 👾

Thursday 3 September
19:30–22:00
Free entrance

Friday 4 September (Kunstavond)
18:00–21:00
Free entrance

See you at V2_!

26/08/2026

How did the Transformer sculpture at Westblaak inspire Nina Anin Summer Sessions project? And latex that looks like skin?🫨

Last week, Summer Sessions residents Nina Anin and 🎱 joined us at Operator Radio to talk about their work and what they have been developing during their residency at V2_.

Listen back to the full show via the link in our bio, and see their projects come to life next week during our Summer Sessions Test_Lab.

3 September > 19:30–22:00
4 September > 18:00–21:00

free entrance!

24/08/2026

Meet Summer Sessions resident 🌟

Eunseong Park is a media artist based in South Korea and Germany whose practice looks critically at the digital infrastructures and “black-boxed” devices that have become embedded in everyday life. Through DIY objects, fictional technologies and satire, she questions the systems we have come to accept as natural.

During Summer Sessions, Eunseong is developing Now or Nowhere (2026–), an ongoing project centred around the creation and presentation of satirical, fictional devices. By following the entire process of developing these devices, the project asks a deceptively simple question: does technology actually respond to our needs, or does it continuously create new ones?

You can see Eunseong’s work during our Summer Sessions Test_Lab on Thursday 3 and Friday 4 September at V2_.

06/08/2026

Taking a book with you this summer? The hardcopy edition of The Illusion of Thinking is now available!📚

Published alongside the V2_ exhibition of the same name, the publication brings together essays, interviews and artistic contributions that examine the assumptions, limitations and implications of artificial intelligence.

Available now via the V2_ bookstore ? (link in bio)

16/07/2026

What happens when a deepfake algorithm manipulates your image live?👀

Tomorrow evening from 18:00 at Media Art Café, experience a limited-time trial of I M U v3.0 by .vanderlaan

In I M U, a deepfake algorithm manipulates your image live, creating a personal confrontation with the technology. The immersive essay film reflects on the self and the ways our self-image is shaped through technology, drawing on Ubuntu philosophy: “I am related, therefore I am.”

Developed with the support of V2_, the City of Rotterdam, and the Nederlands Filmfonds

16/06/2026

Last week, the Holistic Technology Salon returned to V2_ with a shared techno-ritual by Annika Kappner and Ginevra Petrozzi , followed by a salon dialogue with Telemagic, Evelyn Wan , Georgia Kareola , Ko Jihae and Marlot Meyer Marlot Meyer ✨

An evening of conversation, sensory exploration and collective reflection on memory, uncertainty and our relationship with technology.

Photos by

The Holistic Technology Salon is co-created by V2_ and supported by .

08/06/2026

Tonight at V2_: a live coding meetup bringing together artists, coders and curious minds to share audiovisual experiments, works in progress and ideas👾

Throughout the evening, participants will present their work on the big screen, followed by conversation and exchange. If time allows, the meetup will conclude with a collaborative live coding jam session built from scratch.

Featuring , , , , and more.

Doors: 19:00
Start: 19:30
End: 22:00
Free entrance

See you tonight at V2_.

01/06/2026

We’re excited to announce the selected artists for Summer Sessions 2026🌞

Emily W. Bernstein
Michael Caplan
Eunseong Park
Ivan Dukes
Nina Anin. .in
Ceren Sözer
David Tiemstra
Julie van Essen
Miguel Teodoro
Arnas Rasimavicius

Over the coming months, these artists will develop new projects through residencies across the Summer Sessions network.

Summer Sessions is a European residency programme for emerging artists working at the intersection of art, technology and society. The programme is organised by V2_, , . , , Academy for Theatre and Digitality , and .ro .

Congratulations to all selected artists. We look forward to sharing their work with you.

Artwork by ✨

21/05/2026

Tonight at V2_: Test_Lab with ⛰️

Montreal-based artists , and .forgues present Lithogonie, an audiovisual live performance exploring the realtime translation of microscopic geological and hydrological phenomena into immersive digital landscapes.

Using hydrophones, geophones and contact microphones, mesocosm captures subtle vibrations from water, rock and mineral strata, transforming them into generative sound and visuals.

Alongside the performance, three individual works by the artists will be on view throughout the evening, resonating with the collective research behind Lithogonie.

Walk-in: 19:30
Performance starts: 20:00
Open until 21:00

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