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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

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.

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

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_.

Ahead of their performance and workshop at Festival, Montreal-based artists , and .forgues join V2_ for Test_Lab: Lithogonie. ⛰️

Working together as mesocosm, the artists explore the realtime translation of microscopic geological and hydrological phenomena into immersive audiovisual landscapes using hydrophones, geophones, field recordings and generative visuals.

During Test_Lab they present a work-in-progress version of Lithogonie, developed during their residency at V2_. They will also share their ideas on multisensorial perception in exhibition making, chemistry and laboratory aesthetics, and the relationship between environmental sound, time and space.

From effective AI to affective AI. From intelligence to intimacy. 👾

In The Other AI, V2_ and bring together artists and scholars to explore how bots, avatars, and replicas are getting under our skin. As chatbots move from tools to companions, the focus shifts to their emotional and intimate impact.

Over two days, the programme looks at automated intimacies as something we experience, not just analyse.

Day one at V2_ centres on Desiring Machines: S*x and Robots, with contributions by Misha Kavka, , Maaike van der Horst, Nor Akelei, .a.dima and Alicia Framis.

Day two at Nieuwe Instituut focuses on Virtual Love and Companionship – for Real, featuring Misha Kavka, Delfina Martinez Pandiani, Christos Tombras, Lancel/Maat, Otti Ferraris and .

Day 1 takes place at V2_, day 2 takes place at Nieuwe Instituut.

More info via link in bio.

The Alex Adriaansens Residency is open for applications 👾

This residency honours the legacy of Alex Adriaansens and invites emerging curators, organisers and cultural practitioners to reflect on the role of independent art institutions today. How can they remain spaces for experimentation, critical thinking and unexpected encounters?

Residents are supported to develop their own research, with access to the V2_ archive and a network of artists and thinkers.

– €7,500 grant
– 3-month residency starting 1 September 2026
– Based in Rotterdam

Deadline: 1 June 2026

Find more information and apply via the link in bio.