In the website of the V2_archive you can find information about V2_'s activities from 1993 till now. We gather documentation about people, organizations, artworks and events that have played a role in V2_'s history; documentation includes a collection of about 15,000 photographs and a growing number of digital videos, in addition to a large number of texts, images and links.

This site is created for research purposes and offers an interface to V2_'s archive database. It is a work in progress; design and content will be enhanced and improved over time.

Comments and feedback can be sent to the archive team: archive@v2.nl.

This website was created by:

Jasper Op de Coul, Sandra Fauconnier, Rens Frommé, Enric Gili Fort, Pieter van Kemenade, Boudewijn Ridder, Martijn Stevens.

Current archive team:

Joke Brouwer (management), Arie Altena (research).

V2_'s archive team focuses on enhancing and extending the content that is offered via the archive portal.

• Information in this website will gradually be updated; we are actualizing the information about the last DEAF festivals (DEAF04 and DEAF07), about the Test_labs and adding interviews and other documentation about artists with whom V2_ has worked frequently.
• We are preparing a digitalization trajectory, in order to make V2_'s extensive video archive accessible via this website.
• We are also working on procedures and models for the description and documentation of art projects and activities.

With documentation of over twenty years of electronic media art and media art events, V2_Archive has functioned as a test bed for research on ways of documenting and preserving media art activities.

From Spring 2003 to Spring 2004, V2_Archive has been conducting research on the issue of documentation aspects of the preservation of electronic art activities, in other words Capturing Unstable Media. The final results of this research project were presented on Thursday 4 March 2004 at V2_.

Capturing Unstable Media has resulted in a series of recommendations, including documentation guidelines and a formal model (ontology) to describe the activities in electronic art in several levels of detail. The project has been supported by Mondriaan Foundation and Daniel Langlois Foundation. A group of experts from Dutch archives, research institutes and cultural heritage organizations have assisted the research through an advisory board. The final results are now summarized and available on the official project's website.

Below, you'll find a series of concepts, themes and keywords that have been of importance for electronic art and culture during the last decade. Around these concepts and themes, a lot of information is collected in the V2_Archive; therefore, they can serve as excellent starting points for exploring this site.