“It is with great sadness that V2_ has to announce the passing of Alex Adriaansens, long-time director of V2_Lab for the…
“It is with great sadness that V2_ has to announce the passing of Alex Adriaansens, long-time director of V2_Lab for the Unstable Media. Alex died on 30 December 2018, after several years of struggling with cancer.
For over thirty-five years, Alex was active in the field of art and technology, as an initiator, an organiser, and as an advisor. His influence on many of us was enormous. He projected an amazing, passionate engagement with art and with the ways in which new technologies impact society. Perhaps even more importantly, he was one of the most gentle, friendly and optimistic people I can think of. This optimism, coupled with a clear vision and a strong sense of urgency for what needs to be done, fuelled his work and put the V2_Organisation, and many of the projects that Alex was involved in, among the most influential initiatives in new media art since the 1980s. Now he leaves behind his wife, Angelica, and will be missed immensely by many others, as a friend and colleague, mentor, and as one of the guiding spirits of a whole international scene.”