Michel van Dartel [NL]

Michel van Dartel (NL) is a curator at V2_Institute for the Unstable Media and the Dutch Electronic Art Festival. He is currently also a guest curator at art center TENT, MU gallery and the Energize festival, and teaches at Luca Brussels University College and Hanze University of Applied Science. Besides curating and teaching, Michel is associate editor of the Journal for Artistic Research and works as an advisor to the Mondriaan Foundation, Creative Industries Fund NL, and the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts a.o. Among his recent publications is the e-book New Aesthetic, New Anxieties, which he co-authored together with David Berry, Michael Dieter, Michelle Kasprzak, Nat Muller, Rachel O’Reilly, and José Luis Vicente. Michel holds an MSc in Cognitive Psychology and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. He also is a skateboard veteran, founding member of music group The Rose Frustrates, and DJ.