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09/11/2016

THE LIMA COLLECTION 2016: MEDIUM SPECIFIC

Catalogue

In the realm of media- and digital art every medium is different, and every medium has its own medium specific qualities. Artists not only work with the given aspects, but also question their medium and reflect on these specific aspects.

This evening, artist Martijn van Boven is the curator of the programme on medium specificity. He dove into the LIMA collection with the question ‘How can an audiovisual signal become visible? Van Boven is interested in the analogue signal but...

26/10/2016 to 28/10/2016

Computer Art Congress [ CAC.5 ] – MSH Paris Nord.

Research

LIMA will present recent research on the archivinging, emulation and documentation of CD-ROM artworks at the Computer Art Congress, MSH Paris Nord. The three day congress includes keynote speakers Bernard Stiegler and Lev Manovich.

19/10/2016

LIMA presents: JAN ROBERT LEEGTE

Catalogue

We are very proud to announce the launch of the second commissioned artwork by LIMA. With the LIMA collection as point of departure, artist Jan Robert Leegte made a browser-based artwork with data taken from the LIMA website.

Jan Robert Leegte has invited Constant Dullaart to discuss with him the position of Performance Art within the browser-based context. Departing from canonical performance art works from art history they...

28/09/2016

THE LIMA COLLECTION 2016: CINEMA

Catalogue

What's the Story?
Curator and Arthistorian Sacha Bronwasser selected some hidden treasures from the LIMA collection with the theme 'cinema'. Bronwasser explores the power of storytelling in media art - a quality originally subscribed to cinema.

Works that will be screened are by, among others, Raul Marroquin, Keren Cytter, Broersen & Lukács, Rä di Martino, Nicolas Provost and Kaweh Modiri.

Raul Marroquin and Persijn Broersen & Margit...

14/09/2016

UNFOLD #2 Reinterpretation as Creative Act

Research

UNFOLD #2 Reinterpretation as Creative Act

After the first fruitful UNFOLD-event on the 6th of June 2016, the second public UNFOLD programme will revolve around discourses on liveness, embodiment and memory in performance, new media and digital art within institutional contexts. We will turn around key concepts such as presence, agency and embodiment to investigate conventional strategies by which society preserves and redisplays cultural artifacts created with media formats. All...

01/08/2016 to 14/08/2016

Summer break

General

Summer has arrived and LIMA will too have a little summer break. From August 1st until August 14th the LIMA office will be closed. Contact with individual staff will be possible through email but is limited.

From Monday 15th of August we are back at the office to serve you the finest of media art, help you preserve precious works and distribute media art around the world.  

LIMA wishes you a wonderful summer!

 

13/06/2016

Doe ik het goed? Kennisdag Digitale Duurzaamheid - NCDD

In opdracht van het Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed (NDE) werkprogramma Houdbaar, onderzoekt LIMA in 2015 en 2016 de Cd-rom archivering voor kunstwerken. Mede hiermee neemt LIMA deel aan de te ontwikkelen samenhangende en sectoroverstijgende infrastructuur voor born-digital erfgoed. Tijdens de Kennisdag Digitale Duurzaamheid, georganiseerd door de NCDD, presenteert LIMA emulatieprocedures voor cd-rom-...

06/06/2016

UNFOLD #1 Mediation by Reinterpretation

Research
LIMA presents the kick off of

UNFOLD: Mediation and Remediation of media art, re­enactment and reinterpretation.

LIMA is researching new methods for the documentation, transmission and preservation of media art, digital art and performances. This new one-year research project is a collaborative, international research network that together will be examining re-interpretation as emerging practice for conserving of media artworks.

We are happy to...
The New Dress, 2016
26/05/2016

LIMA & Cracking The Frame present: Donna Verheijden and Roy Villevoye

Distribution

On Thursday, May 26th, the artists Donna Verheijden and Roy Villevoye will present their latest work at LIMA, as part of Cracking The Frame Presents.

Donna Verheijden
After a first screening at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Land of Desire - Happy is the New Black (2016) will celebrate its Amsterdam premiere on May 26 at LIMA. The screening will be preceded by a presentation by Donna Verheijden, in which she talks about her artistic...

25/05/2016

THE LIMA COLLECTION 2016: PERFORMANCE

Catalogue

Performance: thinking through Event and Duration

The body, the object, the camera, the act: performance and media art are closely linked. The two disciplines react on each other and feed each other. On the third night of THE LIMA COLLECTION 2016, Frédérique Bergholtz and Susan Gibb (If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution) will focus on performance as one of the recurrent themes within media art. Starting form performance theory, they will...

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