Projects

Digital Care

Digital Care presents collaborative care for digital artworks through an open process. From March until October 2023, iconic works will be researched and shown in public programmes across the country. Talks with artists, scholars, producers, technicians and the public will explore what it means to present these works today - and preserve them for a future generation.

Transformation Digital Art 2023

Transformation Digital Art 2023: International symposium on the preservation of digital art

Collection Research

By researching and presenting media art works (from the collection) on a continuous basis and for various projects, LIMA activates (archival) works in its collection.

Transformation Digital Art 2022

Transformation Digital Art 2022. International symposium on the preservation of software-based art

Preserving VR artworks

How to preserve a VR artwork: In 2021 LIMA executed research into VR preservation

Collaborative Infrastructure

LIMA is the initiator and coordinator of this three year project that has two clear and urgent goals: to prevent the loss of digital artworks and to commonly develop the knowledge to preserve these works in a sustainable way.

Mediakunst op Wikipedia

Mediakunst op Wikipedia is gelanceerd! Een samenwerkingsproject van LIMA, Wikimedia Nederland, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Van-Abbe-Museum, Frans Hals Museum en de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE).

UNFOLD 2020 / 2021

On Wednesday, May 19, 2021, artists, experts, writers, programmers will shed their light on the oeuvre of the media art pioneer Nan Hoover (1931 - 2008) - who would have turned ninety in 2021.

Transformation Digital Art 2021

Transformation Digital Art symposium is designed as an opportunity to share best practices concerning both artist-led and institutional strategies geared towards the future presentation of born-digital and software-based art. This year the focus of the symposium will be on Documenting Digital Art.

Documenting Digital Art

“Documenting digital art. Re-thinking histories and practices of documentation in the museum and beyond” is a collaboration between leading researchers in the fields of performance and digital art documentation with world-leading museums, artists, and curators specialising in photography and digital art.

LIMA Online

LIMA Online is an online platform dedicated to lectures, art works and current debate, where artists and the public are invited to engage in dialogue. The series and events presented by LIMA Online reflect on the position of (media) art and technology in society today - and combines this actuality with historical awareness or reflection.

Cultural Matter II (2019-2020)

Cultural Matter highlights the enduring expressive power of digital artworks: works in which art and technology and the past and the future come together in a way that is as logical as it is groundbreaking.

Social Capital #2 Amsterdam-West. Reflections On A City In Flux.

Social Capital consists of interventions, presentations, workshops, performances, videos and installations at unexpected locations in various Amsterdam districts. We invite artists to reflect critically on the rapidly changing city.

Putting Distribution on the Map

Over 2019 and 2020, LIMA is exploring the current state and future of digital art distribution with a new research project.

Transformation Digital Art 2019

Digital Canon?!

For the practical research project Digital Canon?! Born-digital art in the Netherlands, LIMA researches how the importance of an artist, artwork, movement or development can be indicated – and how this can ultimately result in a canon.

Mediakunst.net

Mediakunst.net is an online catalogue bringing together the media art collections of Frans Hals Museum, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Van Abbemuseum, the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands and LIMA.

ArtHost

LIMA launches a worldwide unique service to save complex digital and online artworks.

Steun Digitaal Talent

Wij geven mediakunstenaars ruim baan en ondersteunen hen wereldwijd in de presentatie en promotie van hun werk. Uw steun helpt ons dit mogelijk te maken.

Cultural Matter I (2017-2018)

Cultural Matter is a public exhibition and discussion programme that offers a platform for the international discussion on the position and intricacies of digital art.

Artists Talking Back To The Media

Talking Back to the Media in 1985 combined playful interventions with a critique of the current mass media and was led by international artists such as John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, Raul Marroquin, David Garcia, General Idea, Sebastián Lopez and Hans Haacke, to name but a few.

Viewpoints

Middels het programma Viewpoints werden in 2016 kunstenaars die door LIMA worden ondersteund in contact gebracht met curatoren en experts om kennis over praktische aspecten van de presentatie en distributiepraktijk van mediakunst te ontwikkelen.

Future Proof Media Art

What is sustainable in relation to these so-called unstable media? In the scope of the collaborative research project ‘Future Proof Media Art’ with Dutch media artist Geert Mul, LIMA researches software-based and interactive media artworks from the oeuvre of Mul.

Participation Nordic Network - Shared practices

Nordic Network is an international networking project for distributing and archiving media art

Archivering en Distributie van CD-ROM kunstwerken

In opdracht van het Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed (NDE) werkprogramma Houdbaar, onderzocht LIMA in 2015 en 2016 de archivering voor cd-rom kunstwerken. Mede hiermee neemt LIMA deel aan de te ontwikkelen samenhangende en sectoroverstijgende infrastructuur voor born-digital erfgoed.

UNFOLD: Mediation by reinterpretation

UNFOLD is a research project and a collaborative, international research network that together will be examining re-interpretation as emerging practice for the preservation of media artworks.

In Focus - Artists from THE LIMA COLLECTION

A good work speaks for itself. But still, it is always interesting to know more about the work and its maker. In this section, you'll find articles and stories about artists from our collection.

THE LIMA COLLECTION 2016 - screening programme

This screening series presents all the richness of media art within THE LIMA COLLECTION. Guest curators make a selection of works that focuses on one of these recurrent questions within media art.

The collection as a work of art: LIMA's commissioned works

After years of selecting existing works, LIMA now asks artists to create a new work of art based on this rich historical collection. On this page we keep you informed about the work that has and will be done by invited artists.

Capturing a Moment: Where net art and performance meet

On October 1st 201LIMA and the Stedelijk Museum presented the forum event, featuring a performance and talks, titled "Capturing a Moment: Where net art and performance meet".

Project Generic Workflows Born Digital Heritage

As part of the project Generic Workflows Born Digital Heritage, Gaby Wijers (LIMA) and Hannah Bosma (CCDD) investigated the needs and wishes for preservation of born digital heritage, and the (im)possibilities of joining the evolving national digital infrastructure, in a research led by Robert Gillesse (Foundation DEN).

THE LIMA COLLECTION 2015 - screening programme

Media art – what is that exactly? Was the history of media art ushered in with the artistic use of television sets and computers during the 1960s, or by performance artists in the early 1970s who turned video cameras on themselves?

Transformatie Digitale Kunst: Peter Struycken

The central questions for the future presentation and conservation of any work coming into a museum collection are “What are we acquiring?” and “What do we need to preserve?”. With digital artworks, the answers to these questions prove to be complicated. The project 'Transformatie Digitale Kunst' is concerned with sustainable preservation of born-digital art.

'Five questions to' - in conversation with preservation clients

LIMA stores, preserves and archives the media artworks from several museums, academies, individuals and corporations, and supports and advises them in the storage, digitisation and presentation of video art and digital artworks. Which collections are this, and how does this cooperation look like?

'Jan Fabre. Stigmata.' First overview of his actions & performances

From October 16 on, the work of the Belgian artist Jan Fabre will be on show in MAXXI, Rome. The exhibition Jan Fabre. Stigmata is the first overview of his actions and performances from 1976 onwards. As distributor of the mediaworks of Jan Fabre, LIMA was involved in this project.

Archiving and conservation of 'Talking Back to the Media'

In september 2013 LIMA and de Appel Arts Centre started with the archiving and conservation of the '85 manifest Talking Back to the Media. Talking Back to the Media was a concept by David Garcia and Raul Marroquin and took place in Amsterdam in november 1985.

Distribution partner CineSonic audio visual concerts

Established in 2007, CineSonic is a project of Stichting Film en Media Festival Amsterdam that aims at combining silent feature films, experimental shorts and video-art compilations with cutting edge music producers. Since 2012 |CINE|SONIC| collaborates with LIMA and with the Paris based art film label Lowave at a new series of events dedicated to live video art presentations.

Collecting the Performative – a research network

LIMA is researching new methods for the documentation, transmission and preservation of media art, digital art and performances. Currently we are participating in Collecting the Performative, a research network Examining Emerging Practice for Collecting and Conserving Performance Based Art.

LIMA Workshop E-depot SBMK seminar 2013

SBMK organized on October 31, 2013 a day for conservators, curators, registrars, art historians, and others that have to do with conservation, documentation, installation and presentation of modern and contemporary art. LIMA coordinated a workshop focussing on the E-depot.

LIMA Workshop Digital Sustainability DAF seminar 2013

On June 27th 2013, the Digital Art Force (DAF) organized a seminar focusing on collecting, documenting, managing and preserving unstable media artworks. On behalf of LIMA Gaby Wijers and Wiel Seuskens presented ‘Digital Sustainability the Do’s and Don’ts’.

Digitisation Audio Visual Archive Rietveld Academie

Every year Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Univeristy of Fine Arts and Design produces many unique films and videos. With the technical realisation and support of LIMA these works are now digitised and preserved.

ikono ON AIR festival selection; 'From The Abstract Into the Sublime’

The online festival ikono ON AIR 06/09 - 26/09 presented a daily program with works of more than one hundred international video and media artists. Under the title ‘From The Abstract Into the Sublime’ LIMA presented a large selection of medium-specific works from between 1974 and now, out of our collection.

DCA deliverable D6.2 on the physical storage of data.

Within the context of the ‘Digitising Contemporary Art’ project, LIMA developed and completed the best practices report, offcialy called deliverable, which focuses on bit preservation, i.e., the physical storage of the data and how today's institutes and companies store their collections of data.

Case study: Digitisation of the Stansfield/Hooykaas collection

As part of the of the Digitising Contemporary Art project, LIMA has digitised the media art collection of the artist duo Stansfield/Hooykaas. Together with Madelon Hooykaas, the entire archive of the Scottish-Dutch duo has been catalogued and digitised to ensure that this unique collection of works is accessible for the future.

Developing new interfaces for the Norwegian Video Art Archive

PNEK asked LIMA for general advise on best practizes in media art archiving, digitalisation and preservation in this three-year pilot, to digitize a specilized part of the archive and to create a new user interface for the Resource Space database of the archive.

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