On Sunday 12 May, the last day of the REBOOT exhibition at Nieuwe Instituut, we welcomed Marnix de Nijs, Edwin van der Heide, Ksenia Fedorova and Yvonne Dröge Wendel for the sixth and final event in the Digital Care series. This final event focused on Marnix de Nijs’ and Edwin van der Heide’s Spatial Sounds (100dB at 100km/h) (2000), which was one of the iconic works featured in REBOOT. Read more about this event.

REBOOT: Well Received by the Public and Press

The exhibition REBOOT: Pioneering Digital Art was a collaboration between LI-MA and Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. REBOOT was well received by the public and was well covered by the Dutch daily newspapers NRC and Trouw, art magazines Metropolis M, De Witte Raaf, See All This, Kunstkrant and Museumtijdschrift, amongst others.

We would like to thank all artists and their representatives involved: Annie Abrahams, Janilda Bartolomeu, Brui5er, Livinus & Jeep van de Bundt, Cihad Caner, Dries Depoorter, Driessens & Verstappen, Swendeline Ersilia, Ali Eslami, Yvonne le Grand, Edward Ihnatowicz, JODI, Bas van Koolwijk, Lancel/Maat, Jan Robert Leegte, Peter Luining, Jonas Lund, Luna Maurer & Roel Wouters, Martine Neddam, Marnix de Nijs & Edwin van der Heide, Play the City, Dick Raaijmakers, Joost Rekveld, Remko Scha, Jeffrey Shaw, Debra Solomon, Steina, P. Struycken and Michel Waisvisz.  

Thanks to the curators of Sanneke Huisman (LI-MA) and Klaas Kuitenbrouwer (Nieuwe Instituut), to all the technicians and restorers involved and to the wonderful teams of Nieuwe Instituut and LI-MA. 

Thanks to all supporters and collaboration partners Fonds 21, NADD, Creative Industries Fund and Mondriaan Fonds; Nieuwe Instituut, V2, Tetem, ArtEZ, Creative Coding Utrecht. And - last but not least - thank you all for your numerous visits, your interest and your support.

Specialist in the Preservation of Media Art

REBOOT. Pioneering Digital Art featured key works from 1960 to 2000, plus new interpretations by contemporary makers, and presented the impact of digital technology in art and society – building on the Digital Canon of the Netherlands, compiled by experts in 2017-2019 and commissioned by LI-MA. These media art key works were restored by LI-MA. If you like to know more about this process or what that could mean for your collection, please contact Joost Dofferhoff (Registrar & Assistant Conservator at LI-MA).