SERVICES & PROJECTS
LIMA Online X UNFOLD
In the run-up to the UNFOLD: Nan Hoover festival there will be a special broadcast of LIMA Online with guests Quirine Racké & Helena Muskens. On Hoover’s birthday, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, we will present and discuss Hoover’s work with her former students and dear friends. Amongst many things, we will screen the video portrait My Life as an Artist, by Racké and Muskens.
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UNFOLD: Nan Hoover
UNFOLD: Nan Hoover is a one-day reinterpretation festival. 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.
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LIMA online program
During the closure of our exhibitions and restrictions on events due to COVID-19, we are moving more of our program online. From April 1 on we will host an online programe every Wednesday with online content, live talks or digital tours.
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Documentation of 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.
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Transformation Digital Art 2021
Transformation Digital Art 2021 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.
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New: LIMA Podcast
We are very excited to announce LIMA's very own podcast channel where we will publish monthly audio recordings of our Cultural Matter programme, interviews with artists and researchers and exclusive conversations, discussions and lectures on media art, it's history, preservation and presentation.
You can find our podcast on our Soundcloud.
ArtHost
LIMA launches a worldwide unique service to save complex digital and online artworks.
ArtHost
www.ArtHost.nlThe Arthost preservation service, is initiated and developed in cooperation with DullTech and supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL.
Digital Canon?!
On 22 March, LIMA launched a Digital Canon (1960–2000) of the Netherlands. Experts from the field of digital culture selected twenty of the most prominent and influential works made on Dutch soil by artists who lived or worked here over a long period of time. The works and their makers are not all equally well known, yet this does not detract from their lasting influence on digital art and culture. Each of the works makes use of or responds to digital culture’s increasing impact on art and society. Discover these exceptional works of art on www.digitalcanon.nl
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Mediakunst.net: five decades of media art accessible online
Discover the new 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.
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NEW In Distribution
Explore a wide range of new media artworks. Preview the newest works available for distribution and browse through over three thousand media artworks ranging from the early experimentalists to well-known international artists and emerging young talents in the field of video art and new media art. LIMA’s collection is open to museums, galleries, curators, researchers, events and festivals for programs, presentations and exhibitions. Preview the works online and please don’t hesitate to contact us. We are happy to assist you in any way we can
Preservation services
Programmes and projects
LIMA organizes and facilitates research projects, knowledge exchange, workshops and a public programme with various events and activities. Our (online) programmes are attended by researchers, students, experts, curators, art lovers, archivists and conservators from all over the world. We collaborate with national and international institutes, festivals and symposiums. LIMA aims to stimulate critical discussion and reflection and joins the ongoing discourse that contributes to the development of preservation, archiving curatorial presentation and distribution of media art.