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Sanneke Huisman18/08/2014Catalogue
On Tuesday September 9, Frederique Bergholtz and Susan Gibb (If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, Amsterdam) present the next event in “The LIMA Collection”, an evening programme in which curators trace lines through the LIMA collection and the history of media art.
 
The development of performance and media art are closely intertwined. Artists working with performance quickly recognised the potential of video to document their...Read more
Fragment uitzending Sebastian Lopez bij fototentoonstelling in Aorta
Brigitte Bélanger21/07/2014Research

Sebastian Lopez was closely involved in TBTTM. He was a friend of Raul Marroquin and other curators from TBTTM and a member of the programme committee of Time Based Arts. Lopez still lives in Amsterdam nowadays. We met twice for long interviews.

The time and the context

Sebastian Lopez: When I arrived in the Netherlands from South America in 1981, I knew de Appel, because if you knew...Read more

LIMA organisation
LIMA16/07/2014Research

LIMA conserveert, distribueert en onderzoekt mediakunst. Met de actieve (online) distributie van de eigen collectie, het e-depot voor opslag en conservering van mediakunst en een duurzaamheidslab voor makers en musea, werkt LIMA aan de digitaal duurzame toegankelijkheid van mediakunst.

Om ons team te versterken zijn wij per september op zoek naar

een stagiair born-digital art archivering en conservering (24-32 uur per week)...Read more

23/06/2014Research

Maandagmiddag 23 juni organiseert de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed in Amersfoort in samenwerking met de Museumvereniging een studiemiddag rond het thema Kennis en inspiratie, waaraan LIMA meewerkt.  Gaby Wijers (directeur LIMA) zal samen met Simone Vermaat (RCE) de casestudie Jeffrey Shaw’s ‘Revolution’ – Interactie met installatiekunst, bespreken.

Meer informatie...Read more

image Pre Choreographic Movement Kit
21/06/2014Research

Gaby Wijers, Vivian van Saaze en Annet Dekker participeerden in 2008-2010 in het onderzoeksproject Inside Movement Knowledge (IMK), waarin zij de verschillen en overeenkomsten tussen documentatie voor heruitvoering van dans en beeldende kunst onderzochten. Voortkomend uit Inside Movement Knowledge wordt onder meer de NOTATION series door het International Choreographic Arts Centre (ICKamsterdam)...Read more

Cinema Revistited image LIMA
Sanneke Huisman03/06/2014General

Cinema revisited: form follows fiction in three chapters:
Found footage, staged reality and Disney’s claim to reality

Op dinsdag 3 juni opent Bart Rutten (conservator bij het Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam)  'De LIMA Collectie', een avondprogramma waarin curatoren lijnen trekken door zowel onze collectie als de geschiedenis van mediakunst.

Mediakunst, en videokunst in het...Read more

Still from the Talking Back to the Media broadcast on Kabeltelevisie Amsterdam, 10 november 1985
Camie Karstanje22/04/2014Distribution

Still from the Talking Back to the Media broadcast on Kabeltelevisie Amsterdam, 10 november 1985

David Garcia: The basis of the experiment was: Can you produce an event for a city where all the basic platforms of mass media are combined so that the artist's media-presence has an equivalent  impact to  corporate and state media?'

As one of the initiators and together with Raul Marroquin the co-creator of the concept, David...Read more

Poster made by Klaus Staeck commissioned by Talking Back to the Media, 1985.
Camie Karstanje08/04/2014Preservation

Poster made by Klaus Staeck commisioned by Talking Back to the Media, 1985

In December 2013, Rob Perrée, author and art historian, visits de Appel Arts Centre to talk with us about his experiences with Talking Back to the Media. Talking Back to the Media was a manifestation that took place in Amsterdam during november 1985. It focussed on the media and its influence and how artist reacted to this influence. Rob Perrée helped organising the...Read more

Sanneke Huisman01/03/2014Distribution
Brigitte Bélanger16/02/2014Preservation

From September to November 2013, we have searched the archives of de Appel arts centre and LIMA for material of Talking Back to the Media. At LIMA, we found a box with about ten video tapes from U-matic and VHS to Hi8, with most of the hours of the local cable television broadcasts. At de Appel we found the press release and everything what was contained in the press kit: a lot of information about the artists and the program, correspondence of the organisation with the participating...Read more

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