Interview: LI-MA director Gaby Wijers in conversation with Louis Jebb, on preservation, care, and why media art isn't preserved once and left alone, but translated across technologies, contexts and generations over time. Read on Right Click Save → www.rightclicksave.com/article/a-no...

Behoud van mediakunst in Nederlandse musea staat onder druk. LI-MA pleit voor structurele ondersteuning van gespecialiseerde conservering en kennisontwikkeling. Lees hier het #persbericht: mailchi.mp/li-ma/persbe... #conservering #digitalekunst

Concerned about how media shapes the way we look at culture? Stefaan Decostere spent his career scrutinising the power structures behind how we stage the world. A crowdfunding campaign is underway to support a retrospective publication of his work → growfunding.be/en/projects/...

A retrospective publication by artist Stefaan Decostere

Are you also concerned about the impact of media on the way we look at culture? This has been the common thread running through the work of ... ever.

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Artists in Focus: Livinus & Jeep van de Bundt – a father and son who turned electronics into instruments. Their work is on view in the 𝘗𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘔𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘈𝘳𝘵 exhibition at Nxt Museum until 10 September. Read our feature → li-ma.nl/article/arti...

David Haines' 𝘊𝘓𝘜𝘉 (2025) traces a history of queer nightclubs and the AIDS epidemic – euphoria and fear, liberation and vulnerability held together. Read the new blog by Maura Guépin on the work, which has been newly acquired by the @franshalsmuseum.bsky.social → mediakunst.net/public/club-...

New Artist(s) in Focus: Livinus & Jeep van de Bundt – a father and son duo who turned electronics into instruments. Their work is view now in the exhibition Pioneers of Media Art at Nxt Museum, Amsterdam, until 10 September 2026. Read our feature → li-ma.nl/article/arti...

Our 2025 annual report is out – a year of continuing conservation and research work while securing LI-MA's own continuity. Read it here: li-ma.nl/strapi/uploa...

On view until 10 September → Pioneers of Media Art: The First Years of MonteVideo at Nxt Museum until 10 September. An exhibition revisits the first gallery in the Netherlands dedicated to video art, via a deep dive into our archives. Read more: li-ma.nl/article/pion...

On June 22 & 23, CONTENT MACHINES - Requies brings together talks, screenings, and live interventions, unfolding online via Distant.Gallery and in Amsterdam at LI-MA. Across two evenings, we the aesthetics and politics of automation. More info & tickets → li-ma.nl/article/cont...

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A hybrid two-day festival by LI-MA and Distant.Gallery

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On #InternationalMuseumDay 2026, we reflect on the role museums can play in holding space for complexity, dialogue, and collective memory. At a time marked by division, museums remain places where different perspectives and communities can meet, to engage with difference critically and with care.

How do we connect media art collections beyond one institution? In this interview, Petra Dreiskämper, Joost Dofferhoff & Jaap van der Kreeft share insights, plus reflections on LI-MA’s Connecting Media Art project and its vision for digital heritage. Read more ↓ li-ma.nl/article/refl...

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What do Linked Open Data mean in practice for media art collections (mediakunst)

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United in diversity, or drifting apart? On 30 April, during Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, LI-MA presents a programme reflecting on Europe as both idea and fracture. From Nicolas Provost to Ulay, artists question borders, identity, and belonging. More info → li-ma.nl/article/li-m...

LI-MA - Living Media Art | LI-MA at Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2026

Theus Zwakhals curates a present a programme from the LI-MA catalogue, new acquisitions, but also older works

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From GPS traces to autonomous agents, locative media art rethinks how space is produced. In a new article, Marijn Bril reflects on Connecting Data, Art and Location at Transformation Digital Art 2026. Read more → li-ma.nl/article/conn...

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A panel on locative media art during LI-MA's Transformation Digital Art symposium

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From 🎨 🖼️ to 👾 💻 – the exhibition 𝘗𝘪𝘹𝘦𝘭 𝘗𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘳𝘴 at @museum boijman Van Beuningen connects early digital pioneers with contemporary artists, showing how their innovations continue to shape visual culture today.

LI‑MA is expanding its team! We’re hiring for two part-time positions: a Time-Based Media Conservator (16–24h/week) and a Documentalist / Researcher (8h/week, 8 months). Join us in working closely with artists, museums, and international partners. Applications are open → li-ma.nl/article/vaca...

Read our recap of #TDA2026. What transpired over 2 days of critical conversations, hands-on workshops, and meaningful exchange over the present and future of digital art → li-ma.nl/article/reca...

The end of #TDA2026 Day 2 turns to locative art projects, moving from the blockchain dérive of Jan Robert Leegte’s Wanderer, to bringing older works to the present.

Can AI support the conservation and stewardship of media art? Or help connect and compare video art archives and connections? And how to address biases in the documentation of intangible heritage? #TDA2026

Artist Nestor Siré brings a perspective from Cuba, where local ingenuity grapples with infrastructural limitations, and urges us to approach technology from a local point of view. #TDA2026

Media art collections are often siloed from each other. Our first panel of the day at #TDA2026 highlights projects and initiatives that aim to connect archives collections, and data.

Immersive installations have taken over the cultural sector, presented as highly shareable spectacle. In her keynote during #TDA2026, Amira Gad problematises how digital infrastructures can reproduce existing imbalances to the detriment of critical engagement with art.

LI-MA founder and director Gaby Wijers is kicking off Day 2 of Transformation Digital Art 2026! A look back at 10 editions of LI-MA’s symposium on media art preservation #TDA2026

Day One of #TDA2026 is done – another full day of conversations ahead tomorrow! As a preview, read our latest update on the Connecting Media Art (2025–2026) project before project lead Tjarda de Haan presents it live → li-ma.nl/article/refl...

LI-MA - Living Media Art | Reflections on LI-MA's Connecting Media Art project

What do Linked Open Data mean in practice for media art collections (mediakunst)

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We end the day with a remote contribution from @jonaslund.com (all the way from Hong Kong) to discuss his work ‘Network Maintenance’. #TDA2026

#TDA2026 is also a space where new ideas can be tested, presented, and developed via peer feedback. Researcher Aga Wielocha presents an emerging accessible repository of preservation processes and practices.

Inge Hinterwaldner and Annet Dekker discuss artistic, museum, curatorial, and civic preservation strategies for net-based artworks. What new forms of categorisation can emerge even in moments of crisis? #TDA2026

Time-based media art conservator at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Flaminia Fortunato and art historian & researcher Chiara Borgonovo ask: If we imagine our practice as a carrier bag, what do we bring in it? #TDA2026

In the face of extractive digital infrastructures and an opaque technoscientific apparatus, Brian Castriota & Helia Marçal (@uclhistoryofart.bsky.social) a propose care as an aspirational political proposition and the potential of refusal as a site of ethics and gesture of resistance. #TDA2026

Next up: Ronny Heiremans (Jubilee) on collective ownership, shared archives, and artistic infrastructures that function as living systems rather than static collections. #TDA2026

A deep dive into net art histories with Tereza Havlíková and Sakrowski (@zfn.bsky.social), focusing on how early internet artworks can be preserved without losing their context. #TDA2026