Here we are - there we go!
Media Art Institute 30th Anniversary open house weekend
From 08-05-2009 until 10-05-2009

Symposium Friday 8 May from 9:00 – 18:00 hrs Trouwgebouw Amsterdam
Projection on the NIMk building by Jan van Nuenen Friday and Saturday starting at sunset
Open house Saturday 9 May 12:00 – 21:00 hrs
Party Saturday 9 May 21:00 – 03:00 hrs
Open huis Sunday 10 May 12:00 – 18:00 hrs

The Netherlands Media Art Institute is celebrating its 30th anniversary! We are doing so with an open house on 8, 9 and 10 May, a long weekend full of discussions, visual art and technology. We lift a glass to the future, and invite everyone to think along with us about the art of today and tomorrow, about media art and digital culture in all its colors and keys. What fundamental changes in our lives will accompany technological innovation? What influence is tomorrow's digital environment having on artists today? And what will this mean for an institution like the NIMK? This moment is an ideal opportunity to determine where we stand, and to look ahead to the future.

The Netherlands Media Art Institute's mission is to support and encourage the free development of media art. Over the past thirty years this art form, which is defined by its connection with technology, has experienced an enormously diverse development: from video art, performance and work on Super8, via internet and Second Life to wearable technology and blogs. What has continued to fascinate us through all these years is precisely this growth and development, the flexible use of one new technology after another, and the creativity shown by artists in doing so.

Rene Coelho, the founder of Montevideo, always had a short and simple answer when asked for a definition of media art: 'It is art with a plug.' The manifestations of media art have changed immensely since that time, but in essence he is still right. Media art has taken on many shapes which are not always easy to fit – or even to twist – into the definition of 'Art'. Media art now includes works made with ever more advanced new technologies: digital art, computer graphics, virtual art, computer animation, robotics, internet art, interactive technologies and biotechnology.

Their diversity will not only define our future, but also challenges us to continually come up with innovative solutions in the different activities which connect the Institute with media art : exhibitions, collection, distribution and promotion, conservation, production, research, reflection and education. We want our activities to be trend-setting and produce food for thought, and work together with many individuals and institutions, here in The Netherlands and internationally, to that end. We therefore dedicate the open house weekend in honor of our 30th anniversary to all those who have supported us over the course of the years, and we hope for many productive years of collaboration with them ahead.

Symposium: Positions in Flux
Outdoor projects
Jan van Nuenen
Silver & True
Installations
Marnix de Nijs
Constant Dullaart
Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand
Adad Hannah and Niklas Roy
Lilia Perez Romero
feedbacksociety
Open platform: Think Ahead
Discussions
Artists talk
Gateway to Archives of Media Art
Media Art Platform
Open house in departments
Artlab
Mediatheque
Video postproduction
Preservation
Workshops
Build your own robot
Electronic Jewelery
Portable Pixels & Worn Out Sounds
Mi Cocina
Online Radio
Video/film-programs
Blender
Virtual Collection Tours
How I fell in love with media art
AiR recordings
Big Art for Little People
feedback lounge
Performances - DJ's
Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand
feedbacksociety
TokTek vs MNK
DJ Collective RedNoseDistrict
And more
30 years of NIMK design
Media art-mobile
NIMK distributed
Augmented reality

SYMPOSIUM
Positions in flux: artists and institutions in the networked society
Friday 8 May 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Location: Trouw Building, Amsterdam
The symposium deals with several important parameters for the present and future development of today's media art. In particular it will examine the aspect of cultural sustainability of art projects, art and technological initiatives and art programming. The symposium is comprised of three interrelated panels:
Art goes politics with Hans Bernhard, Wafaa Bilal and Knowbotic Research, moderated by Chris Keulemans
New territories and cultures of the digital with Bronac Ferran, Nat Muller, Marcus Neustetter and Pιter Gyφrgy, moderated by Rob van Kranenburg
Open Source – A scheme for art production and curating? with Marcos Garcia, Jaromil, Joasia Krysa, Femke Snelting and Renιe Turner, moderated by Josephine Bosma
During the lunch break: the intervention Flirtman by Silver & True
More information:
SYMPOSIUM
Online Chat: CHAT

OUTDOOR PROJECTS

Jan van Nuenen, Physics Distorter 1.1, 2009
Friday 8 May 9:30 p.m. – 1:00 a.m. special opening at 10:15 p.m.
Saturday 9 May 9:30 p.m. – 1:00 a.m.
Location: NIMK faηade
Jan van Nuenen (NL, b. 1978) has adapted his latest interactive installation, Physics Distorter 1.1, to the architecture of the NIMK building on the Keizersgracht especially for our 30th anniversary. Programmed in open source software, he has produced a real time computer simulation of 1000 Power Balls bouncing around on the walls of the building. With a wireless globe visitors can influence the force of gravity, so that the balls can not only fall downward, but also upward, or to the side.
Van Nuenen not only makes experimental animations and video installations, but also electronic music. His films often include collages of found images and video material that he samples, cuts up, combines and edits in the computer with the assistance of various kinds of animation software. www.janvannuenen.com

Silver & True, Flirtman, 2009
A computer game in reality
Friday 8 May 00:30 – 1:30 p.m. Location: Trouw Building, Amsterdam
Saturday 9 May Noon – 2:00 p.m., 3:00 – 5:00 p.m., 8.15 – 9:00 p.m.
Sunday 10 May Noon – 2:00 p.m., 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Location: NIMK building and vicinity
A ‘real’ avatar* visits the NIMK. He is anonymous and does not stand out in the crowd. What sets him apart is his connection with the mobile network. By using the Flirtman gsm you can send different commands to the avatar. With these you can direct him and control his actions. As the avatar receives the commands he carries them out in a natural manner. Then a surrealistic game in public space begins . Flirtman poses questions about simulation in our everyday lives and tries to make the simulation that is so characteristic of computer games a reality. http://silver.avu.cz/someevilisgood/

*An avatar is an icon that you can control, which represents a person in an computer game.

INSTALLATIONS

Marnix de Nijs, Exploded views – Remapping Firenze
Friday 8 May 9:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. (premiθre)
Saturday 9 May Noon – 10:00 p.m.
Sunday 10 May Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Location: NIMK 1st floor, gallery 5
Exploded Views is an interactive installation in which three participants run on individual treadmills to move through an interactive audio-visual 3D environment that is projected on the front of the apparatus. The sound and projected images were recorded in public spaces in various cities. In this version the visitor moves through Florence, where, because of increasing mobility and the ever increasing numbers of tourists that enables, the public life and beauty of this Renaissance city have been entirely disrupted. Tourism is changing the city into a sort of city-hoppers' Disney World, while at the same time driving the local population out of the center of town (12 million tourists per year vs a population of only 355,000). The first version of Exploded Views, Remapping Firenze was made especially for the Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina – CCCS in Florence, Italy.
Produced by Marnix de Nijs, Rotterdam and Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina (CCCS), Firenze, www.strozzina.org. Co-producer NIMK

Constant Dullaart
Friday 8 May 9:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Saturday 9 May Noon – 10:00 p.m.
Sunday 10 May Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Location: 1st floor, gallery 1
Constant Dullaart has recently completed his residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, and is chiefly occupied with developing contemporary visual language, and particularly with the fluctuating value of representation and documentation in this era of electronic media and the influence of international corporations which design these media. How does a natural disaster become a video effect in a software package, and how is suffering captured in a thumbnail? Recently his work has often concentrated on the internet and blogs, such as rhizome.org and Art in America.
www.constantdullaart.com

Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, Sonolevitation (2007), with live stereoscopic video feed by Bas van Koolwijk
Friday 8 May 9:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Saturday 9 May Noon – 10:00 p.m. (performance 9:00 p.m. Location: Project Space)
Sunday 10 May Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Location: 1st floor, gallery 3
Life without the force of gravity is rather awkward: fluids that are not in closed containers fly all over the place. In a space capsule gases, liquids and powders are kept in place by acoustic suspension. On earth this same process creates the impression of a localized absence of gravity.
In Sonolevitation flakes of gold are lifted and moved in various directions acoustically. Any movement or change of direction of a flake, no matter how minimal, has extreme consequences for the sound. An artwork in a gravity vacuum like this (as in a spaceship) makes things that were not anticipated audible and visible. www.portablepalace.com/

Adad Hannah & Niklas Roy, International Dance Party, 2007
Friday 8 May 9:30 – 11:00 p.m.
Saturday 9 May Noon – 10:00 p.m.
Sunday 10 May Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Location: 1st floor, gallery 4
International Dance Party (IDP) is a complete 'party in a box' by the Canadian artist Adad Hannah and the German artist Niklas Roy. The machine looks like an ordinary 'flightcase' that is used, for instance, for transporting delicate apparatus. Internally, it is equipped with cutting edge radar sensing technology, an ear-blasting state-of-the-art 600W sound system, tons of psychedelic light and laser effects, and even a professional-grade fog machine. Through its dance activity radar, the International Dance Party detects and evaluates motion input from surrounding people in realtime., Once visitors start to dance within the machine's range of perception several sophisticated transforming mechanisms let the flightcase turn into a powerful and boosting party machine.
The audience controls the complexity of the music generated and the intensity of the light effects directly by the energy of its dance action. When there is no audience, or when the audience is not active enough, the machine stops its performance and transforms back into a transport crate. So the more you move, the better things get. www.internationaldanceparty.com
With the cooperation of the General Delegation of Quebec, at Brussels.

Lilia Perez Romero, Frontera v.2
Saturday 9 May Noon – 10:00 p.m.
Sunday 10 May Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Location: 3rd floor, Artlab
In this interactive installation digital portraits respond to the visitor's movements. Visitors can make a digital portrait in the video cabin and add it to the database. This permits the visitor to play with his or her own projected mirror image, which responds to his or her movements.

feedbacksociety, A/V Blocks
Saturday 9 May 9:30 p.m. performance
Sunday 10 May Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Location: ground floor, Project Space
A/V Blocks is a kinetic sound and light sculpture comprised of centrally regulated light and audio elements. These elements are made from recycled fluid containers of one cubic meter, with a light source and sound box in each container. The lights follow the sound as it moves through the containers. A/V Blocks was realized by feedbacksociety in cooperation with the refuse materials architect Denis Oudendijk (refunc). www.feedbacksociety.com

OPEN PLATFORM THINK AHEAD
Saturday 9 May Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Location: ground floor, Project Space
Open Platform Think Ahead investigates the future of media art and digital culture. It is an incubator and marketplace for new ideas. Here you can catch a glimpse into the mind of the artist and the hard drives of creative sorts.
The NIMK invited artists, researchers, developers and hackers from the Dutch digital culture scene to work 'under construction' to present artworks, events, installations, performances and soft/hardware tools for cultural purposes or on/offline publications.
This afternoon pre-selected projects will be presented to the public and the jury. Participants will be given 10 minutes to explain their work and answer questions from the public and jury.
The winner receives 2000 euro, advice and technical support for the further development or actual realization of the project.
Jury: Susanne Jaschko, NIMK; Floor van Spaendonck, director of Virtual Platform; Alex Schaub, director of FabLab Waag Society; Christine van den Horn, programmer at Media Guild.

DISCUSSIONS

Artists Talk
A look behind the scenes with media artists
Saturday 9 May
1:00 p.m. Driessens and Verstappen in conversation with Gaby Wijers
2:00 p.m. eddie d talks with Joke Ballintijn
3:00 p.m. Erwin Olaf speaks with Theus Zwakhals
4:00 p.m. Constant Dullaart in conversation with Sandra Fauconnier
Location: 1st floor, gallery 2
Since the Netherlands Media Art Institute was established in 1978 it has built up an extensive collection of video and media art, to which new works are also constantly being added. In addition to its own collection the NIMK also administers the video collections of various other institutions such as De Appel and Instituut Collectie Nederland, and performs conservation work for the collections of De Hallen in Haarlem, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Groninger Museum and the Boymans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, among others.

By now the NIMK collection contains more than 2000 works, varying from the first experiments from the early 1970s to recent productions by famous Dutch and international artists and rising new talents. The NIMK carries out an active distribution policy with regard to these works: videos and media installations from the collection are to be seen at festivals, events and exhibitions, in galleries, museums and other art institutions, here and around the world.

Artists will throw light on various aspects of their work in this quartet of presentations and conversations with NIMK staff: the sources of their inspiration and the way they work, how and where they prefer to show their work, and what an institute like the NIMK means for them. Come along to listen – and particularly bring all your questions about the artists' practice!

Media Art Platform
Saturday 9 May 2:30 p.m.
Location: ground floor, Mediatheque
Media Art Platform is a new web-platform on internet developed by the NIMK for media art professionals and enthusiasts: artists, developers, technicians, curators, researchers, teachers, students, and anyone interested in media art.

Gateway to Archives of Media Art
Saturday 9 May 5:00 p.m.
Location: ground floor, Mediatheque
GAMA stands for Gateway to the Archives of Media Art, and links the archives of diverse European media art institutions. The 19 European partners together form the most important digital content managers for media art in Europe. GAMA was developed as the central European online interface and search portal for everyone who is interested in media art.

OPEN HOUSE: DEPARTMENTS

ARTLAB
Saturday 9 May Noon - 10:00 p.m.
Sunday 10 May Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Location: 3rd floor, Artlab
The NIMK's Artlab hosts this weekend a selection off Artist in Residence projects since the introduction of that program in 2002. Through May, 2009, 23 artists have received support in the creation of new work. The Artist in Residence program supports research for and the development of new work based on digital/interactive/networked media and technology in an artist's practice. Visitors get an insight into the production of art and the place where it happens. The presentation encompasses audiovisual documentation, text displays and photos of the projects and video records of recent Artist in Residence projects. The installation Fontera V.2, by AiR Lilia Romero Perez, is to be seen in the Artlab (2008; for more information see Installations). In addition, Elephants Dream by Blender (2006; for more information see the video program, page xx) is being screened in the back stairwell, and the Dutch premiθre of the new installation by Marnix de Nijs, Exploded Views, Remapping Florence (2008; for more information see Installations,) is found in gallery 5.

MEDIATHEQUE
Saturday 9 May Noon – 7:00 p.m.
Location: ground floor, Mediatheque
The public can view all the works from the NIMk collection in the mediatheque and call up information on the media artists and their work. In addition to the own collection the mediatheque has a large collection of books, periodicals and documentation on contemporary media and art. In 2008 the archive was made fully accessible, the documentation collection digitized and the mediatheque renovated.
This weekend the new fittings are being presented and special guided tours are being given by the staff.
The brand new viewing set is designed by Richard van Os (άppig) in collaboration with Annekatrien van Meegen.

PRESERVATION
Saturday 9 May Noon – 4:30 p.m.
Guided tours: noon, 2:00 and 4:00 p.m.
Location: 2nd floor, preservation
The Netherlands Media Art Institute conserves video art, and since the early 1990s has initiated research into and conservation of media art. Visitors can witness the activities and get a peek behind the scenes.

VIDEO POSTPRODUCTION
Saturday 9 May 1:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Guided tours 1:00, 3:00 and 5:00 p.m.
Location: 2nd floor, Postproduction
In the postproduction department artists can work on their video or dvd independently or with the support of an editor. In special guided tours visitors will hear more about all the possibilities the department offers.

WORKSHOPS

Build your own Robot (ages 6-8)
Saturday 9 May 1:00 – 2:00, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Location: 3rd floor, gallery 6
You can make a 'drawbot' without having any knowledge of electronics. These simple robots are made of materials like plastic coffee cups, felt pens and little motors with weights on them. When the cups vibrate and rotate they create circles, lines and drawings. You can personalize your drawbots by decorating the cups and pasting stickers on them. The idea of a drawing robot is inspired by the 'drawbot' conceived by Jonah Brucker-Cohen. www.coin-operated.com/projects/drawbot.html

Electronic Jewelery (ages 8-11)
Saturday 9 May 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Location: 3rd floor, gallery 6
Children can make electronic jewelery from light and sound components. It could be a necklace, bracelet or, for instance, a ring that lights up or buzzes. But when is it switched on? All the time? Sometimes? If there is danger? If your friend is close by? What does that mean for you?

Portable Pixels & Worn Out Sounds (ages 12-16)
Saturday 9 May 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Location 3rd floor, gallery 6
This workshop will introduce you to 'wearable technology'. With conductive wire, resistors, foil, LEDs and batteries you can make your own personal Portable Pixels & Worn Out Sounds for your clothing, shoes or school bag. Where is the light or sound coming from? From your sleeve? From your tummy? You pants pocket? Is it pure decoration or does the light and sound mean lots more?

The workshops are led by the media artists Kristina Andersen, Aldje van Meer and Audrey Samson.

Mi Cocina (ages 4-6)
Workshop by eddie d
Sunday 10 May Noon – 12:45, 1:00 – 1:45, 2:00 – 2:45, 3:00 – 3:45, 4:00 – 4:45, 5:00 – 5:45 p.m.
Location: 3rd floor, gallery 6
Together with eddie d the children will make a video based on 'Mi Cocina', a sample of video art by Mr. d himself. A toy kitchen plays the starring role in 'Mi Cocina'; pot lids bounce rhythmically on plastic pans and toasted sandwiches dance around. But is what you see also what you hear? All the toys sound like the 'real' things. Here the children investigate for themselves how that can be. Together with eddie d they make a video in which the toys from 'Mi Cocina' sound like they are real.

Online Radio (ages 14+)
Workshop by Jaromil
Sunday 10 May 3:00 – 4:00, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Location: 3rd floor, Artlab
During this workshop you'll be introduced to the latest form of producing radio. Under the guidance of Jaromil (artist, hacker and programmer) you'll get acquainted with MuSE. MuSE is the MultipleStreamingEngine, developed by the programmers at Dyne. Streaming is the term that is used for sending live audio or video over the internet. With MuSE you can stream audio (sound). You'll learn how to make your own program and send it out via internet. Because MuSE is open source, after the workshop you can also make online radio at home. Jaromil shows that making radio can have its deadly serious dimensions, but can also be a terrific tool for lots of fun and games. The age for this workshop is 14+ – and thus includes adults too.

VIDEO/FILM PROGRAMS

Blender, Elephants Dream
Friday 8 May 9:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Saturday 9 May Noon – 10:00 p.m.
Sunday 10 May Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Location: ground floor, back stairwell
The open source film Elephants Dream will be screened continuously together with the 'making-of' this film. Elephants Dream is a story about communication and fiction, which as the first open source 3D animated film in the world was deliberately left open-ended. The film itself was brought out under a Creative Commons license, as were all the production files (about 7 gigabytes of data).

Virtual Collection Tours
Saturday 8 May 5:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Sunday 9 May Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Location: 1st floor, gallery 2
Virtual guided tours through the collection by Marina Abramovic, Renι Coelho, Heiner Holtappels, Raul Marroquin, Bart Rutten, Jason Langdon & Jata Haan, Sandra Fauconnier, Arie Altena and others.
All the media art works held by the NIMK can be found in the online catalog www.catalogue.nimk.nl. In addition to the works that the Institute distributes and manages there are also many hundreds of video recordings to be found there, which provide a picture of the developments in practice over thirty years of media art. Especially for our 30th anniversary a number of artists and specialists who have meant a lot to our institute have been invited to conduct a virtual tour through all this material.
Their selections and commentary give the public a personalized tour of the collection or a thematic introduction and insight into a specific part of it, such as for instance performance, expanded media or installations. The tours have their premiere on this anniversary weekend, and after it will be available online.

How I fell in love with media art
Friday 8 May 9:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Saturday 9 May Noon – 10:00 p.m.
Sunday 10 May Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Location: ground floor, front stairwell
The only birthday wish the Institute has is to hear from you about how you fell in love with media art. Through the campaign 'How I fell in love with media art' a number of people with love affairs with video art have already sent us (film) material in which they reveal how their infatuation started. These expressions of love are being projected during the anniversary weekend. Is yours there?
http://www.youtube.com/user/nimk30jaar

AiR recordings
Saturday 9 May Noon – 10:00 p.m.
Sunday 10 May Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Location: 3rd floor, Artlab
Video documentation of recordings of AiR projects: Simon Yuill, Jaromil, Sonia Cillari, Blender (variations, making of,YouTube), Marloes de Valk and Aymeric Mansoux, Yolande Harris.

Feedback Lounge
Sunday 10 May noon - 6:00 p.m.
Program starts noon, 1:30, 3:00 and 4:30 p.m.
Location: ground floor, Project Space
Catch your breath on Sunday afternoon in the “Feedback Lounge”, while enjoying a continuous program of new works from the collection, alternating with the installation A/V Blocks by feedbacksociety. Sit back, relax and watch the tracks!
eddie d - Heads and Globes, Similarity Matrix - NL, 2008, 1’30”
Sebastian Diaz Morales – Oracle - Argentina/NL, 2007, 11’30”
Seoungho Cho – Buoy - USA, 2008, 7'07''
Elodie Pong – After the Empire - China, 2008, 13'50”
Thomas Mohr – Three Blueprints - NL, 2008, 3'36”
Semiconductor – Matter in Motion - UK, 2008, 5'36”

PERFORMANCES / DJ'S

Evelina Domnitch and Dmitry Gelfand, Sonolevitation (2007)
Saturday 9 May 9:00 p.m.
Location: ground floor, Project Space
With live stereoscopic video feed by Bas van Koolwijk and sound spatialization by TeZ
More information: see Installation page.

feedbacksociety, A/V Blocks
Saturday 9 May 9:30 p.m.
Location: ground floor, Project Space
The technofreaks of feedbacksociety allow light and audio signals collide with each other.
feedbacksociety is a collective for audiovisual experiments from Den Haag, consisting of initiator and artist Arno Scheper and theatermaker/audio artist Renzo van Steenbergen. They work in various forms, including audiovisual performances and installations, kinetic audio sculptures, site-specific environments and live cinema with the emphasis on the intrinsic character of the media, physical movement and human interaction. With their installation A/V Blocks feedbacksociety gives a visual audio performance. More information on A/V Blocks: see Installations. www.feedbacksociety.com

TokTek vs MNK
Saturday 9 May 10:00 p.m.
Location: ground floor, Project Space
TokTek is the artist's name of the Breda musician and artist Tom Verbruggen. The most important
characteristic of TokTek's work is his capacity for improvisation, because he builds and converts his own instruments himself (circuitbending). Synths, toys and computers become instruments with a totally unique sound, and are controlled by means of a joystick. As a visual artist and circuitbender Karl Klomp is inspired by Glitch: small visual errors in computer images. As VJ MNK he creates VJ images that are assembled from deliberately generated glitches created by self-constructed video tools. TokTek and VJ MNK work together intensively on the podium; although their images and sound do not match one another, they do stimulate and inspire each other.

DJ Collective RedNoseDistrikt
Saturday 9 May 10:30 p.m. - 3:00 a.m.
Location: ground floor, Project Space
On Saturday evening RedNoseDistrikt, otherwise known as the Amsterdam producers Aardvarck and Steven de Peven, display their versatile style as dj's, with hip hop, disco, dub, funk, jazz, pop, new wave and electronic sounds. These dj's and their vj guarantee a good party, between Carnival and Art. For a decade now RedNoseDistrikt has been rocking harder than the rest!

EXTRA

NIMK Distributed
Saturday Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Sunday Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Especially for 'Here we are there we go' Florian Conradi, Michelle Christensen, Isabel Lucena and Jan van Bruggen have visualized the NIMk's activities as a distributor.
A simple graphic is employed as an image or icon, in order to generate attention for the visual presence of the NIMK as a distributor. This icon is used on t-shirts, buttons and stickers. To get a free t-shirt visitors have to pose in the shirt in front of a wall with logos of institutions with which the NIMk cooperates. This creates a 'glamor-event' like one has at award ceremonies for films and music, a podium around visual importance. The photos are placed on the NIMk website.

MediaArtMobile
Friday 8 May 9:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Saturday 9 May Noon – 10:00 p.m.
Sunday 10 May Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Location: 1st floor, corridor
From 8 through 23 May the Netherlands Media Art Institute is presenting the sketch plans for a new 'MediaArtMobile', a portable space in which media art can be shown and, for example, workshops can be given, with which the Institute can tour The Netherlands after late 2009. For this rough design the NIMK entered into a collaboration with the Art and Public Space Foundation (SKOR), which has a lot of experience with commissions for artists and designers in relation to public space (www.skor.nl).
Subsequently a commission for the MediaArtMobile was extended to several artists and designers: Kevin van Braak, Michiel Kluiters, Maurer United and Peter Stel. In addition Tillmann Meyer-Faje, Andre Kodde and Lucia Luptakova, from the Sandberg Institute, and eight students from the Technical University at Eindhoven were also asked to prepare a design.
From among the sketches that are being shown in the Netherlands Media Art Institute in May, one design will be selected that the NIMK will continue to develop and use. After it has been realized the MediaArtMobile will go on the road from late 2009, visiting schools, festivals and other venues, with a diverse program of workshops, installations and video programs.

30 years of NIMK design
Friday 8 May 9:30 – 11:00 p.m.
Saturday 9 May Noon –3:00 a.m.
Sunday 10 May Noon – 6:00 p.m.
Location: ground floor, reception
Retrospective of the printed materials from 30 years of Montevideo/NIMk.

Augmented Reality tbc
Entrance
Augmented Reality projects the environs as they really aren't. With a festive twist, you find yourself in an altered environment being projected on a projection screen. A sort of virtual reality, but without the space glasses. Curious?

Program is subject to change
MORE INFORMATION info@nimk.nl




Thanks to:
Mondriaan Foundation
Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
Powered by BeamSystems
City of Amsterdam
CCCS, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
The General Delegation of Quebec at Brussels
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
STRP, Eindhoven
SKOR
Cut-n-Paste
Cassandra Bron
Joppe Claassen
Kim Knoppers (Urban Aesthetics)
Gerard de Lange
Pim Peterse
Dierck Roosen
Light Design Institute: Isabelle Nielen and Yvon Muller (light installation, ground floor)
The viewing set was designed by Richard van Os (άppig) in collaboration with Annekatrien van Meegen.

All the staff, volunteers and Board of Directors, for their efforts over these 30 years
And of course, most of all: our visitors and the artists!