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LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · 8d

An update on our future.

LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · 14d

🌐 Save the date! LI-MA proudly presents the 10th edition of Transformation Digital Art, our annual international symposium dedicated to the preservation of digital art. This year's theme: Networks!

More details coming soon. Read more → www.li-ma.nl/article/transformation-digital-art-2026

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LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · 17d

⏰ Reminder: Applications for LI-MA’s Supervisory Board close 1 October.

Learn more and apply → li-ma.nl/article/vaca...

LI-MA - Living Media Art | Vacancy Member of the Supervisory Board at LI-MA

LI-MA is looking for a new Member to join its Supervisory Board. Apply now!

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LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · 21d

Without shared systems, media art’s rich history risks remaining siloed, hard to discover, and difficult to preserve.

Read our reflections on how developing Linked Open Data standards helps make media art collections more connected, accessible, and resilient → li-ma.nl/article/conn...

LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · 23d

Our newsletter is slated to hit your inbox at the end of the month! Stay in the loop – if you want to get a first look at TDA 2026, read more about our new platform, and learn what’s unfolding across our ongoing initiatives → li-ma.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · 26d

As we mark #InternationalProgrammersDay, we reflect on how digital platforms can connect communities. For the occasion, we spoke with designer Florian van Zandwijk (studio mot) about shaping LI-MA’s new platform Living Media Art.

Read the interview → li-ma.nl/article/livi...

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LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · Sep 9

How do we build resilient, human-curated knowledge beyond corporate influence and AI noise? On 18 Sept, join MU & the NADD for a Wikipedia edit-a-thon: an evening full of open knowledge and care for the digital commons! All you need is your laptop!

More information → nadd.network/activiteiten...

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LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · Sep 6

From the LI-MA collection → Biennale Son:
🎥 Woody Vasulka’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 (1983), a layered video opera on Paganini & Berlioz.
🔊 Steina & Woody Vasulka’s 𝘕𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥𝘴 (1974), an iconic experiment in video flicker and sound.

More about the Biennale → en.biennaleson.ch

LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · Sep 4

One year ago, LI-MA brought Dutch media art to the world stage at the 15th Gwangju Biennale 🇰🇷.

Invited by the Dutch Embassy in South Korea, we curated the Netherlands Pavilion with 𝘛𝘸𝘰 𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴, featuring works by artist duo Broersen & Lukács.

Read about the exhibition → li-ma.nl/article/li-m...

LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · Sep 3

Reminder! LI-MA is still seeking a new Supervisory Board member with expertise in the creative industries, makers’ practices, and digital arts. This role is a chance to support LI-MA’s mission to preserve and activate digital culture.

Deadline: 1 October 2025. Apply → li-ma.nl/article/vaca...

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LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · Sep 2

On #DuurzameDinsdag we celebrate sustainable ideas – for the environment, but also for our culture.

For LI-MA, sustainability means making sure digital artworks survive rapid tech changes and remain accessible. Find out how we’re making their preservation sustainable → li-ma.nl/article/coll...

LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · Aug 28

How do we nurture a living, breathing community around media art in times of rapid technological change? In a new article, Esther van Rosmalen (@witterook.bsky.social) spotlights our emerging community platform, Living Media Art.

Read the article → li-ma.nl/article/futu...

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LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · Aug 28

Read up on the latest updates of our Connecting Media Art project and discover how we are harnessing Linked Open Data to improve the visibility and accessibility of make art collections. Here's our report li-ma.nl/article/a-br...

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LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · Aug 25

Two works from our collection land in WG Film Festival: TIME/METAMORPHOSIS at LAB111 in Amsterdam. 🎞️

Mateo Vega’s 𝘊𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘙𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘔𝘢𝘭𝘭 dissects the city’s symbolic blueprints. And Judith Westerveld’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘴 revives an |xam legend.

📅 27 & 28 Aug
🎟️ www.lab111.nl

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Annie Abrahams @anniea.bsky.social · Aug 20

aabrahams.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/a... AMIGA NU @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social

Amiga works short-listed

Happy to have three works in the Short-List recommendation of Artworks uncovered by LI-MA during their AMIGA NU research project. This list aims to shed light on artworks that would be beneficial t…

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LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · Aug 21

𝗩𝗮𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘆: 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗕𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗠𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝘁 𝗟𝗜-𝗠𝗔. Are you rooted in digital art and the creative industries? Ready to help us shape the future of media art? 🚀 Profile: creative industries, makers & digital arts. Read the full vacancy: li-ma.nl/article/vaca... #mediaart #vacancy #creativeindustries

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LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · Aug 14

August at LI-MA: a deep dive into Living Media Art ahead of September’s platform launch, insights from projects old and new, and more. 📥 Subscribe to get the full story straight to your inbox → li-ma.nl/news-and-new...

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LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · Aug 8

How do we design systems that shape lived experience – for all species involved? That’s the question at the heart of the Somabotics project, where LI-MA, as partner, collaborates with artists and researchers to explore embodied interaction and the ethics of AI through an artistic lens.

LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · Aug 8

It is the outcome of an extensive collaboration between Blast Theory, the University of Nottingham, the Open University, and the University of Lincoln.

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LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · Aug 8

Recognised in Columbia University’s Digital Dozen: Breakthroughs in Storytelling 2025, the project explores how narrative can emerge through the interplay of technology, care, and agency.

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LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · Aug 8

Today’s International Cat Day has us thinking about Cat Royale, in which feline residents roam a purpose-built environment, their world subtly shaped by an AI caretaker.

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LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · Jul 31

From floppy disks to forgotten formats, Amiga-based art from the 1980s–90s faces serious preservation risks. LI-MA’s AMIGA NU project digs into how these early digital works were made – and what it takes to care for them today.

🔗 Guides, findings, and tools now online → li-ma.nl/article/how-...

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LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · Jul 24

Seen live at Nottingham Contemporary on 22 and 23 July, the next phase of this research-performance continues in Amsterdam later this year during Cinekid MediaLab.

LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · Jul 24

Developed with the @uniofnottingham.bsky.social Mixed Reality Lab as part of the Somabotics Creatively Embodying AI project, the work features robotic arms responding to visitors' gestures and stories in real time via poetic AI.

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LI-MA – Living Media Art @li-ma-media-art.bsky.social · Jul 24

Can a robot give you a hug? ‘Embrace Angels’ invites you to find out. This interactive performance-installation by award-winning artist duo Karen Lancel & Hermen Maat explores intimacy, touch, and trust between humans and machines.

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