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Tours

Omer Fast Solo Exhibition ... related works from the NIMk collection
 
Curator: NIMk
To be able to function and process information, we all rely heavily on short and long term memory recall. However, memory is malleable. Memories often change over time and the details of the stories we tell may become influenced, shifted and embellished. In response to the here and now we find ourselves unwittingly wielding ever more or less fantastic tales. So what happens when people start to believe that they are relating fact when the opposite is true? The topic raises many important socio-psychological issues and questions directly related to the nature of writing and rewriting history and how that can be misrepresented. How do we know, decipher or choose between fact and fiction and how does this relate to history?

Cloud Sounds ... in the NIMk collection
 
Curator: NIMk
Cloud Sounds is an exhibition about the power of collaboration, about forms of interaction and appropriation in sound and music. Almost all of the works could not exist without a social element, without participation from outside. In many cases the artist, as director, realises his/her ideas with the help of many assistants from all over the world. This relates to current developments on the internet, of web 2.0, which emphasises social networking: an expression of our desire for seamless adaptation in new ways of communicating and collaborating, for establishing a sense of belonging.

Space Invaders ... in the NIMk collection
 
Curator: NIMk
NIMk's new exhibition, Space Invaders (August 28 - November 6, 2010), reveals the influence of games on art and society. The exhibition explores how physical reality and (computer) games increasingly influence each other: the physical world migrates into gaming systems, and gaming elements find their way into physical space.

This is typical for the early 21st Century, when computer games become more and more popular and realistic, and have an increasing impact on real life. However, these contemporary phenomena can be traced back to earlier developments and tendencies in society and art, showcased in this online guided tour.

witty, lo-fi works with knotty thoughts ... in the NIMk collection
 
Curator: NIMk
On the occasion of the exhibition witty, lo-fi works with knotty thoughts (May 15 - July 24, 2010), this guided tour showcases a number of works from the NIMk collection that display similar methods and aesthetics as the installations in the exhibition. Selected artists: Ulrike Rosenbach, Alison Knowles, Laurie Anderson, Yvonne Oerlemans, Valérie Pavia, Pia Wergius, Rä di Martino and Elodie Pong.

Depreciated ... in the NIMk collection
 
Curator: Cory Arcangel tour
A guided tour through the Netherlands Media Art Institute’s collection, inspired by the work of Cory Arcangel. Selection of works by Petra Heck and Sandra Fauconnier, NIMk.

Created on the occasion of Cory Arcangel's solo exhibition Depreciated at NIMk, 29 August till 14 November 2009.

The Poetics of Space: a NIMk Selection (Sonic Acts 2010)
 
Curator: Martijn van Boven
Selected works from the NIMk collection relating to the Sonic Acts 2010 theme The Poetics of Space, from classics to new work by Mark Bain, Bernard Gigounon, Steina Vasulka, Kurt D'Haeseleer, Thomas Mohr, Semiconductor and Anouk De Clercq.

Versions ... in the NIMk collection
 
Curator: Versions tour
In Addition to the Versions exhibition at NIMk (Nov 28, 2009 till February 6, 2010), four of the participating artists have made a selection of works from the NIMk collection.

Their selection is in some cases a comment or reflection upon their own artistic practice, upon the exhibition itself, or has sometimes even functioned as the context for a new comment or artistic intervention.

A house is not a home
 
Curator: Marina Abramovic
If we are thinking of the hierarchy of art then I would put music as the first and most important element because music is so immaterial yet it can be absorbed directly into the body. In the second place would be performance art because it has a direct energy dialogue with the public and is an immediate form of art. It is time based, and it is happening here an now. After that come the other forms of art.

Observation and Registration
 
Curator: Heiner Holtappels
After graduating at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf in 1975, I went to the Netherlands together with Klaus Boegel in order to continue our studies. Very soon it became obvious that both of us dealt with a general insufficiency of the traditional arts, represented by painting and sculpture.
We found that the quality of the experience of art (painting and sculpture - as a static visual representation) - was too limited.
In addition to visual perception, we wished to involve the other senses as well..
This desire has always remained: in performances we searched for extreme physical experience, arranged environments in which the public was brought in trance or at least ended up in areas where a diffuse atmosphere stimulated different senses.
For me art is an experience of sensual perceptions, remaining in the memory for long time, and telling us something about the mystery of life.
By selecting the thirteen works for this tour through the video collection my first question was: which works could I spontaneously remember, surprised me,, moved me to laughter or irritation?
My selection is very subjective. Very few art-historical conditions were involved. Finally I was surprised that my choice contained a large number of documentary and performative works.
Documentaries and performances try to record reality and to suggest an objective view. But observation is never neutral – it is always influenced by interpretation.

Medium Specific Videoart
 
Curator: Jason Langdon and Jata Haan
Throughout history, mark making has evolved as humans developed language and communication skills. Tools and media have been developed that assist in the process of communication from as far back as Eurasians writing on clay tablets over 4000 years ago, inscribing earliest letter forms and pictograms, right the way throught to the modern day electronic PDA. Most interestingly, not all forms of communication were or are made to communicate any one specific idea or language that can be intrepreted directly, objectively or resolutely.

Interactivity
 
Curator: Sandra Fauconnier
A tour through the collection of the Netherlands Media Art Institute, focusing on interactivity: artworks that invite and require active participation from the audience.

A Story
 
Curator: Bart Rutten
De opkomst van videokunst kan gesitueerd worden in de periode van het postmodernisme. Vanuit een twijfel over de relevantie van puur abstracte en op zich zelf gerichte kunst, waren er veel kunstenaars die zochten naar een nieuwe manier om het publiek nadrukkelijker te betrekken bij hun kunst. Naast performances, een hernieuwde interesse in de figuratieve schilderkunst en interdisciplinaire kunstproducties ontwikkelde zich videokunst met een sterk narratief karakter. Om een tour te maken over de verhalende kant van video zou je gemakkelijk twee vertrekpunten kunnen kiezen. Enerzijds kunsthistorisch: vanuit de inbedding in een breder kunsthistorisch perspectief zoals hierboven kort geschetst, en anderzijds vanuit mediatheorie met in het bijzonder de relatie van videokunst tot het massamedium televisie. Televisie veroverde de Westerse maatschappij met name in de jaren zestig en richtte zich vanuit haar erfenis van de radio en cinema steeds meer op een eigen manier van verhalen vertellen. Videokunst reageerde sterk op de ontwikkelingen in het 'televisielandschap', soms omarmend, soms fel bekritiserend.

René Coelho's selection
 
Curator: René Coelho
"Voor mij memorabele tapes die ik uit de beige/zwarte catalogus van 1995 heb gehaald. Het zijn naar mijn idee nogal verschillende werken, maar ze hebben gemeen dat ze op mijn netvlies zijn blijven hangen."

Expanded Cinema
 
Curator: Arie Altena
A tour through the catalogue of NIMK, with an eye for work that uses abstract and generated images and aims at having a direct impact on the viewer by use of sensory input: image as image.
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