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The Zooms, by Sam Lavigne, is an algorithmic extraction of zooming and horizontal panning shots from 600 hours of leaked police helicopter surveillance footage.

An installation by Colette Aliman, which is a hybrid sculpture, sound installation, and lecture performance.

Designer Jean-Baptiste Castel plays with the tension between craft and automation through the construction of a series of vases built using the material qualities of CGI.

The transformation of the natural world into exploitable resources is a key process in the development of contemporary society. Designer Noa Jansma pushes this process to its extreme, applying it to one of the last remaining frontiers untouched by such capital-driven systems: clouds.

Designer Patrick Hutchinson’s project explores the legacy of STEIM, a hub for experimental electronic music and instrument development based in Amsterdam.

Inside the Surface delves into the often overlooked social and environmental implications of media devices, including their overconsumption.

Mogasam (Arabic for animated, anthropomorphic) explores the digital landscape of Cairo as a place for conservation through creation.

Join the conversation on decolonizing architecture with artist and researcher Victoria McKenzie as she shines a light on the under-recognized diversity of climates, cultures, and histories, especially within the Global South.

Bits to Pieces is a speculative installation that explores the process of decay and its effect on our perception of data and digital media as an infallible material.

The Heart of the Heart (2024) is an altarpiece dedicated to the relationship between networked technology and spirituality.

Sleep On It (2023) is een ontmanteld computerspel waarin -1-resident, grafisch ontwerper en nieuwe-mediakunstenaar Sondi de wereld van dagdromen verkent als een plek van samenzijn voor Zwarte mensen en mensen van kleur.

POCHVA is alive! The multimedia installation, by -1 artist-in-residence Philipp Groubnov, reconstructs the Belarussian village Zhirovichi, considered by many a sacred site.

Listen to the discomforting hum of the Nieuwe Instituut’s data servers while you watch Acid Clouds, a photo essay and research project by graphic designer Niels Schrader and photographer Roel Backaert.

How do we observe, imagine and embody the world and the weather? Researcher and designer Sophie Dyer and geographer Sasha Engelmann, also known as Open-weather, formed the Feminist Space Agency during a two-day workshop in –1 at Nieuwe Instituut.

The Metaverse is a place that is susceptible to hacking and the creation of deep fakes in a post-truth world, where trickers use their coded bodies and voices to become a part of the virtual environment.

corecore is a collective and online platform for sharing and understanding the sonics of cyber-culture and the relationship between identity, community, and affect in "virtual” environments.

InstituutBot v0.1 is part of an ongoing repository of AI prototypes built by Nieuwe Instituut’s digital specialist Jaap Stronks.