Open Archief
Opening up digital, royalty-free collections for creative re-use yields new and surprising stories for both makers and institutions. It also provides insight into the user-friendliness and accessibility of collections, and into the technical and copyright implications of re-use. Nieuwe Instituut collaborated with other heritage institutions to stimulate the creative re-use of open, digital heritage collections.
Creative practitioners are given the opportunity to create a new, autonomous media work within a several months working period, using the public and digitized collections of the participating heritage institutions. Through an open call, artists are selected to experiment with the possibilities of digital heritage collections in creative, technological and copyright-related ways.
Open Archief 4.0
Via an open call, visual artist mo Futures and writer Wassila Abboud have been selected for the fourth edition of Open Archief. They will use the (open) digital collections and extended network of the partner organizations to create a new publication - available both in physical and digital form - in which artistic research and the creative process are central. The selected artists have until January to develop their research and artistic practice further and to create their work. The publication - accommodated by a public presentation at Framer Framed - will be published at the end of the residency period in the beginning of 2026.
Open Archief 4.0 is a collaboration by Nieuwe Instituut, Sound & Vision, the International Institute of Social History and Framer Framed.
