ScreenScreen
The screen at the entrance to Nieuwe Instituut is a testing ground dedicated to Digital Culture: commissions by new media artists, activities in -1, exhibitions, ongoing digitisation projects and more.
Nieuwe Instituut Screen Commission: The Ori that Speaks
In The Ori That Speaks, Asiko presents the figure of Ona, a woman in search of her Ori — the Yoruba understanding of the inner head and destiny. Through stillness, meditation, and ancestral presence, Ona undergoes a transformation, moving toward an awakened higher self.
Anonymous Allyship. Gabriel Fontana
In this game, players, coming from different generations and communities in Venice, have no visual cues to distinguish their teammates. Everyone wears a similar jersey, creating an outside appearance of a single, unified team. However, hidden clues change the dynamic. Anonymous Allyship explores how belonging influences feelings, behaviour and performance in a group. It was shot at Venezia FC’s Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo. The work was commissioned by the Nieuwe Instituut on the occasion of the exhibition Sidelined: A Space to Rethink Togetherness, the Dutch contribution to the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale curated by Amanda Pinatih.
The Myth of the CiucciaNebbia
By reimagining pollution as the mythical CiucciaNebbia—a creature formed from industrial smog clinging to Milan’s buildings—Gaia D’Arrigo’s work explores how we embody the city’s toxic, industrial past and question our identity within its disrupted environment.
In my tender care
An expanded cinema installation chronicling the estrangement between Charlie and his mother. Originating from a screenplay, the installation seeks to give agency back to the audience by removing the chronology of a film’s timeline. Consisting of animatronic talking mouths in a set, a backdrop of looping and gently mutating animations, and an additional video work presented on a CRT TV screen, “In my tender care” presents turning points and whole acts simultaneously, locked in scenes that are scattered across the room. Exploring each scene will expose more of the story and they can be viewed in any order, moulding different interpretations of the work.
AI at the Gates of Hell
Meii Soh, 2024 Drawing on the intricate role of hunting dogs—simultaneously companions and tools in the act of hunting—and the author’s personal connection to these practices as a queer individual raised within this context, the work conveys a tense yet emotional atmosphere of affection and sensitivity towards hybrid futurity. While doing so, it introduces otherworldly creatures that dissolve the boundaries between technology and nature.
AI implementation by Andre Santos Martins
Unboxing the Collection
Nieuwe Instituut colleagues Clara and Ernst do a live unboxing of new collection material
Immersive Tech Week takeover 4-6 December 2024
➝ Immersive Tech WeekFuture Botanica
FUTURE BOTANICA is an Augmented Reality app that enables users, in collaboration with an AI, to design speculative ecosystems with new nature.
Disclosing Architecture
Disclosing Architecture is the Nieuwe Instituut’s six-year initiative to increase the visibility and continued accessibility of the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning.
Black Childish
Mickaël Mehala aka Black Childish is a Martinican illustrator based in Amsterdam. His new commission for the exhibition Dutch More or Less is called Pedestrians. With his unique practice of playing and integrating 2D with 3D, whether that's featured on screens or murals, Black Childish always aspires to create work that is fun, bold and expressive. @blackchildish
Lost and Scanned
What is digital reclamation, and what does it mean to interact with our intangible origins. What implications can a virtual repatriation have on the true ownership of heritage? Lost and Scanned is a speculative exploration of the use of digitised heritage. In this case, the British Museum’s open source library housing the Egyptian Collection. Karim Fouad (Egypt) is currently one of the artists in residence in -1.
“It is a place of contemplation, where we insert ourselves in a liminal space, between the museum in market nations, and the source nations (heritage-rich countries). We find ourselves in a transitional dreamscape beyond the curated glass vitrines. But a long way from home.”
All digital models are credited to The British Museum, Egyptian Collection. Sketchfab.com.
Border Birds
Artists: Dries Depoorter, Bieke Depoorter, 2022-2024.
Photographs of birds crossing borders captured with the help of open cameras and AI.
In partnership with V2_ exhibition {CLASS} – ON CONSEQUENCES IN ALGORITHMIC CLASSIFICATION. On show until 21-01-2024
Sondi: Sleep On It
Sleep On It (2023) is a deconstructed video game that explores the realm of daydreaming as a space of togetherness for Black and Brown people. Sondi is one of the first artists-in-residence in -1.
Screen takeover Portal Park
Featuring the artists from a virtual residency at MaMA in Rotterdam in August. Designed as an amusement park, with a programme that focuses on exploring and questioning the boundaries between the physical and virtual world in an increasingly digital society.
Programme: Maria Mombers
Artists: Lena Kuzmich, Emily Mulenga, Vincent Snijders & Zuza Banasińska