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Het Nieuwe Instituut ventured outside the architectural collection by inviting artist Rafaël Rozendaal and data designer Jan Willem Tulp to share their visions and experiences regarding the digital archive. Rozendaal did so on the basis of his own digital-art archive, Jan Willem Tulp drawed on his expertise to suggest ways of improving access to physical and digital archives through visualisations.

Thursday Night Live! on 18 May 2017 was about screensavers, anonymous digital artefacts that began as the solution to a problem and developed in to a space for experimentation, before disappearing without a sound from our digital lives. Rafael Rozendaal in conversation with co-maker of the After Dark screensaver series Bill Stewart and Dutch media artist Jan Robert Leegte.

Within the context of the Sleep Mode exhibition, Joana Chicau will perform A Web Page in Three Acts combining principles of choreography within the formal structures of coding.