The Amsterdam based institution for the preservation of media art LIMA not just helps restore and save art, but it also plays an important role in spreading knowledge and creating theoretical context for media art. In 2017 LIMA asked me to be one of their advisers for a project they called the Digital Art Canon. The idea behind it is to bring the rich history of digital art in the Netherlands to the fore and save some groundbreaking works from obscurity. Our role as advisers was to choose twenty works of digital art made between 1960 and 2000. After about six meetings, of which one was an international community meeting at Transmediale in Berlin, LIMA set out to approach the twenty artists chosen and created an exhibition at the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam with both documented and restored works. The project is still ongoing and so is my role as adviser here, alongside my esteemed colleagues Martijn van Boven, Annet Dekker, Sandra Fauconnier, and Jan Robert Leegte, and of course Sanneke Huisman and Gaby Wijers of LIMA. The picture here shows the community meeting at Transmediale in 2018.
