2023/11/28

Critic Reconsiders Classic Dutch Media Art “Fossils”

“The works certainly carry historical significance, but in their new ‘commonplace’ state, they become fossils through contemporary eyes.”
– Critic Matthew Sturt-Scobie, assessing some of the older works featured in “REBOOT,” a survey of four decades of Dutch media art at Rotterdam’s Nieuwe Instituut. “It highlights what the dated works now lack in impact or affect,” he writes of his mild dissatisfaction that show organizers LI-MA don’t quite situate the aging work clearly enough.
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