LI-MA Presents: New Art On Screen + Bring Your Own File

March 28

16.00 - 18:00 Bring Your Own File
20.00 - 21:30 New Art On Screen

Kleine Oord 171
6811 HZ Arnhem

www.li-ma.nl

This event is generously supported by Fonds 21 and het Cultuurfonds.

Kexin Hong, Objects In the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, 2024, 18’47”

A film based on a fictive I-novel exploring selfhood in the post-truth era. A protagonist, unable to see her reflection, projects her identity onto an online avatar—until she vanishes.

Kexin Hong is a multidisciplinary artist working with video, installation, and digital archives. Her research focuses on selfhood and cultural trauma in digital spaces.

Canvaswan, Into the Digital Cartographic Void, 2024, 9’13”

A multimedia project exploring censorship in digital cartography. By focusing on missing visual elements, it challenges the notion of media as a neutral force.

Canvaswan is a Chinese researcher and multimedia practitioner based in Cologne and Eindhoven. Her work deconstructs identity struggles and political narratives through digital media.

Yufei Gao, Time Well Spent Dismantling Your Black Box(es), 2023, 08’15”

A series of absurd performative video essays where the artist embodies Cookie Monster to critique AI’s data consumption and its hidden environmental and ethical costs.

Yufei Gao is an Eindhoven-based storyteller and artist-researcher. Her work spans filmmaking, writing, and installation, blending humor and politics.

Alexi Rozhkov, Everything Amoeba, 2024, 4’28”

A meditation on machinic existence, where the digital self contains infinite mathematical configurations of itself. The viewer is invited to project human emotions onto algorithmic operators.

Alexi Rozhkov is a multidisciplinary artist and student at ArtEZ. His work explores embodiment and digital identities.

Jessica Tucker, fickleporno, 2025, 10’36”

Using AI-generated deepfake workflows trained on her own face, the artist explores the hypermediated body in a world of excessive visibility and surveillance capitalism.

Jessica Tucker is an American-Dutch artist and musician based in Berlin. Her practice critiques machine-mediated vision and its impact on selfhood and desire.

Lon Thijs, Bared Teeth, Hasty Typing and Cake, 09’23”

A claymation about bureaucratic entanglement and the stress of navigating social benefits. A pink blob struggles through endless paperwork and system-induced paralysis.

Lon Thijs is an artist-educator and animator with a background in sociology. Her colorful, surreal narratives tackle social issues with humor and imagination.

Luna Maurer & Roel Wouters. Emoji is all we have, part 1, 2023, 14’42” | In collection: LI-MA

While technology is meant to aid human shortcomings, this film reverses that dynamic—man adapts to the dictating machine. Emotions, stripped to binary Unicode, contrast with the complexity of human expression. Featuring Luna & Roel as emoji, this series explores how digital technology smooths out the nuances of human interaction.

Luna Maurer is a mixed-media designer exploring the interplay between digital and physical forms. Roel Wouters is an Amsterdam-based designer and director. Together with Jonathan Puckey, they co-founded Moniker in 2012, investigating technology’s role in daily life. Their work Emoticons Don’t Have Wrinkles won the Golden Calf for Best Digital Culture Production.

Katja Verheul, Red Dust, 2024, 17’09” | In collection: LI-MA

A haunting visualisation of Saharan sand dust carrying cesium-137 from French nuclear tests in Algeria. Passing through France, it turns the sky red, exposing the lingering impact of war.

Katja Verheul is a Rotterdam-based filmmaker and artistic archaeologist. She holds a BFA from Gerrit Rietveld Academie (2012) and an MFA from Goldsmiths University (2016). Her research-driven films explore the political, social, and environmental legacies of war.

Judith Westerveld, The Sending of the Crows, 2024, 15’27” | In collection: LI-MA

A retelling of a 19th-century |xam legend, intertwining animation and spoken word by South African poet Blaq Pearl. The film revisits the resilience of the |xam people and the lasting effects of Dutch colonialism in South Africa.

Judith Westerveld is an artist and filmmaker based in the Netherlands. Her work, rooted in historical research, examines colonial histories and their contemporary reverberations through film, sound, and text.

Broersen & Lukács, I Wan’na Be Like You, 2024, 14’22” | In collection: LI-MA

A ghostly figure dances in a decayed glasshouse to a warped version of The Jungle Book’s iconic song before the vocal group Black Harmony reinterprets it in their own language. This film deconstructs and reconstructs narratives of cultural representation.

Broersen & Lukács are Amsterdam-based artists working across video, animation, and graphics. Their practice examines the constructed nature of contemporary visual culture by blending filmed footage, digital animation, and media imagery.

Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh, You Can’t Get What You Want But You Can Get Me | In collection: LI-MA

A slideshow documenting two long-haired trans men falling in love. Over a year, the artists capture real-life moments, from their first kiss to surgery recovery, blending life and art in a celebration of T4T love.

Samira Elagoz is a Finnish/Egyptian transmasculine artist working across film, performance, and installation. His work explores gender, digital romance, and intimate encounters. Z Walsh is a Brooklyn-based trans director, producer, and photographer known for his raw, full-hearted portrayals of identity and community.