Gaby Wijers (Panel)
she/her
Fri May 30 | de Brakke Grond
Panel Discussion
As FIBER Festival celebrates its 15th anniversary, we take this milestone as an opportunity to reflect on the role of festivals as dynamic cultural hubs – living systems that reflect and foster artistic and technological developments. Festivals, especially those operating within digital culture, are not only platforms for artistic experimentation and discourse but also sites of knowledge production and exchange. Yet, the outputs of these events often remain fragmented and stored across various digital and physical spaces, vulnerable to shifting technological landscapes, corporate data monopolisation, and the impermanence of social platforms. We will open the first day of our Context Program with a panel discussion around practices of recording artistic content, both from the perspective of cultural organisations working and presenting these types of content, as well as artists producing them.
About the speaker
Gaby Wijers is founder and director of LI-MA − Living Media Art, a centre of expertise in (new) media art based in Amsterdam. She has a background in information management, theatre, and informatics, and previously worked as coordinator of collection, preservation and related research at Montevideo/TBA/NIMk, Amsterdam (NL). Wijers has initiated, advised on, and contributed to numerous national and international projects dedicated to the documentation, preservation, and accessibility of (new) media art and performance. She is an active member of various national and international networks such as the Foundation for the Conservation of Contemporary Art (SBMK), the Dutch Digital Heritage Network (NDE), and Network Archives Design and Digital Culture (NADD). In addition, she is a guest lecturer at the University of Amsterdam and an honorary research fellow at the University of Exeter.
About LI-MA
LI-MA plays a key role in the future-proof archiving, conservation and distribution of works from the field of media art and digital culture. With its extensive expertise and pioneering work in the field, LI-MA is taking care of the national repository in the Netherlands and contributes to shaping the future of media art preservation worldwide.
