We are excited to present two dynamic programmes that explore innovative moving-image works, challenging digital culture, technology, and identity—all in one day! This edition of LI-MA Presents: New Art on Screen – Bring Your Own File will feature six emerging artists whose works sit at the intersection of media, politics, and personal narrative. Later, LI-MA Presents: New Art on Screen will showcase a curated selection of films from our collection.

• LI-MA Presents: New Art on Screen: 14:00 - 15:45
• LI-MA Presents: New Art on Screen — Bring Your Own File: 20:00 - 21:30

171project.space is a multidisciplinary art and project space in the city center of Arnhem. The project space has been initiated by Donna Verheijden & Bram van Leeuwenstein. The programming of the project space focusses on showcasing artists with a hybrid practice.

Programme Overview

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.

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

Header image: Magnus Monfeldt & Jonas Ohlsson, For Our Children's Children, 2024, 29'56". In collection: LI-MA