We are happy to announce that this milestone edition coincides with the exclusive launch of Rider Spoke: Here, a new edition developed by artist group Blast Theory. Available only to symposium participants, the app draws on more than 22,000 recordings from the group’s landmark interactive project first presented at London’s Barbican Centre in 2007, inviting audiences to encounter intimate personal stories through a guided audio experience.

Under the theme Networks: Structures of Collaboration, Care, and Trust, this edition focuses on the infrastructures that sustain digital art beyond individual works, including platforms, protocols, artistic and institutional alliances, and shared knowledge networks. As software and platforms are constantly updated and redeveloped and cultural memory becomes increasingly platform-bound, the question is not whether digital art requires new preservation strategies, but how institutions and practitioners can collectively build resilient frameworks for its future.

“That is precisely why organisations like LI-MA matter so much right now, says curator Amira Gad (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen). “They function not only as custodians of works, but as knowledge hubs that actively track technological change, develop preservation methodologies, and advise institutions on how to responsibly collect, conserve, and present digital art.” 

The programme features over 35 international speakers representing new approaches and networks across museums, universities, and digital heritage initiatives, including Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL) and The National Archives (UK), as well as independent artists, curators, and experimental platforms such as TRANSFER Data Trust (US) and Pixelache (FI). As always at LI-MA’s symposium, artists will feature prominently throughout the programme. It is the intersection of these diverse practices and perspectives that shapes this edition, driving discussions on the pressing challenges of preserving and sustaining digital art.

Contributions from international artists, works and reflections will include Jonas Lund’s Network Maintenance and the revival of AmsterdamREALTIME by Esther Polak.

Since its inception, Transformation Digital Art has grown into a leading international forum for research exchange and strategic dialogue. The 10th edition reaffirms LI-MA’s commitment to long-term collaboration, knowledge sharing, and experimentation at a moment when digital culture is undergoing profound structural change.

Header: Blast Theory, Rider Spoke: Here. Photo by Dainius Putinas.