About the organisations

LI-MA – Living Media Art is the leading international platform for sustainable access to media art in Amsterdam, with a strong commitment to art, artists, technology, and future generations. We use our expertise to preserve video art, digital art, online art and performance, and to make and keep these accessible. LI-MA is a national and international network organisation. In close collaboration with artists, museums, universities, and technical partners worldwide, LI-MA researches and develops innovative solutions for conservation, distribution, and contextualization of time-based media art. LI-MA takes care of media art preservation and storage services to more than 50 collections.

ICK Dans Amsterdam is the International Choreographic Arts Centre Amsterdam and a platform for contemporary dance. Under the vision of Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten, ICK creates international productions, supports young makers and realizes education and research. Since 2021, it has been located in Space for Dance Art, a hub for performance, research, and interdisciplinary exchange. ICK is internationally renowned for its innovative approach to dance, recognising the body as a carrier of stories, meanings and physical intelligence. The company is constantly searching for new forms of physical presence and audience engagement, as well as ways to integrate technology into choreography. Next to creating and presenting performances, ICK focuses on talent development, participation projects and knowledge sharing, with the aim of reaching a broad and diverse audience.

Context & Project

Intuition Machine is an installation-performance and a development trajectory initiated by ICK Dans Amsterdam in collaboration with, among others, LI-MA, IRCAM, Nxt Museum, and AHK IDlab. Intuition Machine brings together dance, digital technology, and artificial intelligence in an experimental and audience-oriented context. 

The project focuses on developing a motion-based AI infrastructure that enables new forms of choreography, audience interaction, and digital cultural experiences. At its core is a larger-than-life LED structure functioning as a digital light body, reacting in real time to a performer’s movements while simultaneously generating its own variations. The audience is actively involved: proximity, posture, and movement are recorded and translated into changes in light, form, and sound.

The hybrid nature of Intuition Machine – a dynamic digital body evolving through interaction with performer and audience – raises specific questions around documentation, preservation, accessibility, and future-proofing. How can interactive live art be documented? How can interactive installation performances and dance be captured? And how can new technologies support the documentation of these contemporary artforms? 

The Position

Within this project, you will develop and execute strategies for the documentation, archiving, and transferability of Intuition Machine. This includes both the technical layers – software chains, AI processes, sensor connections, and data formats – and the artistic and performative dimensions of the work. 

You will work on documenting interactivity (using Intuition Machine) between the dancer and the AI/hologram/light body/interactive installation, and between the audience and the installation, engagement with the audience, and the use of new technologies (in this case, an AI Toolbox developed by Instituto Stocos in the PREMIERE EU project) for both creation and documentation.

Tasks:

• Comparative research/exploration: how do others document interactivity and what tools are available? 
• Development of a documentation framework based on the creative trajectory of Intuition Machine as a pilot study that captures the technological and artistic infrastructure of this project and that can potentially be applied to other installation performances.
• Setting up and maintaining a structured documentation and archiving environment, including metadata and version control.
• Collecting, organizing, and making accessible multimodal data such as video, motion capture, audio, code, and technical diagrams.
• Writing and editing documentation, including descriptions of artistic processes, technical workflows, and manuals.
• Translating artistic processes into technical and transferable documentation, and vice versa.
• Documenting rehearsals, tests, and audience interactions, including observation of audience behavior and interaction patterns.
• Define the formats, methods and shareability components of the creative process and documentation framework to be used and re-used by others.

Your Profile

We are looking for a candidate who:

• has relevant education and/or work experience in the field of documentation 
• has relevant education and/or working experience in the field of digital art; motion capture, interactive translation of movement into other sensory modalities such as sound and light
• has basic knowledge of digital workflows, data structures, and/or software pipelines
• has experience with audiovisual material and multimodal documentation
• demonstrates strong research skills and the ability to translate findings into clear structures or models

You have knowledge of or interest in:

• History of notation and documentation
• Artistic practice in producing, presenting, and archiving life art
• Digital preservation
• AI, data, and ethical concerns within digital art, motion capture and technology 

Personal Qualities

You:

• are curious, enthusiastic, and eager
• have good procedural insight
• are comfortable working in unfamiliar territory and view this as a challenge
• are a team player with a service-oriented attitude
• have good communication skills
• have an excellent command of English (Dutch is a plus)

Practical Information

Please send your motivation and description of skills (max one page) as pdf, not later than 20 April 2026, to info@li-ma.nl, stating ‘Vacature Documentalist’ in the subject line.

For more information, please contact Gaby Wijers, gabywijers@li-ma.nl or Suzan Tunca, suzantunca@ickamsterdam.nl.   

Header: Edward Ihnatowicz, The Senster at REBOOT, Nieuw Instituut (2023). Photo by Pieter Kers.