Born Digital
'Born Digital' shows how a new generation is growing up for whom digital art comes natural. The 'Born Digital' classification concerns the works, not the creators: the ten selected artists were born between 1972 and 1990 and joined in their early childhood or adolescence. The work of these artists has a digital origin and they distribute it free of charge and ad infinitum by choir. Museums that wish to aquire, purchase a web domain instead of a painting or sculpture. From robot-controlled video games and chatbots to web art, apps and blow ups: this generation of artists was the first to visualise the digital revolution, even outside the screen. The works on display are spectacular, shiny in glitches, and as colourful and changeable as the web itself. They show the intangible beauty of our digital media society. You can literally experience this elusiveness with the Oculus Rift: the virtual reality glasses that you can wear first at MOTI to experience Moti's grand digital makeover. Virtual reality has never been so close. With work by Geoffrey Lillemon, Rafaël Rozendaal and Hendrickje Schimmel, among others.
MOTI, Museum of the Image (now Stedelijk Museum Breda) is located in the Old Men's House, which served as a care home for a long time. MOTI was a visual culture museum. The varied collection includes film, photography, design, fashion, visual arts, gaming, science and architecture. Using this collection, the story of visual culture is told and the museum shows the dynamic world of images. As of January 1st 2017, MOTI merged with Breda's Museum into Stedelijk Museum Breda.
Van den Bout worked full-time at MOTI (now Stedelijke Museum Breda). Her work covered three days a week on the exhibition department and two days a week on the education department. This created a lively work environment varying from exhibition programming to running events and from creating an audio guide to facilitating guided tours.
