Do you see what I see?

Amsterdam experimental art space Nxt Museum’s fourth exhibition entitled StillProcessing opens on February 7. Curated by Bogomir Doringer and experienced through the lens of seven visionary multimedia artists, the set-up explores how machine algorithms influence human perception.

Amsterdam experimental art space Nxt Museum’s fourth exhibition entitled StillProcessing opens in early February. Curated by Bogomir Doringer and experienced through the lens of seven visionary artists, the set-up explores how machine algorithms influence human perception.

Nxt Museum invites you to stand still and allow yourself to genuinely digest the space around you–a curated space that may be overstimulating at first but one that is configured to trigger the outset of mind pathways you didn’t know you were craving the discovery of.

The Amsterdam-based experimental art space’s newest group exhibition aptly dubbed StillProcessing brings together works by seven gifted artists whose practices are rooted in the examination of technology, light, and sound–including Rosa Menkman, Boris Acket, Gabey Tjon a Tham, and Children of the Light. Curated by Bogomir Doringer and set to open this February, StillProcessing is a riveting display (in motion) depicting the nuances and many layers that make up the evolution of image processing.

As Amsterdam’s pioneering art space, Nxt Museum is dedicated to exploring the intersection between art, technology, science, and sound. - © Nxt Museum — As Amsterdam’s pioneering art space, Nxt Museum is dedicated to exploring the intersection between art, technology, science, and sound. – © Nxt Museum

StillProcessing celebrates the many advancements we have embraced in the realm of creating and perceiving visuals and simultaneously plunges into the heart of the matter: What ends up hidden away? What becomes lost in the process? A vivifying study of the interplay between what is visible and what is concealed, StillProcessing is a piercing assortment of AI-generated visuals, advanced image-processing technologies, and large-scale kinetic light and sound installations. From revealing colors beyond human vision to delving into how sound can shape spatial environments, in its fourth exhibition, Nxt Museum yet again embraces groundbreaking works by new media artists in the Netherlands.

The research and work of Rosa Menkman represent distinct phases in the development of image processing. Image processing uses computers to improve, modify, or analyze digital images for simple or complex tasks like adjusting brightness or identifying objects. - © Nxt Museum — The research and work of Rosa Menkman represent distinct phases in the development of image processing. Image processing uses computers to improve, modify, or analyze digital images for simple or complex tasks like adjusting brightness or identifying objects. – © Nxt Museum

Dutch visual artist, researcher, and educator Rosa Menkman’s inventive practice powerfully conveys her distinct artistic essence and scope rooted in uncompromising curiosity. With nearly two decades of expertise in image resolution studies, her work focuses on analog noise artifacts that result from accidents in both analog and digital media–such as glitch, encoding, and feedback artifacts. For Menkman, noise artifacts offer precious insight into the otherwise obscure alchemy of standardization and resolution setting.

Boris Acket's audiovisual installation is a responsive grid, a mechanism or parametric clockwork, that distributes light and sound across space and time, allowing visitors to enter multiple temporal dimensions. The experience is processed by a custom-built echo system that deconstructs singular audio inputs into patterns and interplays them with light. - © Nxt Museum — Boris Acket’s audiovisual installation is a responsive grid, a mechanism or parametric clockwork, that distributes light and sound across space and time, allowing visitors to enter multiple temporal dimensions. The experience is processed by a custom-built echo system that deconstructs singular audio inputs into patterns and interplays them with light. – © Nxt Museum

Boris Acket’s roots are traced to electronic music and club culture. The visual artist and composer’s body of work challenges and reshapes the boundaries between music, sound art, and performance space. Why shouldn’t the exhibition experience and the club experience interlace and feed off one another? Acket’s explorations of sound, light, and motion are grounded by his focus on how we are controlled by and ultimately surrender to the world encompassing us.

A dynamic swarm of light and sound appears from 15 double pendulums, each equipped with white lights and speakers. They hum as they spin, drawing unpredictable movements, always populating the wall with visual patterns depicting chaos and precision. Gabey Tjon a Tham's Red Horizon draws inspiration from the collective behavior of swarms in nature, where simple rules can give rise to complex, emerging patterns. - © Nxt Museum — A dynamic swarm of light and sound appears from 15 double pendulums, each equipped with white lights and speakers. They hum as they spin, drawing unpredictable movements, always populating the wall with visual patterns depicting chaos and precision. Gabey Tjon a Tham’s *Red Horizon* draws inspiration from the collective behavior of swarms in nature, where simple rules can give rise to complex, emerging patterns. – © Nxt Museum

The Hague-based installation artist Gabey Tjon a Tham is devoted to analyzing how and why complex systems can occur both in nature and in our digital worlds as well as how they affect one another through ever-evolving processes. Her audiovisual installations illustrate a delicate balance between virtual and analog realities. She is currently focused on location-specific experiments where agents function within their time cycles and behavioral patterns, influencing a living system in the making.

Children of the Light's "All-Together-Now": Each of the five floating rings in the space moves through its cycle before they align for a slight moment of synchronicity. Like dimensions between black holes and an ever-expanding sun, the movement of the rings seems to dissolve spatial boundaries. The tone and temperature of the light in the work shift over time from amber to pure white light, creating an illusion of seeing the spectrum of colours. - © Nxt Museum — Children of the Light’s *All-Together-Now*: Each of the five floating rings in the space moves through its cycle before they align for a slight moment of synchronicity. Like dimensions between black holes and an ever-expanding sun, the movement of the rings seems to dissolve spatial boundaries. The tone and temperature of the light in the work shift over time from amber to pure white light, creating an illusion of seeing the spectrum of colours. – © Nxt Museum

Christopher Gabriel and Arnout Hulskamp, the dynamic duo behind the Amsterdam-based multimedia studio Children of the Light, create art and memorable experiences using light as their primary medium. Through performance, video, sculpture, and installations, Children of the Light’s immersive spatial layouts work on a deeply sensorial level and never fail to evoke a visceral reaction from spectators.

The curator of StillProcessing and Nxt Museum’s frequent collaborator Bogomir Doringer is an artist-researcher and freelance curator whose work spans multiple disciplines, from art and technology to sociology and more. Doringer has put together and listed all of Nxt Museum’s exhibitions so far. He has immersed himself in the socio-politics of collective movement in night culture and clubbing, using the spaces to study contemporary dancing rituals. In Doringer’s concept “Dance of Urgency,” dance serves as a means of political resistance, a coping mechanism, and survival in times of crisis. He is also passionate about how technology impacts our daily lives and influences how we freely act and move.

As Amsterdam’s pioneering art space dedicated to the intersection between art, technology, science, and sound, Nxt Museum’s latest exhibition once again demonstrates the institution’s dedication to championing innovative, challenging artistic programming which at its core creatively (and fearlessly) investigates how technology shapes the human mind and spirit.

StillProcessing will be on display starting from February 7 to October 5, 2025, at the Nxt Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands.