Relooking at the digital world: the exhibition ‘Still Processing’
Amsterdam’s Nxt Museum, where ‘Still Processing’ opens on 5 October 2025, offers a unique reinterpretation of a familiar theme: how we interact with and perceive images in an increasingly technological world. The exhibition, curated by Dries Boel, combines art, technology, and performance (ropy with 66 artistic works by 11 artists), challenging perceptions of both the digital and the human.
In this space, images are no longer merely tools of destruction or representation. Instead, they become dynamic objects of processing, manipulation, and interpretation. The exhibition invites viewers to take their psyches on a guided tour of an age where reality is ever-shrunk and reconstructed, akin to a digital unfolding of the human experience.
The display is divided into two primary themes: the manipulation of images by technology and the role of the human brain in processing these transformations. A section titled ‘ Anthropoid’ explores the social implications of technology’s impact on identity and perception, with centrality given to works that highlight how images and sounds are created, transformed, and consumed.
Pennies to Three, which explores the intersection of biosemiotics and digital art, provides a quintessential reference. The latest piece, SBM ‘A Supernatural Nudity’, calls the audience to consider the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of certain technologies, such as reproductive technologies. The exhibition culminates in ‘Draw pyramid’, a series of works that force viewers to reconsider how they perceive time and space, as entities dance through a chaotic, infinity-traveling realm.
Despite its visual beauty and psychological engagement, the exhibition remains grounded in its essence. Central to Nxt Museum’s work is a critical stance: it calls attention to the fact that while the digital serves as a braking mechanism, it also constantly alters reality—manipulates reality to its deepest extent. fetish Papers, which explore the commodification of visual experience, highlights how certain images become functional objects with untappable absurdities, as objects of power and control.
The exhibition serves as a stark reminder of the enduring question of what we seek in an age dominated by-symbolization. It is a show of the discontinuity between the visual and the sensory, offering a mirrored timeline of the visual cycle and the absence of会选择, evoking logical and unchainable pauses. By tilting the focus towards the absurd, human experience is refuted as a prohibition of the empty experience of being—whether in color or sound or movement— leaving an alternate reality.
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As the负责人 of this museum’s opening, I feel pressed to reflect on these themes. I realize the Museum is a space of brands and influencers—uncommon in itself—and that the exhibition is a reflection on their seeming lives, which during the past couple of years have been vividlyconstantly consumed. In this space, we feel endlessly processed and cuncated, but also free to examine why and how we feel as a species—the fact that we can still, _half-) humanize such qualities when looking at the intersection of art, technology, and the human experience. Looking back, I see the Museum in action: seen in its interior art, with transformed luminous tiles, it feels like it’s a place of spiritual construction, where flesh and bone together, to speak to the Museum’s methods, and to alter perhaps it is an experience of being. However, more importantly, when we approach the space of images, it invites us to consider all that humans do in seeing; whether it’s thegradual flattening of perception, or the shifting of our minds into new roles.
