In the mediatheque on the ground floor the public - students, curators, artists, teachers, art historians, and anyone else with an interest - can access information on artists and their work. All the videoworks from the collection can be viewed on viewing sets. In addition to the video collection, the mediatheque contains a large collection of books, magazines and documentation on contemporary media and art.
There is free entrance to the mediatheque
VIEWING SETS
Free full-length access to all 2,000 video works and installations in NIMk's distribution collection. Previews are available in NIMk's online catalogue: http://catalogue.nimk.nl
Free full-length access to more than 5,000 titles from NIMk's reference collection, archive and other Dutch media art collections (ICN, Jan van Eyck Academie, Groninger Museum, Kröller Müller Museum)
LIBRARY
500 artist monographies
500 books about media theory, media art, video art, television, cinema, installation art, performance...
1,000 festival and exhibition catalogues from more than 50 countries
MAGAZINES / JOURNALS
a.o. Neural, Kunstforum, Open, Mister Motley, Metropolis M...
DOCUMENTATION
Vertical files with approx. 15 meter of artists' documentation