![]() At the moment they are working together with Milos Vojtechovsky on an installation entitled Orbis Pictus Revised for the ZKM Medienmuseum in Karlsruhe, which will be opened in 1997.įrom 1973, Van Tijen worked for the Amsterdam university library, at the Documentation Centre Social Movements which, in 1990, went over to the International Institute for Social History (IISG). In 1991, they set up a business under the name Imaginary Museum Projects, specialising in interactive multi-media installations. They resumed this cooperation in the late eighties, with the project The Imaginary Museum of the Revolution (see Mediamatic 3#4). His cooperation with Jeffrey Shaw, in the field of environments, happenings and expanded cinema, dates back to 1964. Later he was active in squatter and local community groups in Amsterdam, particularly in the Nieuwmarkt area, during the actions against the building of the metro. Tjebbe van Tijen was trained as a sculptor and took part in the happenings of the mid-sixties in Milan, Paris and London. ![]() How the movements of the sixties stored their data and the consequences thereof for the current image generation are the central questions in this interview. For many people he is the embodiment of storage mania. In Amsterdam, the archives of whoever ventures into the field of politics and culture will sooner or later end up with Tjebbe van Tijen. We no longer collect the Carrier but the Information
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