DROPSTUFF.nl is a museum-like platform for interactive media art, online and in the public space.

DROPSTUFF.nl is an interactive narrowcasting channel that shows both artworks from professional artists and designers, as well as creative contributions from the audience, on a network of larger and smaller screens. These are the DS_HOTSPOTS in museums, railway stations, schools, libraries, art academies and online on this website. DROPSTUFF.nl also owns a mobile LED-screen, the DS_PAVILION, that you can find at squares in the Netherlands and abroad. All screens and the website are mutually connected, whereby real interaction is possible.

What is on display?

DROPSTUFF.nl has three program elements. For our content we cooperate with a number of Dutch museums for contemporary art.

•ARTSTUFF 50 percent of the content exists of artworks of professional artists and designers. These works are shown full screen within the DROPSTUFF.nl format and usually have the possibility to be influenced through touch screen, text messages, webcam or Bluetooth. We call these works artistic games.

•DROP YA STUFF! Is the open stage program whereby everybody, through his or her DS_Account, has the possibility to send in own creative productions. Attention: DROPSTUFF.nl is no YouTube, but a  museum network. Our curator chooses what to show.

•DS_WORKSHOPS Our curator makes a weekly selection of the results of the video-workshops about Art and freedom of speech. Our workshop crew offers these workshops at schools throughout the Netherlands to high school pupils between 14 and 17 years old.

Public and participation

Because of new technologies the possibilities for museums and contemporary artists change. Concerning content, that is crucial for DROPSTUFF.nl. Both parties, museums and artists, are looking for a broader audience and often for a larger participation of the public. The artist is no longer dependent of ‘traditional’ institutions like museums and art galleries, and can look for a broad audience through digital means. Museums can program, with the help of new media, more easily outside of her own white cubes. DROPSTUFF.nl offers a necessary experimental stage that in different ways looks for new possibilities and audience.