ABSTRACT
Cultural heritage institutions have always accumulated and preserved knowledge, artistic vision and cultural representations. The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision created the Open Images platform to provide access to audiovisual heritage that is available under an open licence. Along with the Sound of the Netherlands platform, users were able to consult the digitised audiovisual heritage as well as download content and re-use it for creative purposes. Sound and Vision gains a deeper understanding of its collection, insight into the artistic process behind creative re-use and experience with new ways of presenting archival material. In the form of a talent development trajectory, Sound and Vision collaborated with five young artists through the Open Media Art project. For eight months, the artists had time to research, experiment and create using a part of the audiovisual collection that is available for re-use under an open licence.
