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The Netherlands Media Art Institute (Het Nederlandse Instituut voor Mediakunst), Montevideo/Time Based Arts(Montevideo/TBA) is assigned with the mission of promoting the development and distribution of new arts, as well as the development and application of new technologies in the area of visual arts. In 1978, René Coelho, an elder of television, opened his Singel house, on an Amsterdam channel, to art. He transformed it into a gallery called Montevideo. Fed up with his television experience, he tried to "humanize technology with the help of artists". In 1983, the small Singel gallery, specialized in video art, became Montevideo/Time Based Arts, under the impetus of the Association of Video Artists. Today, Montevideo/TBA supports artistic creation in three different domains; presentation, preservation, and conservation, and provides services to artists and artistic institutions. In its own exhibition space on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, the Institute currently organizes long-term collective and personal exhibitions often in cooperation with other institutions. In parallel, Montevideo/TBA also organizes short-term exhibitions, symposiums, screenings, and performances and installations by artists and students. Since its foundation in 1978, the Institute has accumulated an extensive collection of video and multimedia works. It includes more than 1800 references and works by Dutch and international artists, continually increas. It is a collection almost entirely available for exhibitions and festivals that the Institute preserves from the infringements of time in a dedicated centre, created 1992. But the institute is also a training and research centre. A centre where artists can explore new medias and their applications to artistic practices. A centre where artists can meet and collaborate, and where they can benefit from various post-production tools and advice.

Along with Joke Ballintijn, Theurs Zwakhal distributes the Netherlands' Media Art Institute collection.