M HKA gaat digitaal

Met M HKA Ensembles zetten we onze eerste échte stappen in het digitale landschap. Ons doel is met behulp van nieuwe media de kunstwerken nog beter te kaderen dan we tot nu toe hebben kunnen doen.

We geven momenteel prioriteit aan smartphones en tablets, m.a.w. de in-museum-ervaring. Maar we zijn evenzeer hard aan het werk aan een veelzijdige desktop-versie. Tot het zover is vind je hier deze tussenversie.

M HKA goes digital

Embracing the possibilities of new media, M HKA is making a particular effort to share its knowledge and give art the framework it deserves.

We are currently focusing on the experience in the museum with this application for smartphones and tablets. In the future this will also lead to a versatile desktop version, which is now still in its construction phase.

>MASSIMO GRIMALDI

Emergency’s Paediatric Centre in Nyala, Photos Shown On Two Apple iMac Quad-Core i5s, 2011

Installation, variable dimensions.

©image: Massimo Grimaldi

Collection: Courtesy of the artist and ZERO..., Milan.

Grimaldi regularly collaborates with Emergency, an independent, neutral NGO that was founded in Italy in 1994 to offer free, high-quality medical and surgical assistance to the civilian victims of wars, landmines, and poverty. On several occasions, Grimaldi has proposed projects to public institutions and private collectors that were based on donating the funding involved in an art project towards supporting Emergency’s healthcare facilities. This activity then becomes the subject of photographic essays for display as slideshows in gallery spaces, documenting the patients being rehabilitated by Emergency, and exhibited on the newest model of Apple computer available at the time. These image-reportages, which portray their subjects very much in the high resolution of advertising media, are displayed as synchronised slideshows across sets of Macs, creating a contrast between the computers with their stylised images and the social reality of the geographic locations where the works begin. (NH)

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Media

>Emergency’s Maternity Centre In Anabah, Photos Shown On Two Apple iMac Quad-Core i5s2014Two Apple iMac quad-core Intel Core i5s, double slideshowDimensions variablePrivate collection, Italy Courtesy the artist and ZERO..., Milan 

>Emergency’s Surgical Centre in Goderich, Photos Shown on Two Apple Thunderbolt Displays2013Two Apple Thunderbolt Displays, two Apple Mac minis, double slideshowDimensions variableCourtesy the artist and Team, New York

Artist

> MASSIMO GRIMALDI.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Don't You Know Who I Am? – Art After Identity Politics. M HKA, Antwerp, 13 June 2014 - 14 September 2014.

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