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.

>Douglas Coupland

Shampoo Planet, 2002

Book, 19.6 x 12.9 cm, 282 p., language : English, publisher : Scribner (Simon & Schuster UK Ltd), London, first published in 1993.

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 2027/701).

Literary synopsis

Shampoo Planet is the rich and dazzling point where two worlds collide - those of 1960s parents and their 1990s offspring, "Global Teens," the generation after Generation X. Tyler Johnson is a twenty-year-old MTV child. Once a baby raised in a hippie commune, he now sells fake Chanel T-shirts, collects shampoo and studies hotel/motel management in a small northwest city saddled with a dying mega-mall and a collapsed nuclear industry. An ambitious Reagan Youth, Tyler dreams of escape and a career with the corporation whose offices his mother once firebombed.

Novel's website

Novel's website2

Authorship: Artist Author.

Creative Strategy: No Link to Artworks.

Genre: Satire.

Publishing: Publishing House.

Theme: 1960s, American Culture, Socio-Political Critic.

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> Douglas Coupland.

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> Ensemble: The Artist's Novel.

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