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.

Pastille-Motor, 1991

Object, 63 x 58 x 141 cm.

©image: Syb'l. S. - Pictures

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. BK006151).

Panamarenko wants to reach the heavens, the sun and the stars, not in a rocket but in a machine of human scale. For this he develops a new range of utterly light and near-soundless motors. He calls them ‘soft engines’. The Pastille-Motor is the reduced version of the giant airplane engine that the artist developed for his Backpack Aircraft (1984). The metal motor, cylinder and other components are at standstill. The table serves as pedestal and the machine becomes sculpture. The functionality of this sort of craft lies not in its efficiency, but rather in the possibilities it offers visitors to enter into the artist’s world. His inventions are not (necessarily) utilitarian. They are inventions in the 19th-century sense: strongly bound to the power of imagination. The suggestion that this motor might make it possible to fly, as Icarus dreamt of, is of much greater importance than the question of whether or not it would actually work. An ‘invention’ by Panamarenko contains adventure. The process of exploration and discovery is of more consequence than the final result.

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Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Museum E!: Els Vanden Meersch – Storyboard. WZC Immaculata, Edegem, 28 January 2017 - 25 February 2017.

> Ensemble: Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap.

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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.

> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.

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> Ensemble: The Artist / Technologist.