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.

>Jan Cox

As Manipulators of the Visual Arts our Understanding goes through our Eyes., 1961

Text, 3 p.

Courtesy Archief De Zwarte Panter, Antwerpen

Collection: Courtesy Archief De Zwarte Panter, Antwerpen.

This typescript is a lecture for Cox's students at the end of an academic year at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.  Here, Cox avows his support for a moral stance as the basis by which to judge art.  'Anyone with adequate technique can get away with murder,' is among his assertions.  The artist's ultimate aim is to give others a poetic raison d’être.  The first question must be 'why', then 'what', and not the 'how' that now takes precedence.

The lecture was accompanied by slides.   

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>Jan Cox, As Manipulators of the Visual Arts our Understanding goes through our Eye, 1961, Page 1

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> Jan Cox.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Ensemble: Teksten van Jan Cox [Texts by Jan Cox].

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