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.

> Panamarenko

Persis Clambatta II, 2001

Object, 29 x 39 x 15.5 cm.

©image: M HKA

Collection: Private Collection.

Panamarenko attempts to solve the nagging technical problem of the control mechanism in his second-generation Archaeopteryxes (starting in 2001).  Gradually he abandons the too-heavy electronic controls, and replaces them with a completely mechanical system.  It is mainly in his workshop in the Furka Pass in the Swiss Alps, that he likes to 'fiddle around' with his chickens, as he likes to say.  The Persis Clambatta from 2001 is a fresh attempt to arrive at a moving chicken-robot.  The construction is still partly electronic, including eight servomotors.  The name of the chicken is a wink to the actress Persis Khambatta, who played in the science-fiction film Star Trek: The Motion Picture from 1979.

'I liked her look, and on top of that the film was full of all kinds of little robots...' - Panamarenko

(source: Hans Willemse and Paul Morrens, in: 'Copyright Panamarenko', 2005)

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Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Panamarenko Universum. M HKA, Antwerpen, 03 October 2014 - 29 March 2015.

> Ensemble: Servo-Robotica.

Related Items

>Star Trek: The Motion Picture, 1979.Film.

> Panamarenko, Persis Clambatta, 2001.Drawing, pencil, colour-pencil, paper, 21.9 x 29 cm.

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