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.

Léon Foucault

Turbine rotating mirror, engine recorder, cogwheel mechanism, mirrors and supports used by Léon Foucault

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Collection: Collection Observatoire de Paris, Paris.

Foucault's mirrors and lenses occupy an emblematic place in El Hotel Eléctrico, at the beginning of the exhibition. The instruments are visible, but the light and the speed that it travels between the mirrors remains intangible. The essence cannot be shown. And it is precisely these invisible intervals that also comprise the exhibition's motto: the dynamic, the 'animation-effect' comes into being only by grace of the viewer who makes the bridge between these intervals. In the traditional film, these are the black images between two frames of film; the museum’s equivalent is the white space between the artworks. The museum thus provides a space that becomes 'animated' by the visitors themselves.

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Artist

Léon Foucault.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: El Hotel Eléctrico – Rooms available . M HKA, Antwerp, 21 February 2014 - 11 May 2014.

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