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.

Ensemble: Chapter 4: Communication - Letters, books and signatures / Hoofdstuk 4: Communicatie - Brieven, boeken en handtekeningen / Chapitre 4: Communication - Lettres, livres et dessins

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Byars wrote letters day and night, and they have become an important part of his artistic legacy. The first time they were exhibited was in the ‘Lettershow’ at the Gerber Gallery in Berne in 1975, for which Byars collected his letters sent to correspondents all over the world. His conscious upgrading of letters as artworks befitted an era of communication and information exchange. Byars’s letters, sent from wherever he had just landed, are mostly conspiratory or provocative in content, in order to convince the receiver to help him realise a project.

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Works

>James Lee Byars, Byars at the MET ...invisibly, NY, 1970.Other, pink envelope, two squared papers, 4.8 x 7.4 cm, 2.7 x 2.7 cm.

>James Lee Byars, 100 Minds, 1970.Photography, cut from 16mm celluloid, 15.7 x 22 cm.

>James Lee Byars, Moonbook (Stonebooks), 1980.Installation, artist book, sandstone in display case, 3.7 x 41.3 x 29.4 cm, 175.5 x 146 x 46 cm.

>James Lee Byars, Untitled.Object, 6 oysters, 38 x 35 x 8.5 cm.

>James Lee Byars, 666.Object, crushed egg shell.

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