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.

Old Men in Love (John Tunnock's posthumous papers), 2007

Book, 24.1 x 16.2 cm, 311 p., language : English, publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London, ISBN : 9780747593539.

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 2027/35).

Literary synopsis

Scottish schoolmaster John Tunnock could not finish writing a book. He'd begin a manuscript on the trial of Socrates, only to become frustrated with details and get distracted with an idea he had about the Italian Renaissance. At the time of his death in 2007, at age 67 (foul play is suspected), he had a handful of such half-finished manuscripts about topics ranging from ancient Athens to 2003 Glasgow, along with a few diaries, and reminisces of his childhood after his mother was killed in the London Blitz. His heir Lady Sara Sim-Jaeger sought to find a suitable home for them. They have no real publishing value on their own, she thought, but perhaps a writer like Alasdair Gray, "who clearly has a high opinion of his own talents," could bring some form to the miscellanea and cobble it into a manuscript.

- Jessa Crispin

Authorship: Artist Author.

Creative Strategy: No Link to Artworks.

Genre: Biography.

Publishing: Publishing House.

Theme: Politics, Pornography, Scottish Culture.

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Artist

> Alasdair Gray.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Ensemble: The Artist's Novel.