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.

>James Lee Byars

The Tomb of James Lee Byars, 1986

Object, 100 x 100 x 100 cm.

©image: M HKA

Collection: Galerie Michael Werner, Märkisch Wilmersdorf, Cologne and New York.

"Well, I like beauty. I mean I do not have Plato’s definition before me now, but the sphere was one of the things he used in talking about it. If you have an interest and time, if you look into Plato you will see this magnificent definition of the beauty of the sphere where all points are equidistant in the mathematics of the sphere. The surface is smooth and the surface is polished. He holds this up as one of the great examples of beauty and then goes through the cosmological idea of the earth and the religious interpretation. I am very susceptible to such ideas of beauty."

Source: interview by Wolf-Günter Thiel on 6 March 1995.

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Artist

> James Lee Byars.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: James Lee Byars: The Perfect Kiss. M HKA, Antwerpen, 05 October 2018 - 20 January 2019.

> Ensemble: Chapter 6: Perfect Death, 1974–1997, Brussels-Amsterdam-Antwerp-Cologne-Caïro / Hoofdstuk 6: Perfecte dood / Chapitre 6: Mort parfaite.

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