The leading Belgian newspaper De Standaard reported in its edition of 2 November 2016 about activities by the research team Antwerp. The article ‘Videokunstenares brengt toverlantaarn weer tot leven’ (in…

A report of the third workshop in Antwerp is published in Newsletter Nr. 4 of the Dia-Archiv des Kunstgeschichtlichen Seminars Hamburg (“Slide Archive of the Art History Department at Hamburg…

Issue #8 of The Magic Lantern , published in September 2016 features an article about the digital collection of magic lantern and slide catalogues at the Media History Digital Library….

Nele Wynants published the article Binnenkijken in de Werkelijkheid – Sarah Vanagt over Schijnvis / Showfish / Poisson Brillant in the November Issue of the journal FORUM+ Voor Onderzoek en…

Newsletter #6 – October 2016

Sarah Dellmann from the Team Utrecht has published the article “Beyond and with the object: assessing the dissemination range of lantern slides and their imagery” in Early Popular Visual Culture…

Official opening and premiere of Schijnvis / Showfish / Poisson brillant Schijnvis / Showfish / Poisson Brilliant is a new installation by Sarah Vanagt, consisting of five magic lantern projections…

Tony Lidington and his troupe ‘Promenade Promotions’ have put on a peepshow based on magic lantern slides digitised from our Partner Royal Albert Memorial Museum (RAMM) in Exeter. Glorying in…

The 25-minute video documentation of the National Portrait Gallery Magic Lantern Horror Show at Australia, performed with members of the National Portrait Gallery and the Australian National University –  School…

Newsletter #5 – June 2016