Cello player Björt Rúnarsdöttir and visual artist Alba G. Corral performed their show “A taste of Nature” in which live projected images and live sound merged into an intense experience of video art. For their show on 14 April 2016, at the occasion of A Million Pictures’ second workshop, the artists integrated digital images of…

Notes from Workshop 2 “Defining guidelines for description and cataloguing – discussing first results”, (Girona, 14 – 16 April 2016).

Francisco Javier Frutos Esteban and Carmen López San Segundo, project members of the Research Team at Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, have published their article “Las Fantasmagorías de Robertson en Madrid (1821) y la historia natural del signo” (“Robertson’s Phantasmagoria in Madrid (1821) and the Natural History of the Sign” in the Journal Revista Signa 25…

The creative re-use project by artist Sarah Vanagt is presented in the Newsletter #6 of the  Research Centre for Visual Poetics. Visual Poetics is a research group in theatre, film and related artistic media at the University of Antwerp. The newsletter reaches scholars, artists and researchers.

Jan De Vree, head of collection and curator at our Associated Partner Museum for Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) wrote an article over a series of exhibitions based on the Vrielynck collection of Magic Lanterns, which also mentions the activities of the research team Antwerp. Read his article “From the collection M HKA, Antwerpen: Contemporary…

Newsletter #4 – April 2016

Cello player Björt Rúnarsdöttir and visual artist Alba G. Corral will perform their show “A taste of Nature” in which live projected images and live sound merge into an intense experience of video art. For their show at A Million Pictures, they integrated Magic Lantern Slides from the collection of the Museo del Cinema Girona. The…

On 17 March 2016, the British local newspaper Express and Echo reported on activities carried out by members of the research team Exeter in a short article “Historic Slides will be saved by digital project”.

The online forum Hyperallergic.com for “playful, serious, and radical perspectives on art and culture in the world today” posted the article “From Kittens to Curling, Thousands of European Lantern Slides Are Going Online” in its edition from 23 March 2016. The article highlights slides of the digitized collections and interviews Joe Kember about the involvement…

A Million Pictures is presented in the edition 1/2016 of Hypothese. Hypothese is the journal of the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and informs the world of scientific research in the Netherlands about actual developments and policies. Hypothese can be ordered free of charge or accessed online. Find the direct link to the article…