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 Dutch) takes its cue from the exhibition Schijnvis / Show Fish / Poisson Brillant and zooms in on the research, mentioning the efforts to digitize…

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 University”, Germany). The Newsletter is bilingual, in English and German, and reports on the archivist’s activities around the slide collection. The collection contains, among others,…

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. In the article, Sarah Dellmann presents the online collection and describes ways of exploring this digital collection. The Magic Lantern is the member’s journal of…

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 Kunsten. In her article, Nele Wynants traces the history of the projection microscope in the history of scientific magic lantern projections and introduces the work…

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…

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…

A Million Pictures is also documented on the EU Heritage Portal. Read the post on our project