My new installation Speculum Musurgica had its première a few days ago, August 18 2015, and is exhibited in Antwerp Cathedral till November 22, 2015. I made this new installation for an exhibition on Petrus Alamire, with as content two seven-voice compositions from Petrus Alamire’s sixteenth century music manuscripts: the motet Memorare Mater Christi of Matthaeus Pipelare, and the anonymous chanson Proch Dolor, an elegy on the death of Emperor Maximilian, performed by Paul Van Nevel and the Huelgas Ensemble. The heptagonal media installation Speculum Musurgica consists of ingenious mirror structures and sound projections that invite visitors to take a…
Tag: Media Archaeology
Media Art Histories 2013: RENEW
The highlight of my research and writing in 2013 was my paper for the MEDIA ART HISTORIES 2013: RENEW conference. The 5th edition of the International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology took place in Riga, Latvia, October 2013. The venue for the conference was in the art nouveau district, at walking distance from the old city centre. In my paper I specifically discussed cylindrical anamorphosis. I focussed on how it differs from the perspectival type of anamorphosis, and in a layered approach I outlined why it is of a completely different order. My paper was…
ISEA2011 – quite some time ago
Writing about cancelling my participation in ISEA2013, I realised I had not posted here about my participation in ISEA2011 a few years ago. The 2011 edition of ISEA took place at Istanbul, a fabulous city at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. In my paper for ISEA2011 I discussed the installation DIORAMATIZED #02 that I at that time was making for an exhibition @ M Museum Leuven. I analyzed the installation in the light of Stephen Bann’s writings about curiosity. Hence, the title of my paper and presentation seems quite logical: Curiosy as an artist’s brief. You can find the…
ISEA2013 – June 2013
I really looked forward to going to the 2013 ISEA edition. My abstract was accepted, and this event in Sydney June 2013 would probably be another milestone in my current PhD trajectory. Alas, I had to – last minute – cancel my trip and my participation in the conference. Well, anyway the work and time invested in preparing my presentation is not lost and an important step in the evolution of my PhD. My abstract, accepted for the topic or subtheme Histories and Futures of Electronic Art: Anamorphosis. A mystery in two acts or a strategy for embodied perception? Keywords:…
Rudi Knoops 