On 4 May 1928 the Centre for Fine Arts (‘Palais des Beaux-Arts’) in Brussels officially opened its doors. In the past, 4 May 1928 has invariably been taken to be ...read more
According to the canon, male designers led fashion during the first phase of haute couture (c.1870-c.1970). This project challenges this narrative by giving centre stage to the category of the ...read more
The Ghent Altarpiece, a late-medieval painting by the Van Eyck brothers, was repainted in 1550. The current conservation treatment of the altarpiece indicates that extensive representational modifications were made, which ...read more
This research aims to illuminate and explain two seemingly contradictory types of ‘period room’ in private bourgeois homes in Belgium during the second half of the 19th century – ...read more
This research investigates a music composition model that includes creating the musical instruments for which the score is written. In this method a musical instrument is considered, first and foremost, a ...read more
This project investigates the possibilities of choreography as an intermedial practice to relate to today's societal urgencies, particularly relating to the migration and environmental crisis. For about a century, documentary ...read more
The progress made in the fields of technology, information theory, computational modeling, and immersive multisensory displays put the notion of the body as archive in a new perspective, especially as ...read more
From a parent coordinating movements to help a child learn to walk, to a violinist training a concerto, humans rely on physical interaction to learn from each other and from ...read more
Music is present in every culture in the world. We as a species seem to have an urge to make music. While the diversity of music cultures around the world ...read more
After World War II, the number of illustrated art books on the market rose rapidly. Following technological improvements and greater availability of photographic reproductions of artworks, publishers and art historians ...read more