B-MAGIC search menu search content B-MAGIC The Magic Lantern and its Cultural Impact as a Visual Mass Medium in Belgium Public defence of B-magic PhD Anse De Weerdt The Politics of Light: Colonial Power, Knowledge Transmission, and The Magic Lantern in Belgium (1885–1945) Date 27 nov Scientists, t…

B-MAGIC search menu search content B-Magic in Space Mapping of Lantern Infrastructure and its Socio-technological Context PhD: BUELENS-TERRYN Margo (UA) | Supervisor: VANDAMME Ilja (UA) | Co-supervisors: VANHOUTTE Kurt (UA) & JONGEPIER Iason (UA) The magic lantern was part of the modernizing landsca…

B-MAGIC search menu search content The Magic Lantern Experience: Mapping Cultural Exchanges between Slide-producing Countries and Belgium Postdoc: WYNANTS Nele (ULB) | Supervisor: VANHAESEBROUCK Karel (ULB) Cultural exchange between European cities in the 18th and 19th centuries contributed greatly …

B-MAGIC search menu search content B-magic Final Conference 4-7 May 2022 ‘The Magic Lantern in Leisure, Entertainment and Popular Culture’ Watch the Conference Video Recordings here Panels, Lectures, B-magic Carrousel, Future Projects, and Artistic Programme B-magic Final Conference, 5-7 May 202…

B-MAGIC search menu search content Magic Lantern in Popular Entertainment Postdoc: JONCKHEERE Evelien (UA) | Supervisor: VANHOUTTE Kurt (UA) Alongside theatre venues and lecture halls, magic lantern projections were also often integrated into spectacular attractions at different kinds of popular cul…

B-MAGIC search menu search content B-magic Carrousel and Future Projects recordings Research from within B-magic and new related projects B-magic Carrousel All B-magic members present their research: 00:00 Research Centre for Visual Poetics: University of Antwerp (Faculty of Arts, Literature Departm…

B-MAGIC search menu search content B-magic research event (20/02/2019) The second B-magic research event will take place on 20 February at KADOC, Leuven. This research event will explore the role of the magic lantern and other visual aids in education. Our guest and speaker is Prof. dr. Jens Ruchatz…

B-MAGIC search menu search content B-magic PhD-seminar (23/01/2019) The next B-magic PhD-seminar will take place at the University of Leuven, 23 January 2019, 14-16h30. Location: Monseigneur Sencie Instituut (MSI), room 01.23, Erasmusplein 2, 3000 Leuven Program: Introduction to the B-magic SharePoi…

B-MAGIC search menu search content B-magic PhD-seminar (14/12/2018) The next B-magic PhD-seminar will take place at the University Library in Ghent, 14 december 2018, 14-16h. Location: Sint-Hubertusstraat 8 (be on time at the entrance, the venue is the old HIKO-library by Henri Van de Velde, accessi…

B-MAGIC search menu search content The Uses of the Magic Lantern in Scenography Postdoc: ENGELEN Leen (UA) | Supervisor: VANHOUTTE Kurt (UA) | Co-supervisor: WILS Kaat (KU Leuven) As a technology and art form, magic lantern projections played a role in various artistic disciplines and contexts: oper…

B-MAGIC search menu search content Magic Lantern in Belgian Public Lectures and Popular Performances WP2 'Magic Lantern in Belgian Public Lectures and Popular Performances' will focus on public lectures and performances and their locations. PhD 2 will use GIS (geographic information system) technolo…

B-MAGIC search menu search content B-magic symposium: The Travelling Lantern (25/5/2018) DATE: 18 MAY 2018, 09:30-18:30 (+ evening programme screening film Saving Brinton at 20:30 at Cinema Zuid) VENUE: M HKA, museum of contemporary art Antwerp (auditorium), Leuvenstraat 32, Antwerp Check the entire…

B-MAGIC search menu search content The Magic Lantern in Leisure, Entertainment and Popular Culture Edited by Kurt Vanhoutte and Leen Engelen Scheduled for 2023 Also in Open Access Cookie prreferences Strictly necessary cookies They are necessary for the proper functioning of the website and can not …

B-MAGIC search menu search content Events Take a look at our most recent newsletter and stay up-to-date! Latest newsletter Browse through B-magic's past events here: Event archive A selection from our team's external activities: Looking back Cookie prreferences Strictly necessary cookies They are ne…

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B-MAGIC search menu search content Collections Belgian Collections magic lantern / projection lantern / optical lantern / glass plates / diapositives Within the B-magic project, numerous collections with glass slides and magic lanterns have been consulted at archives, museums, schools and research i…

B-MAGIC search menu search content MAS - Antwerp The MAS collection is rich in colourful glass plates, toy lanterns and two professional lanterns, originating from different donators. The majority of the lantern slides are commercial products from German, English and French producers such as Plank, …

B-MAGIC search menu search content Lanternists A Portrait of Herman Bollaert Lanternist and Galantee Showman Lanterns at the Fairground Report on the third B-magic symposium Lanterns at the Fairground A performance by Jeremy & Carolyn Brooker (5/4/2019) Lanterns at the Fairground A demonstration by …

B-MAGIC search menu search content Publications Find out more about our researchers' publications here: Publication list Take a look at current calls here: Call for papers Cookie prreferences Strictly necessary cookies They are necessary for the proper functioning of the website and can not be switc…

B-MAGIC search menu search content Mundaneum - Mons The Mundaneum – one of Wallonia’s major archives centres and exhibition spaces, has been collecting glass plates since 1905, when it was run by its founder, Belgian cosmopolitan Paul Otlet. Otlet, one of the founders of modern information scien…

B-MAGIC search menu search content CEAH - Heverlee Cultureel Erfgoed Annuntiaten Heverlee gathers archival material and heritage documents related to the activities in education, missionary work and pastoral work conducted by the Zusters Annuntiaten congregation. It comprises material from the ‘In…

B-MAGIC search menu search content CINEMATEK - Brussels The CINEMATEK holds about 20 lantern devices and a beautiful diverse slide-collection that contains both hand-painted fantsmagoric and astronomic slides and commercial series of well-known German, French and English producers. This last categor…

B-MAGIC search menu search content KADOC - Leuven KADOC, a Documentation and Research Center on Religion, Culture and Society holds approximately 20.000 positives in 120 boxes, donated by Catholic congregations in Flanders and Wallonia. Its slides cover almost all of the Church’s activities, from …

B-MAGIC search menu search content Interviews Watch our researchers talk about their object of study Bart Moens (ULB) on emotions and the lantern Wouter Egelmeers (KU Leuven) on the lantern in education Cookie prreferences Strictly necessary cookies They are necessary for the proper functioning of t…

B-MAGIC search menu search content Vacancies Science at the Fair: Performing Knowledge and Technology in Western Europe, 1850-1914 The 'Science at the Fair' project under principal investigator and B-magic member Nele Wynants (UAntwerp) is looking to fill one vacancy in the Antwerp Research Institut…