Theatre Construction Knowledge – Objects, Media and Discourse between the German Empire and the Cold War

Jan Lazardzig / Bri Newesely / Kerstin Wittmann-Englert / Franziska Ritter / Halvard Schommartz / Marie-Charlott Schube (eds.) 17 × 24 cm, 304 pages, 80 colour illustrations ISBN 978-3-98612-083-2 As public buildings, theatres are a prominent arena for ideological conflicts, […]

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Allard Pierson – 100 years of theatre collection – 27, 28 February 2025

On February 28, 2025, Chris van Goethem and Bastiaan Schoof presented the Canon II project at the symposium “100 Years of Theatre Collection” at the Allard Pierson museum in Amsterdam. All speakers discussed the past and present of this collection, […]

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Talk iLo, 18 October 2024

In Oktober 2024, iLo (Institute of Lightdesign) invited Chris van Goethem to talk about the Canon II project to the iLo audience. The talks are mostly attended by lightdesigners, light experts, scenographers, students and teachers. This time we specially invited […]

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Presenting at Symposium „Building Bridges“, SIBMAS 2025, Köln/Düsseldorf

In recent years, the question of mediation has played an increasingly important role in the arts, cultural institutions, and the corresponding fields of researching and teaching. Mediation can be pedagogical, political, cross-disciplinary and cross-media, intertwining, reconciling and culturally effective, etc. […]

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Canon at Showtech 2025

On SHOWTECH 2025 (May 20-22) in Berlin, the leading international trade fair and congress for theatre and stage technology, students, teachers, technicians and industry experts explore cutting-edge solutions and shape the future of the theatre technology. BHT-team Bri Newesely and […]

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Transkribus

Transkribus is a software package that supports text recognition for historic written information and difficult typefaces. We will be testing the software during the project.

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