Three inspiring days: Amsterdam, January 2026 

A report by Yasmin Claes (BE)  In January 2026, after our first start-up Canon II meeting in Brussels, the team met again in Amsterdam. It was a chance to dive deeper into our research, exchange ideas, and visit a few […]

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PARSIFAL and Antroposphy

Among the case studies in the scenography section is a production of *Parsifal* at the Goetheanum in Dornach, near Basel. Rudolf Steiner’s vision of staging this opera there was realised almost 100 years after his death. Richard Wagner’s final work, […]

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3D-Scan –  virtual documentation of collection-objects

When it comes to documenting objects, the topic of 3D scanning is becoming increasingly interesting. Canon II is checking the feasibility of these option. Smartphone apps make this technology accessible to virtually everyone, even without the need for expensive specialist […]

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Canon project first working meeting in Amsterdam

March 2026 post from Sweden by Anders Larson. At the beginning of the year, it became clear that STTF, the Swedish OISTAT, together with a number of theatre technical organisations and universities, had received approval for the Erasmus+ project Canon II […]

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CUE TALK CANON II: from performance to archive—how knowledge is preserved 

Report on the CANON II lecture at CUE by Isabel Nielen from the Netherlands. On Wednesday 14 January at CUE 2026, Bastiaan Schoof (NL) and Chris van Goethem (BE) gave a lecture on CANON II: preserving the heritage of lighting designers, […]

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

Under de senaste åren har frågan om medling spelat en allt viktigare roll inom konsten, kulturinstitutioner och motsvarande forsknings- och undervisningsområden. Mediation kan vara pedagogisk, politisk, tvärvetenskaplig och tvärmedial, sammanflätande, försonande och kulturellt effektiv, etc. Symposiet Building Bridges: Collecting, Researching […]

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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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