Title Promoter Affiliations Abstract "Film, media and nation-building in Flanders." "Gertjan Willems" "Research Centre for Visual Poetics" "This research project aims at investigating the relation between media and nation-building in Flanders. The project consists of two parts. First, the project focuses on film and nation-building in Flanders from 1945 until today. Through quantitative and qualitative textual film analyses, the project critically examines the cinematic representation of Flanders and Flemish identities. Second, the project places these findings in their broader media and cultural context. This is done by editing an interdisciplinary volume on media and nation-building in Flanders from the 19th century until today. In this second part, the project offers an original synthesis of the existing research on media and nation-building in Flanders and formulates a research agenda for the future.BOF Small Research Grant." "Research Council Laureate 2017 - Deleeck Award: Social and Human Sciences" "Vito Adriaensens" "Research Centre for Visual Poetics" """From New Stagecraft to New Cinema: Silent Film Performs the Avant-Garde"" is an intermedial undertaking geared towards redefining the evolution of cinema against developments in the historical avant-garde in performing arts." "The Photo Archive Fritz Mayer van den Bergh: High Society's visual culture, then and now." "Henk de Smaele" "Power in History - Centre for Political History" "The research group Thinking Tools from the Antwerp Academy for Fine Arts, proposes, in collaboration with the Antwerp Museum Mayer van den Bergh, a historical and artistic research project for the Museum's unpublished photo collection. The (photo) historical research into this yet to be disclosed collection and its background in visual culture then and now is also organized as a didactic project, and formulated as a challenging assignment for the BA students Photography. Charlotte Lybeer and Els Vanden Meersch create new artistic work (photography‐film) inspired by the photo archive." "Flat photography and two-dimensional pictorial organization." "Bence Nanay" "Centre for Philosophical Psychology" "The aim of this project is to connect up philosophical work on the appreciation of photographs and works of photography that raise philosophical problems themselves. The focus of the research is the ways in which the pictorial organization (or composition) of photographs contributes our general appreciation of what the photograph is about (and of). Bert Danckaert's photographs are very unusual and provocative in formal terms inasmuch as they are 'flat' photographs – their pictorial organization is based on very different principles from a random family snapshot. And Bence Nanay did a lot of research on two-dimensional versus three-dimensional pictorial organization, which is directly applicable to Danckaert's photographs, leading to a truly collaborative approach. The deliverables of the project are three public events and three publication projects." "Between historical fact and artistic fiction: the topographical representation of contemporary battles and festivities by the Brussels court painters Peter Snayers and Elisabeth Seldron." "Katlijne Van der Stighelen" "Art History, Leuven" "This project consists of three interlocking components. The first one is the revision of my dissertation, entitled Between remembrance and glorification. A contextual study of Peter Snayers (1592-1667) topographical battle iconography for the Habsburg elite, for book publication in English in the peer-reviewed series Pictura Nova (Brepols Publishers). In the second part of the project Snayers paintings of the shooting of the jay by the Archduke Leopold-William on 23rd April 1651 (Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and Madrid, BBVA-collection) will be examined. In order to determine the factual value of these paintings, they will be compared with archived reports of the festivity and with the pictorial tradition, especially David II Teniers (1610-1690) representation of the same event and Anton Sallaerts (1580-1650) paintings of the Infante Isabellas shooting of the jay in 1615. The third part of the project is devoted to the study of an unknown series of battle paintings by the Brussels court artist Elisabeth Seldron (c. 1680-1761). The depicted events will be contextualized, and on a stylistic level the art works will be studied in connection with Teniers military painting, and Philippe de Hondts (1683-1741) tapestry designs. Attention will also be paid to the links between Seldrons iconography and the French military model developed by Snayers pupil Adam Frans Van der Meulen (1632-1690)." "Digital Archive of Belgian Neo-Avant-garde Periodicals (DABNAP)." "Walter Daelemans" "Centre for Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics (CLiPS)" "Post-war artists' periodicals are a prime example of the neo-avant-garde DIY ethos, and simultaneously constitute a crucial source of information about this movement. This project aims to digitize a substantial and representative corpus of Belgian neo-avant-garde periodicals. Subsequently, innovative language processing tools will be applied in order to extract and visualize the network of artists who were behind the periodicals." "Caput Iohannis in Disco or St John's Head on a Platter (Johannesschüssel): Object, Context, Medium, Roots. Towards an Iconology of the head in the Middle Agnes and the early Modernity, between North and South." "Barbara Baert" "Art History, Leuven" "Mapping the Antwerp-Brussels-Oudenarde tapestry complex (1600-1700) via social network analysis." "Koenraad Brosens" "Art History, Leuven" "17th-century Flemish tapestry production was exceptionally capital-intensive and perilous. Tapissiers had to find ways to maximize their creditworthiness and to minimize information assymetries between themselves and prospective buyers to avoid market failure. The question emerging from these observations is straightforward: How did they do it? How did 17-th century Antwerp, Brussels and Oudenarde tapissiers succeed in overcoming all these challenges?" "'Jack The Bear': A comparative analysis of the innovations in jazz bass playing by Jimmie Blanton." "Alexander Dhoest" "Antwerp Media in Society Centre (AMSoC)" "Jimmie Blanton is widely regarded as one of the prime innovators of jazz bass playing. However, to date there has been no attempt to precisely and systematically determine in which areas he was innovative. Based on a strong theory-practice nexus, this artistic research aims to reach a thorough understanding of the innovative aspects in the jazz bass playing of Blanton, in order to fill the lacunae that still prevail on this issue." "On a Par with Paris? Towards a Multipolar History of Nineteenth-Century Belgian¨Art, ca 1850-1890." "Koenraad Brosens" "Art History, Leuven" "This project aims to rethink the research field of nineteenth-century Belgian art along a new geographical and methodological model. Traditionally, Belgiums nineteenth-century art production is approached from a centre/periphery perspective that conceives of its object principally in its relation to French art. The construction of art historical narratives along this model, however, distorts reality. First, it ignores the fact that encounters between what we see now as peripheries (Belgium and most other regions) were as productive as encounters with the leading artistic centre (Paris). Second, the centre/periphery model deals with art in the purportedly universal categories of the centre and thus ignores the importance of location, identity and transfer for art as well as the local social, cultural and economic conditions behind them. This project aims to reconsider Belgian art outside the traditional French categories and proposes a more dynamic model to approach it as at the intersection of not two but a multitude of geographical axes. It does so on the basis of three case studies pertaining to exchanges with three other artistic peripheries: England, Germany and America. It focuses in particular on the roles of dealers and exhibition organisers in negotiating local taste, artistic exchange and the site-specific determinants behind them."