Panamarenko

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An artist, an inventor and a visionary, Panamarenko has conducted an exceptional long-term research on concepts such as space, movement, flying, energy and gravity. His work is a combination of an artistic insight and a technological experimentation.
As an introduction to his practice M HKA has mapped out almost his entire oeuvre in a chronologically and thematicly structured digital platform. M HKA would like to share the gathered information further with the public. Welcome to the digital archive!

Panamarenko

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ELF-zender [ELF-transmitter], 1986
Samuel Vanhoegaerden Gallery, Knokke
Panamarenko
Object , 28 x 16 x 16.5 cm
copper, magnets, aluminium, copper wire

Frequencies in the radio spectrum between 3 and 30 Hz. are referred to as 'extremely low frequencies' or ELF. The radio waves have a wavelength of 10.000 till 100.000 kilometres. Apart from the application of sending signals to submarines at great depth, ELF signals can be used to catch the natural fluctuations of Earth's electromagnetic field. Later, in his attic at the Biekorfstraat, Panamarenko starts a project he never completed, namely to construct a 'Sterrenvolger' (star follower), that should map the magnetic fields in the universe.

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