Stijn Schiffeleers in sugomagazine.com

Window or door.?

Standing in front of Looking Glass, a 'no-door-single-window' gallery in the center of Brussels, one can be surprised or pleasantly amused by the artwork shown inside. The 'reflective' surface however is only a tiny fragment of an invisible network that lays behind it and in that way does actually have some sort of entrance after all. Not only for the artist.!

It is beautiful to see how a successful concept like the Looking Glass, driven by an energetic Annemie Maes, recently merged complexless with Code31 and Machine Cent'red Humanz into a new entity named OKNO. With each of them specialized in a certain discipline, rooted in the past, it quickly became a flexible center covering four sections in support of art and technology: research, development, presentation and publication. Luckily, this didn't result in OKNO totally focused on itself, as over time a 'closed system' would cause a certain death for their interdisciplinary research. In order to stay 'alive', the center decided to actively participate in another bigger, more open and continuously transforming network formed by multiple initiatives in and outside of Brussels.

The city hereby gained not only a great new media center, but also an active model for others. Hopefully they will look through the window .. and beyond.!

http://www.lookingglass.be/
http://code31.lahaag.org/
http://www.mxhz.org/