Last October, Curiositas co-organised with the PhD in Media Art and Communication of Lusofona University a four-days workshop dedicated to Artistic Research in Optical Media. The first part of this workshop was dedicated to “Taking Shades and Making Silhouettes”. This was the opportunity to let the American photographers, Mark and France Osterman take us back to pre-photographic times showing the charms of the silhouette portrait and its technical challenges by using the pantograph.
The second and longest part of the workshop proceeded with “Seductive Artefacts: Paradigms of Representation and Perception 1637-1860” taught by the researchers Rod Bantjes and Ana David Mendes. This consisted of a hands-on workshop building on experimental research with optical media such as camera obscuras, stereoscopes and optical theatres. Some of these apparatuses were redesigned or readjusted to challenge depth perception and to foster new artistic approaches in photography or drawing.
Upcoming Exhibition: ‘O Cosmorama. As Viagens Escondidas do Século XIX’
Curiositas is preparing an exhibition as a result of the project’s research.
The 34th International Panorama Council Conference in Lisbon
From July 16th to 19th, 2025, Lisbon will host the 34th edition of the International Panorama Council (IPC) Conference, entitled “The World at a Glance. Panoramas and Peep Technologies.
Collaboration with FRESS
Early Visual Media Lab and Curiositas has collaborated with FRESS.