The Early Visual Media Lab (CICANT) of Lusófona University and the research project Curiositas (CICANT; IHA) has collaborated with the Cinema Museum of Melgaço — Jean-Loup Passek for the digitization and study of its collection of optical views. This digitization process made it possible to recreate, through short videos, the transparency effects of these images, originally prepared for an optical box called ‘Polyorama Panoptique’. The study of these images will be undertaken by the international team of the research project ‘Curiositas: Peeking before Virtual Reality. An Archeology of Immersive Media through Virtual Reality and Iberian Cosmoramas’ funded by FCT (PTDC/COM-OUT/4851/2021) and coordinated by Victor Flores (Univ. Lusófona) and Susana Martins (Univ. Nova de Lisboa).
Curiositas Joins the European Time Machine Ecosystem
CURIOSITAS has joined the Time Machine Organisation with a new Local Time Machine entitled Mapping Cosmoramas. Time Machine is a European initiative that aims to build a large-scale, distributed digital infrastructure for collecting, organising, and analysing the “Big...
‘What is a Cosmorama?’: Interview series
The Early Visual Media Lab — CICANT (Lusófona University), in collaboration with the Institute of Art History (FCSH, NOVA University of Lisbon), presents the first three videos of an interview series entitled ‘What is a Cosmorama?’. This series was developed as part...
Curiositas at ARE Sofia, Bulgaria
Curiositas’ Virtual Reality experience Cosmorama: The Great Virtual Show was showcased at the Artistic Research Exhibition (ARE Sofia) in Bulgaria, from June 2-6, 2025.