“Immersion and Expanded Spectatorships” is the title of the thematic dossier just published in the new issue of Aniki – Portuguese Magazine of the Moving Image (www.aim.org.pt/aniki), edited by Victor Flores (Lusófona University), Susana S. Martins (Nova University of Lisbon) and John Plunkett (University of Exeter), researchers in the Curiositas project (curiositas.ulusofona.pt). This dossier includes papers on VR and immersion by Michael Walter, Francisco Merino, Taís de Barros and Roberto Tietzmann, and Filipe Martins. It also includes the text “Immersion and Expanded Spectatorships: Notes on a Reinvented Field” co-authored by Victor Flores and Susana Martins.
The cover image was kindly provided by José Bértolo.
The Early Visual Media Lab (CICANT) has a new website
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CICANT and Curiositas has collaborated with the Cinema Museum of Melgaço
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.
Mission to Salzburg Museum
Last December, some team members from the Curiositas project visited the Panorama Museum in Salzburg and had the unique opportunity to see all the 136 Cosmoramas by Hubert Sattler and Johann Michael Sattler stored at the archive of the Salzburg Museum.