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.
The new issue of Aniki – Portuguese Magazine of the Moving Image is now online
“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.
The Early Visual Media Lab (CICANT) has a new website
Learn more about the research projects, the events organized, the publications, the latest news, and its multidisciplinary team here.
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.