Four members of the Curiositas research project participated as speakers in the 13th International Seminar on the Background and Origins of Cinema, held in Girona, on 20th-22nd October 2021. This Seminar “Virtual Worlds in Early Cinema: Devices, Aesthetics and Audiences” was organized by the University of Girona and by the Museu del Cinema | Col·lecció Tomàs Mallol, institutional partner of Curiositas Project. Cèlia Cuenca delivered the guest lecture Mirar lo que non ven… reflexiones sobre el público de los espectáculos ópticos; Howard Gil presented the paper Del retablo mecánico al mondo nuovo: una transición técnica de exhibición y estímulo de la imaginación; and Victor Flores & Susana Martins introduced the launching of Curiositas project with the joint paper Virtual Heritage for Virtual Worlds: Researching the Iberian Cosmoramas.
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.