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.
Curiositas’ database on Cosmoramas enters the DARIAH ecosystem
The database on nineteenth-century cosmoramas developed within the framework of the Curiositas project was introduced into the DARIAH–EU digital humanities platform. The entries for the mapped historical cosmoramas were added to the ROSSIO archive, the Portuguese node...
Final Three Episodes Released: “What Is a Cosmorama?” Interview Series
The final three episodes of the interview series “What is a Cosmorama?” have now been released. The series consists of six thematic videos dedicated to the Cosmorama, a largely forgotten media device that nevertheless played a fundamental role in nineteenth-century...
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...