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.
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...