Curiositas has recently welcomed two new fellows. The first two PhD scholarships of Curiositas were awarded to Ana David Mendes, PhD student of Contemporary Art at the University of Coimbra, and to Celia Cuenca, PhD Student in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Barcelona. Both fellows will undertake tasks related to database cataloguing and press analysis, as well as iconographic research in Portuguese and Spanish museums. This research will be part of their final theses entitled ‘The curiosity of the Journey: recovery and processes of creative appropriation of optical devices in contemporary art’ (Ana David Mendes) and ‘La mirada óptica. Vistas ópticas y espectáculos visuales en España durante los siglos XVIII y XIX’ (Celia Cuenca).
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...