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. This digitization process made it possible to recreate, through short videos, the transparency effects of these images, originally prepared for an optical box called ‘Polyorama Panoptique’. The study of these images will be undertaken by the international team of the research project ‘Curiositas: Peeking before Virtual Reality. An Archeology of Immersive Media through Virtual Reality and Iberian Cosmoramas’ funded by FCT (PTDC/COM-OUT/4851/2021) and coordinated by Victor Flores (Univ. Lusófona) and Susana Martins (Univ. Nova de Lisboa).
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.
Mission to Salzburg Museum
Last December, some team members from the Curiositas project visited the Panorama Museum in Salzburg and had the unique opportunity to see all the 136 Cosmoramas by Hubert Sattler and Johann Michael Sattler stored at the archive of the Salzburg Museum.