EBOOK
Cosmorama. The Forgotten Medium
This is the first book on the subject of cosmoramas and draws from original research on Iberian and British cosmoramas developed within the research project Curiositas – Peeping Before Virtual Reality. Published in separate Portuguese and English editions, Cosmorama. The Forgotten Medium explores the images, itinerant showmen, routes, and audiences of this long-overlooked visual medium that captivated 19th-century Europe. To consult this book in portuguese, click here.
Articles and books
2026
Flores, Victor (2026), Imperial visions on tour: cosmoramas, neoramas, and Eurocentrism in
Andorfer’s Grand Optical Gallery, Early Popular Visual Culture, London: Routledge.(Open access)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/17460654.2025.2605312?needAccess=true
2025
Flores, Victor, & Saraiva, Beatriz, Curating Moving Images: Laurent Mannoni on his Archaeology of
the Cinema. International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media, 8(1), 20-33.
https://doi.org/10.60543/ijsim.v8i1.10015
Jaquet, Daniel, Briggs, Molly, Flores, Victor, Koller, Gabriele, Moens, Bart G., & Thompson, S.
(2025). Panoramas as Memory of the World: An Immersive Media Art Form as Documentary
Heritage. International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media, 9(2), 4-29.
https://doi.org/10.24140/ijsim.v9i2.9440
John Plunkett and Joe Kember (2025), Popular Visual Shows 1800-1914: Picturegoing from Peep
Shows to Film, Oxford University Press. (book)
https://academic.oup.com/book/59930
Victor Flores and Susana S. Martins (eds.), Cosmorama. The Forgotten Medium, Lisbon: CICANT
and Instituto de História de Arte, 2025.
https://curiositas.ulusofona.pt/publicacoes/
2024
Segundo, Carmen López San; Frutos Esteban, Francisco Javier; Prieto, Marina Hernández,
‘Del mundinovi al Cinefluo: explorando la cultura visual inmersiva en España (1734-1908)’, in
Marieta Cantos y Paula Bruno (org.), Nuevos Mundos, Mundos Nuevos, Aproximaciones a la
cultura visual del siglo XIX en Europa y Latinoamérica: tecnologías y espectáculos ópticos,
mecánicos y luminosos, February 2024.
https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/
Córcoles, Célia Cuenca, ‘Los neoramas del óptico Felipe Maglia y la diversificación de la cartelera
de espectáculos ópticos en la Barcelona del siglo XIX’, in Marieta Cantos y Paula Bruno (org.),
Nuevos Mundos, Mundos Nuevos, Aproximaciones a la cultura visual del siglo XIX en Europa y
Latinoamérica: tecnologías y espectáculos ópticos, mecánicos y luminosos”, February 2024.
https://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/
Plunkett, John. "An Early Moving Picture Industry? Exhibition Networks and the Panorama
1810–1850." Huntington Library Quarterly, vol. 87 no. 2, 2024, p. 313-335. Project MUSE.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2024.a964277
Susana S. Martins, Cosmorama Exhibitions and the Museum: a Project to Reimagine the Future of
a Forgotten History, MIDAS— Museus e Estudos Interdisciplinares, 19, CIDEHUS – Centro
Interdisciplinar de História Culturas e Sociedades da Universidade de Évora: Open Edition
Journals, 2024.
https://journals.openedition.org/midas/5432
2023
Flores, Victor; Martins, Susana, ‘Immersion and Expanded Spectatorships: Notes on a Reinvented
Field’, in Aniki— Revista Portuguesa da Imagem em Movimento, v. 10 n.1: Imersão e Experiências
de Recepção Expandidas, Lisboa: AIM – Associação de Investigadores da Imagem em
Movimento e IHC – Instituto de História Contemporânea (FCSH-UNL).
https://aim.org.pt/ojs/index.php/revista/article/view/987
Segundo, Carmen López San; López, Cristina Calvo; Prieto, Marina Hernández; (2023).
Exploring The Archaeology of Media in Spain. International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media
7, pp.158-185 ISSN 21841241
https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/stereo/article/view/8739
2022
Flores, Victor; Martins, Susana, ‘Virtual Heritage for Virtual Worlds: Researching the Iberian
Cosmoramas’, in Quintana, A.; Pons, J., Virtual Worlds in Early Cinema: Devices, Aesthetics and
Audiences, Girona: Fundació Museu del Cinema-Col.lecció Tomàs Mallol.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WEeWxHqYYnI-prWeRcB4lUumwScZU9GW/view?usp=share_link
Corcoles, Celia Cuenca, ‘Mirar lo que no ven…reflexiones sobre el público de los espectáculos
ópticos’, in Quintana, A.; Pons, J. (2022), Virtual Worlds in Early Cinema: Devices, Aesthetics and
Audiences, Girona: Fundació Museu del Cinema-Col.lecció Tomàs Mallol.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SMEyX0CTGglYkybQJ7t1pc1eokwhopfd/view?usp=share_link
Special Issues
2026 (forthcoming)
Flores, Victor; Plunkett, John; Martins, Susana S. (eds.), Special Issue ‘Cosmoramas
and Other Peep Practices 1800-1880’, Early Popular Visual Culture, London:
Routledge.
2023
Flores, Victor; Martins, Susana S.; Plunkett, John, Edição dossier temático com revisão por pares
‘Immersion and Expanded Spectatorships’ da Aniki— Revista Portuguesa da iMagem em
Movimento, v. 10 n.1
https://aim.org.pt/ojs/index.php/revista