Panoramic and Immersive Media Studies Yearbook.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Briggs, Molly C.

Series:

Panoramic and Immersive Media Studies Yearbook Series

Panoramic and Immersive Media Studies Yearbook Series ; v.2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Panoramas.

Interactive multimedia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (486 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2025.

Summary:

The PIMS Yearbook surveys the historical and contemporary landscape of panoramic and immersive media. This interdisciplinary field includes--but is not limited to--360-degree paintings; dioramas and museum displays; gaming; gardens; immersive experience; maps; material culture studies; media archeology; 19th-century popular media; optical and haptic devices; performative media; printed matter; public history; and virtual and augmented reality.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

PIMS Yearbook Editorial Board

Call for the PIMS Yearbook, volume 3, 2026

1 Scholarly Essays

Introduction

Henry "Box" Brown's Reflection of Slavery and the American Landscape: Reconstructing the Moving Panorama Mirror of Slavery

1 Introduction

2 The Performance Landscape

3 The Landscape of American Whiteness

4 The Landscape of American Slavery

5 Conclusion

Works Cited

Slabs of White: Panoramic Whales and Photographic Guano in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

1 Technological Innovation: Panoramas and Photography

2 Travelogue: Sites of Encounter and Primal Scenes

3 Guano: Peruvian White Gold

4 Capital and Spectacle

6 Coda

Author Biography

2 Forum

Introduction: Context and Conversation in Panoramic and Immersive Media Studies

Beyond the Global Gaze: Celebrating Planetarium Diversity and Shaping a Spherical Worldview on Their Centennial

1 Spherical Encounters of Non-Western Cultures in the Planetarium During the Anthropocene

2 Conclusions

"Panoramas" in East Asia

1 Meaning: What is a Panorama?

2 Format: How are Panoramas and Handscrolls Related?

3 Content: When Does a Landscape Painting Become a Map (and Vice Versa)?

4 How Does the Original Query Activate the Presented Paradigms?

The History of Chinese Panoramas Began with a Visit to the Panorama of the Battle of Racławice

3 Reprints

Introduction: How a Great Battle Panorama is Made

How a Great Battle Panorama is Made

4 Restoration, Management, and Field Reports

Introduction: Restoring, Reconstructing and Reviving Historic Panoramas

The Bourbaki Panorama and the Challenges of Restoring the Optical Apparatus.

1 Introduction

2 History of the Painting

3 The Project to Restore the Optical Apparatus

4 The Optical Apparatus

5 The Individual Projects in Detail

6 Costs

7 Closing Words

The Racławice Panorama and its Two Counterparts: Reconstruction in the Process of Panorama Revitalization

2 Three Major Conservation Projects

3 Conclusion

The Panorama of the Battle of the Yser at Nieuwpoort: How One of the War Heritage Institute's War Panoramas is Presented in a New Permanent World War I Exhibition in Westfront Nieuwpoort, Belgium

2 A Partly Immersive Digital Reproduction of the Panorama of the Battle at the Yser

The Chicago Fire Cyclorama Reimagined: A Prototype for Immersive, Object-based Storytelling

Author Biographies

5 Visual and Creative Essays

Introduction: Immersive Empires, Expansive Texts

Men Arrived on Horseback (Boas)

A Façade on a Façade: The Necessity of Universal Studios' Immersive Fictions

Works Consulted

Lens, Light, Mirror: Various Experiences Made with an Overhead Projector

Panorama Poem

The Multidimensional Living Manifesto

A Manifesto

The Wilderness Shall Blossom as the Rose

Image Credit

Research Material

Panorama: IPC 2024 Post-Conference Tour

Key to Images

2024 IPC Post-Conference Tour Program (adapted from the 2024 IPC Conference Digital Package):

6 International Panorama Council Conference Report &amp

Papers

Panoramas as Memory of the World: Perspectives from the 33rd IPC Conference Hosts.

1 Day One-UNESCO Memory of the World workshops

2 Day Two-Regular Conference

3 Day Three-Regular Conference

4 Principal Achievements of the Conference

5 Appendix-Conference Themes

Short History of the Swiss and International Panorama Initiatives and Ideas Regarding UNESCO

1 Efforts to Achieve Unesco World Heritage Status

2 New Focus-UNESCO "Memory of the World"

Charles A. Chase and the Electric Cyclorama

1 A Digression: Innovation

2 From Panorama to Moving Pictures

3 The Invention of Charles A. Chase

4 Later Developments

The Nova Tuskhut: A Walk-in Archive of "Arctic" Things

1 Prelude

2 The Room: A Suspended Location of Dreary Spaces

3 Backdrop for Out-of-Time Dreamers

4 Conclusion: The Innermost Layer of the Museum

Velaslavasay Panorama Projects Referenced

An Archaeology of Time and Memory in Panoptic Media

1 Introduction: Panoramic Imagination in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art

2 Fabritius: Panoramic Curve?

3 Anamorphosis vs. Panoramic Projection

4 Discussion and Conclusion

Verlangen naar de verte / Longing for the Distance-Reflections on My Solo Exhibition at Museum Panorama Mesdag in The Hague, 2023

2 Museum Panorama Mesdag

3 Cabinet of Curiosities

4 Historic Finds

5 Capturing Views

6 Imaginary Panoramas

7 Aspect of Time

8 Moving on

Illustrating a New Memory: Panorama Key and Virtual Tour for the exhibition

2 The Virtual Tour

3 The Panorama Key

4 Access to the Virtual Experiences

5 Conclusions

6 Technical Note: How to Read an Image in Equirectangular Format

Author Biography.

Redefining Perception of Cultural Heritage: Extending Reality with 3D Models, VR, AI, and Gaming Technology

2 Panorama as an Inspiration

3 Diploma Project: First Project with Panorama Phenomenon

4 Widening Panoramic Experience

5 Modern Solutions for Landmarks

6 How Can Digital Creators Answer the Three Utility Principles?

7 Conclusion

Conference Program

Presentation Abstracts &amp

7 Reviews

Interview-Exposing Contrasts: A Conversation With Matthew G. Stanard on the and Belgian Colonial Propaganda

Book Review-The Panorama of the Battle of Racławice and its Two Counterparts by Ryszard Wójtowicz

Book Review-Sacred Spaces of New England: Cultural Heritage and the Panorama by Seth Thompson

Exhibition Catalog Review-On the Spot: Panoramic Gaze on Istanbul, A History

8 Call for the 2025 Conference

The World at a Glance: Panoramic and Peep

IPC Mission

IPC Membership

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.

ISBN:

3-11-169575-1

OCLC:

1559063530