The group portrait of some of the participants in the Stereo & Immersive Media International Conference 2018. Saturday, 30 June at Universidade Lusofona by the photographer António Rebolo.
O retrato de grupo a alguns dos participantes da conferência Stereo & Immersive Media 2018. Sábado, 30 de Junho, na ULHT pelo fotógrafo António Rebolo.
Final Programme for 2018 S&I Media Conferece is already available!
This year we will have a nineteenth-century inspired daguerreotype studio. You will be able to witness this amazing process and take the result home with you!
As in our previous edition, there will also be 3D film screenings! Edgar Pêra, Esther Jacopin and Florent Médina are some of the experimental 3D cinema directors S&I Media will feature. You will also be able to talk with the directors in a debate following the screenings.
We planned a visit to the Museum of Mechanical Music, next to Lisbon, which has a collection of more than 600 sound and musical items that move exclusively through mechanical systems from the late 1800s to the 1930s. In 2017, the Museum was awarded the Visitable Colection and Best Website Awards by the Portuguese Museology Association. Visitable Colection Award distinguishes “public or private spaces, with the presentation of a set of cultural goods that follows all the standards of communication, security and conservation”.
You can check all the Programme details here.
Imersivo | Immersive
S&I Media 2018 Exhibition
Curators: Victor dos Reis and Rogério Taveira
Venue: Fine Arts Society, Lisbon
Dates: 29 June 29 to 21 July
We are glad to announce the six projects selected for our very first exhibition Imersivo | Immersive:
Daydream Nation, Sandra Zuzarte Ferreira
This multimedia installation, created after Gerhard Richter’s work, suggests the deconstruction of a stereoscopic visualization process and a reflection on the act of seeing itself, while evoking the Schrödinger’s paradox to illustrate the creation of ghosts and simulacra.
Wandering Gaze, Ana Teresa Vicente
This project explores the relation established between the observer’s gaze and a certain image. Through the use of eye-tracking technology, this interactive installation suggests the suspension of gravity by a hidden force through the experience of a prosthetic gaze that pierces the observed object.
Passagem, Ana Catarina Teixeira
With this work, the artist seeks an approach to sleep, creating interactions between the concepts of vulnerability and human existence. This sound installation reflects on sleep as a verge state between two worlds and falling asleep as the moment of exterior absence, evoking the threshold between life and death.
Eccentric Spaces, Águeda Simó
This video installation explores the plasticity of stereo depth and its immersive qualities. Stereo depth can be manipulated to create eccentric dimensions and reveal hidden worlds that only exist inside the stereoscopic projections.
Atmosmancy, Ivo Louro
Atmosmancy is an immersive sound installation that explores the sonification of environmental data on climate changes and atmosphere pollution in Portugal. Atmosmancy transforms this monitored and projected data into corresponding sound streams, spatializing them via 10 audio speakers.
Her Fears / Her Dreams, Jennifer Crane
Series of stereoscopic photographs (7”x 3” archival pigment prints) based on historical views of western Canada and on the photographic archives of William Notman, who owned and operated one of the largest photographic studios in Canada during the nineteenth century.
This year, S&I Media will have a session entirely dedicated to stereo photography in Spain. Taking place on the 28 of June at Lusófona University, this session will be delivered by researchers Celia Cuenca (Barcelona University), Juan A. Fernández Rivero e Maria Teresa García Ballesteros (Fernández Rivero Colection, Málaga) and José Antonio Hernández Latas (Zaragoza University). We look forward to discovering the details of their research!
For more information on this and other sessions, check our program here.
This beautiful daguerreotype was recently taken for the preparation of the dag studio to be set at Universidade Lusófona next June (28-30) during the International Conference on Stereo & Immersive Media 2018.
This is the portrait of the daguerreotypists team. From right to left: Luís Pavão, Inês Fernandes and Paula Lourenço.
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We are pleased to share the first program for S&I Media Conference, with all sessions and detailed schedule!
We also inform authors that paper submissions deadline for issue no. 3 was extended to 30 April!
Immersion and Beyond – A critical approach to understanding the aesthetic potential of 3D-audio
Prof. Sabine Breitsameter
Research Center Digital Communication and Media Innovation (DKMI), Director Master’s Program International Media Cultural Work (IMC), Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Media, Germany
Abstract
Since around one decade, the word „immersion“ has become one of the major terms relating to current developments in digital media. Being able to (re-)create the experience of being surrounded by and immersed in sensory impressions is widely considered as a main characteristic of nowaday’s digital technologies, as for example in games, in 360° film or in 3D audio. As in 3D audio, immersion’s aesthetic strength is mainly assigned to cohesiveness as well as to its capability to create an “as if” experience. By this it is coming very close to the experience of reality, and is touching, if not transgressing the boundaries to Virtual Reality.
Concerning sound and audiomedia, there is, however, an interesting history of critical approach, when it comes to illusionism and realism made possible and enhanced by new technologies. – This presentation will not only point out critical aspects of immersion as a goal for media experience in general, but show artistic methods and strategies, by which the critique can be made fruitful, expanding 3D-audio’s aesthetic potential beyond the limitations of the merely obvious.
Kim Timby, photography historian, curator and teacher at the École du Louvre, whose research explores the cultural history of photographic technologies, will deliver a presentation titled: The construction of the integral-image utopia.
In the mid-twentieth-century, it was widely believed that innovations in photographing movement, color, and depth would one day afford complete mastery of the simulation of visual perception. This collective representation of purpose and of progress in photography was eloquently expressed as the “myth of total cinema” by André Bazin (1946), who argued that the longing for “integral realism” had always marked mechanical reproduction, inspiring inventors since the nineteenth century.
The present article historicizes this integral-image utopia, mapping the expression of its intellectual mechanisms in the first accounts of photography then in photography’s emerging historiography. This research reveals the absence of a shared project around “complete” perceptual realism for most of the nineteenth century. The idea of prgress toward a total image reproducing vision emerged and came to prevail in the popular imagination at a very particular moment—in 1896, following the invention of cinema—, transforming how people thought about the future of photography and told the story of its past.
Dr Michael Pritchard FRPS, Chief Executive of the Royal Photographic Society and author of a number of books on the history of the camera and photography will deliver a presentation titled: Protecting and exploiting photography through patents and trademarks in nineteenth century Britain.
We are delighted to announce the title for the keynote session by Denis Pellerin at Universidade Lusófona. The specialist in Stereo Photography will deliver a presentation titled: The Stereoscope: Claudet’s “general panorama of the world”.
Antoine Claudet opened Britain’s second photographic studio in April 1841, and by 1845 he had already photographed hundreds of aristocratic and middle class customers as well as dozens of personalities, celebrities and royalties. When the refracting stereoscope was introduced at the 1851 Great Exhibition he was the first photographer to advertise binocular portraits and three dimensional views of the Crystal Palace. To the end of his life he championed the “magical instrument” and wrote extensively about it. Claudet was not only a talented photographer and a populariser of stereoscopy whose 3-D portraits still delight viewers today; he worked relentlessly to improve photographic technique and processes and he even experimented with 3-D movement. He could simply not be absent from a seminar devoted to all things stereoscopic.
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A nineteenth-century inspired daguerreotype studio will be installed at the conference venue, Universidade Lusófona.
Thanks to LUPA – Luís Pavão Lda. (www.lupa.com.pt), you will rediscover one of the first techniques of photography and take the result back home with you.
This unique experience will take around 2 hours, during which you will be invited to participate in the several stages of the process: polishing the brass plate, preparing a pose with clothing and props of your choice, exposure of the plate to iodine vapors to create a light-sensitive surface, image development, fixation and gilding, and finally the packaging of the plate in a case specifically designed for this event.
Universidade Lusófona and the Fine Arts Faculty invite you to submit project proposals to the exhibition of the forthcoming International Conference on Stereo & Immersive Media: Photography and Sound Research which will be held at the Fine Arts Society facilities in Lisbon from 29 June to 21 July.
These projects (3D films/ Stereo photography/ audio and visual installations/ VR Apps) should highlight and explore the immersive features of visual and sound media.
The selected projects will be displayed at a special exhibition dedicated to immersive media art at the Fine Arts Society in Lisbon. 3D films will be screened in an international selection at Aud. Agostinho da Silva, ULHT.
Please state in your proposal the materials provided and needed for the proper exhibition of the artwork.
Photos or drawings to present your ideas are welcome.
Submit to the call at http://stereoimmersivemedia.ulusofona.pt
The organizing committee of S&I Media’18 is pleased to announce that the historical facilities of the Fine Arts Society, located in the heart of Lisbon center, will hold S&I Media conferences on June 29 and the exhibition of artistic immersive media projects announced in our call.
The opening of this exhibition is planned for that same day!
The organising committee is pleased to announce that Sabine Breitsameter, sound media researcher from Darmstadt University, has been confirmed as a keynote speaker for S&I Media’18.
Sabine Breitsameter teaches and researches sound and media culture at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, where she has been a professor since 2006. She is the founder and the director of the International Media Cultural Work MA program there, and the head of the Soundscape- & Environmental Media Lab, a place for experimenting with 3D Audio and Fulldome Media.
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We are pleased to announce that Michael Pritchard, photographic historian and Chief Executive of the Royal Photographic Society, will join us in Lisbon next June as a keynote speaker in our conference!
Michael Pritchard joined the Royal Photographic Society as Chief Executive in 2011. He has lectured and broadcast internationally on many different aspects of photographic history and has authored a number of books on the history of the camera and photography, most recently A history of photography in 50 Cameras (Bloomsbury 2015). He runs the British Photographic History blog (www.britishphotohistory.ning.com) in his spare time.
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We are pleased to announce that Kim Timby will join us in Lisbon next June as a keynote speaker in our conference!
Kim Timby is an independent photography historian based in Paris, where she teaches at the École du Louvre and works as a curator for a private collection specialized in nineteenth-century travel photography. She previously worked in museums, where she curated exhibitions including “Paris in 3D” (2000).
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The 3rd International Conference on Stereo & Immersive Media focuses on visual and sound media renowned for their immersive features.
Stereo and immersive technologies have been widening the fields of photography and sound since the 19th century, contributing to the emergence of a progressively immersive media culture. This conference aims to bring together photography and sound research fields bridging their historical and contemporary relationship with expanded and immersive environments (e.g. panoramas, virtual reality, sound art).
The organizing committee invites scholars, researchers, artists, curators and archivists to submit paper presentations and posters addressing one of the following themes:
To see full call for papers (en; pt; es) select on the menu above: ‘About the event’ > ‘Call and Submissions’
One of the planned visits will include The Museum of Mechanical Music (http://museudamusicamecanica.com), next to Lisbon, which has a collection of more than 600 sound and musical items that move exclusively through mechanical systems from the late 1800s to the 1930s.
The first of our keynotes has been confirmed: Denis Pellerin from London Stereoscopic Company will bring his extensive research and expertise on stereo photography with a talk about Antoine Claudet (1797-1867) and his pioneer practice of the daguerreotype and stereo photography in England.
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