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The World at a Glance
Panoramic and Peep Technologies

hosted by the

Early Visual Media Lab—CICANT
and the Art History Institute, IHA, NOVA-FCSH/IN2PAST

at

Lusófona University of Lisbon

and

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Lisbon, Portugal | July 2–4, 2025

CONFERENCE OVERVIEW

The International Panorama Council together with Lusófona University Early Visual Media Lab and the Art History Institute (IHA, NOVA-FCSH/IN2PAST) organize the next IPC conference in Lisbon under the theme “The World at a Glance. Panoramic and Peep Technologies.” This recasting of Robert Barker’s original title for his invention (1787), “Nature at a Glance” (in French, “La Nature à Coup d’ Oeil”), will explore the modern desire to experience the world visually through panoramic or peep technologies and to embark in virtual travels. Panoramas and panoramic imagery shared these early immersive experiences with (itinerant) peepshows, cosmoramas, neoramas, and, among others, in the domestic space, zograscopes, stereoscopic photography, graphoscopes and polyoramas. These theatres of visuality were key achievements in art, education, and science, fostering visual curiosity and new skills of looking. Either engaging a distant or a proximate gaze, requiring lenses or a specific vantage point on a viewing platform, these technologies made the world in all its aspects admirable and available at a glance. In addition to challenging the visual sensorium, panoramic and peep technologies often intersected and mobilized a synesthetic universe. By exploring their coexistence and intermediality, new light will be shed on the visual cultures and worldviews they promoted.

Conference Program

The conference 02 July–04 July includes three keynote speakers—Yadegar Asisi, Denis Pellerin and Tom Gunning—plus a rich program of speakers, workshops and roundtables. and a guided tour of the exhibition The Cosmorama in Lisbon: Virtual Traveling in the 19th Century, at the Portuguese Cinematheque.

The conference is preceded by an optional drawing workshop with renowned panorama artist Yadegar Asisi, and followed by an optional post-conference tour. 

Registration for the 2025 IPC Conference is now closed.

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