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The Panoramic & Immersive Media Studies (PIMS) Yearbook is the annual yearbook of the International Panorama Council (IPC, Switzerland), published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg (Germany). It surveys the historical and contemporary landscape of panoramic and immersive media. This interdisciplinary field includes—but is not limited to—optical and haptic devices; 360-degree paintings; long-form paintings, photography, and prints; dioramas; museum displays; games; gardens; literature; maps; music; printed matter; still and moving images; virtual and augmented reality; and theatrical productions. Whereas the notion of the panoramic describes extensive, expansive and/or all-embracing vistas, immersion refers to porous interfaces between representation and the real, observer and observed, nature and culture, and past, present, and future. Together, the concepts of panorama and immersion have catalyzed time- and space-bending strategies for creating, experiencing, and transforming culture, ideas, and built and social space across the arc of human history.
The PIMS Yearbook welcomes contributions from a range of disciplinary perspectives with the understanding that methodologies in the humanities, the arts, the sciences, design disciplines, social sciences, engineering, and other fields contribute important perspectives to the interdisciplinary field of panoramic and immersive media studies.
The IPC is an international organization of panorama specialists committed to supporting the heritage and conservation of extant nineteenth and early-twentieth-century panoramas, and promoting awareness of the medium’s history, derivative forms, and contemporary iterations. As a non-government and not-for-profit association subject to Swiss law, the IPC is active in the fields of panorama research, restoration, financing, management, exhibition, and marketing. The PIMS Yearbook succeeds the International Panorama Council Journal (IPCJ), a selected proceedings of the annual conferences of the IPC, published 2017–2023.
The PIMS Yearbook is published in full color, in print and digital formats.
Executive Editors
- Dr. Molly Briggs, School of Art & Design, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Prof. Dr. Thorsten Logge, Universität Hamburg, Germany
- Prof. Nicholas C. Lowe, John H. Bryan Chair of Historic Preservation, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Section Editors
- Ruby Carlson, Velaslavasay Panorama, Director/Co-Curator, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Liz Crooks, Director, University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
- Patrick Deicher, President of the Bourbaki Panorama Foundation, Lucerne, Switzerland
- Daniel Jaquet, Laboratory for Experimental Museology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Sarah Kenderdine, Laboratory for Experimental Museology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, Switzerland
- Gabriele Koller, Curator of the Museum Panorama Altötting, Altötting, Germany
- Sara Velas, Velaslavasay Panorama, Director/Co-Curator, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Dr. Melissa Wolfe, Curator and Head of American Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
Editorial Advisory Board
- Leen Engelen, LUCA School of Arts / KU Leuven, Belgium
- Prof. Dr. Thiago Leitão de Souza, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Dr. Blagovesta Momchedjikova, Expository Writing Program, New York University, USA
- Robin Skinner, Te Herenga Waka –Victoria University Wellington, New Zealand.
- Suzanne Wray, Independent Scholar & Researcher, New York City, New York, USA