| The International Panorama Council will host its 32nd annual conference in Iowa City at the University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums. This conference has past congregated in locations across the globe from Luxembourg to China, from Switzerland to Turkey, and now visits the University of Iowa, home to conference hosts: The UI Museum of Natural History. This year's conference theme is "Panoramas, Immersive Media, and Lost Worlds," making the museum's Laysan Island Cyclorama the perfect backdrop.
Day passes are available for local guests to participate in conference sessions, presentations, and activities alongside IPC members from all around the world on Thursday, September 28 and Friday, September 29, 2023. Please review information here and register to join.
Cost of day passes are determined by (1) student, staff/faculty, or community status, (2) number of days in attendance, and (3) indication of lunch preference. A day pass for 1 day starts at $20, 2 days is $38. All students and UI staff/faculty enjoy reduced ticket pricing (30-50% reduction) by using promo codes provided at registration. Payment will be collected via our University approved online payment portal after registration, prior to the event.
Schedule Day 1: Thursday (9/28)
- 8:45-9:00 Check in/Registration
- 9:00-10:40 Session I – Lost Panoramas [4 presentations + 20 min Q&A]
A Story of Sad Losses: On the Fates of Some 19th Century Panoramas Gabriele Koller, Jerusalem Panorama, Altötting, Germany The Kilauea Cyclorama: More Than a Picture, a “Spectacular Cyclorama” Suzanne Wray, independent researcher, New York The Images in Circarama as Evidence of a Historical Moment and Place Silvia Mascia, University of Udine, Italy Panorama, Cinema and Photography: An History of Dead Ends, Forgotten Cameras, Lenses and Social Phenomena Luca Vascon, VR artist, photographer, and video maker, Venice, Italy
- 10:40-10:55 15 min coffee break
- 10:55-12:10 Session II – The Immersive Worlds of Panoramas [3 presentations + 15 min Q&A]
Learning from the Performance of Moving Panoramas Peter F. Morelli, independent researcher, Portland, Maine Listening to the Aural Heritage of Banvard’s Mississippi Panoramas – A Speculative Re-enactment Nicholas Lowe, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Hearing Natural History: What Do We Do with Lost Worlds of Sound? Zoe Grueskin, researcher, writer, artist, and audio producer, New York
- 12:10-13:45 Lunch
- 12:45-13:30 Optional tour of University Libraries Conservation Lab
- 13:45-15:25 Session III – Lost Voices [4 presentations + 20 min Q&A]
Panstereoramas: The Colonial Touch, or The Power to Represent Comprehensively Blagovesta Momchedjikova, New York University Shengjing Panorama: Re-crafting the Urban Ephemera of Colonial Shenyang in Historic Los Angeles Weiling Deng and Jonathan Banfill, Champlain College, Burlington, Vermont; Ruby Carlson and Sara Velas, The Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles, California Lost Authority, Found Voices: ‘New Red Order’ and the Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley, c. 1850 Melissa Wolfe, St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri “In the pursuit of our present”: Lisa Reihana’s ‘in Pursuit of Venus [infected]’ Robin Skinner, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- 15:25-15:40 15 min coffee break
- 15:40-18:10 Session IV – Round Table
The Laysan Island Cyclorama Liz A. Crooks, Cindy E. Opitz, Jessica M. Smith, University of Iowa Museum of Natural History Day 2: Friday (9/29)
- 8:45-9:00 Check In/Registration
- 9:00-10:40 Session V – Panoramic Vision [4 presentations + 20 min Q&A]
“Mysterious Barren Lands”: The Panoramic Legacy of Arctic Documentary Films Lora Maslenitsyna, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Paradise Transformed Ebru Esra Satici, Meşher, Istanbul Rebuilding a Lost World: Trompe l’Oeil, Panorama and Staging an Exhibition on Illusion in America Stephanie Heydt, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia Panoramic Inscriptions: Perspectival Typography and Pictorial Lettering in Immersive Ephemera Molly Briggs, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- 10:40-10:55 15 min coffee break
- 10:55-12:10 Session VI – Panoramas and Historical Context [3 presentations + 15 min Q&A]
125 Years of Agony and Revitalization of a Czech Panorama Jean-Claude Brunner, independent researcher, Vienna, Austria Inverting the Panorama: S.P. Dinsmoor’s Garden of Eden Lisa Stone, independent curator and preservationist, Neshkoro, Wisconsin ‘Come with Me’: Grant Wood’s Imagination Isles Panorama Sean M. Ulmer, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Iowa
- 12:10-13:30 Lunch
- 13:30-15:10 Session VII – Virtual Reality and Lost Worlds [4 presentations + 20 min Q&A]
The Role of Panorama Visual Technologies in Immersive VR and AR Approach to Architectural Heritage Practices Katarina Andjelkovic, theorist, architect, researcher, and painter, Belgrade, Serbia Virtual Reality for Cultural Heritage: How 3D Models, VR and Gaming Technology Extend the Reality Karolina Wójtowica, visual and architectural designer, Wroclaw, Poland Immersive Illustration to Recreate Lost Worlds: 360VR Documentaries for The World War II Foundation Chiara Masiero Sgrinzatto, independent artist, Venice, Italy MetAmazonia – The Immersive Conservation Experience of the Amazon Rainforest Jonathan Biz Medina, ZOAN Oy, Helsinki, Finland
- 15:10-16:25 Session VIII – Virtual Reality and Recovering Panoramas [3 presents + 15 min Q&A]
VR Remediation of Invisible Panoramas Christl Lidl, Ecole Supérieure d’art et de Design de Valenciennes, Brussels, Belgium The Panorama of Rio de Janeiro by Victor Meirelles and Henri Langerock: Part 6 – Exploring the Virtual faux-terrain in a 360 Experience by Game Engines Thiago Leitão de Souza, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Unveiling the Secrets of the Panorama du Congo Leen Engelen, LUCA School of Arts/KU Leuven, Belgium, and Victor Flores, Lusofona University, Portugal |
