Dear List members,
Just enjoyed this early Sunday morning Erkki Huhtamo’s acclaimed illustrated lecture performance ‘Mareorama Resurrected’.
This is a fascinating story of a most spectacular moving panorama in the settings of a simulated sea voyage created by Hugo d’Alesi.
The Mareorama was one of the most complex immersive media attractions which took place during the World Fair Exposition of 1900 in Paris.
Many of us know about this great event but very few people are familiar with the fascinating variety of new media attractions the World Fair 1900 was offering to his turn of the century visitors.
One of the leading researchers in the field of Media Archaeology studying this poorly known technical and visual attractions is prof. Erkki Huhtamo.
Enjoy his unusual lecture accompanied by life music, now available online.
http://artandcode.com/3d/otherevents/the-moving-panorama
Thomas
"Performed throughout the 1800s, moving panoramas were among the most popular entertainment of the 19th century. In this poetic lecture-demonstration, scholar and media archeologist Erkki Huhtamo draws on his research into moving panoramas and dioramas to discuss various historical apparata that laid the groundwork for 20th and 21st century immersive applications—including those created now by game designers and media artists. The particular focus of this presentation will be on the Maréorama, a huge multi-sensory spectacle created by Hugo d’Alesi and his team for the Universal Exposition of 1900 in Paris. Drawing from high-resolution scans and the original piano music composed for the Maréorama by Henri Kowalski, Huhtamo reconstructs several sequences from this simulated sea voyage on the Mediterranean.
The performance features live piano accompaniment by Stephen L. I.
Murphy."
Online Media Archaeology
www.media-museum.eu
Photographer - Collector - Fantasmagore
* Member of "The Magic Lantern Society of Great-Britain"
* Member of "The Ephemera Society of Great-Britain"
Google Group Media Archaeology:
Early Visual & Time-Based Media Techniques
http://groups.google..com/group/visual-media
- Pre-Cinema: Optical Toys, Magic Lanterns, etc
- Phantasmagoria (Death in pre-film)
- Conjuring Arts, Physique Amusante & Illusions
- 19th.Century Photography
- Early Film & Animation Film
- Mechanical Television before 1935
- Fairground & Circus Arts
- Mechanical Theatre & Theatrum Mundi
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