Beyond the Global Gaze: Celebrating Planetarium Diversity and Shaping a Spherical Worldview on Their Centennial

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Frontmatter IX
4. PIMS Yearbook Editorial Board XI
5. Call for the PIMS Yearbook, volume 3, 2026 XIII
6. 1 Scholarly Essays
7. Introduction 1
8. Henry “Box” Brown’s Reflection of Slavery and the American Landscape: Reconstructing the Moving Panorama Mirror of Slavery 7
9. Slabs of White: Panoramic Whales and Photographic Guano in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 37
10. 2 Forum
11. Introduction: Context and Conversation in Panoramic and Immersive Media Studies 77
12. Beyond the Global Gaze: Celebrating Planetarium Diversity and Shaping a Spherical Worldview on Their Centennial 81
13. “Panoramas” in East Asia 93
14. The History of Chinese Panoramas Began with a Visit to the Panorama of the Battle of Racławice 105
15. 3 Reprints
16. Introduction: How a Great Battle Panorama is Made 111
17. How a Great Battle Panorama is Made 117
18. 4 Restoration, Management, and Field Reports
19. Introduction: Restoring, Reconstructing and Reviving Historic Panoramas 135
20. The Bourbaki Panorama and the Challenges of Restoring the Optical Apparatus 139
21. The Racławice Panorama and its Two Counterparts: Reconstruction in the Process of Panorama Revitalization 153
22. The Panorama of the Battle of the Yser at Nieuwpoort: How One of the War Heritage Institute’s War Panoramas is Presented in a New Permanent World War I Exhibition in Westfront Nieuwpoort, Belgium 165
23. The Chicago Fire Cyclorama Reimagined: A Prototype for Immersive, Object-based Storytelling 177
24. 5 Visual and Creative Essays
25. Introduction: Immersive Empires, Expansive Texts 191
26. Men Arrived on Horseback (Boas) 195
27. A Façade on a Façade: The Necessity of Universal Studios’ Immersive Fictions 201
28. Lens, Light, Mirror: Various Experiences Made with an Overhead Projector 211
29. Panorama Poem 223
30. The Multidimensional Living Manifesto 231
31. The Wilderness Shall Blossom as the Rose 237
32. Panorama: IPC 2024 Post-Conference Tour 247
33. 6 International Panorama Council Conference Report & Papers
34. Panoramas as Memory of the World: Perspectives from the 33rd IPC Conference Hosts 259
35. Short History of the Swiss and International Panorama Initiatives and Ideas Regarding UNESCO 273
36. Charles A. Chase and the Electric Cyclorama 281
37. The Nova Tuskhut: A Walk-in Archive of “Arctic” Things 289
38. An Archaeology of Time and Memory in Panoptic Media 311
39. Verlangen naar de verte / Longing for the Distance—Reflections on My Solo Exhibition at Museum Panorama Mesdag in The Hague, 2023 323
40. Illustrating a New Memory: Panorama Key and Virtual Tour for the exhibition Panorama of Congo 335
41. Redefining Perception of Cultural Heritage: Extending Reality with 3D Models, VR, AI, and Gaming Technology 355
42. 7 Reviews
43. 7 Reviews 415
44. Interview—Exposing Contrasts: A Conversation With Matthew G. Stanard on the Panorama of Congo and Belgian Colonial Propaganda 415
45. Book Review— The Panorama of the Battle of Racławice and its Two Counterparts by Ryszard Wójtowicz 433
46. Book Review—Sacred Spaces of New England: Cultural Heritage and the Panorama by Seth Thompson 441
47. Exhibition Catalog Review—On the Spot: Panoramic Gaze on Istanbul, A History 447
48. 8 Call for the 2025 Conference
49. The World at a Glance: Panoramic and Peep Technologies 451
50. Index