Immersion in the Image: From the Panorama to the New Digital Realities
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https://doi.org/10.5944/etfvii.9.2021.30379Keywords:
Media Archeology; panorama, immersive image; participation; presence; transmediality; frameAgencies:
proyecto de investigación financiado por el Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España) Imágenes, Acción y Poder. Agencia icónica y prácticas de la imagen contemporánea (FF12017-84944-P).Abstract
The article approaches the visual technologies of immersion in the image from the paradigms of media archaeology. This paradigm makes it possible to compose a non-linear history of the media that is not dependent on the discourse of progressive sophistication of representation teleologically directed towards the achievement of a hyperreal and perfect image. In this way, one of the materialisations of the immersive image, the nineteenth-century panorama, is reconnected with current developments in virtual, augmented, and mixed realities (as well as other examples from other contexts and historical periods) and with the cultural and socio-economic forces that condition these immersive devices and their specificity as autonomous media. The article addresses, from the concepts of immersion, presence and participation, the scope of a transmedial approach to the devices, practices and experiences of digital visual culture and the significance of the questioning of the limits of the image established by the frame.
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