Immersive Images 1820-1920: Bill Douglas Cinema Museum

这个CDA项目将探索1820-1920年视觉文化中沉浸式和交互式图像的流行。它将以比尔道格拉斯电影博物馆广泛而独特的资源为基础，并将为其公共使命和我们对“沉浸式”媒体的性质和发展的理解做出实质性贡献。在这一时期，许多新的视觉形式和光学设备的特点是它们的“沉浸式”品质：这些可以在家中体验，也可以作为讲座，表演或游乐场吸引力的一部分。圆形和移动的壁画敬畏巨大的画布;立体模型创造了幻觉的场景;立体画被一个3D世界迷住了，而各种各样的偷窥秀承诺了一个奇妙的爱国战争和遥远的地方的花哨体验。如果这还不够的话，印刷的短命植物和玩具，如千变万化的印刷品，mutoscope和Kinora浏览器需要一个具体的观众。“沉浸”通常被视为当代数字媒体的一个定义性特征，但本CDA将详细阐述一个更长的谱系。在研究项目的广泛参数范围内，学生将有自由定义和塑造项目，并决定哪些格式和媒体集中。关键研究问题：在1820年至1920年期间，提供“沉浸式”体验的视觉格式和设备是什么？他们用什么方式让观众“沉浸”其中？在电影发明之前，“沉浸”是如何通过一系列的话语和主题来表征的？当代设备和技术以何种方式补救和建立在更悠久的传统之上？BDC系列如何通过其游戏、新奇的印刷品、设备、玩具和日常短暂的事物呈现沉浸式媒体的另一种历史？BDC和其他博物馆如何最好地展示这些材料？研究收集：这个CDA将增加和扩大比尔道格拉斯电影博物馆的工作，该博物馆位于埃克塞特大学，是英国最大的与运动图像有关的材料收藏之一。它既是一个认可的公共博物馆和研究设施，拥有超过80，000件藏品。收藏品包括从十七世纪至今的文物，涵盖电影、前电影和电影史的各个方面。该系列是多样化的，但通过强调观众对移动图像的体验而统一起来。一个关键的优势是其持有的项目有关十九世纪的移动，投影和3D图像，无论是在设备，玩具，绘画媒体，如幻灯片和印刷蜉蝣。例如，该系列包含30个小型窥视镜和70个窥视镜印刷品和vues d 'optiques，以及1500多个各种立体镜卡。BDC还拥有出色的记录，使博士奖学金和提供就业技能。该CDA将为学生提供许多增值机会，以获得专业技能，培训和经验;他们将获得遗产和博物馆技能;有助于永久画廊的重新展示;策划基于学生身份的临时展览;在编目和与档案来源合作方面进行培训，包括对象和印刷的蜉蝣。此外，亦会有机会参与博物馆的公众参与计划。

This CDA project will explore the popularity of immersive and interactive images in visual culture 1820-1920. It will be based on the extensive and unique resources of the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, and would make a substantial contribution to both its public mission and to our understanding of the nature and development of 'immersive' media. Many new visual formats and optical devices in the period were characterised by their 'immersive' qualities: these could be experienced within the home or as part of a lecture, performance or fairground attraction. Circular and moving panoramas awed with enormous canvases; the diorama created illusionistic tableaux; stereographs beguiled with a 3D world, while the many varieties of peepshow promised a marvellously garish experience of patriotic battles and far-off places. If that was not enough, printed ephemera and toys, such as protean prints, mutoscopes and Kinora Viewers required an embodied spectator. 'Immersion' is often seen as a defining characteristic of contemporary digital media, but this CDA will elaborate a much longer genealogy. Within the broad parameters of the research project, the student will have the freedom to define and shape the projects, and to decide which formats and media to focus on.Key Research Questions: What were the visual formats and devices offering an 'immersive' experience in the period 1820-1920? In what ways did they 'immerse' their viewers? How was 'immersion' characterised through a series of discourse and motifs prior to the invention of film? In what ways do contemporary devices and technologies remediate and build on a longer tradition? How does the BDC collection present an alternative history of immersive media through its games, novelty prints, devices, toys and everyday ephemera? How might such material be best exhibited by the BDC and other museums? Research Collection: This CDA will augment and expand the work of the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, located at the University of Exeter, which is home to one of the largest collections of material relating to the moving image in Britain. It is both an accredited public museum and a research facility and holds a collection of over 80,000 items. The collection includes artefacts dating from the seventeenth century to the present day, covering all aspects of cinema, pre-cinema and the history of the moving image. The collection is diverse but is united by an emphasis on the audience's experience of the moving image. A key strength is its holdings of items relating to nineteenth-century moving, projected and 3D images, both in terms of devices, toys, pictorial media such as lantern slides, and printed ephemera. The collection, for example, contains 30 small peep shows and 70 peep show prints and vues d'optiques, as well as more than 1500 assorted stereoscope cards.The BDC also has an excellent track record of enabling PhD scholarship and delivering Employability skills. This CDA will provide numerous value-added opportunities for the student to gain professional skills, training and experience; they will gain heritage and museum skills; contribute to a redisplay of the permanent galleries; curate a temporary exhibition based on the studentship; be trained in cataloguing and working with archival sources, including objects and printed ephemera. There would also be opportunities to contribute to the Public Engagement programme of the museum.