Dan passed through the FSU art department and went off to make movies. Check out his MFA thesis exhibition at: http://www.picturetheory.org/meaningmachine.html Really smart!
Check this site out. The Swiss are reinventing the 19th century mode of panoramic presentation. http://concept360.ch/inc/alpenpanoramen.html “The term “pan-orama” was first mentioned in 1787 in the patent of the Irish painter Robert Barker, which described a round painted canvas of 360° where people could stand inside.