Inside a panorama …
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. Those we all know as there traditional panoramic
paintings as the Panorama Mesdag in Den Hague. Those panoramas were very
popular in the 19th century, but disappeared quickly when cinema came up.
What if you could transform this panoramic experience in the present and the
digital world? This is exactly what we tried to do in an exhibition project,
I’ve been working on for the last year on behalf of Swiss National Museums.
We have a huge cylinder with a diameter of 8.5 meters and a digital 360
degrees projection system. People can stand in the centre of the cylinder
and watch the panorama.” Matthias Taugwalder
