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Victor Flores is an Associate Professor and Head of the PhD Programme in Media Art and Communication at Lusófona University in Lisbon. He coordinates the Early Visual Media Lab (EVML) at the CICANT research centre and the Centre of Excellence in Immersive Media Heritage at the FilmEU European University. His research lies at the intersection of digital humanities and historical immersive media, with a particular focus on archival materials and emerging technologies such as Virtual Reality. He is the founder and principal editor of the International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media and has served as the principal investigator for several research projects on historical immersive media, such as ‘Curiositas: Peeping before Virtual Reality’ funded by FCT [https://curiositas.ulusofona.pt/], ’Decolonising the Panorama of Congo: A Virtual Heritage Artistic Research’ funded by H2020) (https://congopanorama.filmeu.eu) and the ‘Catalogue Raisonné of Carlos Relvas’ Stereoscopic Photography’ funded by CICANT (https://carlosrelvascatalogue.pt). Victor Flores is a member of the executive board of the International Panorama Council. He also participates in the Steering Committee of the WIRE programme of the European University FilmEU. Since 2025, he has been a member of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network DECADOCS (Decadence for doctoral studies). His latest publication is a co-edited book titled Cosmorama. The Forgotten Medium, with Susana S. Martins (Early Visual Media Lab—CICANT and Art History Institute, 2025).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Victor Manuel Esteves Flores
Date of birth
1973/07/05
Gender
Male

Citation names

  • Flores, Victor

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
FF14-72D4-1AEA
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1094-0851

Email addresses

  • victor.flores@ulusofona.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 217515500 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Campo Grande, 376, 1749-024, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Media and Communications

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Proficiency (C2) Intermediate (B1) Proficiency (C2) Intermediate (B1)
Italian Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2009
Concluded
 PhD in Sciences of Communication, specialty in Communication and Culture (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"The Technical Image and The Construction of its Beliefs. Research on the Visual Trust in the Digital Era" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Very Good with Distinction and Praise
1999
Concluded
 Sciences of Communication (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"Form, Anti-Form and Body. The Deconstruction of Aesthetic Modernism by Robert Morris" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Very Good
1995
Concluded
 Sciences of Communication (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/01/02 - Current Principal Investigator (Research) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2009/10/01 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
1996/09 - 2009 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2025/10 - Current Executive Board Member International Panorama Council, Switzerland
2020/09/01 - Current Head of PhD Program in Media Arts and Communication Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2020/01/01 - Current Manager of Laboratory, Institute, Museum, Centre or Observatory Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
1999 - 2018 Scientific Coordinator of the Specialization in Arts and Cultural Management Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2012/09/01 - 2015 Director of the 2nd Cycle in Cultural Management and Programming Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/01/17 - 2025/01/16 Curiositas: Peeping Before Virtual Reality. A Media Archaeology of Immersion Through VR and the Iberian Cosmoramas
PTDC/COM-OUT/4851/2021
Doi
Principal investigator
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada Cultura e Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
Ongoing
2022/05/04 - 2024/01/03 CONGO VR: Decolonising the Panorama of Congo: A Virtual Heritage Artistic Research
H2020-IBA-SwafS-Support-2-2020, Ref: 101035820
Principal investigator
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada Cultura e Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Carlos Relvas Full 3D. The Stereo Catalogue
UID!CCI!04667!2016
Principal investigator
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada Cultura e Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada Cultura e Novas Tecnologias
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2019/05/01 - 2022/12/31 Carlos Relvas: Stereo Raisonné (European Stereo Masters: Carlos Relvas/ Carlos Relvas Full 3D)
CICANT Projetos Exploratórios
Principal investigator
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada Cultura e Novas Tecnologias
Concluded
2018/09/01 - 2021/08/31 The Photographic Impulse: The Photographic and Filmic Archive of the Portuguese Geographic and Anthropologic Missions
PTDC/COM-OUT/29608/2017
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2013 - 2015 Stereo Visual Culture. The Visual Culture of Portuguese Stereoscopic Photography
PTDC/IVC-COM/5223/2012
Principal investigator
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada Cultura e Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Flores, Victor. The Technical Image and its Beliefs. Visual Confidence in the Digital Age. Portugal. 2012.
  2. Flores, Victor. Minimalism and Post-Minimalism. Form, Anti-Form and Body in the work of Robert Morris. Editora Livros Labcom. 2007.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Flores, Victor; Martins, Susana S. "Cosmorama: The Forgotten Medium". In Cosmorama: The Forgotten Medium, 8-13. Portugal: Early Visual Media Lab, CICANT, Lusófona University, and Art History Institute, NOVA University Lisbon, 2025.
    Published
  2. Flores, Victor. "The first cosmoramas in Lisbon". In Cosmorama: The Forgotten Medium, 16-21. Lisboa, Portugal: Early Visual Media Lab, CICANT, Lusófona University, and Art History Institute, NOVA University Lisbon, 2025.
    Published
  3. Flores, Victor. "Thomas Karl Andorfer’s Grand Optical Gallery". In The first cosmoramas in Lisbon, 27-31. Lisbon, Portugal: Early Visual Media Lab, CICANT, Lusófona University, and Art History Institute, NOVA University Lisbon, 2025.
    Published
  4. Flores, Victor. "Hubert Sattler’s Cosmorama". In The first cosmoramas in Lisbon, 74-75. Lisbon, Portugal: Early Visual Media Lab, CICANT, Lusófona University, and Art History Institute, NOVA University Lisbon, 2025.
    Published
  5. Flores, Victor. "The Mondi Nuovi Showman by Nicolas-Louis-Albert Delerive (c.1755-1818)". In Cosmorama: The Forgotten Medium, 100-101. Portugal: Early Visual Media Lab, CICANT, Lusófona University, and Art History Institute, NOVA University Lisbon, 2025.
    Published
  6. Flores, Victor. "After the cosmorama. The Great Virtual Show". In Cosmorama: The Forgotten Medium, 104-106. Portugal: Early Visual Media Lab, CICANT, Lusófona University, and Art History Institute, NOVA University Lisbon, 2025.
    Published
  7. Flores, Victor; Martins, Susana S.; Beirão, Sara. "The titles of Iberian cosmoramas and their first geographic visualisation". In Cosmorama: The Forgotten Medium, 104-106. Portugal: Early Visual Media Lab, CICANT, Lusófona University, and Art History Institute, NOVA University Lisbon, 2025.
    Published
  8. Flores, Victor; King, Linda. "Exposing Contrasts: a conversation with Matthew G. Stanard on the Panorama of Congo and Belgian Colonial Propaganda". In Panorama and Immersive Media Studies Yearbook. Germany: De Gruyter, 2025.
    Accepted
  9. Flores, Victor. "O Régulo: um arquétipo do poder colonial português | The Régulo: an archetype of Portuguese colonial power". In 100 Olhares. Memórias de uma Guerra — Moçambique 1970. Portugal: Âncora Editores, 2023.
    Published
  10. Flores, Victor. "The Lens and The Burin: Transferences. Initial Steps Towards Recognition of Carlos Relvas's Photography". In Carlos Relvas (1838-1894). Rediscovered Views of Portugal. Photography in European Salons. Lisboa, Portugal: Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea— Museu do Chiado, 2019.
    Published
  11. Flores, Victor. "Stereoscopic Photography in Portugal. Discourses and Practices of a Visual Culture". In The Third Image. Stereo Photography in Portugal, 19-59. Lisbon, Portugal: Documenta, 2019.
    Published
  12. Flores, Victor. "The Haptic Interface of 'The Flea' from 'Nos Mondaines'". In The Third Image. Stereo Photography in Portugal. Lisbon, Portugal: Documenta, 2019.
    Published
  13. Flores, Victor. "Aspects of The Stereo Gaze". In The Third Image. Stereo Photography in Portugal. Lisbon, Portugal: Documenta, 2019.
    Published
  14. Flores, Victor. "Stereoscopic Materialities. The Portuguese Stereoscopic Photography and the need for an Archaeology". In Photograms— Essays on Photography. Lisboa, Portugal: Documenta, 2016.
    Published
  15. Flores, Victor. "2.0. Post-Screen Condition". In Post-Screen: Intermittence+Interference. Portugal: Edições Universitárias Lusófonas e Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, 2016.
    Published
  16. Flores, Victor. "The Internet Uses in Portuguese Art Institutions: the Case of Museums and Exhibition Centers". In The Technological Arts and Internet Network in Portugal, 124-129. Lisbon, Portugal: Nova Vega, 2009.
    Published
  17. Flores, Victor. "Installation, Site-Specific and Community-Based, the Necessary and Sufficient Genres for a New Public Art?". In Sciences of Communication at the End of the Century. Lisbon, Portugal: Vega Editora, 2002.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Flores, Victor; Susana S. Martins. "Virtual Heritage for Virtual Worlds: Researching the Iberian Cosmoramas". Paper presented in 13th International Seminar on the Origins and History of Cinema, Girona, 2021.
    Published
  2. Flores, Victor. "Involuntary Pseudos. The Untransposed Stereos in The Digital Archives". Paper presented in Archiving 2019— Digitization, Preservation and Access, Lisboa, 2019.
    Published
  3. Flores, Victor. "The Portuguese Photographer Carlos Relvas (1838-1894) and Stereoscopy. The making of the Digital Catalogue Raisonné". Paper presented in 3rd Conference on History of Photography Research. Stereoscopic and 3D Photography, 19th and 20th Centuries, Zaragoza, 2019.
    In press
  4. Flores, Victor. "The Lens Culture in the Digital Imaginary: Noise Transmission". Paper presented in 5th International Symposium of Interactive Media Design, Istambul, 2007.
    Published
Dictionary entry
  1. Flores, Victor. "'Image Theories' and 'Optical Unconscious'". In Critical Dictionary of Art, Image, Language and Culture. Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Linguagens, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2014. http://www.arte-coa.pt.
Edited book
  1. Flores, V.; Martins, S., ed(s). Cosmorama. The Forgotten Medium. Lisbon, Portugal: Early Visual Media Lab, CICANT, Lusófona University, and Art History Institute, NOVA University Lisbon. 2025.
    Published • Editor
  2. Flores, Victor, ed. The Third Image. Stereo Photography in Portugal. Lisboa, Portugal: Documenta. 2019.
    Published
  3. Flores, Victor, ed. Unspoken Dialogues. Lisbon, Portugal: Edições Universitárias Lusófonas e Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa. 2017.
    Published • Editor
Exhibition catalog
  1. Flores, Victor. A maior imersão em pequeno formato. Jorge Marçal da Silva e o fascínio da Vérascope | The Greatest Immersion in a Small Format.. Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa — Fotográfico, 2023.
  2. Flores, Victor. Dirty Mind (1995), in Luísa Cunha: Works 1992-2022 (republication). MAAT- Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, 2023.
  3. Flores, Victor; Mendes, Ana David; Tavares, Emília; Pellerin, Denis. Carlos Relvas (1838-1894). Rediscovered Views of Portugal. Photography in European Salons. Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea — Museu do Chiado, 2019.
  4. Mendes, Ana David; Flores, Victor; Pellerin, Denis; Tavares, Emília. Carlos Relvas (1838-1894) - Vistas inéditas de Portugal. A Fotografia nos Salões Europeus [Carlos Relvas (1838-1894) - Rediscovered Views of Portugal. Photography in European Salons]. Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea - Museu do Chiado, 2019.
  5. Tavares, Emília; Flores, Victor; Mendes, Ana David; Pellerin, Denis. Carlos Relvas 1838-1894: Vistas Inéditas de Portugal, Lisboa: MNAC. DGPC/Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisboa, 2019.
  6. Flores, Victor. The Third Image. Stereoscopic Photography in Portugal and the Desire for 3D. Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa— Fotográfico, 2015.
Journal article
  1. Flores, Victor. "Imperial Visions on Tour: Cosmoramas, Neoramas, and Eurocentrism in Andorfer’s Grand Optical Gallery". Early Popular Visual Culture — Special Issue ‘Cosmoramas and Other Peep Practices 1800-1880’ (2025):
    Accepted
  2. Flores, Victor; Saraiva, Beatriz. "Curating Moving Images: Laurent Mannoni on his Archaeology of the Cinema". International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media, 8 1 (2025): 20-33.
    Open access • Published • https://doi.org/10.60543/ijsim.v8i1.10015
  3. Flores, Victor; Engelen, Leen; King, Linda; Mendes, Ana David. Corresponding author: Flores, Victor. "The Panorama of Congo: Decolonising Heritage Through Artistic Research.". International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media, 9 1 (2025): 120-142.
    Open access • Published • https://doi.org/10.60543/ijsim.v9i1.9399
  4. Flores, Victor; Susana S. Martins. "Immersion and Expanded Spectatorships: Notes on a Reinvented Field". Aniki: Portuguese Magazine of the Moving Image 10 1 (2023): 130-137. www.aim.org.pt/aniki.
    Open access • Published
  5. Flores, Victor; Susana S. Martins. "Immersion and Expanded Spectatorships: Notes on a Reinvented Field". Aniki – Portuguese Magazine of the Moving Image 10 1 (2023): 130-137. www.aim.org.pt/aniki.
    Open access • Published
  6. Victor Flores. "Wet Collodion And a Pair of Lenses. Carlos Relvas's Stereoscopic Photography: The Digital Reunion of Negatives and Prints". History of Photography (2021):
    Accepted • 10.31235/osf.io/6qdj3
  7. Flores, Victor. "The Metrics of Landscape. Stereo fieldwork by Francisco Afonso Chaves and other Portuguese Explorers". Media Archaeology 21 (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.7238/a.v0i21.3162.
    Published • 10.7238/a.v0i21.3162
  8. Flores, V.. "The Animation of The Photographic: Stereoscopy and Cinema. The Experiments of Aurélio da Paz dos Reis". Early Popular Visual Culture 14 1 (2016): 87-106. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84964378413&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1080/17460654.2015.1124047
  9. Flores, Victor. "Stereo Visual Culture: Between the Documentary and Entertainment". The International Journal of the Image 3 4 (2013): 9-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2154-8560/cgp/v03i04/44095.
    Published • 10.18848/2154-8560/cgp/v03i04/44095
  10. Flores, Victor. "The Post-Photographic in the Technological Arts". Revista Comunicação e Sociedade, «Ecrãs e Ligações Sociotécnicas» 17 (2012):
    Published
  11. Flores, Victor. "Issues arising from the current negotiations between the beliefs of the analog and the digital images". Contemporânea. Revista de Comunicação e Cultura 2 1 (2004): 29-48.
    Published
Journal issue
  1. Flores, Victor. "International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media,". 9 1 (2025):
    Published • https://doi.org/10.60543/ijsim.v9i1.10076 • Editor
  2. Flores, Victor. "International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media". 8 1 (2024):
    Published • https://doi.org/10.60543/ijsim.v8i1.10032 • Editor
  3. Flores, Victor. "International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media". 7 1 (2023): https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/stereo/issue/view/856.
    Published • Editor
  4. Flores, Victor; Martins, Susana S; Plunkett, John. "Imersão e Experiências de Recepção Expandidas". Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image 10 1 (2023): https://aim.org.pt/ojs/index.php/revista/issue/view/29.
    Published
  5. Flores, Victor. "International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media". 6 1 (2022): https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/stereo/issue/view/832.
    Published • Editor
  6. Flores, Victor. "International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media". 5 1 (2021): https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/stereo/issue/view/807.
    Published • Editor
  7. Flores, Victor. "International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media". 4 1 (2020): https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/stereo/issue/view/765.
    Published • Editor
  8. Flores, Victor. "International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media". 3 1 (2019): https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/stereo/issue/view/755.
    Published • Editor
  9. Flores, Victor. "Flow and Archive". International Journal of Film and Media Arts 4 1 (2019): https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma.
    Published • Coeditor
  10. Flores, Victor. "International Journal on Stereo and Immersive Media". Vol. 2 Issues 3-4 (2018): http://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/stereo.
    Published • Editor
  11. Flores, Victor. "International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media". Vol. 1 Issues 1-2 (2017): http://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/stereo.
    Published • Editor
  12. Flores, Victor. "Stereoscopic and Immersive Media". International Journal of Film and Media Arts 1 2 (2016): https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijfma/issue/view/670.
    Published • Editor
Website
  1. Flores, Victor. Early Visual Media Lab. 2022. https://earlymedialab.ulusofona.pt.
  2. Susana S. Martins; Flores, Victor. CURIOSITAS - Research project on Cosmorama exhibitions in Portugal and Spain during the 19th century. 2022. https://curiositas.ulusofona.pt/.
  3. Flores, Victor. Stereo Visual Culture. 2014. https://stereovisualculture.ulusofona.pt.

Artistic / Performance

Curatorial / Museum exhibition
  1. 2025. "The Cosmorama in Lisbon: Virtual Travelling in the 19th Century".
  2. 2024. "Panorama of Congo. Unrolling the Past with Virtual Reality".
  3. 2018. "Carlos Relvas (1838-1894) — Rediscovered Views of Portugal. Photography in European Salons". In Carlos Relvas (1838-1894) — Rediscovered Views of Portugal. Photography in European Salons.
  4. 2015. "The Third Image. Stereoscopic Photography in Portugal and the Desire for 3D". In The Third Image. Stereoscopic Photography in Portugal and the Desire for 3D.
Visual artwork
  1. Luz, Filipe Soares Branco da Costa; Flores, Victor; Mendes, Ana David. Carlos Relvas Studio VR — The first photographic studio of Carlos Relvas.
  2. Flores, Victor. Virtual Reality installation 'Panorama of Congo: Historical Context'.

Other

Dataset
  1. Flores, Victor. The Catalogue Raisonné of Carlos Relvas's Stereoscopic Photography. http://www.ulusofona.pt.
  2. Flores, Victor. Stereo Visual Culture database. https://stereovisualculture.ulusofona.pt.
  3. Flores, Victor. Cataloguing of the Collection of Fernando Santana Cardoso, National Archive of Torre do Tombo. https://digitarq.arquivos.pt/details?id=4746486.
Other output
  1. Cosmorama: The Great Virtual Show. Virtual Reality Build: "Cosmorama: The Great Virtual Show." Concept, script, and research developed for The Cosmorama: Virtual Travelling in the 19th Century exhibition at the Portuguese Cinematheque, Lisbon (June 28–September 10).. 2025. Flores, Victor; Susana, S Martins.
  2. Report to FCT and EU: Live Interfaces journal. Film EU deliverable. 2024. Sá, Adriana; Flores, Victor.
  3. Involuntary pseudos. The untransposed stereos in the digital archives. 2020. Victor Flores. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/z3eaf.
    10.31235/osf.io/z3eaf
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025/07/03 Cosmoramas Touring the West. Showmen, World Circuits, and Imperial Genteel Culture 34th International Panorama Council Conference ‘Panoramic and Peep Technologies’
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal)
2025/06/04 Centre of Excellence on Immersive Media Heritage FilmEU Summit
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) (Sophia, Bulgaria)
2024/10/04 The Afterlife of the Panorama du Congo (1913): Decolonial curation of imperial panoramas Panoramas as Memory of the World
International Panorama Council (Lausanne, Switzerland)
2024/08/08 Os Cosmoramas Europeus no Brasil. Uma Visão Imersiva e Eurocêntrica do Imperialismo Conferência Internacional Counter-Image 2024/ Visual Culture and Ecological Thinking
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, em Florianópolis (Florianópolis, Brazil)
2024/05/23 Hiperarquivos e Património Virtual — Investigar os media ópticos com as colecções da Cinemateca — Museu de Cinema Encontros ANIM
ANIM (Bucelas, Portugal)
2023/09/29 Unveiling the Secrets of the 'Panorama du Congo' 32nd International Panorama Council (IPC) Conference — Panoramas, Immersive Media, and Lost Worlds
International Panorama Council (IPC) (Iowa, United States)
2023/09/15 Showing and Trotting the Globe. The Cosmorama, a Lost Media Art Form RE: SOURCE— 10th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology
Ca' Foscari University (Venice, Italy)
2023/05/31 CONGO VR: Decolonising the Panorama du Congo (1913). A Virtual Heritage Artistic Research FilmEU RIT Summit
Universidade Lusófona (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/05/11 Curating with Digital Hands : The Carlos Relvas Stereo Raisonné 1st International Encounters on Stereoscopic Photography
Université de Bordeaux - CLEM (Bordeaux, France)
2022/09/15 Decolonising the Panorama du Congo (1913) 31st International Panorama Council (IPC)
International Panorama Council (IPC) (Luxembourg city, Luxembourg)
2022/07/13 Panorama du Congo: The ‘All-Embracing’ Colonial Propaganda. Decolonising with VR and Artistic Research Counter-Image International Conference
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/11/22 Stereo Mediation in Archives: User Access and Experience A Celebration of Stereoscopic 3D
London Stereoscopic Company (United Kingdom)
2020/09/18 Experiencing and Interpreting Visual Heritage with New Media Ex\\Immersio II Production Practices, Audience Development and Media Cultural Transformation
Hochschule Darmstadt (Dieburg, Germany)
2019/11 Digital Environments for Old Media. Building an Online Catalogue for Carlos Relvas’s Stereoviews (1862-1874) Media Evolution / Media Archaeology
Universidade Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain)
2019/10/24 The Portuguese photographer Carlos Relvas (1838-1894) and stereoscopy. The making of the Catalogue Raisonné 3rd Conference on History of Photography Research. Stereoscopic or 3D Photography, 19th and 20th centuries
Institución Fernando el Catolico (Zaragoza, Spain)
2017/11/07 European Stereo Masters: Carlos Relvas (1838-1894) — The Research in a Photographic Archive 1st Iberian Talks on Culture, Heritage and Tourism in the Digital Society
Universidade da Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal)
2016 Experimenting, Composing and Commodifying Stereoviews: Aurélio da Paz dos Reis (1862-1931) Colloque Stéréoscopie et Illusion
ENS Louis-Lumière and La Fémis (Paris, France)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/01/15 - Current Almas Penadas: Gathering in the Centre Square of a Mountain Village a documentary film project on northern Portuguese folklore in a panorama room
Supervisor
 Media Arts and Communication (PhD)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2023/09/01 - Current The turning point of the Portuguese Cinema pioneer towards stereoscopy
Supervisor
 Arte dos Media e Comunicação (PhD)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2022/09/01 - Current Bioscope, the Bangladeshi peepshow: colonial past, traditional roots and digital media features
Supervisor
 Arte dos Media e Comunicação (PhD)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2020/09/01 - Current A curiosidade da Viagem: resgate e processos de apropriação criativa de dispositivos óticos na prática artística contemporânea
Co-supervisor
 Arte Contemporânea (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Colégio das Artes, Portugal
2018/09/01 - Current Pequenas visões do grande mundo: Virtualização da viagem na cultura visual contemporânea
Co-supervisor
 Sciences of Communication (PhD)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2016/09/01 - Current FOTOGRAFIA E IDENTIDADE CULTURAL. Um estudo da influência da fotografia nos estudos etnográficos e a sua relação com o estabelecimento de identidades culturais na viragem do século XIX para o século XX em Portugal.
Supervisor
 Sciences of Communication (PhD)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2011/09/01 - 2012 Cultural Programming, collective forces and audiences
Supervisor
 Cultural Management and Programming (Master)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2011/09/01 - 2012 Alkantara, Associação Cultural
Supervisor
 Cultural Management and Programming (Master)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2011/09/01 - 2012 A Study for a Theatre Quality Management System
Supervisor
 Cultural Management and Programming (Master)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2010/09/01 - 2012 Art Studios and Cultural Politics
Supervisor
 Cultural Management and Programming (Master)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2010/09/01 - 2011 Contemporary Dance and New Technologies
Supervisor
 Cultural Management and Programming (Master)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2010/09/01 - 2011 Cultural Sponsoring among Portuguese commercial companies
Supervisor
 Sciences of Communication, Marketing, Advertisement and Public Relations (Master)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2010/09/01 - 2011 Marketing Applications in Culture: Audience Strategies. The case of Cinema-Teatro Joaquim d’Almeida (Montijo)
Supervisor
 Sciences of Communication, Marketing and Advertising (Master)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2008/09/01 - 2009 Image and Imaginary in Digital Culture. The Role of Digital Image in Redefining the Social Imaginary
Supervisor
 Design and Visual Culture, (Master)
Universidade Europeia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2025/07/02 - 2025/07/04 Organisation of the 34th International Panorama Council Conference ‘Panoramic and Peep Technologies’, held in Lisbon from 2 to 4 July, and hosted by Lusófona University and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. (2025/07/02 - 2025/07/04)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Early Visual Media Lab - CICANT, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal
2024/03/21 - 2024/03/22 Media Arts Back & Forth: FilmEU Doctus Seminar (2024/03/21 - 2024/03/22)
Seminar (Other)
 Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2023/12/07 - 2023/12/07 Lesson in Film and Media Arts: In Conversation with Repetitive-Loop Machines by Rod Bantjes, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia. (2023/12/07 - 2023/12/07)
Seminar (Other)
 Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2023/09/15 - 2023/09/15 Curated Panel: The Cosmorama. Retrieval and Curation of a Lost Media Art Form at the 10th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology— Re: Source (2023/09/15)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
 Università Ca' Foscari, Italy
2021/02 - 2021/06 Media Lab Talks (online event) (2021/02 - 2021/06)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2015/09/01 - 2021/06 Organiser of the International Conference on Stereo & Immersive Media (2015/09/01)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2020/11 - 2021/02 Celebration of Stereoscopic 3D Event (online event) (2020/11)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2015/10/07 - 2020/06/20 Chair of the organizing committee of the International Conference on Stereo & Immersive Media. Photography, Sound and Cinema Research, Lisbon, Portugal (2015, 2016, 2018 and 2020 editions.) The conference has had about 50 participants in each edition. (2015/10/07 - 2020/06/20)
Congress (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2019/06/15 - 2019/06/16 Conference ‘Photographic Monuments. The Nineteenth-Century Visual Construction of Heritage’, Monument of Batalha, Portugal. Participation of 12 national and international keynotes. (2019/06/15 - 2020/06/16)
Symposium (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2015/11/11 - 2015/11/11 1st Visual Culture Meeting, Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences (SOPCOM), University of Coimbra. (2015)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/06/23 - Current Live Interfaces - Round table moderation with Adriana Sá & Jonas Runa & Gonçalo Gato & Oyvind Brandtsegg
Conference
 Live Interfaces
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2022/07/15 - 2022/07/15 Moderação Painel Arquivos inquietos: luz, trevas, falhas e outras histórias
Conference
 Counter Image International Conference:
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/07/13 Do Operacional na Imagem: Contributo para uma Ecologia da Visualidade Maquínica (Projecto de Investigação)
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Philipp Valente Soares Teuchmann (PhD)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2023/04/28 La Mirada Óptica. Vistas ópticas y espectáculos visuales en España durante los siglos XVIII y XIX
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Cèlia Cuenca Córcoles (PhD)
Universitat de Barcelona Departament d'Història de l'Art, Spain
2023/04/19 Social Capital for Action: Let's put Sequeira in its rightful place
(Thesis) Arguer
 Nuno Cintra Torres (PhD)
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2023/01/17 Sobre a influência da visualização e da participação na cultura visual em rede do século XXI e no concriarão digital de memórias coletivas
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Ana Sofia Velhinho de Sousa (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal
2022/06/29 Crowdfunding cultural: agentes e práticas de colaboração e intermediação online em Portugal
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Caterina Foà (PhD)
ISCTE Business School, Portugal
2021/12/06 Impressão Lenticular. Autostereoscopic Prints for Advertising
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Davit Bitsadze (Master)
Universidade Europeia, Portugal
2021/10/15 O Mecenato Cultural como Instrumento de Comunicação: o caso Caixa Geral de Depósitos e a Culturgest
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Cármen Zita Batalha Garcia Monereo (PhD)
ISCTE Business School, Portugal
2020/11/02 Fotojornalismo e a guerra civil da Síria: uma análise segundo a perspectiva da Gramática do Design Visual
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Lívia de Almeida Cançado (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2020/07/01 Entre Colecções: um estudo comparativo das colecções de fotografia do museu de arte moderna de Sâo Paulo e do Museu Calouste Gulbenkian
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Guilherme Marcondes Tosetto (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal
2020/05/01 Um Punk chamado Ribas. Documentário sobre o músico português João Ribas
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Paulo Miguel Borges Antunes (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2019/12/01 O olhar, a tactilidade e a sua representação em fotografia: superfície, materialidade e codificação
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Ana Teresa de Matos Vicente (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal
2019/02/18 'Lembranças, souvenirs, recuerdos'. Fotografia e Migração Portuguesa para o Brasil
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Ana Filipa Gandum Ribeiro (PhD)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
2018 Vulcano
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Maria Leonardo Cabrita (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal
2018 A paisagem na cidade, da modernidade à contemporaneidade— um exercício curatorial sobre a experiência do lugar urbano
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Joseph Rodrigues (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2024/01/01 - Current Steering Committee of WIRE FilmEU: Widening Innovation and Research Excellence - HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-03
Member
 Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2022/10/01 - Current Board Member of FilmEU RIT: Research | Innovation | Transformation project, European Union GRANT NUMBER: 101035820 - H2020-IBA-SwafS-Support-2-2020.
Member
2020/02/01 - Current Member, Research Network: European Network on Immersive Media. Hochschule Darmstadt, University of Applied Sciences, Fachbereich Media/Department of Media, Dieburg, Germany (under implementation).
Member
 Hochschule Darmstadt Medienzentrum, Germany
1999 - Current Member of the Scentific Council of ECATI- School of Communication, Arts and Information Technologies
Member

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2022/03/01 - 2022/07/31 Counter-Image International Conference 2022
2016 - 2016 Colloque Stéréoscopie et Illusion [Colloquium Stereoscopy and Illusion] Labex Arts-H2H, ENS Louis-Lumière and La Fémis

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023/04/18 - 2023/08/31 Exhibition Consultant: Jorge Marçal da Silva - The Immersive Dimension Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/09/01 - Current Media Arts and Immersion Media Arts and Communication (Doutoramento) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2015/09 - Current History of Portuguese Photography Fotografia (Licenciatura) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2014 - Current Social History of Technical Images Ciências da Comunicação (Doutoramento) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2009/09 - Current Visual Culture Comunicação Aplicada. Marketing, Publicidade e RelaçõesPúblicas (Licenciatura) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
1996/10 - Current Methodologies of Image Analysis Methodologies of Image Analysis (Licenciatura) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2022/09/01 - Current FilmEU-FCT PhD scholarships
Member
 Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2022/12/20 - 2022/12/20 Jury member - Competition for Auxiliar Professor: subject area Conservation and Restoration, emphasis on Conservation and Restoration of Photography, FCT NOVA
Member
 Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Member of the Reviewing Board of the Art History Journal
Evaluator
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de História da Arte, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023/10/01 - Current Live Interfaces (2975-9943) Lusófona University - Early Visual Media Lab
2017 - Current Vista, Journal of Visual Culture
2017 - Current International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media (2184-1241) Universidade Lusófona
2017 - 2021 International Journal on Film and Media Arts (2183-9271) Universidade Lusófona
2014 - 2015 The International Journal of the Image Common Ground Publishing
Distinctions

Other distinction

2019 Erasmus +, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain.
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2004 PhD Scholarship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
1996 Master Scholarship
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal