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Newsletter 23 21st International Panorama Conference, Pleven/Bulgaria, May 2012 September 9 - 13, 2012 We are happy to inform you of the forthcoming 21st International Panorama Conference. This conference will be held IPC International in Pleven, Bulgaria from 9 to 13 September 2012. Co-organizers are the Panorama Council International Panorama Council, the Municipality of Pleven and the Military www.panoramapainting.com st Historical Museums, Pleven Epopee 1877 21 International Panorama Panorama (www.panorama-pleven.com). Conference, Pleven/Bulgaria, IPC is honored to be in Pleven again ten September 9 - 13, 2012 ................... 1 years after our earlier conference there. Pleven: Call for papers ..................... 1 The conference will be under the patronage of the President of the National IPC transformed into an Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria Mrs. Association ....................................... 2 Tsetska Tsacheva. 20th International Panorama You are invited to this conference and to Conference 2011, Gettysburg/USA .. 2 contribute a presentation/paper. Main topic of the conference will be ‘Historic Call for candidates to host IPC Battles in Panorama Format - messages conferences beyond 2012 ................ 2 and challenges’. Also other panorama Panorama Mesdag Interactive: online related topics may be considered. The conference is dedicated to the IPC Executive Board: experience of cultural heritage ........ 2 135th Anniversary of the liberation of the Prof. Yadegar Asisi Panoramas by Roger Hallet .............. 2 town of Pleven during the Russo-Turkish th (GE-Berlin) war 1877-1878, the 105 Anniversary of Dr. Mimi Colligan New panorama - Aitken’s the foundation of the Military Historical (AU-Melbourne) Australia In The Round Panorama ... 2 Museums in Bulgaria and the Dominique Hanson 35th Anniversary of the Pleven Epopee (BE-Brussels) Panorama project at Rouen/France . 3 Ernst Storm MSc 1877 Panorama. (NL-Rotterdam) Rotating panorama images of Dr. Gebhard Streicher Swiss panoramas ............................. 3 An invitation with a registration form and (GE-Munich) more details will follow soon. Dipl. Arch. Damian Widmer Panorama fragment identification (CH-Lucerne) required ............................................ 3 Prof. Sanford Wurmfeld The program will include an opening (US-NYC) 19th century panorama exchange reception on 9 September, two days for platform? .......................................... 3 the proceedings and the general assembly of the International Panorama Honorary President: Panorama and diorama painter Council and a post-conference tourist Prof. Ottó Trogmayer Anan’ev Mikhail Anan’evich passed program in the region and in the city of (HU-Budapest) away ................................................. 4 Sofia on 12 and 13 September. The President: Saco Museum to 'Roll Out' the Moving official opening of the conference will take Ernst Storm, [email protected] Panorama of Pilgrim's Progress in place in the main hall of Pleven Municipality in the presence of officials Summer 2012 ................................... 4 and their guests and the mayor of Pleven. Hamburg Panorama on glass ........... 5 The two days of meetings will take place in the four-star Kailaka Hotel situated in New publication on the first three the protected area of Kaylaka Park. The IPC Secretariat: decades of the panorama ................. 5 hotel is surrounded by peaceful natural scenery, but is not far from the town. Patrick Deicher Heine diaries publication ................. 5 Hochruetistrasse 39 Documentation on panorama painter 6005 Lucerne Pleven: Call for papers Switzerland S. Reisacher available on CD-ROM ... 6 You are invited to contribute a paper and a presentation to this conference (in Phone +41 79 637 31 53 New studies and publications on English only). The time reserved for a [email protected] panoramas ....................................... 6 presentation is limited to 30 minutes, including some questions and answers. Please send in a short abstract (not exceeding 150 words) of the presentation and paper planned. Your proposal should be accompanied by a brief biography of the author (not exceeding 150 words). It should be sent to the Secretary-General Patrick Deicher by 31 May 2012 at the latest: [email protected]. A confirmation of whether your paper has been accepted will be returned within 30 The IPC is a non-government days. and not-for-profit association in We are looking forward to your accordance with Swiss law. contributions to realize an interesting conference program. p. 1 has fulfilled a long-cherished wish to get closer to the IPC transformed into an Association paint strokes and the stories behind them. The International Panorama Council has taken an The Mesdag family-owned cultural heritage museum important step in its history. After almost 20 managing this oldest genuine panorama in the world successful years of all-volunteer work to establish a commissioned RNW Conceptdesign of Rotterdam to network of panorama specialists, we have develop an interactive version of the panorama. This transformed the International Panorama Council into ‘interactive panorama’ is now active. a membership organization that can act formally in its own rights and that also has a professional Interactive experiences Secretariat, however small. Panorama Mesdag has many unique details that All persons and institutions on the IPC mailing list provide interesting views of the North Sea and the will soon be contacted and will receive more detailed village of Scheveningen in the year 1881. On information, the statutes (by-laws) of the www.panorama-mesdag.com visitors can experience association, and an affiliation form. the application by navigating through the digitalized In that mailing we will ask all panorama specialists, panorama. Zooming brings you close to details while interested persons and related institutions, to endless panning always offers new perspectives. By support this process of professional growth. We will exploring the highlighted hotspots, you will find text, then invite you to participate in the new membership (panoramic) photographs, films and more organization by becoming a member. information about details connected to the canvas. Look forward to our next emails! The website links stories about the cultural heritage to the panorama. A visit to Panorama Mesdag at Zeestraat 65 in The Hague will be even more 20th International Panorama Conference 2011, meaningful after a digital exploration online. Gettysburg/USA The International Panorama Council held its 20th Digital preservation and presentation International Panorama Conference in Gettysburg, The website is an important contribution to the Pennsylvania, USA from 14th to 18th September preservation of cultural heritage. First, the project 2011. The conference was co-organised by the shows both Mesdag’s major work and its historical Gettysburg Foundation and the International context. Second, the panorama painting remains Panorama Council. preserved for future generations and the website can The conference was a huge success. It concentrated expand in the future, for instance for educational on the historical and contemporary purposes. It can encourage more visitors to visit the panorama/cyclorama phenomenon, related media real Panorama Mesdag and to return to it, wishing to forms and the tasks of preserving and understanding engage further in the magic of it. The new website the Battlefield Panorama Heritage at Gettysburg. and the application ‘Panorama Mesdag Interactive’ A highlight of the conference program was the visit were developed and produced by RNW to the new Gettysburg National Military Park Museum Conceptdesign, specializing in ‘environment & and Visitor Center. It was opened in 2008 and experience’. The project received financial support houses the restored cyclorama painting of the Battle from AgentschapNL, the Dutch government agency of Gettysburg. focusing on sustainability, innovation, and www.gettysburgfoundation.org international development. RNW Conceptdesign developed the website in collaboration with the photographers Piet Gispen, Aldo Hoeben, and Bob Strik, film producer Robin Lutz, and Cipix Internet. Call for candidates to host IPC conferences [email protected]. beyond 2012 The IPC International Panorama Conferences are pivotal events, gathering the international panorama community for specific themes relevant to Panoramas by Roger Hallet panoramas, both as highlights of historic heritage Panorama painter Roger Hallett informs us that, after and as a form of art, painted or in modern media. some months of distress about the dismantling and Having started twenty years ago in Europe, the IPC destruction of his most recent Panorama of Gibraltar International Panorama Conference site now rotates (2004-2010) during its removal from his studio, a yearly across the world. The most recent meetings CD-ROM was made from a series of photographs and were in Belgium, China, Germany, Netherlands, inserted into his website. The former panoramas Turkey, England and the USA. In 2012 we will meet (Bath-, Salies-de-Bearn-, Bordeaux...) were in Pleven, Bulgaria. designed from a rather historical point of view, a For the years to come we make an appeal for moment of the town life. Panorama of Gibraltar, candidates to host a conference. Please contact our because of its unique, is seen from a geographical Secretary-General for further information. IPC has a aspect. comprehensive memorandum available on
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