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Newsletter 10 October 2007 IPC Conference searching for the roots Active colleagues from DPR Korea IPC International A very successful 16th International Panorama A delegation of four artists from Korea Conference was held in Plymouth, England, Paekho Trading Corporation visited London Panorama Council from Saturday 1 through Monday 3 September two weeks after the IPC visit during the 2007. It was IPC’s second conference in 2007. conference tour following our 16th www.panoramapainting.com The 15th Conference in March 2007 had been at conference. Paekho is the artist’s Yale University’s Yale Center for British Art in corporation that has produced many New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A. (re: News- panoramas and dioramas in the Democratic nd letters 08 and 09). This 2 conference took People’s Republic of Korea and abroad place in the Sherwell Centre of the University of (Bagdad, Cairo, Damascus) during the last Plymouth, right in the city centre of Plymouth. 35 years. Its delegation was headed by It was co-hosted by INNOVATE Centre for Paekho president Mr. Pak Chang Sop and Creative Industries. Fifty participants gathered included Mr. Ri Yong Nam, director of the on the theme Panoramas in the Virtual panorama department. World: The exploration of old techniques and On their request IPC president Ernst Storm new technologies in panorama creation and met with them in the Korean Embassy. He exhibition. Afterwards, a much smaller group was accompanied by London based IPC went on tour to the South-West of England and members Ralph Hyde and Mao Wen Biao. to Edinburgh, Scotland, in search for the roots Ambassador Ja Song Nam and his Counselor of Robert Barker’s panorama invention and the Thae Yong Ho were also present. The Paekho IPC Executive Board: early days of the first panorama experiences in members had dozens of paintings on display th Prof. Yadegar Asisi the 18 Century. A publication on the content in the Embassy, from classical watercolors to (DE-Berlin) of the conference can be expected in due time; paintings in different styles. The exhibition Dr. Mimi Colligan a short account of the proceedings is attached included paintings made of jewel powder (AU-East Brighton, Vic.) to this Newsletter. made from materials like amethyst, milk Patrick Deicher M.A. (CH-Lucerne) crystal and ruby on a flat stone foundation Gabriele Koller M.A. IPC Group and photos on the Internet At the same time the Paekho group (DE-Bonn) A 360° conference group photograph was taken exhibited for the very first time two drafts David Robinson by Plymouth photographer Ian Wood on the city for panoramas, each measuring 1,5 x 12,0 (UK-London) balcony of the Roland Levinsky Building on meters. They depict the historical struggle Ir. Ernst Storm Drake Circus. It is on display at with the sea and the Delta works, both (NL-Rotterdam) Dr. Gebhard Streicher www.ianjameswood.co.uk. situated in Holland. They are part of a (DE-Munich) proposal for new panoramas in The Prof. Wei Ershen Presentations available on the web Netherlands on Paekho’s own initiative. (PRC-Shenyang) Kaveh Bazargan of River Valley Multimedia Paekho is searching for assignments world Dipl. Arch. Damian Widmer (CH-Lucerne) Services has produced multimedia recordings of wide to produce new panoramas in the Prof. Sanford Wurmfeld the presentations held at the conference. They classical size of 15x120 m. (US-NYC) can be downloaded from www.river- Both delegations discussed openly and in valley.tv/conferences/ipc2007. As of the good spirit the potential of the work and the publication date of this Newsletter there were future relations between IPC and the DPR Honorary President: quick links to the talks of David Robinson, Mimi Korean panorama artists and the existing Prof. Ottó Trogmayer Colligan, Astrid Schönhagen, Suzanne Wray, panoramas in North Korea. The exhibition (HU-Szeged) th Ralph Hyde and Sarah Velas. also was part of the Reception on the 62 President: anniversary of the People’s Party at their Ernst Storm, [email protected] London Embassy on 21 September. Camera Obscuras galore Tony Millar, assistant manager at the Camera IPC Secretariat: Obscura and World of Illusions on the Royal 3D Aurora Borealis in Southampton Patrick Deicher Mile in Edinburgh (‘Where seeing is not As an artist Brian McClave has captured the Lucerne believing’) was so kind to supply this Newsletter Auris Borealis (Northern Lights) on film in Switzerland with two links where one can find out about three dimensions. With a grant from NESTA nearly every public camera obscura that ever he was able to film simultaneously from two Phone +49 172 374 39 35 existed in Europe (including the UK, of course) lakes in Lapland, 20 miles apart. An [email protected] and America. They are: Top of the Document extraordinary footage of the Northern Light and http://brightbytes.com. The Edinburgh effects is on show in a specially constructed camera obscura site itself is www.camera- space within Millais Gallery at Southampton obscura.co.uk. Solent University in England from 3 November - 15 December. On Thursday, 29 November 2007 at 7 pm he will give a talk New York City in panosphere on this project and show some of his other A panorama painting on the outside of a 3D stereoscopic work. Information is on sphere, as seen from the top of the World http://millais.solent.ac.uk Trade Center Towers before they were destroyed on September 11, is being considered for a WTC museum. It was made by the American painter Christopher Evans, who has done other spherical panoramas (panospheres) as well. The link www.nyitlom.org shows some images. -> Again: Alpenpanoramen in Schwyz 2008: 17th IPC Conference in Germany In Newsletter 09 we have mentioned the highlights of The IPC Board is happy to announce the 17th Swiss photography exhibition ‘Alpenpanoramen’ International Panorama Conference will be organized, (Panoramas in and of the Alps) that is on display at together with the Asisi Factory of Berlin, in Leipzig and the Forum of Swiss History in Schwyz, Switzerland, Dresden (Germany) on 12-14 September 2008. The until 3 February 2008. This exhibition includes several theme will include thorough discussions on Panorama events and workshops. There also is a digital 360 Marketing and the future of the International Panorama degree projection system made by Matthias Council, now bridging and bringing together some 240 Taugwalder. It is in the form of a cylinder which panoramaniacs, working in 150 different institutions in projects 15 panoramas from summits all across circa 20 countries. Of course the conference program will Switzerland. Among these are tourist viewpoints, but include extensive visits to the panoramas Rom CCCXII, also high and famous summits as the Matterhorn Auf nach Rom! and 1756, The Myth of Baroque Dresden, (4478m) or the Dufourspitze (Mount Dufour, 4634m, both developed by Prof. Yadegar Asisi. From 15 through highest point of Switzerland). Re: www.musee- 19 September a Post Conference Tour will take place. A suisse.com:16080/d/schwyz/exhibition/alpenpano/pre visit to the rapidly developing city of Berlin will be the last sse.html. part of the tour. More news on this conference can be expected in the next Newsletter, but start making time in your agenda in weeks 37/38 of 2008. Commemoration of Rotterdam’s fatal day An exhibition of panoramic photographs in the Laurenschurch in Rotterdam, Holland, which took 2009: 18th IPC Conference in Australia place in August 2007, is now on the Internet. The Week 13 of the year 2009 will see the heart of the 18th exhibition and each of the (zoom) pictures by IPC International Panorama Conference in South photographer Jaap Pameyer are accessible through: Australia. It will be organized together with Jeffrey M. http://www.fotorondleiding.nl/expositievb/TourWeave Morgan, painter of the 360° Wilpena Panorama and r_expositievb.ht.ml. ‘Outback on Canvas’ panoramas, such as Arkaroola (9x25 Among the pictures are shots from the ft.) and Elder Range from Wonoka Station (15x50 ft. in commemoration event on 14/15 May 2007, devoted to progress) in his home town of Hawker in South Australia. the aerial bombardment and city fire of Rotterdam on His new panorama is expected to be opened during our 14 May 1940. This led to the Dutch surrender in conference, on 25 March 2009. Of course our next WWII. During the commemoration event the outline of Newsletter will bring more news on this 18th Conference the demolished pre-war center was projected by the and the post conference tour, which may also include the cloudy sky by a series of 128 lamps of 7000 Watt Fletcher’s Mutiny Cyclorama on Norfolk Island, and New each. A 360° view of the event is accessible through Zealand. Exciting new panorama times down under! http://www.fotorondleiding.nl. Projections on surfaces of any shape 2010: call for hosting the 19th Conference From the International Broadcast Convention in Ideas and proposals for our 19th International Panorama Amsterdam (7-11 September) Rob van den Braak Conference to be held in 2010 are most welcome at our reports that research scientists at the Fraunhofer Secretariat [email protected]. Institute for Computer Architecture and Software Technology FIRST have developed a system which automatically calibrates projectors and superimposes New publications on panoramas etc. images with pixel-precise accuracy. This produces 1756, The baroque Dresden by Stefan Hertzig, Sieglinde perfectly synchronized projections on surfaces of any Richter-Nickel, Nadine Herwerth and Dietrich Exner, with shape. The ‘Showplayer’ makes it possible to combine an introduction by Matthias Griebel, Catalogue (in different types of media such as movies, stills, German), Asisi Factory, Dresden, Germany, 2007.
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