Heritage in the Limelight Events
Magic Lantern Performance - National Art School, Sydney 3-4 October
Performance
A magic lantern dissolving view show with original, hand painted, mechanical nineteenth century glass slides projected through original magic lanterns, with live music and vocals, will be presented by Martyn Jolly, Elisa deCourcy, Alexander Hunter and Heather Keens as part of the symposium: …
CONFERENCE: The Magic Lantern in Australia and the world
Conference
Affect / Animation / Apparatuses & Technology / Cinema / Digital Humanities / Entertainment / Evangelism / Exploration / Globalisation & Trade / Heritage Studies Media Archaeology / Performance & Reenactment / Photography / Illusion, Optics & Phantasmagoria / Science…
Heritage in the Limelight Magic Lantern Performance
Workshop
The Project will be hosting a public Magic Lantern performance on the evening of 12 September at 6pm, as the part of their 2017 Workshop. This re-enactment will bring together early twentieth century glass slides, chromotropes, and mechanical slides, as well as contemporary glass slides painted by…
Call for Papers: Magic Lantern Conference at Universiteit Utretch
Workshop
History, Archiving, and Creative Re‐use of Educational Magic Lantern Slides Call for Contributions The conference will present and discuss the outcomes of the Million Pictures project (University of Utretch) and share them with all those interested in the magic lantern and lantern slides from a…
Magic Lantern Society Convention (UK)
Workshop
Report on the 10th International Convention of the Magic Lantern Society by John Hyett - Australian Magic Lantern Society President Four members of the Australian Magic Lantern Society travelled to Birmingham, UK, to join over 140 other convention delegates, involved in researching and…
Performance: Lucence - New South Wales Gothic
Gallery
Alexander Hunter and the Canberra Experimental Music Studio, live composition Rowan Conroy, drone footage Martyn Jolly, magic lantern. New South Wales gives us the creeps. It’s a dangerous place, haunted by the souls of those who have died. For instance Lake George, originally named Weereewa or…
New Publication - The Magic Lantern in Colonial Australia & New Zealand, by Elizabeth Hartrick
Workshop
The Magic Lantern in Colonial Australia and New Zealand By Elizabeth Hartrick (University of Melbourne) In a world awash with visual technologies, the curiously named magic lantern – the optical lantern or optical projector – and its fragile glass lantern slides has become largely…