PANEL 1 – Intermedial Aspects of Lantern Practice
Chair: Frank Kessler
01:30 Ivo Blom – The Rome of Gerome
15:15 Artemis Willis – Lanternology
29:03 Massimiliano Gaudiosi – Virtual Tours of Pompeii in Magic Lantern Show
48:15 Q&A
PANEL 2 – The Dark Side of the Lantern
Chair: Céline Ruivo
01:00 Martyn Jolly – Professor Pepper in ‘The Land of Bush Fires’
Hayley Bradley and Janice Norwood – Deathly Spectatorship and the Magic Lantern (omitted from footage)
PANEL 3 – The Lantern on Tour
Chair: Charlotte Bigg
00:50 John Plunkett – Local/National: Benjamin Malden and the Rise of the Touring Lantern Lecturer
21:37 Ludwig Vogl-Bienek and Yvonne Zimmermann – Paul and Minna Hoffmann’s Grosse Vorstellungen (Great Shows): Performative Configurations of the Art of Projection for Entertainment and the Popular Transfer of Knowledge
37:55 Daniel Pitarch Fernández – Following Míster Laschott and Others. International Touring Magic Lantern Shows in Spain from 1840 to 1860
54:10 Q&A
PANEL 4 – National and Imperial Narratives
Chair: Karel Vanhaesebrouck
Amandine D’Azevedo – Indian Magic Lantern, from Mythology to Dance and Parade (omitted from footage)
00:48 Gréine Jordan and Amelia King – Visualising Christian Brotherhood across Continents: The Magic Lantern Shows of the London and Baptist Missionary Societies
PANEL 5 – Spectacle and Special Effects
Chair: Nele Wynants
PANEL 5 – Spectacle and Special Effects
Chair: Nele Wynants
00:06 Caroline Fournier and Céline Ruivo – Projection of Chromolithography: From Slides to Film
23:26 Eloïse Galliard – Magic lanterns, magic effects. The Special Effects Magic Lantern Plates from the Morieux Collection Preserved at the Musée des Arts Forains
41:15 Suzanne Wray – R. Winter’s UNRIVALLED EXHIBITION of Chemical Dioramas, Dissolving Views & Chromatrope Views, &c., &c.
56:39 Q&A
PANEL 6 – Mapping the Archive
Chairs: Sabine Lenk and Evelien Jonckheere
00:00 Evelien Jonckheere and Sabine Lenk – B-magic digitization
21:02 Brecht Declercq – Digitization project at meemoo, Institute for Flemish Archives
41:14 Cor Vanistendael – Erfgoed Noorderkempen
54:50 Richard Crangle – Lucerna, online lantern slide database
01:13:58 Ângela Santos and Márcia Vilarigues – Preventive Conservation Challenges of Hand-Painted Magic Lantern Glass Slides
01:31:32 Q&A
PANEL 7 – Contemporary Appropriations of the Lantern
Chair: Edwin Carels
01:25 Deirdre Feeney – Object-Image Artworks Based on Optical Premise of Magic Lantern
31:55 Karin Bienek and Ludwig Vogl-Bienek – Phantoms of Knowledge. Media-archaeological Experiments Using Improved Phantasmagoria Lanterns and a Transparent Screen
19:43 Q&A Deirdre Feeney
45:33 Q&A Karin Bienek and Ludwig Vogl-Bienek