Docente
Victor Manuel Esteves Flores

Resume

Victor Flores is an Associate Professor and the Director 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. He serves as the principal investigator for the research project ‘Curiositas: Peeping before Virtual Reality’ (FCT) (https://curiositas.ulusofona.pt/) and as the principal editor of the International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media. His research focuses on the field of digital humanities, particularly the study of immersive media heritage through archival materials and new technologies such as Virtual Reality. The connection between historical research and technologies has been solidified in his recent projects: ‘Decolonising the Panorama of Congo: A Virtual Heritage Artistic Research’ (H2020) (https://congopanorama.filmeu.eu) and the ‘Catalogue Raisonné of the Stereoscopic Photography of Carlos Relvas’ (https://carlosrelvascatalogue.pt), both of which were showcased at national museum exhibitions where he served as curator. He is currently a member of the executive board of the International Panorama Council and the ‘Fundación para la Difusión de la Fotografía y Estereoscopía Histórica FBS’ in Madrid. Additionally, he is a member of the Steering Committee of the WIRE programme of the European University FilmEU.

Graus

• Licenciatura
  Sciences of Communication
• Mestrado
  Sciences of Communication
• Doutoramento
  PhD in Sciences of Communication, specialty in Communication and Culture

Publicações

Journal issue

• Stereoscopic and Immersive Media, 1
• International Journal on Stereo and Immersive Media, Vol. 2
• International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media, Vol. 1
• International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media, 7
• International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media, 6
• International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media, 5
• International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media, 4
• International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media, 3
• Immersion and Expanded Spectatorships, 10
• Imersão e Experiências de Recepção Expandidas, 10
• Flow and Archive, 4

Journal article

• 2023-01-27, Immersion and Expanded Spectatorships: Notes on a Reinvented Field, Aniki – Portuguese Magazine of the Moving Image
• 2021-05-01, Wet Collodion And a Pair of Lenses. Carlos Relvas's Stereoscopic Photography: The Digital Reunion of Negatives and Prints, History of Photography
• 2018-07-15, The Metrics of Landscape. Stereo fieldwork by Francisco Afonso Chaves and other Portuguese Explorers, Media Archaeology
• 2016, The Animation of The Photographic: Stereoscopy and Cinema. The Experiments of Aurélio da Paz dos Reis, Early Popular Visual Culture
• 2013, Stereo Visual Culture: Between the Documentary and Entertainment, The International Journal of the Image
• 2012, The Post-Photographic in the Technological Arts, Revista Comunicação e Sociedade, «Ecrãs e Ligações Sociotécnicas»
• 2004, Issues arising from the current negotiations between the beliefs of the analog and the digital images, Contemporânea. Revista de Comunicação e Cultura

Book

• 2019, The Third Image. Stereo Photography in Portugal, Flores, Victor, Documenta
• 2012, The Technical Image and its Beliefs. Visual Confidence in the Digital Age, Flores, Victor
• 2007, Minimalism and Post-Minimalism. Form, Anti-Form and Body in the work of Robert Morris, Flores, Victor, Editora Livros Labcom

Book chapter

• 2023, O Régulo: um arquétipo do poder colonial português | The Régulo: an archetype of Portuguese colonial power, 100 Olhares. Memórias de uma Guerra — Moçambique 1970, Âncora Editores
• 2019, The Lens and The Burin: Transferences. Initial Steps Towards Recognition of Carlos Relvas's Photography , Carlos Relvas (1838-1894). Rediscovered Views of Portugal. Photography in European Salons, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea— Museu do Chiado
• 2019, The Haptic Interface of 'The Flea' from 'Nos Mondaines', The Third Image. Stereo Photography in Portugal, Documenta
• 2019, Stereoscopic Photography in Portugal. Discourses and Practices of a Visual Culture, The Third Image. Stereo Photography in Portugal , Documenta
• 2019, Aspects of The Stereo Gaze, The Third Image. Stereo Photography in Portugal, Documenta
• 2016, Stereoscopic Materialities. The Portuguese Stereoscopic Photography and the need for an Archaeology, Photograms— Essays on Photography, Documenta
• 2016, 2.0. Post-Screen Condition, Post-Screen: Intermittence+Interference, Edições Universitárias Lusófonas e Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa
• 2009, The Internet Uses in Portuguese Art Institutions: the Case of Museums and Exhibition Centers, The Technological Arts and Internet Network in Portugal, Nova Vega
• 2002, Installation, Site-Specific and Community-Based, the Necessary and Sufficient Genres for a New Public Art?, Sciences of Communication at the End of the Century, Vega Editora

Edited book

• 2017, Edições Universitárias Lusófonas e Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa

Dictionary entry

• 2014, Lisbon, 'Image Theories' and 'Optical Unconscious', Critical Dictionary of Art, Image, Language and Culture

Website

• 2022-10-01, Early Visual Media Lab, https://earlymedialab.ulusofona.pt
• 2022, CURIOSITAS - Research project on Cosmorama exhibitions in Portugal and Spain during the 19th century, https://curiositas.ulusofona.pt/
• 2014-06-01, Stereo Visual Culture, https://stereovisualculture.ulusofona.pt

Conference paper

• Virtual museum to promote accessibility to art and cultural heritage: quantitative study on user experience within a virtual reality task, International Conference on Disability, Virtual Reality & Associated Technologies
• Virtual Heritage for Virtual Worlds: Researching the Iberian Cosmoramas, 13th International Seminar on the Origins and History of Cinema
• 2019-05-17, Involuntary Pseudos. The Untransposed Stereos in The Digital Archives, Archiving 2019— Digitization, Preservation and Access
• 2019, The Portuguese Photographer Carlos Relvas (1838-1894) and Stereoscopy. The making of the Digital Catalogue Raisonné, 3rd Conference on History of Photography Research. Stereoscopic and 3D Photography, 19th and 20th Centuries
• 2007, The Lens Culture in the Digital Imaginary: Noise Transmission, 5th International Symposium of Interactive Media Design

Exhibition catalog

• 2023, Dirty Mind (1995), in Luísa Cunha: Works 1992-2022 (republication), MAAT- Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology
• 2023, 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
• 2019, Carlos Relvas 1838-1894: Vistas Inéditas de Portugal, Lisboa: MNAC, DGPC/Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisboa
• 2019, Carlos Relvas (1838-1894). Rediscovered Views of Portugal. Photography in European Salons, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea — Museu do Chiado
• 2019, 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
• 2015, The Third Image. Stereoscopic Photography in Portugal and the Desire for 3D, Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa— Fotográfico

Visual artwork

• Virtual Reality installation 'Panorama of Congo: Historical Context'
• Carlos Relvas Studio VR — The first photographic studio of Carlos Relvas

Curatorial / Museum exhibition

• 2024-02-24, Panorama of Congo. Unrolling the Past with Virtual Reality
• 2018-09-23, Carlos Relvas (1838-1894) — Rediscovered Views of Portugal. Photography in European Salons
• 2015-09, The Third Image. Stereoscopic Photography in Portugal and the Desire for 3D

Dataset

• The Catalogue Raisonné of Carlos Relvas's Stereoscopic Photography, The Catalogue Raisonné of Carlos Relvas¿'s Stereoscopic Photography: an online searchable database that combines the surviving 635 stereoscopic wet plate collodion negatives by Carlos Relvas with the 538 corresponding stereo cards discovered in eight public and private photography collections. This catalogue was developed in the research project Carlos Relvas Full 3D.
• Stereo Visual Culture database, Production and curation of a Portuguese stereo photography online searchable database with 31 collections from Portuguese public archives and museums. This database was developed in the research project ‘Stereo Visual Culture’ mentioned above.
• Cataloguing of the Collection of Fernando Santana Cardoso, National Archive of Torre do Tombo, Collaboration with my team in the official cataloging of a stereoscopic photography collection at the National Archive of Torre do Tombo, Lisbon, introducing for the first time stereoscopic composition descriptors.

Other output

• 2024-04, Report to FCT and EU: Live Interfaces journal, Film EU deliverable
• 2020-02-01, Involuntary pseudos. The untransposed stereos in the digital archives