Teacher

Victor Manuel Esteves Flores

Resume

Victor Flores is an Associate Professor and Head of the PhD Program in Media Arts and Communication at Lusofona University, in Lisbon. He is the founding organizer of the ‘International Conference on Stereo & Immersive Media: Photography, Sound and Cinema Research’, and the principal editor of the ‘International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media’. He is currently the Principal Investigator of the research projects ‘Curiositas: Peeping Before Virtual Reality. A Media Archaeology of Immersion Through VR and the Iberian Cosmoramas’ (FCT) and ‘Decolonising the Panorama of Congo: A Virtual Heritage Artistic Research’ (H2020). Between 2018 and 2021 he organised and curated the 'Catalogue Raisonné of Carlos Relvas's Stereoscopic Photography', an online searchable database that allows the first comprehensive presentation of Carlos Relvas's stereoscopic prints and negatives from 1862 to 1874 (https://carlosrelvascatalogue.pt). In 2020 he has joined the administration board of the ‘Fundación para la Difusión de la Fotografía y Estereoscopía Histórica FBS’ in Madrid.

Graus

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

Publicações

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

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.

Journal issue

• Stereoscopic and Immersive Media, 1
• International Journal on Stereo and Immersive Media, Vol. 2
• International Journal on Stereo & Immersive Media, Vol. 1
• Immersion and Expanded Spectatorships, 10
• Flow and Archive, 4

Visual artwork

• Carlos Relvas Studio VR — The first photographic studio of Carlos Relvas

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 chapter

• 2023, O Régulo: um arquétipo do poder colonial português, 100 Olhares
• 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

Exhibition catalog

• 2023, A maior imersão em pequeno formato. Jorge Marçal da Silva e o fascínio da Vérascope, Arquivo Municipal de Lisboa — Fotográfico
• 2019, 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

Other output

• 2020-02-01, Involuntary pseudos. The untransposed stereos in the digital archives

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

Curatorial / Museum exhibition

• 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

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