Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, Molly Briggs, co-founds the Panoramic & Immersive Media Studies (PIMS) Yearbook
August 23, 2024
In 2024 Molly Briggs co-founded the Panoramic & Immersive Media Studies (PIMS) Yearbook, a digital & hardcover book series published by De Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston. She serves as executive editor alongside Thorsten Logge (Universität Hamburg) and Nicholas C. Lowe (SAIC).
The PIMS Yearbook surveys the historical and contemporary landscape of panoramic and immersive media, an interdisciplinary field that includes optical and haptic devices; 360-degree paintings; long-form paintings, photography, and prints; dioramas; museum displays; games; gardens; literature; maps; music; printed matter; still and moving images; virtual and augmented reality; and theatrical productions. Whereas the notion of the panoramic describes extensive, expansive and/or all-embracing vistas, immersion refers to porous interfaces between representation and the real, observer and observed, nature and culture, and past, present, and future. Together, the concepts of panorama and immersion have catalyzed time- and space-bending strategies for creating, experiencing, and transforming culture, ideas, and built social space across the arc of human history. Scholarly essays are subject to double-blind external peer review; conference papers are subject to single-blind internal peer review; other sections (visual & creative essays, restoration, management & field reports, reviews, reprints, and the forum) are edited by named section editors.
Volumes 1–3 (2024–2026) will be published open access (OA) and in full color. Volume 1 (2024) is in production and will be released in December 2024 with 380 pages and 190 figures. The call for contributions to v.2 (2025) is live and closes 7 October 2024. Learn more at https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783111335575/html?lang=en and https://panoramacouncil.org/en/publications/the_panoramic_immersive_media_studies_yearbook/.
