INMERSIÓN EN LA IMAGEN: DEL PANORAMA A LAS NUEVAS REALIDADES DIGITALES

The article approaches the visual technologies of immersion in the image from the paradigms of media archaeology. This paradigm makes it possible to compose a nonlinear history of the media that is not dependent on the discourse of progressive sophistication of representation teleologically directed towards the achievement of a hyperreal and perfect image. In this way, one of the materialisations of the immersive image, the nineteenth-century panorama, is reconnected with current developments in virtual, augmented, and mixed realities (as well as other examples from other contexts and historical periods) and with the cultural and socioeconomic forces that condition these immersive devices and their specificity as autonomous media. The article addresses, from the concepts of immersion, presence and participation, the scope of a transmedial approach to the devices, practices and experiences of digital visual culture and the significance of the questioning of the limits of the image established by the frame.