Performing Astronomy Research Society at PSI

PARS – Performing Astronomy Research Society – will be introduced by Kurt Vanhoutte and Nele Wynants at the Performace Studies International Confernce #23 in Hamburg, Germany. PARS is an international, interdisciplinary group of researchers from the human, social, and exact sciences as well as artists, visual technicians and planetarium professionals to investigate the history, present state and future of popular astronomical spectacle. As part of historical forms of astronomic spectacle, lantern slide shows are subject to research of this network.