From 8โ10 October, IMPULSE Project’s researchers took part in the ๐๐ค๐ถ๐ต๐ถ๐ด ๐ฆ๐ต ๐๐ณ๐จ๐ถ๐ต๐ถ๐ด: ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ญ๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐ต ๐๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ international conference, hosted in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Researchers Theodora Rontzova (KU Leuven) and Zoรซ Vandenhende (KU Leuven) presented the talk “ACUTUS VIRTUALIS: Printed Bodies, Virtual Worlds. Revisitingย ย De Humani Corporis Fabricaย of Andreas Vesalius in VR.” The presentation focused on how the manuscript of ๐๐ฆ ๐๐ถ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ช ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ช๐ด ๐๐ข๐ฃ๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข (1543), part of KU Leuven Libraries collection, is reimagined as a multi-user VR experience โ inviting readers to explore, interact, and reinterpret the text in new ways.
By positioning early printed heritage in a playful yet rigorous digital frame, their presentation illustrated a new mode of critical engagement with print culture โ expanding not only who accesses these materials, but how they are experienced, interpreted, and reimagined.
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