Journal of Visual Culture
Journal of Visual Culture is an international refereed journal that welcomes compelling, critically engaged contributions that explore and expand trans-disciplinary global visual cultures.
"The Journal of Visual Culture is indispensable." Professor Christine Ross, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
"There is an unmistakable seriousness as well as a handsome hospitality in the range of method, topic and topography on show." Times Higher Education Supplement
"The Journal of Visual Culture continues to be a critical resource for scholars looking for intelligent analyses of the visual arts, popular culture, media, curatorial practice and digital platforms." Professor Jennifer A Gonzalez, University of California, Santa Cruz
"The Journal of Visual Culture is the place to look for cutting-edge research on the theory, practice, and circulation of visual culture today." Dr Nicole Starosielski, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
"The Journal of Visual Culture is a generous and inventive site of intellectual possibility where authors and guest editors can reconfigure how the visual and cultural come together, allowing for intellectual challenges to be made – critically and imaginatively – to current disciplinary protocols." Professor Jane Rendell, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Recent themed issues include:
Armed/Unarmed: Guns in American Visual and Material Culture (2018), guest edited by Faye Gleisser and Delia Solomons, with contributors including Patrice D. Douglass, Michelle Millar Fisher, Colette Galter, Brian Hatton, Lindsay Livingston, and a roundtable with Attequa Ali, Jonathan Ferrara, Kathy O’Dell, and Susanne Slavick.
Affect at the Limits of Photography (2018), guest edited by Lisa Cartwright and Elizabeth Wolfson, with contributors including Ariella Azoulay, Lisa E. Bloom, Matthew Brower, Thy Phu and Elspeth H Brown, Kelli Moore, and Shaw Michelle Smith.
50 Years of Art and Objecthood: Traces, Impact, Critique (2017), edited by Alison Green and Joanne Morra, with contributors Alison Green, Stephen Melville, Joanne Morra, Daniel Rubinstein, Margarita Tupitsyn, Victor Tupitsyn, Phoebe von Held, Duncan White.
Architecture! (2016), edited by Jae Emerling and Ronna Gardner, with contributors Eric Aliez, Alfredo Brillembourg, Sarah Deyong, Alexi Kalagas, Hubert Klumpner, Robin Mackay, Lina Malfona, Gioancarlo Mazzanti, Robert McCarter, Donald Preziosi, Jane Rendell, Martino Stierli, Michael Waldrep.
Visual Activism (2016), edited by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Jennifer González and Dominic Willsdon, with contributors Ariella Azoulay, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Deena Chalabi, Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0, Miguel A López, Amin Husain, Nicholas Mirzoeff, Nitasha Dhillon, A Joan Saab, Tina Takemoto, Avram Finkelstein, Aaron Gach, Cheyanne Epps, Kyle Lane-McKinley, Elisa Adami, TJ Demos, Amy Lyford, Carlos Motta, Trinh T Minh-ha, Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi, Jerome Reyes, Nine Yamamoto-Masson, Teddy Cruz, Favianna Rodriguez, Zanele Muholi, Selaelo Mannya, Valerie Thomas, Shannon Jackson.
Recent and forthcoming contributions to Journal of Visual Culture include:
- Jill Casid (UWM) on being undone
- Georges Didi-Huberman (Paris) on the album of images
- Tom Holert (Berlin) on immersion
- Tung-Hui Hu (Michigan) on reticence
- Esther Leslie (Birkbeck) on atmosphere
- Rahul Mukherjee (UPenn) on ecologies of ruination
- MIT’s Lisa Parks (interview by Asbjørn Grønstad and Øyvind Vågnes) on global media technologies
- Nicole Starosielski (NYU) on thermal vision
- Magda Szczesniak and Lukasz Zaremba (Warsaw) on paranoid looking
- Linda Williams (Berkley) on lust, motion and e-motion
- Beirut-based artist Akram Zaatari (interviewed by Elisa Adami) on history, photography, and the archive
Forthcoming themed issues for 2020 and beyond include:
Robot Vision, guest edited by Luci Eldridge (Winchester School of Art) and Nina Trivedi (Royal College of Art), with contributors including Jeremiah Ambrose, Brian Black, Stephen Ellis, Nea Ehrlich, Joey Holder, Gregory Minissale, Maya Oppenheimer, Nicola Plant, and Bianca Westermann.
Trans, Art, and Visual Culture, guest edited by Cyle Metzger (Stanford) and Kirstin Ringelberg (Elon University), with contributors including KJ Cerankowski, Kara Carmack, Sascha Crasnow, Sebastian De Line, Robb Hernandez, Heather Holmes, Ace Lehner, KJ Rawson and Nikki Tantum, Cole Rizki, Gregory Stamatina, Chris Straayer, Susan Stryker, Elisa Steinbock, and Frial Zachary.
VR: Immersion and Empathy, guest edited by Brooke Belisle (Stony Brook University) and Paul Roquet (MIT).
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Journal of Visual Culture welcomes provocative, innovative analyses of visual culture especially those that challenge conventional categories or modes of inquiry. To address the broad interests of our readers, the Journal supports critically informed, original interpretations that both illuminate a specific phenomenon, and yield insights for social, political, philosophical or aesthetic concerns shaping global visual cultures
| Marquard Smith | UCL, UK / Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania |
| Kimberly J. Brown | Dartmouth College, USA |
| Eray Çayli | Universität Hamburg, Germany |
| Zeina E. Maasri | University of Bristol, UK |
| Gabrielle Moser | York University, Canada |
| Minou Norouzi | University of Helsinki, Finland |
| Balbir Singh | Concordia University, Canada |
| Erika Jiaran Song | Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China/UCL, London, UK |
| Hanan Toukan | Bard College Berlin, Germany |
| Øyvind Vågnes | University of Bergen, Norway |
| Jae Emerling | The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA |
| Manca Bajec | Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK |
| John Armitage | Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK |
| Mieke Bal | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Weihong Bao | University of California, USA |
| Joaquin Barriendos | Columbia University, USA |
| Ali Behdad | UCLA, USA |
| Brooke Belisle | Stony Brook University, USA |
| Simone A. Brown | University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Giuliana Bruno | Harvard University, USA |
| Susan Buck-Morss | Cornell University, USA |
| Tina M. Campt | Columbia University, USA |
| Lisa Cartwright | University of California, San Diego, USA |
| Jill Casid | University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA |
| Mel Y Chen | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Wendy Hui Kyong Chun | Simon Fraser University, Canada |
| Tom Conley | Harvard University, USA |
| David Cunningham | University of Westminster |
| Karen Mary Davalos | University of Minnesota, USA |
| Abigail DeKosnik | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Anna Everett | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| Nicole Fleetwood | Rutgers University, USA |
| Elizabeth Freeman | UC Davis, USA |
| Anne Friedberg | University of Southern California, USA † |
| Johnny Golding | Royal College of Art, UK |
| Macarena Gómez-Barris | Pratt Institute, USA |
| Jack Halberstam | Columbia University, USA |
| Stuart Hall | University of Birmingham, UK † |
| Martin Jay | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Guy Julier | Aalto University, Finland |
| Max Liljefors | Lund University, Sweden |
| Laura U. Marks | Simon Fraser University, Canada |
| Shannon Mattern | The New School, USA |
| W J T Mitchell | University of Chicago, USA |
| Joanne Morra | Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, University of the Arts London, UK |
| Joanne Morra | University of the Arts, UK |
| Meaghan Morris | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Sheila Murphy | University of Michigan, USA |
| Lisa Nakamura | University of Michigan, USA |
| Simon Ofield-Kerr | Norwich University of the Arts, UK |
| Chika Okeke-Agulu | Princeton University, USA |
| Peggy Phelan | Stanford University, USA |
| Beth Piatote | University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Griselda Pollock | University of Leeds, UK |
| Jasbir Puar | Rutgers University, USA |
| Adrian Rifkin | Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK |
| Dylan Robinson | Queen's University, Canada |
| Irit Rogoff | Goldsmiths, University of London, UK |
| Vanessa Ruth Schwartz | University of Southern California, USA |
| Julietta Singh | University of Richmond, USA |
| Shawn Michelle Smith | School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA |
| Vivian Sobchack | University of California Los Angeles, USA |
| Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak | Professor, Columbia University, USA |
| Jonathon Sterne | McGill University, Canada |
| Sasha Su-Ling Welland | University of Washington, USA |
| Dominic Willsdon | Institute for Contemporary Art, Richmond Virginia, USA |
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