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.
Journal of Visual Culture is an international, refereed journal and is published three times a year - April, August and December - by SAGE Publications.
Recent and forthcoming contributions to Journal of Visual Culture include:
Forthcoming themed issues for 2021 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.
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.
Trans, Art, and Visual Culture (2020)
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, Robb Hernandez, and Frial Zachary.
VR: Immersion and Empathy (2020)
Guest edited by Brooke Belisle (Stony Brook University) and Paul Roquet (MIT)
Journal of Visual Culture is an international, refereed journal and is published three times a year - April, August and December - by SAGE Publications.
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 Szcześniak and Łukasz 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 2021 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.
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.
Trans, Art, and Visual Culture (2020)
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, Robb Hernandez, and Frial Zachary.
VR: Immersion and Empathy (2020)
Guest edited by Brooke Belisle (Stony Brook University) and Paul Roquet (MIT)