Journal of Visual Culture » Organisations http://www.journalofvisualculture.org Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:39:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The International Association for Visual Culture is coming… http://www.journalofvisualculture.org/2011/05/the-international-association-for-visual-culture-is-coming%e2%80%a6/ http://www.journalofvisualculture.org/2011/05/the-international-association-for-visual-culture-is-coming%e2%80%a6/#comments Sat, 28 May 2011 10:56:12 +0000 Marquard Smith http://www.journalofvisualculture.org/?p=315 The International Association for Visual Culture is coming…

Keep a close eye out for forthcoming information on the International Association for Visual Culture.

A little background:

On 29th May 2010, as the final session of the three-day conference entitled ‘The 2010 Visual Culture Studies Conference’ held at University of Westminster, London, the subject under discussion was the proposal to establish an International Association for Visual Culture Studies. During the session, with presentations from Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London), Michael Ann Holly, and Stephen Melville (Ohio State), and convened by Marquard Smith, a motion was proposed formally by W.J.T. Mitchell (Chicago) that the Association be established. This motion was seconded by Lisa Cartwright (UC, San Diego), and the motion was passed.

At the start of April 2011, Michael Ann Holly, Starr Director of Research and Academic Programming at The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and Marquard Smith, Founding Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Visual Culture, convened a colloquium of international scholars, museum educators, and practitioners of visual culture at The Clark to discuss further the founding of such an Association – what would be its aims and mission, and how it would function in its service to its members. Following on from this colloquium, the Clark group is moving forward with the formal founding of an International Association for Visual Culture.

The Association for Visual Culture will be launched officially at a conference in New York in May 2012, convened by a group of New York State-based scholars, led by Nicholas Mirzoeff (NYU).

Information will be available soon regarding the Association’s official launch, the chance to register interest in the Association, to receive updates, membership offers, etc.

Watch this space…

]]> http://www.journalofvisualculture.org/2011/05/the-international-association-for-visual-culture-is-coming%e2%80%a6/feed/ 1 Visual Culture Studies in Europe http://www.journalofvisualculture.org/2009/12/visual-culture-studies-in-europe/ http://www.journalofvisualculture.org/2009/12/visual-culture-studies-in-europe/#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:18:15 +0000 Jo Morra http://www.journalofvisualculture.org/?p=45 This project is a collaboration between established and emerging scholars, curators, educators, and editors from across a number of European universities and cultural institutions with a commitment to Visual Culture Studies in Europe, and the study of visual culture. The project aims to:

(a) track the ongoing, uneven emergence in Europe of Visual Culture Studies as a field of inquiry across the Arts and Humanities.

(b) explore the ways in which these diverse trajectories in the emergence of the study of visual culture are historically and theoretically distinctive because of the unique characteristics of a specific country, location, language, peoples, their histories of migration, governmental policies, and the contexts within which universities function as sites for interdisciplinary learning.
(c) interrogate some of the hazards of this distinctiveness –around, for instance, the hegemony of the Anglo-American, English as the lingua franca of the academic humanities, and questions of publishing and dissemination.

(d) discuss how the advent of Visual Culture Studies, with its new ways of seeing, knowing, understanding, and participating might:

(1) extend our studies beyond the university
(2) generate particular kinds of cultural practices, and
(3) be itself responding to activities in anything from art and curating to policy making and industry initiatives.

(e) inquire into the economic imperatives (university priorities, increases in student numbers, government policy, etc.) that are playing a part in embedding Visual Culture Studies as a paradigm for research, learning, and making in universities, art colleges, and cultural institutions.

Visual Culture Studies in Europe will host a conference in late 2009. Details forthcoming.

Participants:
Joachin Barriendos, Curator, Santa Monica Art Centre, Barcelona, Spain
Professor Jose Luis Brea, Editor of Estudios Visuales, Madrid, Spain
Professor Iain Chambers, University of Naples, Italy
Professor Anna Maria Guasch, University of Barcelona, Spain
Professor Oliver Grau, Danube University Krems, Austria
Dr Joanne Morra, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, England
Dr Almira Ousmanova, European Humanities University Belarus/Lithuania
Kresimir Purgar, Center for Visual Studies Zagreb, Croatia
Dr Vivian Rehberg, Parsons Paris School of Art + Design, France
Dr Marquard Smith, University of Westminster, England
Dr Oyvind Vagnes, University of Bergen, Norway
Dr Nina Lager Vestberg, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim, Norway

]]> http://www.journalofvisualculture.org/2009/12/visual-culture-studies-in-europe/feed/ 0 Network for Editors of Interdisciplinary Journals http://www.journalofvisualculture.org/2009/12/network-for-editors-of-interdisciplinary-journals/ http://www.journalofvisualculture.org/2009/12/network-for-editors-of-interdisciplinary-journals/#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2009 22:16:04 +0000 Juliette Kristensen http://www.journalofvisualculture.org/?p=43 The Network for Editors of Interdisciplinary Journals (NEIJ) was set up in 2008 to raise the profile of interdisciplinary journals in the Arts and Humanities, as a forum for editors to discuss the challenges facing interdisciplinary scholarship and publishing, and to contribute productively to ongoing debates on the future of research, knowledge, and understanding in the academic community and beyond.

Journals involved currently in the NEIJ include: New Formations, Radical Philosophy, Paragraph, Journal of Visual Culture, Interventions, Journal of European Studies, Culture Machine, Cultural Politics, Journal of War and Cultural Studies, Theory, Culture and Society, Visual Studies, Visual Culture in Britain, Journal of Visual Art Practice, Oxford Literary Review, Parallax, Angelaki, CITY, Body and Society, Ethnicities, Social Movement Studies and Subjectivity.

The NEIJ organized its first conference, ‘Interdisciplinarity in the Arts and Humanities: Research, Policy, Publishing‘, which took  place in London on 20 March 2009.

Please email your name and institutional affiliation to be added to the NEIJ electronic mailing list, through which we will keep you informed of the Network’s upcoming activities and events.

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