Invisible Culture
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InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC) is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal run by @VCS_UofR graduate students since 1998.
New review on Invisible Culture: “Soviet Factography and the Politics of Representation.” Read the full essay here👉: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/soviet-f...
October 16, 2025 at 2:41 AM
New review on Invisible Culture: “Soviet Factography and the Politics of Representation.” Read the full essay here👉: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/soviet-f...
Please check out Gilbert Braun’s latest review of Those Passions: On Art and Politics by T.J. Clark — exploring how art and politics have always been intertwined through centuries of power, struggle, and imagination.
Read the full review on our website:
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Read the full review on our website:
doi.org/10.47761/494...
October 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Please check out Gilbert Braun’s latest review of Those Passions: On Art and Politics by T.J. Clark — exploring how art and politics have always been intertwined through centuries of power, struggle, and imagination.
Read the full review on our website:
doi.org/10.47761/494...
Read the full review on our website:
doi.org/10.47761/494...
In “Embodied Attunement and Material Agency” Lisa Gutscher reviews Richard Tuttle’s 2025 solo exhibition “San, Shi, Go.”
Read the full review on our website:
www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/1cwp0jad
Read the full review on our website:
www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/1cwp0jad
October 5, 2025 at 11:03 PM
In “Embodied Attunement and Material Agency” Lisa Gutscher reviews Richard Tuttle’s 2025 solo exhibition “San, Shi, Go.”
Read the full review on our website:
www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/1cwp0jad
Read the full review on our website:
www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/1cwp0jad
Please check out Crystal Payne's latest reflection on how the phrase “LAND WORTH FIGHTING FOR” beneath St. Louis’s Gateway Arch reveals a long history of violence, erasure, and belonging: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/zzdubfn1...
October 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Please check out Crystal Payne's latest reflection on how the phrase “LAND WORTH FIGHTING FOR” beneath St. Louis’s Gateway Arch reveals a long history of violence, erasure, and belonging: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/zzdubfn1...
For Issue 41, InVisible Culture invites articles and artworks that engage with labor as manifested in visual culture. For more details about the CFP, please visit:
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October 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
For Issue 41, InVisible Culture invites articles and artworks that engage with labor as manifested in visual culture. For more details about the CFP, please visit:
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Please check out Maria Cristache's latest review about the book In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos. www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/xywp0udn...
August 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Please check out Maria Cristache's latest review about the book In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos. www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/xywp0udn...
In this insightful review, Jennifer Wallis explores The Human Shutter, Robert L. Bowen’s sweeping study of stereoscopic photography as a sensory, cinematic, and historical phenomenon. Read here: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/fg0fru51...
July 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
In this insightful review, Jennifer Wallis explores The Human Shutter, Robert L. Bowen’s sweeping study of stereoscopic photography as a sensory, cinematic, and historical phenomenon. Read here: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/fg0fru51...
Please check out our latest interview with art historian Winnie Wong (@UCBerkeley), ahead of her lecture “Marcel Duchamp, Chinese Artist” at University of Rochester earlier this year. www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/5f4zbpui...
Forgery as Method: An Interview with Winnie Wong
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July 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Please check out our latest interview with art historian Winnie Wong (@UCBerkeley), ahead of her lecture “Marcel Duchamp, Chinese Artist” at University of Rochester earlier this year. www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/5f4zbpui...
Check out Emily Broad's latest curatorial reflection on Face Value: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/reflecti...
April 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Check out Emily Broad's latest curatorial reflection on Face Value: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/reflecti...
InVisible Culture is accepting essays (4,000-10,000 words) and artworks addressing issues in visual and culture studies for an upcoming general issue. www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/open-cal...
April 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
InVisible Culture is accepting essays (4,000-10,000 words) and artworks addressing issues in visual and culture studies for an upcoming general issue. www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/open-cal...
In honor of Issue 39, InVisible Culture interviewed Paul Duro, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Art and Art History and the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. Check it out here: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/tracing-...
April 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
In honor of Issue 39, InVisible Culture interviewed Paul Duro, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Art and Art History and the Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of Rochester. Check it out here: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/tracing-...
Hypothetical Spaces (2007 – present) by Isaac Sullivan contemplates the death of photography as a process that pervades and shifts within the contemporary. It was made possible in part by a grant from the Zayed University Office of Research. invisibleculturejournal.com/issue-39-toc
April 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Hypothetical Spaces (2007 – present) by Isaac Sullivan contemplates the death of photography as a process that pervades and shifts within the contemporary. It was made possible in part by a grant from the Zayed University Office of Research. invisibleculturejournal.com/issue-39-toc
With The Price to Live, Pranav Patil imitates Nintendo’s 1985 game Super Mario Bros. to critique privatized healthcare and its cost to human life. Check out the latest issue here: invisibleculturejournal.com/issue-39-toc
April 7, 2025 at 5:26 PM
With The Price to Live, Pranav Patil imitates Nintendo’s 1985 game Super Mario Bros. to critique privatized healthcare and its cost to human life. Check out the latest issue here: invisibleculturejournal.com/issue-39-toc
We just released Ellen Siebel-Achenbach‘s Object Forgery and Reproduction: Modes of Recreation through Hannah Arendt’s Vita Activa on the latest Issue 39: The Copy. Check it out here: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/object-f...
April 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
We just released Ellen Siebel-Achenbach‘s Object Forgery and Reproduction: Modes of Recreation through Hannah Arendt’s Vita Activa on the latest Issue 39: The Copy. Check it out here: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/object-f...
Our latest Issue 39: The Copy just released Jordan Schonig's article "Replication as Revelation: Contingency, Detail, and Cinephilia in Nathan Fielder's Re-creations." Check it out: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/replicat...
April 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Our latest Issue 39: The Copy just released Jordan Schonig's article "Replication as Revelation: Contingency, Detail, and Cinephilia in Nathan Fielder's Re-creations." Check it out: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/replicat...
In Issue 39, Emily Martin contends that the face, once a locus of identity, is now understood as a digital object, open to manipulations and endless replications. Article link: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/post-fac...
April 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
In Issue 39, Emily Martin contends that the face, once a locus of identity, is now understood as a digital object, open to manipulations and endless replications. Article link: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/post-fac...
In our latest Issue 39, Hank Gerba turns to the wave-like interference patterns to propose an “aesthetic of automaticity” that emerges in the movements between digital and analog images and impacts our understanding of technological and human perception.
April 3, 2025 at 7:34 PM
In our latest Issue 39, Hank Gerba turns to the wave-like interference patterns to propose an “aesthetic of automaticity” that emerges in the movements between digital and analog images and impacts our understanding of technological and human perception.
We are thrilled to announce the publication of Issue 39, “The Copy.”
www.invisibleculturejournal.com/issue-39-toc
Articles by Hank Gerba, Emily Martin, Jordan Schonig, and Ellen Siebel-Achenbach.
Dialogues by Paul Duro and Jacob Carter.
Artworks by Pranav Patil and Isaac Sullivan.
www.invisibleculturejournal.com/issue-39-toc
Articles by Hank Gerba, Emily Martin, Jordan Schonig, and Ellen Siebel-Achenbach.
Dialogues by Paul Duro and Jacob Carter.
Artworks by Pranav Patil and Isaac Sullivan.
April 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
We are thrilled to announce the publication of Issue 39, “The Copy.”
www.invisibleculturejournal.com/issue-39-toc
Articles by Hank Gerba, Emily Martin, Jordan Schonig, and Ellen Siebel-Achenbach.
Dialogues by Paul Duro and Jacob Carter.
Artworks by Pranav Patil and Isaac Sullivan.
www.invisibleculturejournal.com/issue-39-toc
Articles by Hank Gerba, Emily Martin, Jordan Schonig, and Ellen Siebel-Achenbach.
Dialogues by Paul Duro and Jacob Carter.
Artworks by Pranav Patil and Isaac Sullivan.
We just extended the Issue 40 Submission Due to March 15th, 2025. CFP see: invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/cfp-issu...
March 2, 2025 at 4:34 PM
We just extended the Issue 40 Submission Due to March 15th, 2025. CFP see: invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/cfp-issu...
Submission Due: March 1st, 2025. With Issue 40, “Diffraction,” InVisible Culture seeks to incite a proliferation of pathways into the questions, problems, and possibilities motivating scholars of visual culture today. CFP: invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/cfp-issu...
Call for Papers: Issue 40, Diffraction: Open Call for Current Topics in Visual & Cultural Studies
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February 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Submission Due: March 1st, 2025. With Issue 40, “Diffraction,” InVisible Culture seeks to incite a proliferation of pathways into the questions, problems, and possibilities motivating scholars of visual culture today. CFP: invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/cfp-issu...
IVC Dialogues features pieces (700–1000 words) that either fall outside the journal’s usual sections or require swift publication: reviews of exhibitions, artist’s books, music, performance...) To contribute, send a pitch and a brief CV to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu.
February 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
IVC Dialogues features pieces (700–1000 words) that either fall outside the journal’s usual sections or require swift publication: reviews of exhibitions, artist’s books, music, performance...) To contribute, send a pitch and a brief CV to invisible.culture@ur.rochester.edu.
With Issue 40, “Diffraction,” InVisible Culture seeks to incite a proliferation of pathways into the questions, problems, and possibilities motivating scholars of visual culture today. CFP: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/cfp-issu...
Call for Papers: Issue 40, Diffraction: Open Call for Current Topics in Visual & Cultural Studies
www.invisibleculturejournal.com
February 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
With Issue 40, “Diffraction,” InVisible Culture seeks to incite a proliferation of pathways into the questions, problems, and possibilities motivating scholars of visual culture today. CFP: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/cfp-issu...
Book Review by Rian Johnson: Jinying Li. Anime’s Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 344 pages. Link to Read: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/anime-kn...
January 31, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Book Review by Rian Johnson: Jinying Li. Anime’s Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 344 pages. Link to Read: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/anime-kn...