#visualstudies — Public Fediverse posts

(5) now imagine a monochrome supermarket.
entire aisles of identical packages.
rows of grayscale promises.
all stripped of urgency.

#mastodon #art #soundart #visualculture #perception #mediaart #waysOfSeeing #johnberger #barthes #semiotics #visualstudies #design #packaging #consumerculture #aesthetics #contemporaryart #criticaltheory #mediaecology #visualtheory #sensoryexperience #fooddesign #graphicdesign #soundstudies #culturaltheory #everydayaesthetics

La prochaine séance du séminaire "Révéler l'invisible. Photographies, religions et spiritualités contemporaines" aura lieu mercredi 25 mars, à 15h30 HNE (20h30 heure de Paris), avec Marina Rougeon.

Marina présentera la place et le rôle de l'image dans le terrain brésilien qui a été le sien.

Marina Rougeon est anthropologue, maître de conférences à l'Université catholique de Lyon.

Une séance en ligne, ouverte à toutes et tous !

https://www.usherbrooke.ca/sodrus/actualites/evenements/details/57772

#photo #photographie #academic #visualStudies #anthropologie #SciencesSocialesDesReligions #ReligiousStudies

FR - Journée de reprise après la relâche de printemps : au programme pour les prochaines semaines

✅ la préparation d'une communication sur les stratégies patrimoniales des congréganistes dans la France de l'entre-deux-guerres, pour un colloque international se tenant en juin prochain - une thématique directement liée à mes recherches de thèse, thématique qui continue à m'attirer des demandes d'expertise, peu de chercheurs travaillant sur l'enseignement privé en France, malgré les enjeux importants qui y sont liés ;

✅ ah... je vais devoir replonger dans pas mal d'épisodes de Star Trek... ma proposition de communication "Prophètes et paradoxes : le religieux et le spirituel comme système narratif et esthétique dans l'univers de Star Trek", a en effet été acceptée dans le cadre du colloque international "Star Trek, dynamiques d'une fabrique de mondes" (Paris, septembre 2026) ...

✅ sans oublier le séminaire que j'anime : "Révéler l'invisible : photographies, religions et spiritualités contemporaines", deux autres séances étant en cours d'organisation pour les prochaines semaines. Séminaire qui provoque d'autres rencontres et activités :-D

Le tout s'ajoute à l'ordinaire (les cours, les mandats de coordination...). Mais clairement, ce sont des activités et des projets qui font plaisir et motivent.

#academicchatter #SciencesSociales #SciencesSocialesDesReligions #ScienceFiction #SF #StarTrek #visualStudies #enseignement_prive

¿Por qué en las fotos de arquitectura nos ocultan el rostro de las personas pero el del perro sale nítido? 🐕🧐
Este artículo analiza cómo las redes usan la mirada animal para conectar emocionalmente con el espectador. El animal no está ahí por descuido: es un "puente" afectivo que compensa la frialdad de los edificios vacíos.
La arquitectura como escenario, el animal como imán de likes.
Leelo aquí: https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/sobre/article/view/26784
#Arquitectura #VisualStudies #Instagram #Sociologia #Marketing

Also:
Predoctoral & Postdoctoral Research Fellows (M/F/D)
Max Planck Research Group “Machine Visual Culture: Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing”
At the intersection of artificial intelligence, visual culture, and digital art history. A strong opportunity for projects that critically, historically, or methodologically explore machine vision and contemporary image cultures.
#DigitalArtHistory #AIandCulture #VisualStudies
https://www.biblhertz.it/3757889/031226-researchfellows-impett

Great article by @[email protected] on how generative AI reshapes the photographic — not just technically, but conceptually and culturally. A strong humanities perspective on a rapidly evolving visual landscape. #DigitalCulture #VisualStudies

Images from Images: Generative...

Great article by @bildoperationen on how generative AI reshapes the photographic — not just technically, but conceptually and culturally. A strong humanities perspective on a rapidly evolving visual landscape.
#DigitalCulture #VisualStudies
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17514517.2025.2522517

Topics include:

Epistemology of digital images
Politics of visibility and circulation
Big (Image) Data and digital methodologies
Algorithmic aesthetics
Image infrastructures and metadata

#DigitalArtHistory #VisualCulture #CFP #AI #DigitalImages #BigData #AlgorithmicAesthetics #ImageInfrastructures #Metadata #VisualStudies #DigitalHumanities

Übrigens vom gleichen Autor:

Wie sieht »die Welt« eigentlich aus?
In Globalität sehen analysiert Sebastian W. Hoggenmüller, wie „Welt“ visuell konstruiert wird – durch Landkarten, Datenvisualisierungen, Newsfeeds, Satellitenbilder u. v. m.

Bilder formen nicht nur unsere Wahrnehmung, sondern auch geopolitische Ordnungen und globale Ungleichheiten.

#openaccess https://www.campus.de/buecher-campus-verlag/wissenschaft/soziologie/globalitaet_sehen-15594.html
#Soziologie #VisualStudies #Medienkritik #GlobalVisualPolitics #Wissenssoziologie

Big Visual Data – eine neue Form des Wissens?

Sebastian W. Hoggenmüller führt im aktuellen Swiss Journal of Sociology in das Thema #BigVisualData ein – an der Schnittstelle von #BigData, #Visualität und #Wissensproduktion.

Wie verändern massenhaft zirkulierende Bilder unser Wissen?
Welche Rolle spielen KI, Algorithmen & Plattformen?
Warum brauchen wir eine kritische visuelle Kompetenz?

https://www.socio-journal.ch/article/view/7178
#Soziologie #VisualStudies #DigitaleGesellschaft #Epistemologie

@anazapatag.bsky.social @ottoluna.bsky.social @kpalex91.bsky.social Thanks for sharing! 🤳 #bildwissenschaft #visualstudies #visualculture

#AcademicJob

Assistant Professor in Visual Studies

@ Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of #Toronto

Deadline: 13/01/2025

https://academicpositions.fr/ad/university-of-toronto/2024/assistant-professor-visual-studies/226176

CC @academicjobs

#VisualStudies #VisualCulture

#NewIssue

Visual Studies, Volume 39, Issue 3 (2024)

... an #OpenAccess volume full of interesting articles (i.a.) on #VisualAnthropology !

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rvst20/39/3?nav=tocList

#Anthropology #VisualStudies #VisualCulture #VisualEtnography #EthnographicFilm

#AcademicJob

Lecturer in Visual Anthropology

@ Université Paris Nanterre

"The future lecturer will teach in the Master's degree #DocumentaryFilm and #VisualAnthropology" as well as in the Bachelor's degree #PerformingArts in the form of
theoretical and practical courses in cinema, especially documentary film"

Deadline: 29/03/2024

https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/ListesPostesPublies/ANTEE/2024_1/0921204J/FOPC_0921204J_4900.pdf

CC @academicjobs

#Anthropology #VisualStudies #VisualCulture #EthnographicFilm #EthnographicFilmmaking

Call for Papers: 'Image Deluge & Globalization' conference, Geneva, June 19-21, 2024. Explore the challenges of mass visual communication in the modern media landscape. Submit by March 20, 2024.
Keynotes: Prof. Buchholz, Prof. Alloa, Hon. Prof. Appadurai.
#VisualStudies #Globalization #ArtHistory #DigitalHumanities
https://www.unige.ch/visualcontagions/test/conferences-new/CFP-Images-Deluge-Globalization

#NewIssue

International Review of Sociology: Thinking images. Approaches and Researches in visual studies

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cirs20/33/2

#VisualSociology #VisualAnthropology #VisualCulture #VisualStudies

if you're wondering how anti-immigrant sentiments get spread, this is how: with fox news articles titled "String of retail thefts, burglaries by migrants plaguing Chicago suburb: authorities", next to mugshots of 5 brown men who look quite rough, overlaid on top of a "macy's" image.

and all i can think is how *even if* that's true, these "migrants" are getting dumped on the streets of chicago (in winter), via busses from texas (ordered by the texas governor since 2022), after having gone through the ordeal of crossing the border. they were dumped with very few things and no resources. this keeps happening every day.

it's important to remember that all these "problems" exist because gov. abbott of texas has an actual policy with actual $ spent to bus migrants to other states and dump them there.

there is an interstate war going on with desperate human beings (with extremely limited political rights or representation) as pawns.

and to rub in the war-like nature of all this, apparently during the recent #chicago cold, gov. abbott actually agreed to a gentlemanly agreement with illinoi gov. pritzker to pause sending migrants to chicago. the articles about it even call it a "temporary truce": "Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott may have reached a temporary truce as temperatures dropped this week." (from https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2024/01/16/texas-migrant-buses-pause )

and from the same article: "Last week, Abbott released a statement boasting that he's sent more than 100,000 migrants to sanctuary cities, including 30,800 to Chicago."

this kind of anti-immigrant/anti-migrant news strategy is employed all around the world, and it's not limited to only our current times. i mean, one of the main ways that germany demonized jews before the holocaust was to run news stories about how they were thieves and robbers and all the usual stuff. it was to get germans to feel suspicious about these "others", and then to later not mind when bad things were done to them (because they were "bad people" who were a "threat" to germans).

so yea, the playbook is old and it's not subtle. if it looks like anti-immigrant sentiment is being stoked by right-wing media, that's because it is.

#migration #immigration #immigrants #migrants #borders #propaganda #VisualStudies #VisualAnthropology #CulturalStudies #CulturalAnthropology #MediaStudies

"Portraying Unease: the Art and Politics of Uncomfortable Attachments" by Ellen Suneson (Doctoral thesis, #LundUniversity, 2022, #OpenAccess)

"Portraying Unease critically discusses a tendency amongst politicized scholars to endow artworks with traits of subversion and political productivity. Artworks that address structural discrimination, such as heterosexism, racism, or ableism, are often described as possessing qualities that can challenge unjust systems or initiate political change. This thesis considers hope and belief in the political utility of visual art in terms of an emotional attachment: an anticipatory emotional bond to a set of promises concerning art’s abilities".

#Art #Image #PhD #VisualStudies #History #Politics #Feminism #Queer #Political #ArtHistory

@academicchatter
@histodons
@anthropology
@politicaltheory
@politicalscience

https://portal.research.lu.se/en/publications/portraying-unease-the-art-and-politics-of-uncomfortable-attachmen

Grundlage der Frage um #genAI-Bilder ist der Diskurs um das digitale Bild. Jens Schröter hat diesen im Jahr 2017 gut zusammengefasst.

Digitale Bildlichkeit ist vielfältig und erfordert eine pragmatische Herangehensweise an Fragen der Existenz und Funktion digitaler Bilder.
Die Betonung von Artefakten, Referenz und Veränderungen in Archivierung bietet interessante Perspektiven für die kritische Auseinandersetzung mit KI-Bildern.
http://www.gib.uni-tuebingen.de/own/journal/upload/db44d5ca384fa28fa42107fe67b360a3.pdf
#genai #digitalesbild #VisualStudies

Mental images and latent diffusion models: Reconstructing high-resolution images from human brain activity

This paper provides a unique way to understand how the brain represents the world and interpret the connection between computer vision models and our visual system. #neuroscience #AI #visualstudies #CVPR2023

📖https://sites.google.com/view/stablediffusion-with-brain/

CFP: Neurophenomenology & Sacred Architecture
Toward an Experimental Theological Aesthetics
March 23-25, 2023 — Hosted by the School of Architecture and Planning of the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C. #Architecture and #ArchitecturalHistory, #Art, #ArtHistory & #VisualStudies, #EnvironmentalHistory / Studies, #Philosophy, #Psychology https://sacred-space.net/ASU-symposium/

CFP: Isokon Symposium at the Yale Center for British #Art #ArtHistory & #VisualStudies, #Architecture and #ArchitecturalHistory, British History / Studies, #UrbanDesign and #Planning https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/call-papers-isokon-symposium

Continuing the rundown of my work, I was excited to start merging #research & #art with @jessicacalarco in our collaboration for #VisualStudies. We drew on her #PandemicParentingStudy interview data & discussed how to translate themes visually. Then I produced three illustrations.

Again, I'm grateful to the journal and our gracious reviewers. I'm always expecting pushback on #ArtsBasedResearch.

Here's the link:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1472586X.2022.2032818?journalCode=rvst20

Free version at #SocArXiv:
https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/8xyk4

FACE IT!
THE NEW CHALLENGES OF COGNITIVE VISUAL SEMIOTICS

FACETS symposium at the University of Liège, 25-27 January 2023

#visualsemiotics #faces #visualstudies #semiotics

For more on the project: http://www.facets-erc.eu/about/

The cover to the new (3rd) edition of Nicholas Mirzoeff’s Introduction to Visual Culture is absolutely fire. 🔥 It’s out with Routledge in the spring.

#poco #postcolonialstudies #visualculture #visualstudies #arthistory #academicmastadon #pubalert #rhodesmustfall

Two profs at #UofTMississauga are uniting scholars across the globe with an aim to break free of traditional boundaries & answer the question: What should #HumanisticResearch look like in a post-pandemic world?#HistoricalStudies professor Ajay Rao & #VisualStudies professor Jill Caskey are leading a #research initiative called The Global Past.
Read more on our website: https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/main-news/connecting-cultures-and-archives-utm-researchers-spearhead-global-humanities-project

Writing an #introduction post feels a bit strange! It's been a long while since I've tried to set up a new social media presence.

I'm a PhD student writing a dissertation about #lesbian visibility in 20th c. U.S. media, especially the lesbian chic moment in the early 1990s. I like learning and talking about #LGBTQ histories and the pitfalls of visibility politics and attempts at collaboration with capitalist modes of representation. My official area of study is #VisualStudies, but #Art, #History, #MediaStudies, #queer theory, and #feminist theory are all part of what I'm working on. I teach #ArtHistory at a couple SUNY campuses, mostly to studio art students and STEM majors who would rather be doing their own work. I try to teach them the interesting stuff.

I'm not sure what I'll be using this account for, but I like to think that it can be a place to talk about the research I'm doing and the interesting things I've found. The screenshot below, for instance, is one of my favorite things I've come across in my dissertation work: a blurb from a 1929 issue Variety, celebrating that a lesbian novel was on display in the window of a Christian-sponsored book store. Who'd have thought, right?