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Invisible Culture @invisibleculture.bsky.social · 5d

In “Embodied Attunement and Material Agency” Lisa Gutscher reviews Richard Tuttle’s 2025 solo exhibition “San, Shi, Go.”

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Invisible Culture @invisibleculture.bsky.social · 6d

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...

Invisible Culture @invisibleculture.bsky.social · 9d

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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Invisible Culture @invisibleculture.bsky.social · Aug 18

Please check out Maria Cristache's latest review about the book In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos. www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/xywp0udn...

Invisible Culture @invisibleculture.bsky.social · Jul 28

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...

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Invisible Culture @invisibleculture.bsky.social · Jul 18

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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Invisible Culture @invisibleculture.bsky.social · Apr 16

Check out Emily Broad's latest curatorial reflection on Face Value: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/reflecti...

Invisible Culture @invisibleculture.bsky.social · Apr 7

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...

Invisible Culture @invisibleculture.bsky.social · Apr 7

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-...

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Invisible Culture @invisibleculture.bsky.social · Apr 7

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

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Invisible Culture @invisibleculture.bsky.social · Apr 7

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

Invisible Culture @invisibleculture.bsky.social · Apr 4

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...

Invisible Culture @invisibleculture.bsky.social · Apr 4

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...

Invisible Culture @invisibleculture.bsky.social · Apr 3

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...

Invisible Culture @invisibleculture.bsky.social · Apr 3

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.

Invisible Culture @invisibleculture.bsky.social · Apr 1

We are thrilled to announce the publication of Issue 39, “The Copy.”

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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.

Invisible Culture @invisibleculture.bsky.social · Mar 2

We just extended the Issue 40 Submission Due to March 15th, 2025. CFP see: invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/cfp-issu...

Invisible Culture @invisibleculture.bsky.social · Feb 28

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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Invisible Culture @invisibleculture.bsky.social · Feb 7

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 [email protected].

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Invisible Culture @invisibleculture.bsky.social · Feb 7

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

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Invisible Culture @invisibleculture.bsky.social · Jan 31

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...