InVisible Culture

InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC) is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal run by @VCS_UofR graduate students since 1998.

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Matthew Moore's essay on Tim Robinson’s The Chair Company” delves into the “crisis of agency” in contemporary middle-class life, exploring how managerial anger, conspiracy, precarity, and authority intertwine.

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New Exhibition Review on InVisible Culture

Off the Grid by Howardena Pindell
Review by Kaina Liu

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Now on the journal: Yuqing Luo on Wang Xu, Between Giants and Snails! Read the full review on our website. https://t.co/0P1PWPdbxS
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Now on the journal: Dylan Palmer on Chris Marker: Early Film Writings! Read the full review on our website.
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Call for book reviewers

Our updated list of reviewable titles in visual culture, film, comics, and global media is now available:
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New review on Invisible Culture: “Soviet Factography and the Politics of Representation.” Read the full essay here👉: https://t.co/RMWQ0qtGFO

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

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Please check out Crystal Payne's reflection on how the phrase “LAND WORTH FIGHTING FOR” beneath St. Louis’s Gateway Arch reveals a long history of violence, erasure, and belonging. https://t.co/Xyo2IRNham

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For Issue 41, InVisible Culture invites articles and artworks that engage with labor as manifested in visual culture. For details of the CFP, please check out:
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Please check out Maria Cristache's latest review about the book In Visible Presence: Soviet Afterlives in Family Photos. https://t.co/rekyizRGkL

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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. https://t.co/whpB7WRPL7

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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. https://t.co/AaMdG4Lv1U

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Addressing the centrality of interdisciplinary methodology for visual studies, the conversation with Sean Metzger explored topics such as language acquisition, community-building, ethnographic methods, and the constraints of disciplinary boundaries. https://t.co/fIzOgnwmMs

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Check out Emily Broad's latest curatorial reflection on Face Value: https://t.co/fIzOgnwmMs

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InVisible Culture is accepting essays (4,000-10,000 words) and artworks addressing issues in visual and culture studies for an upcoming general issue. https://t.co/6hpwtJGdC0

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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: https://t.co/siARrZ2O30

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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. https://t.co/uiPLs7pOx8

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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: https://t.co/uiPLs7pOx8

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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: https://t.co/ridc3U3vfR