The focus of Maria's research is to investigate the «female Oriental Other» as perceived historically within Western social discourses and the extent to which this perception projects / impacts upon her voice and representation
within contemporary visual culture today.
His interests include network theory, copyright and aura in the age of digital reproduction, and the unpredictable revisions of historical technologies
within contemporary visual culture and social politics.
The event focuses on «the body as an object and a brand», exploring its representation within the public realm and
within contemporary visual culture, and how they, in turn, affect one's relationship with his / her own body as it continues to be «disciplined by technological mediation on screen».
Not exact matches
The ubiquity of reproducible mediums in
contemporary art has a brief but complex history, dating to the 1960s and 1970s when a paradigm shift occurred
within visual culture: photography and the moving image were absorbed into critical art practices.
Her current book project provisionally titled, Pattern Recognition: Durational Conditions of
Contemporary Art, provides a critical analysis of the rise of network
culture within visual art after 1989.
Corso Esquivel examines political dynamics
within a wide range of
contemporary art and
visual culture.
The exhibition elevates this medium from the domestic sphere, positioning it
within the realm of
contemporary visual culture.
He is also a co-founder and a contributing co-editor of the popular art blog, Printeresting.org, an art journalism project that investigates the intersection of
contemporary print, design, and technology
within a
visual culture context.
By employing
contemporary art as a medium for the production of knowledge and education and presenting it along with objects of
visual culture, the initiative seeks to open up an experimental sphere of activity for the epistemic value of images and objects
within the university.
Kheirkhah's multi - disciplinary art practice and her specific focus on decentralising the generalising cultural forms of categorization, explores the representations of the so called «Middle Eastern» female identities through a practice which is generated by the interplay of history, politics, media and
visual arts
within contemporary Western
visual culture.
This important moment in the history of the museum marked a defining shift towards a view of
contemporary art that locates it
within the broader landscape of
contemporary visual culture — a direct reflection of the growing importance, from the early 1990s onwards, of film and cinema in
contemporary art production, as well as the convergence of film and
visual art as once - distinct media.
The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue will examine an important new development in
contemporary photography, offering an opportunity to define the concerns of a younger generation of artists and contextualize their work
within the history of art and
visual culture.