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Gendered visual communication is a major part of contemporary, mediated discourse, yet these expressions are seldom reflected upon from a designers' perspective. Whose voices are empowered in tabloid newspapers and gendered magazines? In... more
Taking as a reference Warburg’s iconology of the interval, this paper attempts to explore the logic of montage, editing and juxtaposition as one of the pillars of contemporary audiovisual creation and research. Warburg’s legacy, more... more
Abstract This article introduces the term “visual essay” by tracing the genre’s history through the concrete poetry movement and the rise of the lyric essay. In describing the aims of visual essays, Minor distinguishes between... more
In diesem Beitrag möchte ich diskutieren, inwiefern der Begriff des ›Essayistischen Comics‹ bzw. des ›Comic-Essays‹ tragfähig sein könnte und dies anschließend anhand eines non-narrativen Artikulationsmodus genauer konturieren. Dazu... more
The Covid-19 pandemic had a major impact on social life, affecting a fundamental characteristic of humanity: the manifestation of sociability. For children and teenagers, the pandemic meant a drastic reduction in formal and informal... more
Cet article observe la façon dont Renée Green et Kara Walker soulignent les systèmes de représentation des stéréotypes et des identifications au travers de deux essais visuels, respectivement Collecting Well is The Best Revenge (1997), et... more
[Thesis in Greek — Scroll down for English abstract] Η παρούσα έρευνα ασχολείται με τον εντοπισμό και τη μελέτη του μηχανισμού με τον οποίο οι άνθρωποι των δυτικών νεωτερικών κοινωνιών αυτοπροσδιορίζονται — ως κανονικοί ή μη, ομαλοί ή... more
La aproximación al complejo mundo de la imagen contemporá- nea es una tarea que nos obliga a desentrañar aquellas “otras miradas” provenientes del arte, la publicidad, el cine o la televi- sión. Esta tarea supone un espacio de dedicación,... more
This visual essay, along with the Black Screens photographic series upon which it is based, has two aims. On the one hand, it is intended as a visual exploration of the increasingly central role that mobile phones have in our everyday... more
Protest banners on buildings are not an unusual sight in Berlin. They are typically found on what might be called “disobedient buildings”—occupations, squats, autonomous house projects and other sites that rehearse alternative modes of... more
The open-ended durational performance The Foreigner is a personal response to the migration question currently involving Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. The work explores and questions notions of identity and territoriality, reality... more
Resumen: este ensayo fotográfico reflexiona sobre la cosmología del pueblo indígena misak y se enfoca en su estrecha relación con el agua. Los misak habitan en el resguardo indígena de Guambía en los Andes colombianos, región... more
This is an essay designed to instruct students about how historians analyze visual material culture. It can be read both as a writing sample and as a teaching tool. I plan to incorporate this writing piece into a lesson I conduct with my... more
Las revistas indexadas constituyen uno de los marcos que promueven y legitiman la investigación. Desde las facultades de Bellas Artes del Estado español se han ido creando estas publicaciones que juegan un papel importante: si bien son... more
Taking as a reference Warburg’s iconology of the interval, this paper attempts to explore the logic of montage, editing and juxtaposition as one of the pillars of contemporary audiovisual creation and research. Warburg’s legacy, more... more
Review of the visual Essay "The Idea of a Series: Energy Vectors in Montage", by Adrian Martin & Cristina Álvarez López
Abstract This visual essay is structured as a sequence of imagetexts, which through the bringing together of images and words opens up insights into the Danish landscape Farum Midtpunkt. This we argue, pushes imaging towards new... more
In this chapter I propose a visual glossary of what I have conceived as delirio güero (white delusion). It derives from my essay film/video performance/fake history show/future re-enactment titled DELIRIO GÜERO WHITE DELUSION 1825, 2018,... more
an index. ISBN 978-1-78320-790-9 Reviewed by Charles Forceville Contemporary art schools are often not content with delivering good (prospective) artists; they claim that artists, through their work, may be able to provide knowledge and... more
This visual essay and accompanying text explores the work of the Belgian assemblage artist Camiel Van Breedam through a series of dialogues: between Van Breedam's personal archive of waste material, and the works that he has shaped out of... more
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This visual essay explores the thematic issues and recurring visual patterns and motifs in Steven Spielberg's A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
This visual essay explores the thematic issues and recurring visual patterns and motifs in Steven Spielberg's A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.
This article examines use of exposition and essayistic elements in Oliver Stone's JFK. See link to essay above.
Abstract : The emergence of political art in the 1960s can be seen in the context of the transition between the modernist idea of a pure art, isolated from reality, defended by Clement Greenberg, and postmodern proposal, which... more
[See link to visual essay above] This visual essay explores how Orson Welles uses the text of F for Fake to comment on his long and troubled career in filmmaking. On the surface, F for Fake seems to be a case study in charlatans,... more