Congratulations to our Essay Prize winners, finalist, and short list honorees!

For our second prize, we once again received an impressive selection of essays. We are pleased to announce these recipients of our award, as well as others we would like to honor with additional commendations.

Prize winners:

Amanda Cachia, "From Dematerialization of the Art Object to the Aesthetics of Access: Disabling Institutional Critique”

Lieks Hettinga, “"Wu Tsang’s Shape of a Right Statement and the Performance of Trans-Crip Adjacencies”

Cachia and Hettinga’s essays will be mentored by our prize committee before being considered for publication in the Journal of Visual Culture.

Finalist:

Brian Lanahan Milthorpe, “Countervisuality, Disability, and Gender Architecture in William Gilpin’s Observations on the River Wye and William Combe’s The Tour of Doctor Syntax”

Honorable Mentions:

Vennes Cheng, “The Unseen Visuality and Memorial Migrancy: documentaX in 1997 and Hong Kong”

Fernanda Villarroel Lamoza, “The Feminine as Interior Space: Taiye Idahor’s Figurations of Beads and Hair on Paper”

2022 Early Career Researcher Prize

IAVC / JVC Early Career Researcher Prize 

(submission deadline Nov. 1, 2022)

Early Career Researcher Prize

 

The International Association for Visual Culture and the Journal of Visual Culture invite submissions for the Early Career Researcher Prize. Current doctoral students and recent PhDs (within 5 years of degree) may submit original, unpublished essays on any topic related to visual culture. The prize-winning essay/s will be considered for publication in the journal, pending revisions advised by the committee and the journal’s editorial collective.

 

Final selections will be made by a committee of IAVC and JVC board members, including Sara Blaylock (University of Minnesota Duluth), Jill Casid (University of Wisconsin Madison), Almira Ousmanova (European Humanities University) and Jae Emerling (University of North Carolina Charlotte).

 

Given that the IAVC and JVC have a founding commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion we especially encourage submissions from scholars of the global majority, scholars with disabilities, and LGBTQIA*+ scholars, as well as scholarship that is substantially committed to and/or allied with scholarship pressing the fields.

 

Submissions of 5000 to 8000 words should follow guidelines and formatting for the Journal of Visual Culture. In addition to an abstract of approximately 100 to 150 words and 5-8 keywords, please include a brief biographical statement (approximately 200 words) indicating graduate institution, degree status, and current contact information.

 

Manuscripts should be submitted in Word or Google Doc format as a single running document (abstract, keywords, biography, essay) by November 1, 2022 to VCEssayPrize@gmail.com.

 

Published Prizewinners: 

Maayan Amir, “Visual Lawfare,” Journal of Visual Culture (forthcoming 2022). 

 

Katerina Karola, “Blue Like the Mediterranean: The Work of the Monochrome in the Atlas Group Archive,” Journal of Visual Culture 20, no. 2 (September 2021): 455-477.


IAVC / JVC Early Career Researcher Prize (August 1 - September 30)

Early Career Researcher Prize

The International Association for Visual Culture and the Journal of Visual Culture invite submissions for their Early Career Researcher Prize. Current doctoral students and recent PhDs (within 5 years of degree) may submit original, unpublished essays on any topic related to visual culture. The selected essay will be considered for publication in JVC, pending revisions advised by the committee and the journal’s editorial team.

Final selections will be made by a group of IAVC and JVC board members comprised of Brooke Belisle (Stony Brook University), Jill Casid (University of Wisconsin Madison), WJT Mitchell (University of Chicago), Almira Ousmanova (European Humanities University), and Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds), and with the co-directors of the IAVC, Sara Blaylock (University of Minnesota Duluth) and Marija Katalinic (Humboldt University of Berlin).

Submissions of 5000 to 8000 words should follow guidelines and formatting for the Journal of Visual Culture. In addition to an abstract of approximately 100 to 150 words and 5-8 keywords, please include a brief biographical statement (approximately 200 words) indicating graduate institution, degree status, and current contact information.

Manuscripts should be submitted in Word or LaTeX format as a single running document (abstract, keywords, biography, essay) between August 1 and September 30, 2019 to VCEssayPrize@gmail.com.

THE SOCIAL: Boston 2016

The 3rd IAVC conference took place at Boston University in October 2016. Organized by artist and curator Lanfranco Aceti, it included a number of off-site live art events. The conference theme of "the social" encompassed the IAVC's mission to connect the organization to the community.

The conference also included our first ever Grad Forum event, a series of short-form presentations that invited a wide discussion about the state and future of Visual Culture Studies.

Logo designed by Deniz Cem Onduygu.

Logo designed by Deniz Cem Onduygu.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute colloquium 2011

At the start of April 2011, Michael Ann Holly, then the Starr Director of Research and Academic Programming at The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and Marquard Smith, Founding Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Visual Culture, convened a colloquium of international scholars, museum educators, and practitioners of visual culture at The Clark to discuss further the founding of such an Association – what would be its aims and mission, and how it would function in its service to its members. Following on from this colloquium, the Clark group is moving forward with the formal founding of an International Association for Visual Culture.

The Visual Culture Conference - London 2010

The International Association for Visual Culture was formally established at ‘The 2010 Visual Culture Studies Conference’ held at University of Westminster, London. During the session, with presentations from Jeremy Gilbert (University of East London), Michael Ann Holly, and Stephen Melville (Ohio State), and convened by Marquard Smith, a motion was proposed formally by W.J.T. Mitchell (Chicago) that the Association be established. This motion was seconded by Lisa Cartwright (UC, San Diego), and the motion was passed.

The conference was organized by Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York University), Joanne Morra (Central Saint Martins), and Marquard Smith (now at University College London).