Now on our 40th issue: Sandro Weilenmann's essay "In Close Quarters: Archival Reimaginations Between Absence and Abundance" Read here: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/in-close...

Read now in Issue 40: “Painting Against the Colonial Dream: MAHKU and Abolitionist Aesthetics” by Marco Antonio Giovanetti. #MAHKU #AbolitionistAesthetics #HuniKuin #IndigenousSovereignty

Issue 40 is live! Diffraction: when light bends around an obstacle to illuminate what lies beyond it, deviated but undiminished. The guiding metaphor for this open-call issue on visibility, archives, and the obscured recesses of visual culture. #ArtJournal #ContemporaryArt #art

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. @mattmo-washu.bsky.social Read the full text on our website 🪑

New Exhibition Review on InVisible Culture Off the Grid by Howardena Pindell Review by Kaina Liu ⛓️‍💥 Available now on our website: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/off-the-...

Now on the journal: Yuqing Luo on Wang Xu, Between Giants and Snails! Read the full exhibition review on our website: invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/between-... #Sculpture #ArtCriticism #ContemporaryArt #ExhibitionReview #VisualCulture #ArtTheory #Materiality

Now on the journal: Dylan Palmer on Chris Marker: Early Film Writings: Read the full review on our website! www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/chris-ma...

Call for book reviewers Our updated list of reviewable titles in visual culture, film, comics, and global media is now available: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/reviewable-b...

New review on Invisible Culture: “Soviet Factography and the Politics of Representation.” Read the full essay here👉: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/soviet-f...

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. Read the full review on our website: doi.org/10.47761/494...

In “Embodied Attunement and Material Agency” Lisa Gutscher reviews Richard Tuttle’s 2025 solo exhibition “San, Shi, Go.” Read the full review on our website: www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/1cwp0jad

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...

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: t.co/yCRf6ewjJ0

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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-...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

We are thrilled to announce the publication of Issue 39, “The Copy.” www.invisibleculturejournal.com/issue-39-toc 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.

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

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...

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].

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...

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...