Scalar/ANVC Team Members Participate in 8th Hemi Encuentro.
In early January, Tara McPherson, Alexei Taylor, Joan Saab, Nicholas Mirzoeff, and Micha Cardenas traveled to São Paulo, Brazil for the 8th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute. The event (in the words of the Hemi) is meant to “examine the broad intersections between urban space, performance and political/artistic action in the Americas. From the critical…
Visual Culture Scholar Nick Mirzoeff publishes “We Are All Children of Algeria” using Scalar
ANVC is excited to partner with Duke University Press in the launch of Nicholas Mirzoeff’s “We Are All Children of Algeria: Visuality and Countervisuality 1954-2011,” a digital extension of his recent book The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality. Mirzoeff began this project as part of an NEH Summer Institute at USC. In it,…
ANVC in full force at the International Association of Visual Culture conference
ANVC/Scalar core team members Craig Dietrich, Alexei Taylor and Tara McPherson recently attended the International Association of Visual Culture conference at NYU. “Now! Visual Culture,” a participation event, was held at New York University, May 31-June 2 2012. Its goal was to showcase as broad and diverse a range of visual culture practice as possible in…