Visual and New Media Review

Visual and New Media Review is a multimedia forum for expanding the boundaries of academic and artistic engagement. Working at the intersections of anthropology, contemporary art, media, sound and film studies, and the digital humanities, the section seeks to sustain dialogues among these kindred pursuits and to provide a platform for experimental and innovative work, as well as critical assessment and reviews of scholarship, film, and visual culture.

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Questions and proposals for guest posts can be sent to section editors Jill J. Tan ([email protected]), Ara Ortiz ([email protected]), and Alejandro Jaramillo ([email protected]).

Relating, Refusing, and Archiving Otherwise

Relating, Refusing, and Archiving Otherwise

This series takes Judith Butler’s contention that “the photograph is not merely a visual image awaiting interpretation” but rather “itself actively interpreting... More

Echos of Earthly Suffering in Transitional Justice: Revisiting the Soundings of Colombia's Truth Commission

Echos of Earthly Suffering in Transitional Justice: Revisiting the Soundings of Colombia's Truth Commission

As part of the 2016 landmark peace accord, the Colombian State launched a four-year “Comisión de la Verdad,” or Truth and Reconciliation Commission as known in ... More

Cuba’s El Paquete Semanal: The Politics and Poetics of Collaboration in a Pirating Ecosystem

Cuba’s El Paquete Semanal: The Politics and Poetics of Collaboration in a Pirating Ecosystem

Dread, followed by the drifting wonder of skillful multimodal ethnographic practice. Anthropologist Steffen Köhn’s and Cuban contemporary artist Nestor Siré’s d... More

Un/tracing Empire: Pollinations between the Poetic and Ethnographic

Un/tracing Empire: Pollinations between the Poetic and Ethnographic

“Un/tracing Empire: Pollinations between the Poetic and Ethnographic” was convened as a reading and workshop group of anthropologists with a commitment to poeti... More

Hengdian Dreaming

Hengdian Dreaming

“Another astounding merit of the cinematograph is that it multiplies and immensely softens the play of temporal perspective, training the mind for a gymnastics ... More

Review Forum on Writing with Light Magazine's Issue No. 1: Photography & Forensics

Review Forum on Writing with Light Magazine's Issue No. 1: Photography & Forensics

Before it was the subject of medical and, thereafter, forensic scrutiny, the body had long been a locus of image-making practices. Such a reminder—more so than ... More

Telling Stories Through Saved Objects: The Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project

Telling Stories Through Saved Objects: The Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project

Editor’s Note This feature of the Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project (SECASP) in the Visual and New Media Review gathers the perspectives and fr... More

Book Forum on Marina Peterson's Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles

Book Forum on Marina Peterson's Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles

Atmospheric Noise gathers the indeterminacies and excesses of sound and the limits of measurement, law and archive, with noise “falling away as both sound and c... More

Rethinking Anthropological Film Exhibition and Distribution (Part II)

Rethinking Anthropological Film Exhibition and Distribution (Part II)

This post is part of a two-post series. See "Rethinking Anthropological Film Exhibition and Distribution (Part I)" for the first installment. ... More

Rethinking Anthropological Film Exhibition and Distribution (Part I)

Rethinking Anthropological Film Exhibition and Distribution (Part I)

This post is part of a two-post series. See "Rethinking Anthropological Film Exhibition and Distribution (Part II)" to continue this conversation with us. ... More