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.
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)
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)
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
Book Forum: Iran Reframed
Narges Bajoghli’s Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic (2019) is an extraordinary achievement that illustrates the relation between contemp... More
KİRAİÑİA (Long Flutes)
Juan Castrillón’s KİRAİÑİA (Long Flutes) (2019) is a film about searching for lost sounds and their partial retrieval. In particular, the sounds that emanate fr... More
Rehavi (Timekeepers)
Juan Castrillón’s Rehavi (Timekeepers) (2016) eloquently weaves documentary and fiction to reckon with the materialities of time and music. The film follows the... More
In Whose Name?
This series was solicited and composed by Sander Hölsgens, and went through an internal graduate student peer review process prior to publication. Hölsgens' res... More
Limbo
Somewhere amid the high-Andes mist, floating above the plane of signification, where all but one toponym is offered (the mythic El Putumayo), dust particles bea... More
The Postcard Series: Rescripting Visual Codes
Postcards of nineteenth-century Caribbean geographies and subjugated peoples comprise a medium of domination through which colonial figures constructed themselv... More
#SOSColombia: Dispatches and Reflections from El Paro Nacional / #SOSColombia: Comunicados y reflexiones desde el paro nacional
(Con traducción al español) This series is centered on the immediacy of the dispatch genre amid the political unrest and instability that characterizes the ongo... More