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.
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
“For He Will Kill You with His Horrible Sight”: Compiling the Belarus Political Book of Beasts
In 2020, following Alexander Lukashenko’s claim of a landslide victory in presidential elections, Belarus witnessed the most massive protests in its modern hist... More
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” was convened as a reading and workshop group of anthropologists with a commitment to poeti... More
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
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
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
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