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Visual Arts and Cultures


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Activities in this cluster explore the material and social aspects of visual and cultural practices, examine the craft and interpretation of visual cultures, forms, and experiences across mediums, time periods, and contexts, and engage with diverse theories and practices tied to visual/cultural studies. Working group activities bridge diverse fields that include, but are not limited to: art history, visual rhetorics, museum studies, geography, film/cinema studies, art and design, media and popular culture, architecture, cultural anthropology, and bridge perceptual studies work in the humanities with fields such as neurobiology and psychology, for example.

Topics

Visual Arts

Groups

VAC1: Topics in Architectural History
Closed Group of Collaborators Inactive since: 2022
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • University of Rochester
VAC3: Screen Cultures
Open to New People
  • University of Rochester
  • Le Moyne College
VAC23: Modernist Geographies
Open to New People Inactive since: 2022
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
  • Colgate University
VAC27: Global Cinema
  • Cornell University
  • Hamilton College
  • Hobart & William Smith Colleges
VAC28: Feminist Architecture Praxis
Open to New People Inactive since: 2021
  • Syracuse University
  • Hobart & William Smith Colleges
VAC30: (Post)Conflict Societies: Politics/Nature/Extraction
Inactive since: 2021
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
VAC31: Visualizing Dante
Open to New People Inactive since: 2022
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • University of Rochester
VAC32: Decolonizing Fashion Studies: Rethinking Curriculum, Collections, and Creative Practice
Open to New People Inactive since: 2022
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
VAC4: New Media Art Practice (nMap)
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • Colgate University
VAC5: Place & Displacement: Staging Cultures and Locales
  • Syracuse University
  • Colgate University
VAC6: CNY Museums and Collections Collaborative
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
VAC7: Everson at 50
  • Syracuse University
VAC13
Inactive since: 2012
VAC16
Inactive since: 2013
VAC17: Global Biennale
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
VAC18
Inactive since: 2013
VAC20: Connecting Art Histories Across the Americas

This working group consists of three faculty members within the CNY Humanities Corridor with mutual interests in visual cultures of the Americas from the pre-Columbian period to the present day.

VAC21: Crossing Cultures through Film
  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
VAC29: Emptiness
  • Syracuse University
  • Colgate University
VAC33: Nation Unsettled: Explorations in New Venezuelan Cinema
Open to New People Active since: 2021

This group brings together faculty and grad students interested in discussing contemporary Venezuelan films that challenge traditional and comfortable/comforting discourses about the country and its complex political realities.

  • Syracuse University
  • Cornell University
  • Union College
VAC34: The Infernal Grove
Open to New People Active since: 2022
  • Syracuse University
  • University of Rochester
VAC35: CNY Experimental Media Consortium
Open to New People Active since: 2023
  • Syracuse University
  • Colgate University
  • Skidmore College
VAC36: Finding a Path Forward: Addressing Inequitable Museum Practices
Open to New People Active since: 2023
  • University of Rochester
  • Colgate University