Visual Arts and Cultures
About
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
Activities
Experimental Media with Greg De Cuir
April 12, 2024, 11 a.m.
Film screening: "Youth Pastor is a Narc"
Feb. 16, 2024, 6 p.m.
Addressing Inequitable Museum Practices: Symposium
Nov. 3, 2023, 10 a.m.
Groups
VAC1: Topics in Architectural History
- Syracuse University
- University of Rochester
- Cornell University
VAC3: Screen Cultures
- University of Rochester
- Le Moyne College
VAC23: Modernist Geographies
- Syracuse University
- University of Rochester
- Colgate University
VAC28: Feminist Architecture Praxis
- Syracuse University
- Hobart & William Smith Colleges
VAC30: (Post)Conflict Societies: Politics/Nature/Extraction
- Syracuse University
- University of Rochester
VAC31: Visualizing Dante
- Syracuse University
- University of Rochester
- Cornell University
VAC32: Decolonizing Fashion Studies: Rethinking Curriculum, Collections, and Creative Practice
- 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
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.
VAC25: War, Terror and Genocide: A Symposium on Contemporary Practices of Violence
VAC33: Nation Unsettled: Explorations in New Venezuelan Cinema
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
- Syracuse University
- University of Rochester
- Le Moyne College
VAC35: CNY Experimental Media Consortium
- Syracuse University
- Colgate University
- Skidmore College
VAC36: Finding a Path Forward: Addressing Inequitable Museum Practices
- University of Rochester
- Colgate University