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.

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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

VAC2: Critical Asian Cinematic Spaces

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

VAC8: UVP

PCT10: Humanities, Health, & Disabilties Studies

VAC13

Inactive since: 2012

VAC16

Inactive since: 2013

VAC17: Global Biennale

Syracuse University
Cornell University

VAC18

Inactive since: 2013

VAC19: Asian Humanities in Global Context

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

VAC22: Mediterranean Music and Performance

VAC24: New Readings: Bodies in Latin American Visual Arts and Culture

VAC25: War, Terror and Genocide: A Symposium on Contemporary Practices of Violence

VAC26: Premodern Transmedia

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