Our goal is to provide a stream of ideas and concepts concerning our global visual language. |
The VASA VJIC staff welcomes you to our open, online, and free VASA Journal on Images and Culture (VJIC).
VJIC publishes thematic threads and visual discourses by invited authors. Each author is provided a platform to express their ideas and knowledge on specific topics. Theme issues provide the space for a curator/author to build through image and text an inquiry into a specific topic or area. |
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Content is organized by author. To access the work of an author/curator select a theme listed below.
(Editor’s note: Dialogs may appear in various forms and formats. Key to understanding the journal’s use of the term “dialog” is to understand it as a conversation, an exchange of sorts between the the author and the reader/viewer. A conversation between “you” and your experience. Meaning is not always clear and obvious, that is the point. Conversations between “you’ and “you” are complex, if you listen.)
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Essays on the voice of First Nations artists and their unique perspectives as rightful owners of this land. |
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VASA – VJIC is inviting you to ten (10) essays by Sándor Szilágyi. Access On Photography Thematic Thread Essays** Theme Completed |
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Theme Issue: Identity PoliticsThroughout history artists and academics alike have been significantly concerned with the relationship between art and issues of identity… |
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Past Essays, Book Discussions, Visual Dialogs
Note: Past Issues for more essays and reviews.
September 2016Dana SochorováThe long term time-lapse project, part of which I present here, consists of recording everyday events and situations documented in the passage of time with the intention to show life in its unstoppable flow. Although the narrative in the background is personal, it also has a universal validity. |
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February 2016
Mark Brady Easy Rider, Robert Frank’s The Americans. Woodstock, California Dreaming, Vietnam, Civil rights and the Women’s Rights Movement are the unspoken context of this book…. |
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August 2015
Ksenia Belash When I was initially considering how to approach writing about “Secrets”, I thought of a number of possible readings which could result from this exquisitely designed edition … |
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July 2015
Dennis Church inspired to photograph people on the street, with an intent of just looking very closely at what is, what do people look like on this street corner, on this day in time. I worked … |
June 2015
Nikola Mihov On June 2014, the Black Sea town of Varna, Bulgaria, was hit by heavy rains. Тhe suburb of Asparuhovo was swamped by a three-metre high wave destroying… |
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April 2015
Klaus Pamminger One key theme of the artist is the exploration of space as both architectural and social or virtual dimension. Spatial and temporal …. more |
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April 2015
Paula Scamparini As the contemporary times indicate the rebuilding of our relations with nature and the world itself, I believe it is of great importance to work within culture from the perspective that any reconstruction requests before some obliteration. |
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February 2015
Leah Oats Transitory spaces have a messy human energy that is perpetually in the present yet continually altering. They are endlessly interesting, alive places where there is a great deal of beauty and … |