New Scholarly Publication

Images is a newly established international peer-reviewed journal for visual studies published by the Center for visual studies in Zagreb. This is the first scholarly journal in Southeast Europe with the main scope to disseminate knowledge in the field of visual studies and visual culture studies. The journal is concieved of as a dynamic platform for exchanging ideas in our incessantly globalizing world with special emphasis on visual artefacts regardless of how we make particular use of them or what their general purpose might be. More

Current Research Project

Visual Culture and New Media

The Center for Visual Studies launched a research study into the interrelations of digital technology and culture, i.e. the relation between the new communication media (the Internet, mobile phone, satellite and digital television, etc.) and visual art. The research brings together various specialists from the fields of art history, history of literature, semiotics, sociology and media theory. Taking into account the tradition in media culture and media art, as well as the importance that new digital technology has in modern Croatian society, we believe the time has come for a certain reassessment of the events on the new media scene in the past twenty-odd years. More

Visual Culture Studies in Europe

The Center Is Invited to Participate in a European Scientific Research Project

The Center for Visual Studies has been invited to participate in a scientific research project entitled Visual Culture Studies in Europe. This is the first systematic initiative set out to define the status and reach of visual studies on the Old Continent and join the most modern forms of research of visual phenomena today. This call was prompted, on the one hand, by the unimagined development of mediatized visual expressions and the ever stronger domination of the American school of visual studies, and, on the other hand, by the Center's present and past projects which prove it to be an able collaborator. More

International Interdisciplinary Symposium

Visual Construction of Culture

The Croatian Writers' Society, the theory, culture and visual arts journal Tvrđa, and the Zagreb Centre for Visual Studies organized an international interdisciplinary symposium entitled Visual Construction of Culture, held at the Mimara Museum in Zagreb on 26 and 27 October 2007. Over the past ten-odd years, the interest for the establishment of Visual Culture/Visual Studies as a new interdisciplinary field of scientific study has surpassed the boundaries of contemporary visual arts. As W. J. T. Mitchell, one of the leading theoreticians of visuality and the image in the media age, puts it, the new way in which images are created in the digital age requires a paradigm shift. More

Book | Žarko Paić

Visual Communication

With his innovative approach to the term of visual communication, Žarko Paić leaves the traditional semiotic relation of pictures and meaning in the virtual space of digital culture, being inclined towards the naming of a new reality and advocating a new interdisciplinarily based study of media communication through the picture. More

Book | Krešimir Purgar (Ed.)

Visual Studies

This collection of papers aims to introduce the Croatian public to a new, exceptionally dynamic discipline which in the course of the past fifteen years increasingly gained popularity, especially in American academic and scholarly circles – visual studies. More

Book | Sonja Briski Uzelac

Visual Text

This book by Sonja Briski Uzelac sets a wide thematic perimeter of discussion about the theory and practice of modern art, showing that art history, just like other humanistic and social sciences, entered its "post-epistemological era" in which the boundaries of its parent field are transgressed, loosing its disciplinary focal point. More