Contemporary Visual Culture and Art

2025 Vol.1 No.2

A New Type of Technology Art Performance—Historical Research and Diverse Presentations of Drone Stage Performance

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Technology art performance is an emergent interdisciplinary form that integrates visual art, performing arts, and digital technologies. This paper examines how unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), first developed in the early twentieth century, have been adopted within technology art performances in the early twenty-first century. With rapid advancements in UAV technology and the miniaturization of... More >>

Questioning Madness in <i>It’s Okay to Not Be Okay </i>(2020) and <i>Feng Ai </i>(2013)

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An increasing number of contemporary East Asian films and television series show alternative portrayals of characters with mental disabilities that differ from mad men, fools, or other stereotypes of people with disabilities. These stereotypes of disabilities are related to ableism, an able-bodied center point of view. While critically examining ableism and visual culture theory from a film stu... More >>

Konstantinos Volanakis, the Poet of the Sea

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In this paper, we will study the work of Konstantinos Volanakis, a leading yet underrated figure in 19th-century Greek seascape painting. We will explore his unique artistic identity through the prism of history and symbolism, emphasizing the thematic richness and emotional depth of his nautical iconography. The study will explore Volanakis’s seascape painting as an existential and cultural her... More >>

Video Art and Inclusive Installation in Environmental Art: New Strategies from Visual Studies on Climate Change in Chile

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This article aims to share the experience from a theoretical approach to creative proposals on the study of climate change and seismic risk in Chile, through the transdisciplinary artistic space, the selected works of video art and technological installations. The main objective is our vision of contemporary art that involves different values towards an integral look for the elaboration of know... More >>

Visualizing Childhood: Multimodal Artistic Strategies in Suzy Lee’s <i>Shadow </i>and Shaun Tan’s <i>The Arrival</i>

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This article examines contemporary picturebooks as part of visual culture and as agents in the cultural construction of childhood. Drawing on multimodality, intermediality and visual culture studies, it proposes a visually oriented framework for analysing how images, page design and narrative structures shape meaning in children’s literature. The study combines qualitative multimodal close read... More >>