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Contemporary Visual Culture and Art

2025 Vol.1 No.2

Article Article ID: 100806 1–14

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

by Milan Mašát

410 (Abstract) 274 (Download) PDF

December 2025, DOI: 10.63385/cvca.v1i2.220

Abstract: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 reading... More >>
Article Article ID: 100780 15–27

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

by Diego Bernaschina

255 (Abstract) 163 (Download) PDF

December 2025, DOI: 10.63385/cvca.v1i2.190

Abstract: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 knowled... More >>
Article Article ID: 100848 28–43

Konstantinos Volanakis, the Poet of the Sea

by Christina Mavrea, Dimitrios Kotsifakos, Christos Douligeris

233 (Abstract) 152 (Download) PDF

December 2025, DOI: 10.63385/cvca.v1i2.276

Abstract: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 herita... More >>
Review Article ID: 100974 44–65

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

by Hui-Ching Hsieh, I-Chun Chen, He-Lin Luo

318 (Abstract) 152 (Download) PDF

December 2025, DOI: 10.63385/cvca.v1i2.414

Abstract: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 ha... More >>
Article Article ID: 100847 66–77

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

by Xinyi Wang

166 (Abstract) 207 (Download) PDF

December 2025, DOI: 10.63385/cvca.v1i2.273

Abstract: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 studie... More >>

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