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Open Access · 2025

2025 Vol.1 No.2


Contemporary Visual Culture and Art

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5 articles
ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 10 October 2025

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

Milan Mašát

Contemporary Visual Culture and Art · 1–14 · 10.63385/cvca.v1i2.220

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

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 31 October 2025

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

Diego Bernaschina

Contemporary Visual Culture and Art · 15–27 · 10.63385/cvca.v1i2.190

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 di

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 20 November 2025

Konstantinos Volanakis, the Poet of the Sea

Christina Mavrea, Dimitrios Kotsifakos, Christos Douligeris

Contemporary Visual Culture and Art · 28–43 · 10.63385/cvca.v1i2.276

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 explo

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ReviewOpen AccessPublished: 26 December 2025

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

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

Contemporary Visual Culture and Art · 44–65 · 10.63385/cvca.v1i2.414

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. W

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 7 December 2025

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

Xinyi Wang

Contemporary Visual Culture and Art · 66–77 · 10.63385/cvca.v1i2.273

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 cri

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