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ReviewOpen AccessPublished: 29 June 2026

Is AI-Generated Imagery Art? A Philippine Cultural Appraisal

Carie Justine P. Estrellado

Contemporary Visual Culture and Art · 55–68 · 10.63385/cvca.v2i1.101093

The emergence of generative AI has precipitated an ontological crisis vis-à-vis Philippine creative economy, challenging deeply held definitions of art, authorship, and cultural identity. Rooted in a tradition that prizes manual craftsmanship and the communal spirit, the Philippine context views art not merely as a final product

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 26 May 2026

YouTube Episteme under Algorithmic Governance: A Mixed-Methods Study of Clickbait Comedy

Fatma Fattoumi

Contemporary Visual Culture and Art · 36–54 · 10.63385/cvca.v2i1.470

Michel Foucault’s concept of power/knowledge explains how institutions historically controlled knowledge. In the digital age, new epistemic structures have emerged, where YouTubers, representing diverse voices, appear to democratize knowledge and influence public beliefs. However, this study argues that YouTube clickbait comedia

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 7 May 2026

Community Responses to Kannywood Hausa Films in Northern Nigeria: A Cultural and Societal Perspective

Ibrahim Lamido

Contemporary Visual Culture and Art · 26–35 · 10.63385/cvca.v2i1.152

"Kannywood", a term referring to the Hausa-language film industry rooted in Kano, Nigeria, plays a significant role in shaping cultural, social, and economic narratives among the Hausa community. This study explores the diverse reactions of the Hausa audience toward Kannywood films, based on content gathered from social media pl

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 20 April 2026

The Hands That Built Nations: Graphite Drawings of African Braiders

Francis Ankyiah, Monica Arhin

Contemporary Visual Culture and Art · 15–25 · 10.63385/cvca.v2i1.473

This paper examines how the worn-out hands of the African hair braider, drawn in heavy graphite, create a decolonial move. It re-positions these hands as instruments of labour into a text on which it argues that their labour is inherently connected to the larger, and mostly hidden, processes of postcolonial reconstruction and id

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ArticleOpen AccessPublished: 20 February 2026

Ambiguous Visualities: Gender, Governmentality and Graffiti in Urban India

Sanchita Khurana

Contemporary Visual Culture and Art · 1–14 · 10.63385/cvca.v2i1.187

This paper examines a series of murals produced by a street art collective in an Indian city, situating them within the rapid expansion of state- and privately commissioned street art projects across Indian urban centres over the last decade. While street art has historically been associated with claims to urban democracy and ch

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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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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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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: 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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