Interdisciplinary perspectives on form, practice, and the social life of images.
The Network’s themes guide our conference and publications, foregrounding formal analysis, sites of practice, and the social effects of visual media.
The Form of the Image addresses representation and perception: the grammars of the visual, digital capture and manipulation, and the relations among image, text, space, gesture, and sound.
Image Work turns to the contexts of making and circulation—cinema and television old and new, internet platforms, archives and databases, commercial and amateur production, branding, galleries, and professional practice.
The Image in Society traces how images operate across institutions and everyday life—from museums, media, and advertising to education, surveillance, and propaganda—attending to viewers, interpretation, and the past–present–future of the visual.
Examining the nature and form of the image as a medium of representation
Investigating image making processes and spaces of image representation
Exploring the social effects of the image