Journal Issue:
Cambridge Journal of Visual Culture - Systems

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1

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3

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2024

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Untitled (SNAP), 2023
(2024-10) Owen, Jackson
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Hans Haacke: Connecting the Dots...
(2024-10) Bird, Jon
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Recovering the Messy Side of Urban Life
(2024-10) Nevola, Fabrizio
In this interview Fabrizio Nevola discusses Italian Renaissance urban spaces as an aspect of visual culture, delving into the way in which cityscapes were designed and how inhabitants interacted with them – whether through ceremonial rituals or simply everyday activities. He also evaluates how digital humanities research can facilitate a more nuanced understanding of this topic.
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An Interview With Sohelia Sokhanvari
(2024-10) Sokhanvari, Sohelia; Vasickova, Marketa
Marketa Vasickova interviews multimedia artist and human rights activist Soheila Sokhanvari, discussing themes of resistance, citizenship, and the intersection of science and art. The conversation also delves into Soheila’s recent exhibition, "We Could Be Heroes", at the Heong Gallery in Cambridge, and her artwork "Passports", which directly addresses the hierarchies of nationality and belonging.
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Pink in Architectural Drawings
(2024-10) Porter, Maggie
Surprisingly, the use of colour in architectural drawing has not been extensively documented. Today, as colour saturates our contemporary world, it is important to reflect on a time when the use of colour in drawings required careful consideration. Basile Baudez’s book “Inessential Colors”, published in 2021, is one of the first comprehensive works to explore this topic. This essay will focus on the use of pink, which was initially used to represent cut masonry but later evolved into a more decorative and possibly alluring role. The piece will discuss the shift from the systematic use of colour to a more creative approach, highlighting a drawing from the late eighteenth century by Antonio Asprucci, whose pink washes depicting the Temple of Diana express something beyond the marble structure of the temple.

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Cambridge Journal of Visual Culture: Issue 3 brings together research under the theme of ‘Systems’. The articles, interviews, and artworks in the issue seek to present the multiplicitous systems that make up our world, and how visual culture has represented or responded to these structures. This issue aspires to address all facets of systems, from the historical to the contemporary, from the way they have informed art histories and artistic practice, to the way in which art has been used to propose alternatives to the systems in place. Both in the conditions in which art and media are produced, and in the theories and concepts behind them, visual culture reflects the world in which we live, and in turn, its systems. Together, the contributions, from academics, curators, artists, directors, and students at Cambridge build an interdisciplinary portrait of systems within visual culture and beyond, traversing varying places and times.

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