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Monthly Archive: November 2017

Transmediality in Symbolist and Surrealist Photo-Literature

Lauren Walden Published Online: 2017-11-16 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0020  Abstract The fin de siècle period throughout Europe undoubtedly cultivated the “interdisciplinary principle of la fraternité des arts” (Genova 158). Literature, poetry, visual art and music superseded former hierarchical...

Hothouse Victorians: Art and Agency in Freshwater

Kristine Swenson Published Online: 2017-11-09 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0017 Abstract The Victorian artistic community that grew up on the Isle of Wight around Tennyson and Julia Margaret Cameron has been reimagined in Virginia Woolf’s play, Freshwater (1923, 1935),...

Eröffnung iDEAS:lab, November 16, 2016 | © Courtesy of Universität Salzburg (PR).

Geomedia and the City

GUEST EDITORS: Mekonnen Tesfahuney (Karlstads Universitet) Tim Simpson (University of Macau) DESCRIPTION Geomedia is an emerging concept that has been deployed to capture a particular technological condition, associated with recent rapid developments in digital technology. As...

Architecture of Fear, Jennifer & Kevin McCoy, Big Box 2 2008, Big Box 3 2009, October 5, 2011 | © Courtesy of Z33 Art Centre.

J. G. Ballard and Making

GUEST EDITOR: Dr Thomas Knowles (Birmingham City University) DESCRIPTION J. G. Ballard’s fictional worlds are alive with making, remaking, repurposing and reinvigorating: ‘survival kits’ composed of unlike objects; the rekindling of creativity amongst the beach-fatigued...