Visualities, Design, Media and Art
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Visual, material and technological practices such as film, photos, objects, digital softwares, and artworks operate through regimes of social reproduction that shape culture and society at large. These practices are inscribed and bound by aesthetic norms, power relations and historical and geopolitical hierarchies and make claims about the realities they record, address and generate.
These forms of documentation, action and representation contribute to powerful narratives of inclusion and exclusion, resistance and political subjectivity as well as construction of differences along racial, gender and class lines. Researchers at the department engage with these emerging intersections of anthropology and visual, material and digital practices not only as subjects of study but also as methodological concerns. This includes work in visual anthropology, design anthropology, media anthropology and the intersections of anthropology with artistic practices and multimodal ethnography.
More specifically, the group has initiated a multimodal ethnography reading group that explores how visual, sonic, and material modalities can be mobilised to challenge dominant representational and epistemological regimes, and foster more collaborative forms of knowledge generation.