Like a phoenix fron the ashes... Viz Cult!

Welcome back to the school year. Yaaaaa, wooooo, ahhhhhh!
You’ll be happy to know Viz Cult (or the Visual Culture Working Group, for the more formal of you) is back! And we’re going retro...

When Viz Cult first began it was a reading/working group. Faculty and staff suggested readings or brought “text” of any kind for the group to discuss in order to develop our understanding of and broaden our perspectives on what’s possible in the study of Visual Culture/Studies/Literacy/Stuff. We’ve since moved on to pedagogical concerns and technologies, and we’ve even suggested a Common Reading, but it’s time to step back and ask: “So, where (or what) are we now?”

What is visual culture?
Is is culture, contexts, content?
How many of us are doing “it”?
What is its role in our scholarship, our teaching, our curricula?
What should it be?
Do we need t-shirts?

If these are questions that interest you, please come to the next Viz Cult meeting on Thursday, September 30th from 4:15-5:30 to be held in ArtsWest 102J (there is lots of end of the day parking, so come on down). Snacks and intellectual stimulation will be provided.

Suggestions for texts (of all kinds) are welcome. I’ll send an update once I have suggestions. Links to the text will be posted on our blog.