Interrogating militarism and state violence, pictured atrocities, non-violent dissent, and armed conflicts around the globe, this course explores the interlinking of capitalism, spectacle, and war in the world today. 

From high-tech drone and video surveillance to images captured on smartphones, from news and social media to documentary and art photography, the course scrutinizes the visualization of military conflict, terror, dispossession, and insurrection.

Department of Visual Studies

Welcome New Students!

Join us for lunch and a meet-and-greet with your peers, instructors, and staff
When: September 4, 2024, 1 - 3 PM 
Where: MN Bldg., UTM

Please RSVP by August 22, 2024
Registration link:
https://forms.office.com/r/inRZwfx9N9

Popular imagery from the Indian subcontinent is now increasingly visible in the global arena, particularly via the West's discovery of 'Bollywood.' But what have these images meant to South Asians themselves, what are their histories, what traditions and practices do they draw on? This course introduces key concepts for understanding South Asian visual culture and its multifaceted postcolonial modernity.

This course analyses digital approaches to humanistic research and its expression, across disciplines and fields. Students will explore “global” trends in digital humanities in order to reflect on how issues of diversity, (de)coloniality, immigration and multiculturalism shape the field and its connections to different communities. These are examined through interdisciplinary theoretical perspectives – museum studies, cultural studies, visual studies, history, art history, memory studies and tested on digital humanities case studies.

Join Instructor Steven Logan for VCC236H5F North American Consumer Culture 1890-Present this Fall 2024!
🕚 Fridays, 1 PM - 3 PM
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Join us this Fall 2024 for an enlightening journey through the European and North American Art of the Earlier Twentieth Century FAH288H5!
🕒 Fridays 11AM - 1PM
👩‍🏫 Instructor Nina Kurtovic
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Thank you to all the speakers and graduates for attending the alumni dinner and for sharing your journey with us!

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Congratulations to Elizabeth Wijaya and Weijie Lai for their continuing success in film production. Mongrel won the Camera d’Or Special Mention at Cannes and received a lot of positive coverage in the international press.

Two films by DVS Professor Elizabeth Wijaya & Cinema Instructor, Weijie Lai (E&W Films) have been selected for Cannes this year!