The Editorial Board of AM Journal of Art and Media Studies is inviting all potential contributors to send their proposals for issue No.28/September 2022. AM Journal is structured in four sections: Main Topic, Beyond the Main Topic, Artist Portfolio, and Book Reviews. Only the first section, which is also the central one, is predefined by the main topic of the issue. The main topic of issue No.28/September 2021 is Rare, bound, cheap, inserted – the evolution of photobooks. The history of
Stella Fatović-Ferenčić and Martin Kuhar presenting their paper at the international conference in Prague
November 25, 2021
The conference Photo Albums’ Twisted Meanings: Between Nostalgia and Trauma, organized by the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences and DOX – Centre for Contemporary Art, will be held in Prague, Czech Republic in hybrid format on Thursday 25 and Friday 26 November, 2021. One of the main aims of the workshop is to discuss and highlight obscure, forgotten albums reflecting traumatic or forgotten chapters in
Bringing down the ‘Archive Fever’ conference program
October 15, 2021
International conference Bringing down the Archive Fever will take place from 20 to 22 October, 2021 at Urania (Trg E. Kvaternika 3/3, Zagreb) and online via Zoom. The conference is organized by the Institute of Art History and is part of the project The Cycle: European Training in Photographic Legacy Management (2020 – 2022), financed by the European Union (Creative Europe programme). Photography archives are more than just collecting,
Keynote lecture given by Leonida Kovač
September 14, 2021
Leonida Kovač held a keynote lecture on 3 September, 2021, titled “Nasta Rojc: Subversion of Normative Heterosexuality”. The lecture was introduction to the international conference Not Yet Written Stories in Warsaw. Nasta Rojc (1883 – 1964) was a Croatian artist who in the period from 1908 to 1925 painted a number of self-portraits in which she practiced subversion of gender, or more precisely normative heterosexuality. In 1914 she painted drag
“Bringing down the ‘Archive Fever’” conference – The list of accepted abstracts
August 2, 2021
Institute of Art History announces an international scientific conference, which will take place on the 21st – 22nd of October in Zagreb. The conference is held as part of the project The Cycle, in collaboration with Spéos International Photographic Institute, Pariz; Magnum Photos Endowment Fund, Pariz; Ured za fotografiju, Zagreb; Sveučilište Deusto, Bilbao. We are happy to announce the list of presenters, while the full program will follow in September: Theopisti
Thematic issue of the journal Život umjetnosti dedicated to photography – call for papers
April 20, 2021
The editorial board invites all interested authors to submit scientific and/or scholarly papers for publishing in the journal Život umjetnosti (109-2021). The editorial board invites all interested authors to submit scientific and/or scholarly papers for publishing in the journal Život umjetnosti (109–2021). The thematic issue of the journal is dedicated to various aspects of photography, with an emphasis on the meaning and knowledge that this medium transmits and encourages,
Call for papers – Bringing down the ‘Archive Fever’ – opening and collaborating on photography archives and collections
March 26, 2021
Bringing down the Archive Fever – opening and collaborating on photography archives and collections Call for papers October 21 – 22, 2021, Zagreb Deadline: June 1, 2021 ORGANISED BY: Institute of Art History, Zagreb; Magnum Photos Endowment Fund, Paris; Spéos International Photographic Institute, Paris; Deusto University, Bilbao; Office for Photography, Zagreb Photography archives are more than just collecting, writing about, and curating. Recent discussions over the world
Tuberculosis and the reverse of the city: photographs of Zagreb’s housing misery from the collection of Vladimir Ćepulić
February 7, 2021
Collection of photographs preserved in the Croatian Museum of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts motivated me to compile the text entitled Tuberculosis and the reverse of the city: photographs of Zagreb’s housing misery from the collection of Vladimir Ćepulić in cooauthorship with Silvija Brkić Midžić. Our work was published in our oldest croatian medical journal Liječnički vjesnik lounched in 1877. (https://hrcak.srce.hr/251414, https://lijecnicki-vjesnik.hlz.hr/ ). The
The conference “DISCOVERING DALMATIA VI: Watching, Waiting – Empty Spaces and the Representation of Isolation” was held in Split
December 21, 2020
The international conference Watching, Waiting – Empty Spaces and the Representation of Isolation was held in Split from 3 to 5 December 2020. The conference call was announced during the first lockdown in the spring of 2020. It is precisely for this reason that the organizers set as a central question a re-examination of individual and collective memory of the time that was, of time we live right now, and
DISCOVERING DALMATIA VI: Watching, Waiting – Empty Spaces and the Representation of Isolation
November 25, 2020
This year, the annual Discovering Dalmatia international scientific conference organised by Institute of Art History, will take place virtually, over the course of three days, December 3-5. This year conference, entitled Watching, Waiting – Empty Spaces and the Representation of Isolation, is inspired by the Institute of Art History’s project Exposition [Ekspozicija]. Themes and Aspects of Croatian Photography from the 19th Century until Today, which is financed by the Croatian
