Welcome to The Institute for Visual Studies
The Institute for Visual Studies (IVS) at James Madison University is a center for scholarly, scientific and
creative inquiry into the nature and workings of images. An incubator of new ideas, the institute fosters discovery,
and the generation of artworks, products, and applications by multidisciplinary teams of students and faculty.
Goals
- promote interdisciplinary research, enabling members of the university community from across all disciplines to collaborate on innovative projects
- function as both a laboratory and a studio, creating a unique teaching and learning environment
- develop and offer a series of multidisciplinary team-taught courses for highly motivated students
- provide a center for the investigation of new technologies for the context of teaching and learning
NEWS
- Please visit IVS and see our current exhibition which presents multimedia and visual projects by multidisciplinary teams of students in the fall IVS Studio Seminar in Philosophical and Psychological Aesthetics. Works explore the nature of representational images, aspects of pictorial meaning, sources of artistic and aesthetic value, objective and subjective contributions to the experience of awe, and several works intended to produce aesthetic 'chills'. Exhitbition runs from November 18-December 3. IVS hours are 9-2, Monday-Friday.
- The IVS Facebook Group is up! Log in and click the link to join now and receive regular updates on events and projects.
