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 in the visual realm, 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 into the ways images work and for the exhibition of visual culture
NEWS
- The Fall 2009 IVS Studio Seminar Course, Re-envisioning, Re-thinking and Re-designing Environment(s), is now open for registration.This class is designed to explore the relationships between visual representations of “the environment” and scientific understandings of environmental and ecological health. In doing so it also explores the cultural and political implications of “seeing” and representing environments in particular ways through particular media. Students and professors will explore such questions by reflecting upon them from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, theories, and methods, and by engaging the processes of invention and creativity as we produce “visually oriented” artifacts, installations and other materials that can be used in a public education campaign designed to encourage audiences to “re-envision,” “re-think” and “re-design” environments (and ourselves). For more information, contact Daniel Robinson at robinsdl@jmu.edu. Click here to view informational poster.
- The IVS Facebook Group is up! Log in and click the link to join now and receive regular updates on events and projects.
