Fresh off the press! “Museums and Photography: Displaying Death” was just published by Routledge Press. Elena Stylianou and Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert have been working on this book for the last few years since the International Conference of Photography and Theory 2014. It’s a book about displaying death in museums and the different approaches museums use internationally....Read More
ARTS AND RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS SPRING 2017 @ the Visual Sociology and Museum Studies Lab Cyprus University of Technology Giuseppe Fanizza and Giulia Ticozzi, artists, Italy Giuseppe Fanizza and Giulia Ticozzi are artists and photographers with academic background in Law and Geography respectively. Since December 2015 they are co-authors of “Borderlands Project”, a longterm visual research...Read More
Sociology and Museum Studies Lab of the Department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Cyprus University of Technology, invites you to a lecture about Landscape Photography by Professor Liz Wells and Nicos Philippou. Manufactured Landscapes Liz Wells, Professor in Photographic Culture, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Plymouth University, UK Sharqi: Topography and Identity (a project presentation)...Read More
(Organized by the Cultural and Research Foundation Phaneromenis 70) November 18th, 2016 Invited speakers: Mr. Nikos Philippou (presentation title: The National Geographic and the Constructions of Cypriot Women) and Mrs. Theopisti Stylianou (presentation title: Engendering a Landscape: the construction, promotion and consumption of the Rock of Aphrodite). Mrs. Despina Nazou (presentation title: “In its absentia the Aegean...Read More
16 November – 18 November 2016 at 2:30pm-6:30pm NeMe with the Visual Sociology and Museum Studies Lab and the Department of Communication and Internet Studies of the Cyprus University of Technology have launched an open call for participants from the arts, design, hacking, architecture, anthropology, technology, philosophy, and other disciplines. The workshops, La Cura: Ubiquitous Bodies was led by Salvatore Iaconesi and...Read More
Photography and the Everyday In a time when the global publishing industry is in dire straits and the book in its physical form is threatened by digits the photobook seems to be going through a revival. That is partly due to the very technologies that initially appeared to be threatening the physical existence of the...Read More
Saturday, 21 May 2016 This seminar examines the narratives put forward by Cypriot museums and how these influence collective memory and identity. It also examines the roles Cypriot museums currently play in society and the roles they could potentially play as agents of social change. At the night of the seminar, the book “The Political...Read More
