Some students are still mentioning their race or immigrant status as the Trump administration cracks down on diversity ...

Technology’s at a crossroads, it seems, as we close out 2025. While OpenAI’s brash CEO Sam Altman mounts stages across the country to announce the imminent arrival of AI ”superintelligence,” two new ...

As more and more journals (Visual Studies/Visual Communication/Visual Anthropology) and other venues open up to the possibilities of publishing in creative and image based ways, the question of what ...

In subreddits and X threads, commenters seem to be railing more and more against terrible visual effects and wondering why modern films and TV shows look so bad. But is that actually true? Let’s flip ...

A group of mostly White Americans stands beneath a billowing national flag, right hands to their hearts. Construction workers crawl ant-like over a close-up of the upraised torch in the hand of the ...

For years, I told bloggers the same thing: make your content easy enough for toddlers and drunk adults to understand. That was my rule of thumb. If a five-year-old can follow what you’ve written and ...

This season has been dominated by male creative directors designing for women, and all we have to say is: thank goodness for Miuccia Prada. She is always designing through the female gaze, and her ...

Sam Altman singing in a toilet. James Bond playing Altman in high-stakes poker. Pikachu storming Normandy’s beaches. Mario jumping from his virtual world into real life. Those are just some of the ...

For anybody who did any kind of computing in the 1950s or 1960s, (or for that matter, in the 1970s or the 1980s), the advances that we’ve made in hardware are staggering. But if you do track them to ...

When a Masaaki Yuasa project is announced, a minimum threshold of visual ambition is expected – his upcoming feature “Daisy’s Life” seems even more far-reaching in concept than his last. Co-produced ...