Contact: Jackie Fleming, International Visual Literacy Association
Phone: 812-855-9578
Email: jkflemin@iu.edu
INTERNATIONAL VISUAL LITERACY ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES THE DR. RHONDA ROBINSON IVLA CONFERENCE STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP AWARD WINNER
Gonzalo Munoz-Vera, Ph.D Candidate at McGill University School of Architecture (Canada), was awarded the International Visual Literary Association’s (IVLA) Dr. Rhonda Robinson Conference Student Scholarship at the 52nd Annual Conference that was held virtually this past September.
The IVLA Dr. Rhonda Robinson Conference Student Scholarship is awarded to an applicant who is currently enrolled in a college or university. This scholarship includes an IVLA membership for two years. This scholarship is granted to the applicant who proves that they will leverage this opportunity the most. Gonzalo Munoz is a Chilean architect and Ph.D. Candidate at McGill University School of Architecture (Canada). Since 2005 he has studied the influence of images on the spread and understanding of architecture in printed media. Based in Montreal, his doctoral research deals with the increasing dominance of virtual reality and visual media in architecture. During the IVLA 52nd annual conference that was held virtually in September, Munoz-Vera gave a presentation titled, “Panoramic Mars: the Continuous Role of Panoramas in Representing Colonized Lands”.
Winners are selected by an awards committee comprised of IVLA members. Nominations for the 2020 awards will be announced shortly. For any questions in the meantime, contact Dr. Kazuyo Kubo, Awards Committee Chair, at kkubo@lesley.edu.
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Founded in 1968, the International Visual Literacy Association is an interdisciplinary organization of professionals working toward a fuller understanding of the way we derive meaning from what we see and the way we interact with our visual environment. For more information about IVLA, please visit https://ivla.org/.