Publications

The Book of Selected Readings Editorial Philosophy IVLA is an eclectic organization of professionals working toward a fuller understanding of how we derive meaning from what we see and how we interact with our visual environment. IVLA members represent a wide range of disciplines including the arts, sciences, education, museum, library, communication, business, videography, photography, instructional technology, health, and computer applications. Each year, members come together at a conference held in conjunction with a university, museum or organization to present their ongoing work and to share perspectives in a multidisciplinary forum. Characterized by many different voices, and cross-fertilization of ideas, interests and values, discussion is a lively mix of scholarship, creativity, and applications. Since the founding of the organization in 1968, this dynamic interaction between practitioners and theorists has been IVLA’s greatest strength. The Book of Selected Readings (BSR) is a peer reviewed collection of papers, selected from the presentations at the annual IVLA Conference. It is meant to reflect the spirit of the ongoing conversation among its diverse members and to promote new perspectives in its readers. Included in the BSR are creative ideas in the making, works in progress that invite further thought and the results of long-term scholarly research. For the 2023 BSR, the art works awarded and honored at the international online juried art exhibition are included. What makes the BSR special, like the members of IVLA who have contributed to it, is that it represents this broad range of interests and reflects some of the most diverse thinking in the field of visual communication. In addition, the BSR truly presents the international perspectives. For the 2023 BSR, articles and art works came from 9 different countries: Pakistan, Israel, Greece, Turkey, Ecuador, Spain, UK, and Japan as well as USA. We are proud to present these multi-faceted works for your consideration. International Visual Literacy Association Publications Committee First stated in 1998 Jung Lee, Editor-in-chief 2023 Read the whole book here.

‘Love Cannot be Framed.’ A Visual Art Project during the Pandemic Wally De Doncker Independent Author, Belgium Katerina Dermata Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece Abstract Distance and communication during the Covid-19 pandemic have been one of the challenges of the last two years worldwide. While traveling was difficult, new technologies and visual stimuli provided opportunities to overcome those obstacles. This paper describes the art project titled Love cannot be framed implemented by Wally De Doncker and Katerina Dermata. While “trapped” in their own countries, the two authors creatively challenged each other during the pandemic. Every week they proposed a theme to each other and took photos from their own living environment in Belgium and Greece. The authors created a synthesis by combining those photos, one Greek and one Belgian for each theme. As a writer, Wally De Doncker interpreted each synthesis with a literary and philosophical methodology and created an artistic album. This art project indicated that distance is only sometimes a barrier to creativity. It is an example of how love bridges a global epidemic. Keywords: photography, philosophical thinking, interpretation, visual arts Read the chapter here.