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