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From “Server Art”Contemporary Images: Paths and Possibilities

Papers and Writing

Gregory Crewdson, the Night Watcher

Guosen Chen

Book Introduction:Expedition: Century Avant-Garde and Global Contemporary

Mingjun Lu

When Everything the AI Says Is "Correct":Five Questions on AI Ethics

Guosen Chen

The Ethics of Representation:The Aesthetics of Traces in Atrocity Photography

Guosen Chen

What Is Photography Today?A Political Ontology

Guosen Chen

The Cut, the Apparatus, Constructedness:On the Problem of the "tableau form" in Contemporary Photography

Guosen Chen

The Uncanny Landscape:On the Non-Intimacy of Landscape Photography

Guosen Chen

Electric Waves and Ghosts around 1900:"Electricity" and Warburg's "Image Science"

Hongkai Qiao

The Second Origin of the World Begins with Islands

Guosen Chen

Messenger, Archive and Memory:Photography as Hermes

Guosen Chen

From "Repetition" to "Typology":The Visual Internalization of Spatial Abstraction

Guosen Chen

How to Anthropologize Photography:A Glimpse at the Frontiers of the Western Anthropology of Photography

Yunchang Yang

In Search of an "Other Avant-Garde":Photography Against Myth

Guosen Chen

The Cosmist Genealogy of Soviet Avant-Garde Cinema:Glass–Spheres, Mechanical Vitalism, and Interplanetary Revolution

Hongkai Qiao

Warburg as Photographer

Hongkai Qiao

The Mnemosyne Atlas:Warburg's Image Experiment — "Atlas," Motion Photography, and Montage

Hongkai Qiao

Family Photography:History, Art, and Anthropology

Yunchang Yang

Photomontage, the Image Matrix, and the Mediatized Museum:The Exhibition Film und Foto (1929)

Mingjun Lu

The Birth of the American Journal October

Mingjun Lu