Centre for Visual Arts and Culture

The Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) stimulates, strengthens, and supports wide-ranging interdisciplinary visual culture research and training, at Durham University and beyond

About CVAC

Durham CVAC promotes interdisciplinary research on visual culture in all its diverse forms, across visual materials, media and visual storytelling, to the creation and curation of visual data and resources

We offer an engaging, open environment for connection and conversation, bringing together expertise from across all disciplines within and beyond our University, to share insights and seed new collaborations. Our programme of events for 2024-25 includes symposia, seminars and workshops in innovative digital, technical and creative visual methods for researchers at all career stages.

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Upcoming events

North East Universities Screens Network (NEUSN) Research Sandpit

Wednesday 7 May 2025 - Wednesday 7 May 2025

2:00 PM to 5:00 PM

Room 116, Teaching and Learning Centre, Durham University, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LU
Sayat Nova Outtakes: Using Archival Film Elements to Re-evaluate Sergei Parajanov’s The Colour of Pomegranates (1969)

Thursday 8 May 2025 - Thursday 8 May 2025

1:00 PM to 2:00 PM

In person, room ER140, Elvet Riverside, New Elvet, Durham, DH1 3JT
Wanted, More than Human Intellectual Property Animal Authors and Human Machines

Tuesday 20 May 2025 - Tuesday 20 May 2025

3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

In person, venue TBC
Visuality and Extraction: Materiality, Interpretation, Power

Monday 16 June 2025 - Wednesday 18 June 2025

9:30 AM to 5:00 PM

Hotel Indigo, 9 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL