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Contributors
The Center for Visual Studies gathers young as well as established scientists working in the fields of visual culture, image science, film, cultural studies and literature who wish to participate in a scientific interpretation of contemporary visual phenomena. The Center gathers its contributors around different research projects, conceived and carried out by the Center itself or in partnership with other Croatian or international institutions. Apart from its research activities carried out in the framework of so-called collaboration platforms, i.e. by co-operating with partner institutions, the Center publishes Images, an international, peer-reviewed online journal for visual studies, serving as a regular form of communication with the scientific community and the expert public. The Center's contributors use scholarships and other forms of financial support to fund their sojourns abroad, where they work on projects implemented by the Center or a collaborating institution. They also propose and lead expert projects on an equal footing. Apart from the founder and head of the Centre, Krešimir Purgar, Ph.D. student of Literature, Culture, Performing Arts and Film at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, many university professors, students, postgraduate students, curators as well as research fellows and scientists of a broad humanistic profile from Croatia and the world participate in the Center's activities. Those involved in previous and current projects include (in alphabetical order):
- Mirna Belina – co-founder and organizer of the Zagreb Experimental Film Festival 25 FPS
- Sonja Briski Uzelac, Ph.D. – Professor of Art History and Theory of Art at the Academy of Applied Arts, University of Rijeka
- Michele Cometa, Ph.D. – Professor of Visual Culture and German Literature at the University of Palermo
- Jasna Galjer, Ph.D. – Associate Professor of Design, Architecture and Visual Culture at the Department for Art History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
- Nikica Gilić, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the Department of Comparative Literature, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
- Oliver Grau, Ph.D. – Professor of Image Science and head of the Department for Image Science at the Danube University Krems
- Ljiljana Kolešnik, Ph.D. – senior researcher at the Institute for Art History, Zagreb
- Leonida Kovač, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor of Art Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb
- Marina Kožul – co-founder and organizer of the Zagreb Experimental Film Festival 25 FPS
- Catherine Liu, Ph.D. – Director of the Humanities Center, Film & Media Studies – School of Humanities, University of California at Irvine
- Ivana Mance – Assistant Lecturer at the Institute for Art History, Zagreb
- Tomislav Medak – co-founder and program director of the Multimedia Institute, Zagreb
- Ivica Mitrović – Assistant Professor at the Animation Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Split
- Keith Moxey, Ph.D. – Professor of Art History and Acting Chair, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York
- Žarko Paić, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor of Visual Communication and Theory of Fashion at the Faculty of Textile Technology and the Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb
- Katarina Peović Vuković – Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka
- Mark Poster, Ph.D. – Professor of History and Media Theory, University of California at Irvine
- Marco Senaldi, Ph.D. – Professor of Film Studies and Visual Arts at the Universita' statale Milano-Bicocca
- Ognjen Strpić – editor, Jesenski and Turk Publishing, Zagreb
- Mirela Ramljak Purgar – curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
- Nenad Romić – co-founder and program director of the Multimedia Institute, Zagreb
- Klaudio Štefančić – curator, head of the Galženica Gallery, Velika Gorica
- Aleksandra Uzelac, Ph.D. – research fellow at the Institute for International Relations, Zagreb
- Saša Vojković, Ph.D. – Associate Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka
- Vesna Vuković – research fellow and curator for art in public spaces, co-founder of Urbanfestival, Zagreb