Special issue on the “Material Image: Affordances as a New Approach to Visual Culture Studies.”

Editorial Team:

Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director: Christiane Wagner
Senior Editor: Martina Sauer
Co-Editor for this Special Issue: Elisabeth Günther
Associate Editors: Laurence Larochelle, Katarina Andjelkovic and Natasha Marzliak

For more information about the magazine or for the full bios of the editorial team and scientific committee, please visit the Art Style Magazine’s website.

Art Style | Art & Culture International Magazine is an open access, biannual, and peer-reviewed online magazine that aims to bundle cultural diversity. All values of cultures are shown in their varieties of art. Beyond the importance of the medium, form, and context in which art takes its characteristics, we also consider the significance of socio-cultural, historical, and market influence. Thus, there are different forms of visual expression and perception through the media and environment. The images relate to the cultural changes and their time-space significance— the spirit of the time. Hence, it is not only about the image itself and its description but rather its effects on culture, in which reciprocity is involved. For example, a variety of visual narratives—like movies, TV shows, videos, performances, media, digital arts, visual technologies and video game as part of the video’s story, communications design, and also, drawing, painting, photography, dance, theater, literature, sculpture, architecture and design—are discussed in their visual significance as well as in synchronization with music in daily interactions. Moreover, this magazine handles images and sounds concerning the meaning in culture due to the influence of ideologies, trends, or functions for informational purposes as forms of communication beyond the significance of art and its issues related to the sociocultural and political context.