The 2024 IVSA conference is dedicated to exploring the concept of “visual accountability” or visually mediated practices of regulation and control. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, and accelerating through it, we identified a shift in progress whereby digital images took an increasingly central role in constructing, maintaining and transforming formal and informal processes of adjudicating what counts as true. What kind of images are considered valid, is allowed and accepted as-if true? How do they convince, and get authorized, and become usable?
14th Biennial ISMRC Conference
Religion and Media in the Age of Polycrisis.