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CVAC Annual Symposium

CVAC's annual symposium brings together academic researchers, archival experts, artists in practice, filmmakers, games developers and others, for a programme of talks, guided walks and hands-on activities supporting an open conversation where collaborative co-developed research ideas can emerge.  Recent events have explored the 'Visualities of Extraction' theme. Click the tiles below for more information.  

CVAC symposium 2026

Visuality and Extraction: Imagining Non-Extractive Futures
a montage of images including a film reel, a forest floor, a drop of water, a leaf, a soil horizon

CVAC Symposium 2025

Visuality and extraction - Materiality, Interpretation, Power
Visuality and Extraction symposium title slide

CVAC symposium 2024

Art Making as Cultural Analysis (with Mieke Bal)
Professor Mieke Bal