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Visual Culture and Art Theory

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Yanru Lyu
Beijing Technology and Business University
2
Merve Kaptan
Muğla University
3
Hannah Awcock
Edinburgh Napier University
4
Liv Hausken
University of Oslo
5
Gözdenur Demir
Oldham Council
6
Tarek Krohn
Unknown
7
Jianying Bian
Wuxi Vocational Institute of Commerce
8
Nataliia Laba
UNSW Sydney
9
Shishi Xiao
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
10
Sarah N. Roth
Meredith College

Rising Stars Papers

1
Photorealism versus photography. AI-generated depiction in the age of visual disinformation
Journal of AESTHETICS & CULTURE|2024
37 cit.
2
Engine for the imagination? Visual generative media and the issue of representation
Media Culture & Society|2024
36 cit.
3
TypeDance: Creating Semantic Typographic Logos from Image through Personalized Generation
Unknown Journal|2024
34 cit.
4
Beyond magic: Prompting for style as affordance actualization in visual generative media
New Media & Society|2024
10 cit.
5
Stuck Up, Peeled Off, Covered Up, Shared and Scribbled Out: Doing Ordinary Politics with Political Stickers
GeoHumanities|2024
8 cit.
6
MetroBUX: A Topology-Based Visual Analytics for <i>B</i>us Operational <i>U</i>ncertainty E<i>X</i>ploration
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems|2024
6 cit.
7
From image to identity icon: Discourses of organizational visual identity on Australian university homepages
Discourse & Communication|2024
5 cit.
8
Navigating the Complex Terrain of Photography and Temporality
Philosophies|2024
4 cit.
9
Whose imagination? Conflicting narratives and sociotechnical futures of visual generative AI
AI & Society|2025
3 cit.
10
AI is not a tool
AI & Society|2025
2 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Thomas Smits
Harvard University
2
Anja Dinhopl
University of Queensland
3
Shanleigh Roux
University of the Western Cape
4
Mario Panico
University of Amsterdam
5
Agnes Husslein-Arco
Unknown
6
Poppy de Souza
The University of Melbourne
7
David Schünemann
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
8
Julien Robinet
University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
9
Nir Mualam
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
10
Marc Dietrich
Institut für biologische Forschung

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
A multimodal turn in Digital Humanities. Using contrastive machine learning models to explore, enrich, and analyze digital visual historical collections
Digital Scholarship in the Humanities|2023
36 cit.
2
How do cities foster autonomous planning practices despite top-down control?
Cities|2022
15 cit.
3
Sensing the border(s): Sound and carceral intimacies in and beyond indefinite detention
Crime Media Culture An International Journal|2022
15 cit.
4
Moving to Online Planning during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Assessment of Zoom and the Impact of ICT on Planning Boards’ Discussions
Journal of Planning Education and Research|2022
13 cit.
5
Counter-mapping the mobile border: Racial surveillance and data justice in spaces of disappearance
Environment and Planning D Society and Space|2023
11 cit.
6
Protecting Street Art Rights Using an NFT-Based System
Journal of Urban Technology|2023
9 cit.
7
‘Go join that radio station up there’: The role of Australian community radio in journalism education and training
Australian Journalism Review|2022
6 cit.
8
WORLD HERITAGE DESIGNATION AND PROPERTY: THE IMPACT OF PRESERVATION ON THE PRICE OF HISTORIC ASSETS
International Journal of Strategic Property Management|2022
6 cit.
9
Resistance, reclamation and repair: the Parragirls feminist archive and reparative media practices in the wake of institutional harm and media damage
Feminist Media Studies|2023
5 cit.
10
A Fully-Searchable Multimodal Dataset of the Illustrated London News, 1842–1890
Journal of Open Humanities Data|2024
4 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Richard Bauman
Indiana University
2
Hayden White
Logan Hospital
3
Peter Galison
Woodwell Climate Research Center
4
John M.T. Balmer
University of Bradford
5
William J. Mitchell
Angelo State University
6
Roger Penrose
University of Oxford
7
François Cooren
Université de Montréal
8
Helmut Leder
University of Vienna
9
Anat Rafaeli
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
10
Eero Vaara
University of Oxford

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
A generalized inverse for matrices
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society|1955
4.5k cit.
2
Gravitational Collapse and Space-Time Singularities
Physical Review Letters|1965
2.9k cit.
3
An Approach to Gravitational Radiation by a Method of Spin Coefficients
Journal of Mathematical Physics|1962
2.7k cit.
4
Poetics and Performances as Critical Perspectives on Language and Social Life
Annual Review of Anthropology|1990
2.6k cit.
5
The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality
Critical Inquiry|1980
2.1k cit.
6
The singularities of gravitational collapse and cosmology
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences|1970
2.1k cit.
7
A model of aesthetic appreciation and aesthetic judgments
British Journal of Psychology|2004
1.9k cit.
8
On Gravity's role in Quantum State Reduction
General Relativity and Gravitation|1996
1.9k cit.
9
Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism
World Literature Today|1979
1.8k cit.
10
The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation
The American Historical Review|1988
1.4k cit.

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