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A grainy still from a vintage film. The camera points upward through the infrastructure of an oil refinery, showing a smokestack set against a blue sky.

June 3, 2022

The Cinema of Big Oil

collage of old hollywood, Charles Dickens' London, and art in Los Angeles imagery.

September 20, 2021

New Visual Culture Minor Available to Students

Samples of colorful shoddy.

June 16, 2021

Shoddy and the Art and Science of Recycling

Photo of Professor Brian Jacobson

March 2, 2021

A Conversation with Brian Jacobson

Sandy Rodriguez painting Map of Los Angeles

January 27, 2021

Battleship Potemkin still

June 22, 2020

Teaching Film in the Time of Zoom

Last Days of Pompeii artwork

February 24, 2020

Lecture on Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

photo of a 2-cm drop of ferrofluid, placed on a glass slide, under which are seven circular magnets.

February 5, 2020

Lecture: "More Than Pretty Pictures"

Art by Jessica Helfand

January 7, 2020

A Conversation with Jessica Helfand

Pictures from the visual culture program.

October 16, 2019

Volcanoes, Vampires, and More

A portrait of artist Leslie Thornton. She wears a red dress and glasses.

May 15, 2019

Artist-in-Residence to Screen Experimental Film on Campus

A colorful collage consisting of imagery of neon signs, art, and 3D glasses

December 13, 2018

Caltech Creating Visual Culture Program