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This issue features the work Past Won't Pass (Catalog #52) by artist Noritaka MinamiVolume 5: Invisibility

Articles may be viewed or downloaded in .pdf format.

Introduction


Peter Schweigert [PDF]

Engaging the Invisible: An Introduction

Christina M. Spiker [PDF]
At the Limits of Visibility: Noritaka Minami's Past Won't Pass (Catalog #52)

Essays


Beatrice J. Choi [PDF]

Live Dispatch: The Ethics of Audio Vision Media Coverage in Trauma and the Legacy of Sound from Shell Shock to 9/11

Rachel Joseph [PDF]
Disappearing in Plain Sight: The Magic Trick and the Missed Event

Wendy Ward [PDF]
Dreaming Driftwood Country: Vacant Portraits and Invisible Community in Alec Soth's Sleeping by the Mississippi

Photo Essay


Nicole Starosielski [PDF]
Beaches, Fields, and other Network Environments 

Interviews

A Dialogue Between Danielle Corsetto and Sam Close [PDF]
An Interview with Danielle Corsetto of Girls with Slingshots (2004-current)

A Dialogue Between Les Joynes and Sam Basu [PDF]
Trace (2009), an Investigation in the Invisible and Transvisible, Singapore