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Centre for Visual Arts and Culture

The Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) stimulates, strengthens, and supports wide-ranging interdisciplinary visual culture research and training, at Durham University and beyond
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About CVAC

Durham CVAC promotes interdisciplinary research on visual culture in all its diverse forms, across visual materials, media and visual storytelling, to the creation and curation of visual data and resources

We offer an engaging, open environment for connection and conversation, bringing together expertise from across all disciplines within and beyond our University, to share insights and seed new collaborations. Our programme of events for 2024-25 includes symposia, seminars and workshops in innovative digital, technical and creative visual methods for researchers at all career stages.
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Upcoming events

Video Essay Workshop with British Film Institute - 16 December 2025 09:30-16:30

Tuesday 16 December 2025 - Tuesday 16 December 2025
9:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Room TLC040, Teaching and Learning Centre, South Road, Durham, DH1 3LS
A film camera seen from the perspective of the filmmaker

Drawing: A Non-Extractive Visual Method? with Dr Sage Brice

Wednesday 11 February 2026 - Wednesday 11 February 2026
1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
CLC406 - Derman Christopherson room, Calman Learning Centre, Durham University, Stockton Rd, Durham, DH1 3LE.
a drawing of a hand holding a pencil

CVAC Symposium: Visuality and Extraction: Imagining Non-Extractive Futures

Monday 15 June 2026 - Tuesday 16 June 2026
9:30 AM to 5:00 PM
Hotel Indigo, 9 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL
a montage of images including a film reel, a forest floor, a drop of water, a leaf, a soil horizon
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Enquiries about the Centre for Visual Arts and Cultures should be sent via the email below.

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Centre for Visual Arts and Cultures 
Durham University 
Elvet Riverside 
Durham, DH1 3JT