Stephen Monteiro
Biographic Data
| ID | 3975584 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Monteiro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Monteiro |
| SIGNATURE | MONTEIRO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | , |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8818-6185 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gaming faces
Filters and apps purporting to analyze the face and provide insight into a person’s personality, heritage, or future have become a popular part of social media interactivity. This article examines the marketing and design of such products in relation to historical systems of racial, ethnic, moral, and psychological differentiation based on the face, such as physiognomy and eugenics. In particular, it explores user-generated ‘Which Are You?’ filte…
Welcome to selfiestan’
This article examines selfie culture and visual social media in India by exploring how smartphone marketing and the performativity of the user–device interface intersect with the cultural influence of the Hindu ritual of darshan and the recent political success of populist Hindu nationalism. Darshan, a long-standing, everyday Hindu practice entailing an active visual and physical exchange between worshiper and devotional image or object, bears st…
Smashing Images in Your Face
James Rosenquist's paintings of the early 1960s have been interpreted as a Pop synthesis of media imagery and the formal and aesthetic logic of mid-century American abstract art. These composites of image fragments also confront the mechanisms and operations of the mobilized gaze at a time of intense anxiety over the negative psychological effects of popular visual media. The products, bodies, and vehicles vying for space in his works reference e…
Rethinking media space
Thinking about space today requires thinking about media space. It is difficult to imagine – (let alone experience) a space entirely beyond the reach of media. Media, whether as narratives, product
Performing Color
October 01 2012 Performing Color: Mechanized Painting, Multimedia Spectacle, and Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls Stephen Monteiro Stephen Monteiro Stephen Monteiro is an assistant professor in the Department of Global Communications at the American University of Paris, where he directs the Graduate Track in Visual and Material Culture. He has written on media, art, and aesthetics for Photography & Culture, Kritische Berichte, and Visual Resources, am…
Nothing Is So Dangerous as Hypothesis”
This article considers the place of photography within historical discourse by reexamining the maligned 1851 Mission Héliographique, a French government photographic survey of ancient buildings and sites, alongside competing forms of visual representation and contemporaneous theories of photography and historiography. Tracing the epistemologies and ideologies of photography, lithography, and architectural drawing, it contests interpretations of t…
Welcome to selfiestan’
This article examines selfie culture and visual social media in India by exploring how smartphone marketing and the performativity of the user–device interface intersect with the cultural influence of the Hindu ritual of darshan and the recent political success of populist Hindu nationalism. Darshan, a long-standing, everyday Hindu practice entailing an active visual and physical exchange between worshiper and devotional image or object, bears st…
Nothing Is So Dangerous as Hypothesis”
This article considers the place of photography within historical discourse by reexamining the maligned 1851 Mission Héliographique, a French government photographic survey of ancient buildings and sites, alongside competing forms of visual representation and contemporaneous theories of photography and historiography. Tracing the epistemologies and ideologies of photography, lithography, and architectural drawing, it contests interpretations of t…
Performing Color
October 01 2012 Performing Color: Mechanized Painting, Multimedia Spectacle, and Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls Stephen Monteiro Stephen Monteiro Stephen Monteiro is an assistant professor in the Department of Global Communications at the American University of Paris, where he directs the Graduate Track in Visual and Material Culture. He has written on media, art, and aesthetics for Photography & Culture, Kritische Berichte, and Visual Resources, am…
Rethinking media space
Thinking about space today requires thinking about media space. It is difficult to imagine – (let alone experience) a space entirely beyond the reach of media. Media, whether as narratives, product
Smashing Images in Your Face
James Rosenquist's paintings of the early 1960s have been interpreted as a Pop synthesis of media imagery and the formal and aesthetic logic of mid-century American abstract art. These composites of image fragments also confront the mechanisms and operations of the mobilized gaze at a time of intense anxiety over the negative psychological effects of popular visual media. The products, bodies, and vehicles vying for space in his works reference e…
Welcome to selfiestan’
This article examines selfie culture and visual social media in India by exploring how smartphone marketing and the performativity of the user–device interface intersect with the cultural influence of the Hindu ritual of darshan and the recent political success of populist Hindu nationalism. Darshan, a long-standing, everyday Hindu practice entailing an active visual and physical exchange between worshiper and devotional image or object, bears st…
Gaming faces
Filters and apps purporting to analyze the face and provide insight into a person’s personality, heritage, or future have become a popular part of social media interactivity. This article examines the marketing and design of such products in relation to historical systems of racial, ethnic, moral, and psychological differentiation based on the face, such as physiognomy and eugenics. In particular, it explores user-generated ‘Which Are You?’ filte…
Art (5 works) · Visual arts (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Photography and Visual Culture (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works) · Gaze (2 works)