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Øyvind Vågnes

Professor
Department of Information Science and Media Studies
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  • E-mailoyvind.vagnes@uib.no
  • Phone+47 55 58 41 07
  • Visitor Address
    Fosswinckels gate 6
    Lauritz Meltzers hus
    5007 Bergen
    Room 
    613
  • Postal Address
    Postboks 7802
    5020 Bergen

Øyvind Vågnes is professor of Media Studies and head of the research group for film, television and visual culture. In the years to follow the award-winning monograph Zaprudered: The Kennedy Assination Film in Visual Culture (Texas University Press), a result of his doctoral research, he has published widely in the field of visual culture, including several articles on photography, comics, and in recent years, television series. In 2008-2013 he was a postdoctoral fellow with the research project Nomadikon: New Ecologies of the Image, led by Asbjørn Grønstad, and in 2010 he co-founded the peer-reviewed journal Ekfrase: Nordisk tidsskrift for visuell kultur with Grønstad. In 2015-2019 he was affiliated with the ViSmedia project led by Astrid Gynnild. Vågnes is also a writer of fiction, and has published several novels in Norwegian (Tiden Norsk Forlag). He is one of the editors of Journal of Visual Culture (Sage).

Recent publications include:

Bearbeidelser

Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture

Academic article
  • Show author(s) (2023). Sex-dependent effects of mechanical delousing on the skin microbiome of broodstock Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.). Scientific Reports.
  • Show author(s) (2018). An Anatomy of Facelessness: On Halfdan Pisket’s Dansker Trilogy. European Journal of Scandinavian Studies. 288-302.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Drone vision: Towards a critique of the rhetoric of precision. Krisis: Tijdschrift voor actuele filosofie. 8-17.
  • Show author(s) (2017). A Day in History: Andrea Gjestvang's 22 July Photographs. Journal of European Studies. 359-371.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Gestures of Seeing. Objektiv. Tidskrift for kamerabasert kunst. 8-11.
  • Show author(s) (2015). "Rudy Kelly's Eyes: Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco's Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.". European Journal of American Studies.
  • Show author(s) (2011). The Unmaking of the World: Trauma and Testimony in Two Stories by Joe Sacco. Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. 60-62.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Showing silence : on David Small's stitches. Studies in Comics. 301-314.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Inside the Story: A Conversation with Joe Sacco. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. 193-216.
  • Show author(s) (2007). "Inside the Zapruder Museum". Working Papers on Design.
  • Show author(s) (2003). "Working through contradiction interminably": Towards a Mathesis singularis? Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). 325-344.
  • Show author(s) (2002). "Remembering Civic Trauma: Narratives of Cultural Authority". Journal of American and Comparative Cultures. 347-356.
Lecture
  • Show author(s) (2024). On the Notion of Narrative Imagination.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Black Mirror and the Ethics of Speculative Fiction.
  • Show author(s) (2016). White Shadows: On Tomas van Houtryve's Packing Heat.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Drone vision.
Popular scientific lecture
  • Show author(s) (2018). Dommedag - den dystopiske tendensen i moderne teveserier.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Debatt i P2: Dommedag – den dystopiske tendensen i moderne TV-serier.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Amerikabilder.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Bilder av nød og lidelse. Debatt på Nasjonalbiblioteket.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Om Michael Moore.
Academic lecture
  • Show author(s) (2024). Pandemic Precarity.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Face and Mask: Preliminary Reflections on Damon Lindelof's Watchmen.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Black Mirror and the Culture of Surveillance.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Drone Visions: Towards a Critique of the Rhetoric of Precision.
  • Show author(s) (2011). The Visual Culture in Europe Questionnaire.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Amerikabilder.
  • Show author(s) (2009). "The Unmaking of the World: On Joe Sacco.".
  • Show author(s) (2009). "Picturing Poses: The Films of Errol Morris".
  • Show author(s) (2009). "Becoming an Image of Pain: On Self-Immolations".
  • Show author(s) (2006). Zaprudered: The Journey of Zapruder's Images.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Variations on a Theme Park: George Saunders's "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline" and "Pastoralia".
  • Show author(s) (2004). Here is New York Again: Looking at Amateur Photographs of September 11.
  • Show author(s) (2003). "Working Through Contradictions Interminably": Towards a Mathesis Singularis?".
  • Show author(s) (2003). "The Imagery of National Trauma: The Zapruder and Naudet Films".
  • Show author(s) (2003). "Quoting the Zapruder".
Editorial
  • Show author(s) (2013). Leder. Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur.
  • Show author(s) (2011). INTERVIEW WITH GREIL MARCUS AND WERNER SOLLORS. Journal of American Studies. 25 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Leder. Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur. 1-2.
  • Show author(s) (2010). "Leder". Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur. 81-82.
Reader opinion piece
  • Show author(s) (2009). Litt om med(ie)vitskap. Norsk Medietidsskrift. 390-392.
  • Show author(s) (2009). "Litt om med(ie)vitskap.". Norsk Medietidsskrift. 390-392.
Book review
  • Show author(s) (2024). Ut og stele hestar: Om Brown Horses Reservoir. Dag og Tid.
  • Show author(s) (2024). Songar frå skogen: Om Adrianne Lenkers Bright Future. Dag og Tid.
  • Show author(s) (2024). Regn tomt for regnbogar: Om Brittany Howards What Now. Dag og Tid.
  • Show author(s) (2024). På eit hjørne i Crail: Om Bill Ryder-Jones' Iechyd Da. Dag og Tid.
  • Show author(s) (2024). Nærast er du når du er borte: Om The Northern Belles Bats in the Attic. Dag og Tid.
  • Show author(s) (2024). Ny pop frå Hanne Kolstø? Ja takk! Om Hanne Kolstøs E det berre mej. Dag og Tid.
  • Show author(s) (2024). Kjærleik og tjuveri: Om Eric Weisbards Hound Dog. Dag og Tid.
  • Show author(s) (2024). Kartet og terrenget: Om Hurray for the Riff Raffs The Past is Still Alive. Dag og Tid.
  • Show author(s) (2024). Heimsøkte songar: Om Hania Ranis Ghosts. Dag og Tid.
  • Show author(s) (2024). Flytande lyd: Om Julia Holters Something in the Room She Moves. Dag og Tid.
  • Show author(s) (2024). Ein gong til, folkens: Om The Greatest Night in Pop. Dag og Tid.
  • Show author(s) (2010). The 2010 Visual Culture Studies Conference. Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur. 165-166.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Med medieestetikkens briller: Liv Hauskens Medieestetikk. Norsk Medietidsskrift.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Jakta på det ekte: David Shields' Reality Hunger. Morgenbladet.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Festskrift for anonymiteteten: Don DeLillos Point Omega. Morgenbladet.
  • Show author(s) (2009). "Nærare bildet. Om Siri Meyers HVA ER VISUELL KULTUR.". Morgenbladet.
  • Show author(s) (2009). "Nerdane tek hevn! Om Jonathan Lethems CHRONIC CITY.". Morgenbladet.
  • Show author(s) (2009). "Før og etter smellet. Rutu Modans JAMILTI AND OTHER STORIES.". Morgenbladet.
  • Show author(s) (2009). "Eit monumentalt dokument: Om Joe Saccos FOOTNOTES IN GAZA.". Morgenbladet.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Show author(s) (2019). Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing. Routledge.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Coverscaping : discovering album aesthetics. Museum Tusculanums Forlag.
Academic monograph
  • Show author(s) (2014). Den dokumentariske teikneserien.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Zaprudered : the Kennedy assassination film in visual culture.
Popular scientific article
  • Show author(s) (2024). Ingenting varer: Om Seth. Klassekampens Bokmagasin.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Vår tids sixtinske kapell. Vinduets nettsider.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Mangetydig maskespel. Damon Lindelofs Watchmen. Klassekampen.
  • Show author(s) (2010). The President Dying on the Big Screen: A Brief Cultural History of Abraham Zapruder's Film of the Kennedy Assassination. Paperweight.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Søppelkunst. Om Vik Muniz. Bergens Tidende.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Bortanfor fotografiet. Morgenbladet.
  • Show author(s) (2006). "Ikke lenger og ennå ikke: Om DeLillos Kjærlighet-ligger-blødende". Vagant. 5-8.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Å lese med augene: Om Jonathan Safran Foer. Vagant. 14-19.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Fordi du ikkje skal skrive om det: Intervju med Rick Moody. Vagant. 50-60.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Ingen typer, berre individ. Intervju med George Saunders. Vagant. 34-39.
  • Show author(s) (2002). "Ut av isstormen. Rick Moody". Vagant. 73-77.
  • Show author(s) (2002). "Shedding off one more layer of skin: Elleve skriftstykke om masker". Prosopopeia. 14-16.
  • Show author(s) (2002). "Don't Kid Yourself. Cover Your Face. Om Rick Moodys The Black Veil". Vagant. 129-132.
Feature article
  • Show author(s) (2005). Bilder fra Slagmarken. Bergens Tidende.
Doctoral dissertation
  • Show author(s) (2007). "Zaprudered: The Journey of Zapruder's Images".
Interview
  • Show author(s) (2006). Nynorsk pris for transatlantisk bok.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Scener fra en uendelig film.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Intervju med Anne Bøler.
  • Show author(s) (2002). På jakt etter skurken. Intervju med Kristin Aalen Hunsager.
Programme participation
  • Show author(s) (2018). Dystopiske tendenser i TV-serier.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Show author(s) (2022). The Electronic Superhighway Collapses: The Silences of Don DeLillo's The Silence.
  • Show author(s) (2022). The Electronic Superhighway Collapses: The Silences of Don DeLillo's The Silence.
  • Show author(s) (2021). ‘Everything Was Stories’: The Aesthetic Imaginaries of Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus. 13 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Images and Invisibility. 13 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). What Does It Mean to Be Human? Speculative Ekphrasis and Anthropocene Trauma in Don DeLillo's Zero K. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Teikneserieåret 2019. 24 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2020). For at det ikkje skal skje igjen: TV-dramaet 22. juli. 18 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Tomas van Houtryve's Packing Heat and the Culture of Surveillance. 16 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Invisibility Matters. 15 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Dronekunst som politisk kommentar. 13 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Vision de drone: Vers une critique de la rhétorique de la précision. 14 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Gestures of Seeing. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2015). "Lessons from the Life of an Image: Malcolm Browne's Photograph of Thich Quang Duc's Self-Immolation.". 14 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2015). "John's Story: Joe Sacco's Depiction of 'Bare Life'.". 10 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2015). "Comics Reenactment: Joe Sacco's Footnotes in Gaza.". 19 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Writing Seeing: The Ekphrastic Impulse. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2012). The Unsettling Moment: On Mathilde terHeijne's Suicide Trilogy. 15 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Making Humanity Strange to Itself: On Errol Morris and Werner Herzog. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Introduction. 11 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Quoting Zapruder. 12 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Performing Without an Audience.
  • Show author(s) (2005). "Chosen to be Witness": The Exceptionalism of "9/11". 21 pages.
Academic literature review
  • Show author(s) (2009). Bildets makt og avmakt: Ein kort introduksjon til W.J.T. Mitchell. [tilt]. 19-18.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Mot ein ny biletvitskap: Intervju med W.J.T. Mitchell. Norsk Medietidsskrift. 71-81.
Interview Journal
  • Show author(s) (2024). Sett med Kvitt Blikk:" Intervju med Nicholas Mirzoeff. Klassekampen.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Televisual epistemologies and beyond - an interview with Lisa Parks. Journal of Visual Culture. 234-249.
  • Show author(s) (2010). "Visuell Kultur, og Hvorfor vi skal være skeptiske: Et Intervju med James Elkins.". Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur. 55-63.
  • Show author(s) (2010). "Vi må gi fortiden lov til å eldes:" Intervju med Michael Ann Holly". Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur. 144-151.
  • Show author(s) (2010). "Ut av seg sjølv". Morgenbladet. 40-41.
  • Show author(s) (2010). "Questionnaire: Hva er Visuell Kultur?". Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur. 30-43.
  • Show author(s) (2010). "Migrasjonstenkeren: Et intervju med Mieke Bal". Ekfrase: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Visuell Kultur. 46-54.
  • Show author(s) (2009). "Vi retta vår avsky mot bilda frå Abu Ghraib." Intervju med Philip Gourevitch. Morgenbladet.
  • Show author(s) (2007). "Kjoleselgeren som kuppet historien" Intervju med Øyvind Vågnes. Bergens Tidende. 1-3.
  • Show author(s) (2007). "Intervju med Martin Jay". Agora. 181-197.

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Fields of competence 
American Studies
Comics
Creative Screenwriting
Documentary and Ethics
Film & Television
Literary Theory
Media Aesthetics
Visual Culture