Founded in 2010, The Image Research Network is brought together around a shared interest in the nature and function of image making and images. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

The Seventeenth International Conference on The Image calls for research addressing the following annual themes and special focus:

2026 Special Focus—The Image as Advocate: Shaping Cultural Conversations

Annual Themes:

• The Form of The Image
• Image Work
• The Image in Society
• Creative and Cultural Technologies
• Ordinary Practice and Collective Behaviors

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