Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal
Parent: UC Santa Cruz
eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for January through April, 2025
| Item | Title | Total requests | Download | View-only | %Dnld |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3rb6n5q7 | BLAST RADIUS: No. 4 in a Series of Data Humanization Performances | 473 | 15 | 458 | 3.2% |
| 9n15q89f | The Face of an Empire: Cosmetics and Whiteness in Imperial Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I | 304 | 98 | 206 | 32.2% |
| 7xm6v7j2 | My Love to Be Defused: Beginnings of an Ethics of Belonging through Negotiations of a National Socialist Image in Daily Life, from Infancy to Adulthood (Excerpts from Diaries Now Titled, The Responsibility of Being That Sort of Baby, March 24–July 25, 20 | 288 | 23 | 265 | 8.0% |
| 5w56c6n3 | Trans Self-Imaging Praxis, Decolonizing Photography, and the Work of Alok Vaid-Menon | 253 | 58 | 195 | 22.9% |
| 0p507033 | Denis Diderot’s “Salons” as Art Conservation in Eighteenth-Century France | 222 | 21 | 201 | 9.5% |
| 4dv7j9tv | Maurice Denis (1870–1943) and the Sacred Grove: Temporality in Fin de Siècle France | 162 | 25 | 137 | 15.4% |
| 1z0340v4 | Mere Image: Caravaggio, Virtuosity, and Medusa’s Averted Eyes | 152 | 40 | 112 | 26.3% |
| 5r76v48z | I’m New Here: Black and Indigenous Media Ecologies: Curatorial Statement | 148 | 53 | 95 | 35.8% |
| 94q869s6 | (Un)veiling Sappho: Renée Vivien and Natalie Clifford Barney’s Radical Translation Projects | 145 | 26 | 119 | 17.9% |
| 8vc716rq | Visualizing Banaba: Art and Research about a Diffracted Pacific Island | 142 | 25 | 117 | 17.6% |
| 15h4c86z | Refract Journal, Issue 1: "Refraction" | 134 | 10 | 124 | 7.5% |
| 9tt733sc | The Double Edge of Visibility and Invisibility: Cassils and Queer Exhaustion | 117 | 40 | 77 | 34.2% |
| 3zm9t9mc | Introduction to “Refraction” | 113 | 8 | 105 | 7.1% |
| 4259n982 | What is Radical Writing in Visual Studies? | 110 | 12 | 98 | 10.9% |
| 7s96s6kb | “If You’re Out There, Please Listen to Me…”: Voices of Mourning Through the Wind Phone (Kaze no Denwa) | 105 | 21 | 84 | 20.0% |
| 4q20b7qq | Synthesizing a Dual-Definition of Façade in the Western Palaces of the Yuanming Yuan: Art, Politics, and Place-making in the Garden of Perfect Brightness | 103 | 10 | 93 | 9.7% |
| 697345pn | Power Geometry in Urban Memory: Reading Taksim Square Through the Concept of Representation of Space | 91 | 11 | 80 | 12.1% |
| 3dm5k83w | Mapping Sonic Futurities | 86 | 21 | 65 | 24.4% |
| 3d78r1db | The Somatic and Textural Language of Patricia Belli: Recrafting Social and Political Bodies in 1990s Nicaragua | 75 | 27 | 48 | 36.0% |
| 0qk2z1c2 | Refract Journal, Volume 2: "Translation" | 74 | 12 | 62 | 16.2% |
| 8z75g1k7 | Imagining the Future of Digital Publishing | 74 | 34 | 40 | 45.9% |
| 9w11p9st | Photogrammetry and Zhongshan Pavilion: Reconstructing Urban Memory of the Wenxi Fire | 73 | 12 | 61 | 16.4% |
| 2r58110h | The Trophy and The Appeal: Colonial Photography and the Ghosts of Witnessing in German Southwest Africa | 70 | 8 | 62 | 11.4% |
| 5d99g907 | VOLTA VOLTA | 70 | 2 | 68 | 2.9% |
| 2r4924w1 | Land, Water, Explorer: Place-Making “America” in the Early Modern Period | 68 | 17 | 51 | 25.0% |
| 6d00j8md | Olympic-Scale Subversion: Poster Art, Architecture, Performance, and the Afterlives of Mexico 1968 | 68 | 14 | 54 | 20.6% |
| 6x75v6kd | Happy Bullish 2011!!!: Olek’s Project B | 68 | 3 | 65 | 4.4% |
| 9ps74313 | Sensing Place | 66 | 16 | 50 | 24.2% |
| 50g5j00d | Images, Copyright, and the Future of Digital Publishing in the Arts | 65 | 11 | 54 | 16.9% |
| 1n63968d | Public Displays of Affection | 59 | 20 | 39 | 33.9% |
| 0288q432 | Glimmers of Digital Publishing Innovation | 58 | 16 | 42 | 27.6% |
| 7b11466t | Documenting Gender's Signs: Site, Performance, and the US-Mexico Border in Contemporary Art | 57 | 16 | 41 | 28.1% |
| 9818j6f7 | Navigating Media, Technology, and Narrative: Considering the Digital Turn in Scholarly Publishing | 57 | 11 | 46 | 19.3% |
| 9ps0d7z3 | From a Native Daughter: Seeking Home and Ancestral Lines through a Dashboard Hula Girl | 56 | 12 | 44 | 21.4% |
| 26t834v1 | Harun Farocki, Serious Games III (Immersion) (Review) | 55 | 11 | 44 | 20.0% |
| 78x622wh | The Televised Apocalypse | 55 | 3 | 52 | 5.5% |
| 1nz6x651 | Visualizing Precarity and Security: Mona Hatoum’s Drowning Sorrows and Guadalupe Maravilla’s Walk on Water | 54 | 8 | 46 | 14.8% |
| 6cd60127 | Daisy Bell | 54 | 3 | 51 | 5.6% |
| 31w7t9f3 | Linguistic Spatial Violence: The Muslim Cameleers in the Australian Outback | 50 | 5 | 45 | 10.0% |
| 77f2z4g6 | What Does It Mean to Be Truly Open Access? | 49 | 8 | 41 | 16.3% |
| 0q8867m4 | Letter from the Editor | 46 | 3 | 43 | 6.5% |
| 2mc923xr | Rogue Masks: Visualizing Multidisciplinary Studies | 45 | 4 | 41 | 8.9% |
| 1n22g022 | The Heat is On | 44 | 8 | 36 | 18.2% |
| 8g38v41w | The Struggle of Memory against Forgetting: Afterlife and Memorialization of Imagery Surrounding South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission | 44 | 10 | 34 | 22.7% |
| 1jb7j7r4 | Mining Things: Confronting Loss and Flux in the Slate Industry Ruins of Northwest Wales | 43 | 9 | 34 | 20.9% |
| 3418x4nr | Postpublication, Measuring Impact, and Multimedia | 43 | 5 | 38 | 11.6% |
| 86g096rx | Craptions: Instagram Notes from Joseph Grigely | 43 | 10 | 33 | 23.3% |
| 98n4g1zw | The Future of Digital Publishing | 42 | 12 | 30 | 28.6% |
| 1fw4b73b | In the Traces: Reflections on Fieldwork in the Region of Ani | 41 | 9 | 32 | 22.0% |
| 5jn548z0 | Thinking of Water as a Material Witness: An Attempt to Fill the Voids in the Archive of the Moscow Canal (1932–37) | 41 | 14 | 27 | 34.1% |
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