Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal

Parent: UC Santa Cruz

eScholarship stats: Breakdown by Item for March through June, 2025

ItemTitleTotal requestsDownloadView-only%Dnld
3rb6n5q7BLAST RADIUS: No. 4 in a Series of Data Humanization Performances928199092.0%
7xm6v7j2My 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, 20291282639.6%
9n15q89fThe Face of an Empire: Cosmetics and Whiteness in Imperial Portraits of Queen Elizabeth I2877321425.4%
5w56c6n3Trans Self-Imaging Praxis, Decolonizing Photography, and the Work of Alok Vaid-Menon2755322219.3%
1z0340v4Mere Image: Caravaggio, Virtuosity, and Medusa’s Averted Eyes2035814528.6%
0p507033Denis Diderot’s “Salons” as Art Conservation in Eighteenth-Century France1812116011.6%
15h4c86zRefract Journal, Issue 1: "Refraction"1751815710.3%
0qk2z1c2Refract Journal, Volume 2: "Translation"1621714510.5%
9tt733scThe Double Edge of Visibility and Invisibility: Cassils and Queer Exhaustion156589837.2%
94q869s6(Un)veiling Sappho: Renée Vivien and Natalie Clifford Barney’s Radical Translation Projects1532213114.4%
4dv7j9tvMaurice Denis (1870–1943) and the Sacred Grove: Temporality in Fin de Siècle France1492312615.4%
8vc716rqVisualizing Banaba: Art and Research about a Diffracted Pacific Island1302610420.0%
4q20b7qqSynthesizing a Dual-Definition of Façade in the Western Palaces of the Yuanming Yuan: Art, Politics, and Place-making in the Garden of Perfect Brightness129339625.6%
5r76v48zI’m New Here: Black and Indigenous Media Ecologies: Curatorial Statement129498038.0%
3zm9t9mcIntroduction to “Refraction”1281811014.1%
697345pnPower Geometry in Urban Memory: Reading Taksim Square Through the Concept of Representation of Space108149413.0%
7s96s6kb“If You’re Out There, Please Listen to Me…”: Voices of Mourning Through the Wind Phone (Kaze no Denwa)107179015.9%
71s0p8nfLupine Sensibilities: Dynamically Embodied Intersubjectivity between Humans and Refugee Wolves102505249.0%
9w11p9stPhotogrammetry and Zhongshan Pavilion: Reconstructing Urban Memory of the Wenxi Fire102129011.8%
6d00j8mdOlympic-Scale Subversion: Poster Art, Architecture, Performance, and the Afterlives of Mexico 1968101148713.9%
4259n982What is Radical Writing in Visual Studies?998918.1%
9ps74313Sensing Place96237324.0%
2r58110hThe Trophy and The Appeal: Colonial Photography and the Ghosts of Witnessing in German Southwest Africa95138213.7%
3d78r1dbThe Somatic and Textural Language of Patricia Belli: Recrafting Social and Political Bodies in 1990s Nicaragua93207321.5%
8z75g1k7Imagining the Future of Digital Publishing93425145.2%
2r4924w1Land, Water, Explorer: Place-Making “America” in the Early Modern Period87246327.6%
6cd60127Daisy Bell835786.0%
50g5j00dImages, Copyright, and the Future of Digital Publishing in the Arts82117113.4%
31w7t9f3Linguistic Spatial Violence: The Muslim Cameleers in the Australian Outback76126415.8%
6x75v6kdHappy Bullish 2011!!!: Olek’s Project B754715.3%
5d99g907VOLTA VOLTA733704.1%
9ps0d7z3From a Native Daughter: Seeking Home and Ancestral Lines through a Dashboard Hula Girl737669.6%
0288q432Glimmers of Digital Publishing Innovation71135818.3%
78x622whThe Televised Apocalypse714675.6%
1tt3z9mpRefract and the University of California70403057.1%
86g096rxCraptions: Instagram Notes from Joseph Grigely70125817.1%
26t834v1Harun Farocki, Serious Games III (Immersion) (Review)69115815.9%
1jb7j7r4Mining Things: Confronting Loss and Flux in the Slate Industry Ruins of Northwest Wales68115716.2%
60j1b922Introduction685637.4%
98n4g1zwThe Future of Digital Publishing68155322.1%
3dm5k83wMapping Sonic Futurities67145320.9%
24r1z37dRefract Journal, Volume 4: Document/ary Full Issue66194728.8%
1n63968dPublic Displays of Affection65194629.2%
2mc923xrRogue Masks: Visualizing Multidisciplinary Studies6575810.8%
5b9722wt"LeWitt Transpositions" and Conceptual Transpositions: Considering the Grammars of Conceptual Art and Parametric Drawing6495514.1%
7b11466tDocumenting Gender's Signs: Site, Performance, and the US-Mexico Border in Contemporary Art64145021.9%
9053999tWhite Shoals, White Shrouds: Reflections on the Ethics of Looking at Captive Bodies6475710.9%
1fw4b73bIn the Traces: Reflections on Fieldwork in the Region of Ani63135020.6%
5p888323Table of Contents6375611.1%
5jn548z0Thinking of Water as a Material Witness: An Attempt to Fill the Voids in the Archive of the Moscow Canal (1932–37)62154724.2%

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