Visual AIDS Blog

Sex, Drugs, and TV: Manifesting Harm Reduction through AIDS Activist Media

An online and in-person screening focusing on the contributions of AIDS activism to the harm reduction movement, presented in collaboration with Rosine 2.0. → Read More

Call for Research Proposals

Visual AIDS announces the second year of our research fellowship program, which supports original writing and scholarship about artists who have been lost to AIDS. Deadline: April 16, 2023 → Read More

Announcing Day With(out) Art 2023: 'Everyone I Know Is Sick'

Six new videos generating connections between HIV and other forms of illness and disability will premiere on December 1, 2023 to mark World AIDS Day / Day With(out) Art. → Read More

Remembering Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski (1957–2022)

In honor of the prolific AIDS activist videomaker Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski, we are sharing her final video work as well as tributes from Alexandra Juhasz, Jean Carlomusto, and Henry Szczepanski. → Read More

Visual AIDS Spring & Summer Internships

Visual AIDS is seeking two paid interns: a spring intern to support with public programming and social media and a summer intern to support with our archival collections. → Read More

A Tribute to Carol Leigh (1952–2022) and Juanita Mohammed Szczepanski (1957–2022)

Jean Carlomusto, Alexandra Juhasz, and Hugh Ryan offer a tribute to two artists featured in their 2016 video COMPULSIVE PRACTICE who passed away in 2022. → Read More

Revisiting 'A Leap in the Dark' After Thirty Years

Ryan Conrad speaks with activists Allan Klusaček and Ken Morrison, who edited the influential 1992 anthology A Leap in the Dark: AIDS, Art & Contemporary Cultures. → Read More

Nelson Edwin Rodriguez: Love, Loss, Memory

Visual AIDS Research Fellow aliwen considers camp and sensuality in the photography of Nelson Edwin Rodriguez (1972–1995), as part of a series of original scholarly writing engaging with the Visual AIDS Archive Project. → Read More

More Life: Photographer Leslie Kaliades’s Turn Toward the Moving Image

As part of a new series of scholarly writing engaging with the Visual AIDS Archive Project, Olivia McCall considers breath and movement in the film and video works of Leslie Kaliades. → Read More

Myth-Making and Shaking: the Subversive Art of David Cannon Dashiell

As part of a new series of scholarly writing engaging with the Visual AIDS Archive Project, Gina Prat Lilly explores the transgressive work of David Cannon Dashiell. → Read More