Nina Lager Vestberg

Professor of Visual Culture

I am Professor of Visual Culture in the Department of Art and Media Studies. I completed my education in the UK, where I studied photography and multimedia at the University of Westminster (BA Hons), and history of art at Birkbeck College, London (MA and PhD).

I teach across the BA and MA programmes in media studies, and I'm particularly committed to fostering my students' academic writing and research skills through my teaching and supervision.

I am part of the research group Media Acts, and am on research leave in 2017 in order to focus on the collaborative project Digitization and Diversity.

Research Interests

Photography and archives
Materialist media ecology («green media studies»)
Digitization theory
Copyright in/and visual culture

Current research project

Digitization and Diversity: Potentials and Challenges for Diversity in the Culture and Media Sector - a collaborative project with the Norwegian Business School, Handelshøyskolen BI, supported by the Research Council of Norway through its KULMEDIA programme.

Service

Chair of the departmental research committee (2016).
Programme leader in Media Studies (2014-2016).
Representative on the departmental research committee (2013-2015).
Programme leader in Film and Visual Media Studies (2010).

Scientific, academic and artistic work

A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database

Journal publications

Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2016) "There Is No Cloud": Toward a Materialist Ecology of Post-Photography. Captures. vol. 1 (1).
Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2013) "Ikke sint, bare veldig skuffet": Om barn, miljø og medieteknologi. Norsk Medietidsskrift. vol. 20 (4).
Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2013) Ordering, Searching, Finding. Journal of Visual Culture. vol. 12 (3).
Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2011) Robert Doisneau and the Making of a Universal Cliché. History of Photography. vol. 35 (2).
Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2008) Archival value: on photography, materiality and indexicality. Photographies. vol. 1 (1).
Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2008) Archive Style: Photographs & Illustrations for US Surveys, 1850-1890. The Art Book. vol. 15 (2).
Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2008) Copyright between commerce and creativity: art, photography and the law. The Art Book. vol. 15 (1).
Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2008) Shooting in the Street. History of Photography. vol. 32 (2).
Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2007) FSA: The American Vision. The Art Book. vol. 14 (3).
Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2005) Photography as cultural memory: imag(in)ing France in the 1950s. Journal of Romance Studies. vol. 5 (2).
Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2005) Presenting Pictures. Journal of Design History. vol. 18 (3).
Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2005) Édouard Boubat. The Art Book. vol. 12 (3).
Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2004) Art and Photography. The Art Book. vol. 11 (2).

Books

Maxwell, Richard; Raundalen, Jon; Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2015) Media and the ecological crisis. Routledge. 2015. ISBN 978-0-415-70923-1.
Vestberg, Nina Lager; Dahlgren, Anna; Petersson, Dag. (2013) Representational Machines: Photography and the Production of Space. Aarhus Universitetsforlag. 2013. ISBN 9788771241655.

Part of book/report

Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2016) The Ecology of the Photographic Image: Archives, Power and Materiality. (Post)Fotografisches Archivieren. Wandel Macht Geschichte.
Maxwell, Richard; Raundalen, Jon; Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2015) Media Ecology Recycled. Media and the ecological crisis.
Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2013) A Photographic Archive of Physics, or a Physical Archive of Photography? Niels Bohr and the Production of Scientific Space(s). Representational Machines: Photography and the Production of Space.
Vestberg, Nina Lager. (2013) The photographic image in digital archives. The Photographic Image in Digital Culture.
Vestberg, Nina Lager; Dahlgren, Anna; Petersson, Dag. (2013) Editors' Introduction. Representational Machines: Photography and the Production of Space.