
Culture of the Selfie
Self-Representation in Contemporary Visual Culture
Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2017
Photography theory · Visual culture · Media art
Scholar, educator, curator, producer, and art critic in visual media arts and post-digital photography

Ana Peraica is a scholar, educator and curator working on visual media arts and post-digital photography. She teaches at the University for Continuing Education Krems and leads Atelier Peraica, the Split photographic atelier founded in 1934. She is the author of Culture of the Selfie, The Age of Total Images and Fotografija kao dokaz, with chapters published by Routledge, Springer, Palgrave and MIT Press.
Ana Peraica is a scholar, educator, curator and art critic working on visual media arts and the philosophy and theory of digital and post-digital photography. She holds a PhD from the International PhD Study Philosophy and Contemporaneity (Universities of Maribor, Rijeka and Trieste, 2010), completed the doctoral course at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (2000–2003) and was a younger researcher at the Jan van Eyck Akademie (1999–2001).
She has taught at the University for Continuing Education Krems since 2008, where she was Visiting Professor in 2021, was Visiting Fellow at Central European University in 2019, and has lectured at Oxford Brookes University, Ankara University, the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, the University of Ljubljana and elsewhere. Her books are Culture of the Selfie (2017), Fotografija kao dokaz (2018) and The Age of Total Images (2019); her chapters have been published by Routledge, Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, Bloomsbury and MIT Press, and her articles in Leonardo, Photographies and Philosophy of Photography. She co-curated Smuggling Anthologies, reviews for Leonardo, Photographies, Photography & Culture, Visual Communication, Cogent Arts & Humanities and AI & Society, and evaluates grant proposals for Horizon Europe (Cluster 2), the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (including COFUND), COST and national funds in Poland and the Czech Republic. She leads Atelier Peraica, the photographic atelier founded in Split in 1934.

Culture of the Selfie
Self-Representation in Contemporary Visual Culture
Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2017

Fotografija kao dokaz
Primjena tehnologijske definicije fotografije na raspravu u estetici i teoriji fotografije
Multimedijalni institut, Zagreb, 2018

The Age of Total Images
Disappearance of a Subjective Viewpoint in Post-digital Photography
Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2019

Kultura selfija
Osobna reprezentacija u suvremenoj vizualnoj kulturi (hrvatski prijevod)
Jesenski i Turk, Zagreb, 2023
New micro-credential courses (lifelong learning) at the University for Continuing Education Krems, 2026. They continue the postgraduate teaching on photography and AI, photographs and maps, and media art criticism.
▶ Video recordings of lectures: YouTube: Peraica – Heritage & Postdigital Photography
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author = {Peraica, Ana},
title = {Kultura selfija: Osobna reprezentacija u suvremenoj vizualnoj kulturi},
publisher = {Jesenski i Turk},
address = {Zagreb},
year = {2023}
}Conference and classroom lectures, video essays and discussions on photographic theory and practice. Channel: Peraica: Heritage & Postdigital Photography.
Negativeland (2009), awarded at Photodays, Rovinj, 2010; Positiveland (2010/11); Cookbooks (2020/21). The series and the archive they come from are shown at the atelier’s website. atelierperajica.com
Lectures, keynotes, teaching, workshops and curatorial collaboration.
Relocated because of war in Croatia.
Mandatory reading in courses:
1. City University of Hong Kong. SM6349: Platform studies
2. University of Torino, Semiotica delle culture digitali FIL0370
3. Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem – BMNAN13500A, Critical Approaches to Visual and Popular Culture,
4. University of Krakow (WZ.ZI-303: Visual communication)
Supplementary readings in courses
1. ELTE Faculty of Humanities at the Institute for Art Theory and Media Studies Visuality and communication: Contemporary issues in European mediatised visual culture. (BMI-MEDD-106) Virag Vecsey
2. University of Leeds (COMM2125- Visual communication) 885_1&s=m
3. Hebrew University of Jerusalem (5392: From Durer to Selfie: The Art of portraiture)
4. University of Rijeka, Kolaž u nematerijalnom (digitalnom) prostoru
Previously used at the following universities
1. Bilkent University (COMD 356- Digital Culture)
2. University in Essen, (Post)photographs in the digital image society
publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung
2. University of Stirling (FMSU9A4- Digital Media and Culture).
cityu.edu.hk media.campusnet.unito.it btk.ppke.hu usosweb.uj.edu.pl scribd.com lib5.leeds.ac.uk shnaton.huji.ac.il apuri.uniri.hr stars.bilkent.edu.tr lsf.uni-due.de rl.talis.comMandatory reading in courses
1. MIT program in art, culture and technology (4.344/4.345, Advanced photography and related media photo futures: Automaton/Algorithms/AI
Supplementary readings in courses
1. University of Wien (240535 SE MM3 Machine vision)
ufind.univie.ac.atArticle published in Media theory
Teorija fotografije · Vizualna kultura · Medijska umjetnost
Znanstvenica, edukatorica, kustosica, producentica i likovna kritičarka u području vizualnih medijskih umjetnosti i post-digitalne fotografije

Ana Peraica teoretičarka je, nastavnica i kustosica koja se bavi vizualnim medijskim umjetnostima i postdigitalnom fotografijom. Predaje na University for Continuing Education Krems i vodi Atelier Peraica, splitski fotografski atelier osnovan 1934. Autorica je knjiga Culture of the Selfie, The Age of Total Images i Fotografija kao dokaz, a njezina su poglavlja objavili Routledge, Springer, Palgrave i MIT Press.
Dr. sc. Ana Peraica teoretičarka je, nastavnica, kustosica i likovna kritičarka koja se bavi vizualnim medijskim umjetnostima te filozofijom i teorijom digitalne i postdigitalne fotografije. Doktorirala je na Međunarodnom doktorskom studiju Filozofija i suvremenost (sveučilišta u Mariboru, Rijeci i Trstu, 2010.), završila je doktorski tečaj na Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (2000.–2003.) i bila mlađa istraživačica na Jan van Eyck Akademie (1999.–2001.).
Od 2008. predaje na University for Continuing Education Krems, gdje je 2021. bila gostujuća profesorica, a 2019. bila je gostujuća suradnica na Central European University, a predavala je, među ostalim, na Oxford Brookes University, Sveučilištu u Ankari, Mađarskom sveučilištu likovnih umjetnosti, Sveučilištu u Ljubljani i drugdje. Autorica je knjiga Culture of the Selfie (2017.), Fotografija kao dokaz (2018.) i The Age of Total Images (2019.); njezina su poglavlja objavili Routledge, Springer, Palgrave Macmillan, Bloomsbury i MIT Press, a članke Leonardo, Photographies i Philosophy of Photography. Kustosica je projekta Smuggling Anthologies i drugih, recenzira za časopise Leonardo, Photographies, Photography & Culture, Visual Communication, Cogent Arts & Humanities i AI & Society te ocjenjuje projektne prijedloge za Horizon Europe (Cluster 2), Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (uključujući COFUND), COST i nacionalne fondove u Poljskoj i Češkoj. Vodi Atelier Peraica, fotografskog ateliera osnovanog u Splitu 1934.

Culture of the Selfie
Self-Representation in Contemporary Visual Culture
Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2017

Fotografija kao dokaz
Primjena tehnologijske definicije fotografije na raspravu u estetici i teoriji fotografije
Multimedijalni institut, Zagreb, 2018

The Age of Total Images
Disappearance of a Subjective Viewpoint in Post-digital Photography
Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2019

Kultura selfija
Osobna reprezentacija u suvremenoj vizualnoj kulturi (hrvatski prijevod)
Jesenski i Turk, Zagreb, 2023
Novi kolegiji (mikrokvalifikacije, cjeloživotno učenje) na University for Continuing Education Krems, 2026. Nastavljaju poslijediplomsku nastavu o fotografiji i UI-ju, fotografijama i kartama te kritici medijske umjetnosti.
▶ Video snimke predavanja: YouTube: Peraica – Heritage & Postdigital Photography
@book{peraica2017selfie,
author = {Peraica, Ana},
title = {Culture of the Selfie: Self-Representation in Contemporary Visual Culture},
publisher = {Institute of Network Cultures},
address = {Amsterdam},
year = {2017}
}
@book{peraica2018dokaz,
author = {Peraica, Ana},
title = {Fotografija kao dokaz: Primjena tehnologijske definicije fotografije na raspravu u estetici i teoriji fotografije},
publisher = {Multimedijalni institut},
address = {Zagreb},
year = {2018}
}
@book{peraica2019total,
author = {Peraica, Ana},
title = {The Age of Total Images: Disappearance of a Subjective Viewpoint in Post-digital Photography},
publisher = {Institute of Network Cultures},
address = {Amsterdam},
year = {2019}
}
@book{peraica2023selfi,
author = {Peraica, Ana},
title = {Kultura selfija: Osobna reprezentacija u suvremenoj vizualnoj kulturi},
publisher = {Jesenski i Turk},
address = {Zagreb},
year = {2023}
}Predavanja s konferencija i s nastave, video eseji i rasprave o teoriji i praksi fotografije. Kanal: Peraica: Heritage & Postdigital Photography.
Negativeland (2009), nagrađen na Photodaysu u Rovinju 2010.; Positiveland (2010./11.); Kuharice (2020./21.). Serije i arhiv iz kojeg potječu prikazani su na web-stranici ateliera. atelierperajica.com
Predavanja, keynote izlaganja, nastava, radionice i kustoska suradnja.
Preseljenje zbog rata u Hrvatskoj.
Obvezna literatura na kolegijima:
1. City University of Hong Kong. SM6349: Platform studies
2. Sveučilište u Torinu, Semiotica delle culture digitali FIL0370
3. Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem – BMNAN13500A, Critical Approaches to Visual and Popular Culture,
4. Sveučilište u Krakovu (WZ.ZI-303: Visual communication)
Dopunska literatura na kolegijima
1. ELTE, Filozofski fakultet, Institut za teoriju umjetnosti i studije medija Visuality and communication: Contemporary issues in European mediatised visual culture. (BMI-MEDD-106) Virag Vecsey
2. Sveučilište u Leedsu (COMM2125- Visual communication) 885_1&s=m
3. Hebrejsko sveučilište u Jeruzalemu (5392: From Durer to Selfie: The Art of portraiture)
4. Sveučilište u Rijeci, Kolaž u nematerijalnom (digitalnom) prostoru
Prethodno korišteno na sljedećim sveučilištima
1. Bilkent University (COMD 356- Digital Culture)
2. Sveučilište u Essenu, (Post)photographs in the digital image society
publishConfFile=webInfo&publishSubDir=veranstaltung
2. Sveučilište u Stirlingu (FMSU9A4- Digital Media and Culture).
cityu.edu.hk media.campusnet.unito.it btk.ppke.hu usosweb.uj.edu.pl scribd.com lib5.leeds.ac.uk shnaton.huji.ac.il apuri.uniri.hr stars.bilkent.edu.tr lsf.uni-due.de rl.talis.comObvezna literatura na kolegijima
1. MIT program in art, culture and technology (4.344/4.345, Advanced photography and related media photo futures: Automaton/Algorithms/AI
Dopunska literatura na kolegijima
1. Sveučilište u Beču (240535 SE MM3 Machine vision)
ufind.univie.ac.atČlanak objavljen u časopisu Media theory