Aims of the New CVA
The CVA seeks to be more a facilitating network than a formal organisation, it will :- organize panels at IUAES Conferences and Inter-Conferences.
- contribute to and encourage discussions on the use of audiovisual media in anthropological research in and outside academia.
- support the development of Visual Anthropology as a discipline worldwide
- keep a website that aims at offering a progressive forum for presentation and distribution of, and discussion on visual anthropological studies, be it ethnographic documentaries or other (multi) media presentations pertaining to the field of Visual Anthropology.
- seek to develop standards for Visual Anthropological academic publications that can be used within academic institutions.
- develop a serious academic discussion-forum by offering a peer-reviewing site where anthropologists supervising research-projects by PhD students and Master students can submit video-productions and other formats for peer-reviewing.