CVSN, vol. 1
Space (2013) 

Space is often defined by what it contains, what it keeps out, or what it represents. Space is ubiquitous. It is symbolic. It is everything and nothing all at once. Its malleability offers opportunities for the creation and subversion of meaning. With this publication, we have created a shared space for space itself. Through this collective project, we solicit an interaction between you and the space of our pages.

Featuring work by: Cerah Jean Churchwright, Kate Elliott, Natalie Jenkins, Brynn Kinard, Mac Shafer, Julie Stoermer, Justin Warrick, and Jarrod Welling-Cann. 

CVSN, no. 2
The Future (2014) 

CVSN is produced by a group of undergraduate students at the University of Cincinnati, all born between 1991 and 1993. We represent a microgeneration and refuse to be defined by inaccurate generalizations that criticize us as unmotivated, overindulgent, and addicted to technology. Projections figure millennials as both the dream and nightmare of the future. Through critical theory, social analysis, and creative work, our publication invites readers to rethink and subvert these and other dominant forms of seeing.

Featuring work by: Brittany Ouellette, Sso-Rha Kang, Hannah Schulte, Matt Stalf, and Caroline Turner. 

CVSN Potluck: Identity As (2020)

This publication responds to the question posed with a digital format. The ninth year of the Critical Visions program took up the challenge, though necessarily by choice, of publishing online. A pandemic and the world of social distancing demanded we answer the questions of how to support the longevity and sustainability of the program while doing so remotely. Potluck: Identity As is the first CVSN publication to be published online. The platform Issuu offers a native experience on desktop, mobile web, app, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, and all other social media. While we wish we could have created a physical edition, we invite you to engage with us in this new, and distanced, normal we are all experiencing.

Featuring work by: Luke Kindle, Senja Toivonen, Julia Tong, Stephanie Cuyubamba Kong, Mikaela Williams, Jack Thayer, Jesse Ly, and Maria Marotta.

Manifest Almanac: Land/Water (2022)

This almanac is for those seeking new relations with land and water. It is for environmentalists sensitive to the tension between nature and human nature, for artists looking for perspectives on perspective, and activists transforming the present to make the future more habitable. Inside you will find personal and political excavations that manifest new futures. Use them as a guide to examine the tangled roots of historical contingencies, to cut the rot from existing paradigms, and to sow new habits and relations.

Featuring work by: Isabella Bianchi, Dylan C. Carter, Sarah Cloud, Mackenzie Fields, Louis Herzner, Nandita Kulkarni, Caroline Lorenz, Joe Reluzco, Sydney Sebastian, and Kat Timm. 

On the occasion of the inaugural exhibitions of the Museum of Critical Visions opened on the site of IKEA in West Chester, Ohio, in a parallel present where the IKEA has been abandoned, gutted, and repurposed as a space to reconsider artifacts (2024)

The exhibition catalog presented here, while seemingly an artifact of the inaugural exhibitions at mCVSN (the Museum of Critical Visions), is itself a speculative text. It contains evidence of exhibitions, artworks, and performances that could be rather than those that have been. Organized into three sections—Catch/Release, Lost in Translation, and Rinse & Repeat—the catalog contains curatorial statements, documentation, and accompanying essays from three group shows.

Featuring work by: Becca Dugas, Reese Faber, Jude Gediman, Lisa Helland, Jordan Jones, Narith E. Nhek, Jeshua Schuster, and Connor Taylor.