The Institute of Cultural Inquiry Email Format
Museums, Historical Sites, and ZoosCalifornia, United States2-10 Employees
The Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICI) is a nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles that investigates how visual technologies document, imagine, remember, and conceal cultural activities and capabilities. Its work spans research, displays, symposia, workshops, performances, and tactical interventions, and it maintains ongoing projects such as The AIDS Chronicles, The Manual of Lost Ideas, and Traumbagger, along with an active publishing program through ICI Press. The organization operates with satellite laboratories in London, Köln, and Venice, and offers residency, curatorial, publishing, fieldwork, and event opportunities for visual researchers, fabricators, and interested observers of visual culture. Target audiences include researchers and contributors across disciplines who engage with visual culture and cultural inquiry, seeking to explore intersections of technology, memory, and human activity. The initiative is positioned within museums, historical sites, and related cultural institutions, emphasizing cross-disciplinary exploration of culture through visual technologies in a regional context spanning the United States and Europe.