Welcome to The Visible Evidence community. We are scholars, artists, producers, and curators who engage in debates on contemporary documentary practices and non-fiction media culture.

Visible Evidence began as a conference and was first held at Duke University in 1993. Subsequent editions have been held at the University of Southern California, Harvard, Northwestern, San Francisco State, University of Wales (Cardiff), with most recent editions taking place in Utrecht (2000), Brisbane (2001), Marseilles (2002), Bristol (December 2003), Montreal (2005), Sao Paulo (2006), and Bochum, Germany (2007).

Upcoming locations are Lincoln University, England (2008) and the University of Southern California (2009).

The conference is a peripatetic international and interdisciplinary conference on the role of film, video and other media as witness and voice of social reality, which encompasses a wide range of cultural, political, social, historical, ethnographic and pedagogical questions and perspectives from fields such as film studies, communication studies, anthropology, architecture, art history, ethnic studies, queer studies, history, journalism, law, medicine, political science, sociology, urban studies and women's studies.