%0 Journal Article %T Visual Noise as a Painting Method. An Attempt to a Manifesto %J Visual Studies %D 2018 %X In the era of image, painting loses its privileged position on the typological scale of visual arts. The horizontal leveled order changes essentially its coordinates to transform them into a media, equivalent to visual arts based on technology and/or time. The change does not happen without resistance. We find traces and testimonies of the desire to preserve the ¡°self-centered¡± memory of the ever-prevailing painting in the attributed elements of initially considered to be her denials ¨C photography and digital arts. We are witnessing a strange paradox ¨C in an attempt to preserve itsclaiming perfection nature, painting recognizes the inherentin technology imperfections. The report discusses the visual noise as a possible painting method, demonstrated in the author¡¯s artistic practice and specifically stated in several cycles of works, presented at four exhibitions %K visual noise^ painting^ portrait %U http://journals.uni-vt.bg/vr/eng/vol2/iss1/19