Visual Resources, issue: What is an Image, Now?
Call for Papers Deadline: January 15, 2021
From the Call (excerpts):
New modes of production and dissemination in the digital age sprouted new ways of defining images, new categories of images, renewed understanding of the image’s changing roles through various context. The increasing visualization of everything, revolutionizes our understanding of images, and in a way, the permanent and proliferate presence of images and their discursive role completes, or rather complicates, the process of the secularization of representation and its politicization.
We pose that this moment in time, at the threshold of a pandemic, and the imaginaries perpetuated by its politics, we are again in a moment of transition, one that anticipating a ‘post-digital’ image. One that refuses newness and enthusiasm, and moves fully to a mode of cycling and recycling.
For this special issue of Visual Resources, we are interested in new perspective, new theoretical considerations of images, their ontology, their meaning, value and social role. We are interested in offering a multilayered understanding of the image, relevant to current conditions of relation and communication. We are interested in understanding images outside of the scope of their disciplinary use. We are interested in images as they function across different aspects of epistemology. We are interested in the phenomenology of the image as a connecting vertebra between disciplines.
We are also specifically interested in articles that were written in collaboration, out of an inter-disciplinary consideration of the ontology of images and imaging media. Works submitted by individuals will be considered by virtue of their excellence and ability to propose a multi-disciplinary and layered response to this set of questions. Individuals may also send abstracts, if they are interested to be matched with other individuals to form a partnership or a collaboration. We will facilitate those when possible and appropriate.
Abstract of 300-400 words to be sent to: Dr Lee Weinberg (lee.weinberg@rca.ac.uk) and Dr Phaedra Shanbaum (ad5370@coventry.ac.uk). Submission deadline for abstracts is January 15, 2021, 23.55 GMT. If your proposal is received after the above deadline, it may be considered for future issues. Abstracts accepted will be notified, and authors will be required to submit their full article (4500-6000 words) and this will go through a double blinded peer review process before accepted for final publication.