Call for papers open for the Special Section on “Art and Materiality” to be published in Artnodes Journal.
Artnodes is a peer-reviewed Open Access journal published by the Open University of Catalonia since 2002 that comes twice a year, in June and November. http://artnodes.uoc.edu We invite authors to submit their original research papers of no more than 5.000 words in English, Spanish or Catalan. Papers should be both well-argued and thought-provoking and offer substantial contributions to current research. The Journal is indexed in SCOPUS, Carhus Plus +, ERIH, MIAR, DOAJ, and others. For this June Special Section articles should be submitted by the 1st of April 2015 and if accepted will be published in June 2015. We strongly recommend checking the journal’s author guidelines before submitting an article. The materials and technologies of the contemporary art invite us to reconsider, not only the role that these play in the articulation of artistic practices, but also the theoretical frameworks that demonstrate the role of the materiality itself inside the Art History. These premises involve new methodological challenges and important epistemological transformations in the examination of art; challenges that must be analysed, discussed and contrasted with the long and fertile tradition of Art Studies. Fundamental problems such as the distribution of the agencies involved in the research and the artistic practice, the lines of temporal causality, the interconnection between materialities and discursivities, the role of technology and society, the spatiality and location of Art, gain relevance from the suggested challenges. This Special Section of Artnodes Journal welcomes those researches that rebuild the relation between art and its materiality: contributions focused on theoretical, methodological and epistemological reconsiderations and, specially, empirical studies centered on art routines and infrastructures. Perspectives such as Media Archaeology, the Actor-Network Theory or the New Materialisms contribute decisively to the possibility of blurring or even erasing preconceived ontological distinctions –inoperative today-, traditionally supported by the framework of our modernity. We are alluding to established dichotomies such as subject/object, matter/discourse, theory/practice, social/technological, expert/non-expert that lay out important onto-epistemic challenges to overcome. Our interest is precisely to connect these new perspectives with the tradition of history, theory and art practice, starting always from both the reflection and the experience with the routines, the infrastructures and the art fields. Submissions may explore these topics: Researches about art infrastructures: museums, art galleries, centers of production and investigation, archives, exhibition and distribution displays, art market dynamics. Investigations about objects and artistic practices: new materials, technologies inside the art field, production processes, distribution, conservation and preservation of the art and the media, etc. Other art histories and narratives: “minor” or divergent histories, non linear narratives, emergency of novelties, relational temporality and spatiality, forgotten geographical areas, etc. Onto-epistemic and methodological art frameworks: human and non-human agency, relations between practice and theory, experts and non-experts, trans/inter/meta/non-disciplinarity, etc. We strongly encourage you to submit your paper to Artnodes. Remember, articles should be submitted by the 1st of April, 2015. Here are the author guidelines: http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/about/submissions#authorGuidelines Here is the guide for online submissions: http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions If you have any questions please contact: Ana Rodríguez Granell, Executive Manager ([email protected]) Pau Alsina, Director of Artnodes Journal ([email protected]). Many thanks and best wishes from Barcelona. -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. Pau Alsina Professor dels Estudis d'Arts i Humanitats Universitat Oberta de Catalunya http://www.uoc.edu Director d'Artnodes Revista d'art, ciència i tecnologia http://artnodes.uoc.edu (+34) 93 254 (2176) | [email protected] Av. Tibidabo 39-43. Barcelona 08035 Blog personal: http://paualsina.wordpress.com Twitter: @paualsina Aquest missatge s´adreça exclusivament a qui va destinat i pot contenir informació privilegiada o confidencial i dades de caràcter personal, la difusió de les quals és regulada per la Llei orgànica de protecció de dades i la Llei de serveis de la societat de la informació. Si no sou la persona destinatària indicada (o la responsable de lliurar-lo a qui va destinat), no heu de copiar aquest missatge ni lliurar-lo a tercers per cap concepte. Si heu rebut aquest missatge per error o l´heu aconseguit per altres mitjans, us demanem que ens ho comuniqueu immediatament per aquesta mateixa via i l´elimineu irreversiblement. Abans d´imprimir aquest missatge electrònic penseu en el medi ambient.
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