The Journal of Comparative Media Arts (CMA Journal) is an open-access,
student-run peer-reviewed journal, taking up discussions and investigations
within the creative, critical and cultural communities. Our goal is to publish
the best of graduate, postgraduate and recent graduate essays and
dissertations, presenting the pluralism of research within arts and culture and
a forum for scholarly discourse. Engaging a transdisciplinary perspective, the
CMA Journal encompasses contemporary concerns with a focus on visual arts and
art history, cinema and moving-image studies, performance studies, and studies
of computer-based arts. Promoting open-minded thinking the CMA Journal aims to
generate a fruitful environment for critical, historical, and theoretical
analysis across arts forms and practice. We welcome experimental and creative
writing, works-in-progress, collaborations and lively debates that are
critically engaged in the ever-shifting range and scope of the fields of
critical and cultural studies.
ISSUE ONE: FAILURE
The discourse of failure, while commonly perceived as the antithesis of
success, can be understood to engender experimentation and potentiality. Making
mistakes becomes an important moment, necessary in the pursuit of progress and
discovery. Failure obliges time to reflect on what has taken place; retracing
steps in order to analyze, learn and understand outcomes; taking advantage of
and recognizing the happy accidents. Within creative practices, error becomes
the device for re-investigating, re-evaluating and re-making an event, a moment
or a work to implement something different. Pop culture and cybernetic space is
rife with memes of failure and reveals the provocative humour in our mistakes.
By turning failure on its head, emergent and alternative paths open up to
experience and possibility. The process of becoming calls for expanded
perspectives and the assimilation of new knowledge. As scholar, artist, critic
and keen observer, how might failure be transformed into a pretext to create?
Is it possible to engage a perspective in which failure, and therefore the
mistake or the error, might be seen as a fundamental moment in the creative and
pedagogical process? When is being wrong right? How might a non-judgmental
context be recognized as incentive to go beyond limitations and expectations of
success? As we launch the first issue of the Journal of Comparative Media
Arts, we are optimistic of a rousing success on the provocative theme of
failure.
SUBTHEMES
SOUND: Dissonance and cognitive conflict; the disharmony of sound; vibrations
and noise; the medium of air and water; reception and perception; manipulation,
mixing, and reproduction; environmental, psychological and social sounds;
unstable intervals, an argument or disagreement, contradictory beliefs.
PERFORMANCE: Failure to perform, bodily and cognitive stress, dis-ability; a
misstep, a fall, injury, non-performance; the rehearsal and the understudy;
development of style, finding your voice, forgetting lines and the
reverberations of silence; subjectivities and experience; unachievable goals
and perilous adventures; wandering, exploring and getting lost.
BODY & EMBODIMENT: Corporeal, social and communicative decay; the carcass, the
corpse and the abject; the detritus of human existence; sustainability, waste
and apocalyptic events; misunderstanding and losses in translation;
cake-eating, revolt and evolution;
POLITICAL & SOCIAL: Ideological, political, civil, or institutional
dis-obedience; rioting, challenging authority, breaking promises,
accountability; perversions, subcultures and underground movements;
marginalization; colonization and the white-washing of culture; language,
history and story-telling; migration, moving in, settling and inhabiting;
strategy and tactics;
TECHNOLOGY: Glitches, skipping or noise both visual and aural; disconnections
and dropped communication; sharing of information, the viral form, the
re-evaluation of time; extension and adaptation, the uncanny and the
threat/potential of AI; undesirable outcomes and dangerous progress.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
This is the Journal of Comparative Media Arts CFP for long papers, short
papers, photo essays and artworks. The inaugural publication of the CMA Journal
invites submissions that consider the theme of FAILURE. Every submission
relevant to study of contemporary, forward-thinking investigations in visual
culture and the arts will be reviewed and considered.
Submissions will be accepted until March 15 2015, 23:59 PST.
ART OR RESEARCH LONG PAPER: This type of submission is best suited for
scholarly work and reports on completed research or artworks. Each submission
will be carefully reviewed by three independent reviewers and ranked based on
quality of presentation, relevance to the community, originality, and
importance of the contribution. Submissions in this category can be between
5000-7500 words, including abstract, footnotes, bibliography, author bio(s);
ART OR RESEARCH SHORT PAPERS: This type of submission is best suited for
scholarly work and reports on ongoing research or artwork, as well as position
papers raising original and provocative theoretical or practical discourses and
questions. Each submission will be carefully reviewed by three independent
reviewers and ranked based on quality of presentation, relevance to the
community, originality, and importance of the contribution. Submissions in
this category can be between 2500-3000 words, including abstract, footnotes,
bibliography, author bio(s);
PHOTO ESSAYS: This type of submission is best suited for the dissemination of
artistic research and its methodologies, from all arts disciplines. This
format allows for text to be woven together with image, audio and video. This
format also invites critical reviews of exhibitions, artist studio visits,
artist profiles and experimental content. All images, audio and video elements
must be the property of the artist or meet copyright approval and is the
responsibility of the author. Each submission will be carefully reviewed by
three independent reviewers and ranked based on quality of presentation,
relevance to the community, originality, and importance of the contribution.
Submissions in the Photo Essay category can be between 1000-2000 words,
including abstract, footnotes, bibliography, and author bio(s). Please include
low resolution copies of images/supplements to be included in the essay with
copyright permissions where applicable.
ARTWORKS: We accept submissions of individual artworks, including any media,
audio and video, to be published as a featured image for each publication.
Please provide a 300-500 word artist statement, including how the work fits
within the theme of FAILURE.
SUBMISSION FORMAT
All submissions need to be the full length version of the paper. Please submit
Word documents (.doc or .docx) or PDFs to the attention of the Peer Review
Committee via email: [email protected]
Submissions will be accepted until March 15 2015, 23:59 PST. Accepted
submission will be published online May 2015.
QUESTIONS?
Contact the Editorial Committee via email: [email protected], or through our
online contact form.
Or visit our website: http://cmajournal.ca/call-for-submissions/
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