[ecrea] CFP Announcement - IVC Issue 23, "Blueprints"

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Blueprints€? -€“ Issue 23

For its twenty-third issue, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal 
for Visual Culture invites scholarly articles and creative works that 
consider the multiple valences of the topic:Â blueprints.

In his theoretical manifesto, Toward An Architecture, Le Corbusier 
wrote, “The plan is the generator. Without plan there can be neither 
grandeur of aim and expression, nor rhythm, nor mass, nor coherence. . . 
. The plan is what determines everything; it is the decisive moment.� 
The plan or blueprint is the primary tool of the architect’s and the 
drafter’s trades—a technical document that bridges creative impulse 
and constructive labor, intent and execution, virtuality and 
materiality. Taking shape as a conversation among concept, form, and 
representation, a blueprint insistently nudges its spectator’s gaze 
outside its frame. It is understood as a necessary stage on the way to 
something larger, something grander, something more, and is usually 
seen not as a self-contained object, but as prescription directed toward 
a particular outcome. Yet a blueprint may also be the terminus of the 
unrealized and the unrealizable. Étienne-Louis Boullée’s Cénotaphe 
à Newton, Le Corbusier’s Ville Contemporaine, Frank Lloyd Wright’s 
Broadacres, and the Chicago Spire are among the many visionary designs 
abandoned at the drawing board, whose construction in real space we may 
now only imagine.

In Issue 23, we would like contributors to consider how blueprints—and 
more broadly, agendas, manifestos, models, or prophesies—negotiate 
between the present and an imagined, idealized, or impossible future. 
What qualities and limitations are shared by conceptual architecture and 
other speculative mediums? How do plans and prototypes function as a 
critique of present realities? What is the aesthetic value of diagrams, 
renderings, Â sketches, or preparatory studies? What occurs when we no 
longer consider the model as process, but as finished product? What are 
the mechanisms through which the plan attempts to fill the gap between 
language and image or event?

We welcome papers and artworks that further the various understandings 
of blueprints. Possible topics of exploration include, but are not 
limited to:

* Conceptual architecture
* Models, prototypes, renderings, and preparatory studies
* Graphs, cyanotypes, etchings, and other media related to tracing
* Political manifestos
* Prophecy and speculation
* Disparity between concept and execution
* Representations of utopia or dystopia
* World’s Fairs and Expos
* Storyboards and scripts
* Unfinished or posthumously completed works
* Dance and performance notation
* Digital urban planning

Please send completed papers (with references following the guidelines 
from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to 
ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com by October 15, 2014. Inquiries 
should be sent to the same address.

Creative/Artistic Works
In addition to written materials, InVisible Culture is accepting work 
in other media (video, photography, drawing, code) that reflect upon the 
theme as it is outlined above. For questions or more details concerning 
acceptable formats, go tohttp://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contributeÂ; or 
contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com.

Reviews
InVisible Culture is also currently seeking submissions for book, 
exhibition, and film reviews (600-1,000 words). To submit a review 
proposal, go tohttp://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contributeÂ; or contact 
ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com.

Blog
The journal also invites submissions to its blog feature, which will 
accommodate more immediate responses to the topic of the current issue. 
For further details, please contact us at 
ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com with the subject heading “blog 
submission.�

* InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture (IVC) is 
a student run interdisciplinary journal published online twice a year in 
an open access format. Through peer reviewed articles, creative works, 
and reviews of books, films, and exhibitions, our issues explore 
changing themes in visual culture. Fostering a global and current dialog 
across fields, IVC investigates the power and limits of vision.

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