[ecrea] CFP: Speculative Visions (InVisible Culture, Issue 27)

For its twenty-seventh issue, /InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal 
for Visual Culture/ invites scholarly articles and creative works that 
address the complex and multiple meanings of/speculative visions/.

The last decade has seen a rise in popularity among science fiction, 
fantasy, and horror. These genres encourage the capacity to imagine 
post-human bodies, extraordinary worlds, techno-utopias, and 
claustrophobic spaces of violence. In their reliance upon the 
imagination, these speculative visions provide a space to consider 
contradictions and a carnivalesque interaction between popular culture 
and critical theory.

For Issue 27, we would like contributors to consider a range of 
questions produced by both historical and contemporary science fiction, 
fantasy, and horror across all visual media. How are objects transcribed 
and/or adapted from one medium to another? How do the limitations and 
possibilities of a medium structure works?How have these genres endured 
over time beyond their originary forms? How have technological advances 
altered the literalization of these imagined worlds? We welcome papers 
and artworks that further the various understandings of /speculative 
visions/.

*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.rochester /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(ivc.rochester /at/ gmail.com)> by March 1, 
2017. Inquiries should be sent to the same address.*

*Creative/Artistic Works*
In addition to written materials, /InVisible Culture/ is accepting works 
in other media (video, photography, drawing, code) that reflect upon the 
theme as it is outlined above. Please submit creative or artistic works 
along with an artist statement of no more than two pages to 
(ivc.rochester /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(ivc.rochester /at/ gmail.com)>. For questions 
or more details concerning  acceptable formats, go to 
http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute 
<http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute/>or contact the same address.

*Reviews*
/InVisible Culture/ is also currently seeking submissions for book, 
exhibition, and film reviews (600-1,000 words). To submit a review 
proposal, go to http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute 
<http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute/>or contact 
(ivc.rochester /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(ivc.rochester /at/ gmail.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.rochester /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(ivc.rochester /at/ gmail.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.

Jerome P. Dent, Jr.

Graduate Student

Visual and Cultural Studies, PhD

University of Rochester


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