[Commlist] CfP: Moving Image and Art Review Journal (MIRAJ) 9:1

*MIRAJ Issue 9:1 Call for Papers*

Deadline: December 20th 2019 for Publication April 2020

The Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ) is the first peer-reviewed 
publication devoted to artists’ film and video, and its contexts. MIRAJ 
offers a widely distributed international forum for debates surrounding 
all forms of artists’ moving image and media artworks. It is published 
twice a year in print by Intellect Books, and has its editorial base at 
the Centre for Research in Education, Art and Media (CREAM) at the 
University of Westminster.


The editors invite contributions from art historians and critics, film 
and media scholars, curators, and, not least, practitioners. We seek 
pieces that offer theories of the present moment but also writings that 
propose historical re-readings. We welcome essays that:

• re-view canonical works and texts, or identify ruptures in the 
standard histories of artists’ film and video;

* discuss the development of media arts, including the history of 
imaging technologies, as a strand within the history of art;

• address issues of the ontology and medium-specificity of film, video 
and new media, or the entanglement of the moving image in a ‘post-medium 
condition’;

• attempt to account for the rise of projected and screen-based images 
in contemporary art, and the social, technological, or 
political-economic effects of this proliferation;

• investigate interconnections between moving images and still images; 
the role of sound; the televisual; and the interaction of the moving 
image with other elements including technology, human presence and the 
installation environment;

• analyse para-cinematic or extra-cinematic works to discover what these 
tell us about cinematic properties such as temporal progression or 
spectatorial immersion or mimetic representation;

• explore issues of subjectivity and spectatorship;

• investigate the spread of moving images beyond the classical spaces of 
the cinema and galleries, across multiple institutions, sites and 
delivery platforms;

• consider the diverse uses of the moving image in art: from political 
activism to pure sensory and aesthetic pleasure, from reportage to 
documentary testimony, from performativity to social networking;

• suggest new methods of theorizing and writing the moving image.


We welcome work that intersects with other academic disciplines and 
artistic practices. We encourage writing that is lucid without 
compromising intellectual rigour.

We publish the following types of writing: scholarly articles (5000–8000 
words); opinion pieces, feature articles and interviews (3000-4000 
words); review essays of books, individual works, exhibitions and events 
(3000-4000 words). Scholarly articles will be blind peer-reviewed and 
feature articles and review essays can be peer-reviewed on request. All 
writings should propose a central idea or thesis argued through a 
discussion of the work under review.
Articles submitted to MIRAJ should be original and not under 
consideration by any other publication, including online publications. 
We do not publish articles by artists about their own work, nor reviews 
by curators or venues about their own exhibitions.

All submissions should be in English and adhere to the Intellect Style 
Guide (https://www.intellectbooks.com/…/Intellect_Style_Guide_2019…; 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/media/Intellect_Style_Guide_2019.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3cfFpHlbaf7CGs0W_tVkDM5umiJcDnIebO4ZN-9OAWc7BcR1-UC4Oj90E>)

Please submit completed manuscripts only. Send all contributions and 
proposals by e-mail in DOC or RTF format to the Editorial Assistant: 
(miraj /at/ cream.ac.uk) <mailto:(miraj /at/ cream.ac.uk)>


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