[Commlist] Call for Contributions: Surveillance/Art Edited Collection

Call for Contributions
Edited collection: Surveillance/Art: A Creative Address of Surveillance 
Logics
Edited by Susan Cahill, with Julia Chan, Stéfy McKnight, and sava saheli 
singh

Deadline for proposals: May 15, 2022

This edited collection brings together a selection of creative, 
critical, and scholarly works that speak to each other in their 
engagement with art and surveillance. We invite artworks, art writing, 
and scholarly writing that address a range of topics associated with 
surveillance. Specifically, we are interested in contributions that 
situate art in relation to the logics, beliefs, and value systems that 
enable and justify the applications of surveillance as a system and 
technology of social control (Browne 2012; Maynard 2017). Media studies 
and communications scholars are welcome to submit.

Our definition of surveillance is broad: we think of it as the social, 
technological, cultural, political, and historical structures that 
dictate the will and capacity to monitor which people are free to move, 
settle, and live, and which people are not. We see these structures as 
working in conjunction with colonial-capitalism, white supremacy, and 
cis-heteropatriarchy, and are interested in creative works and writing 
that critically think through these intersections. We situate this 
collection in relation to broader scholarship that discusses the 
implications and histories of surveillance in relation to race, gender, 
class, sexuality, and ability (for instance, works by Browne 2015; 
Dubrosky and Magnet 2015; Kafer and Grinberg 2019; Khan et al. 2022; 
Monahan 2017; Saltes 2013). Proposed contributions to this edited 
collection can engage with any historical periods and geopolitical spaces.

Importantly, this collection forefronts art practices as generative and 
integral participants in historical and contemporary understandings of 
surveillance. Art and creativity are broad terms, and can refer to a 
number of mediums and disciplines. For this collection, we focus on 
mediums of art that would be conventionally associated with visual art 
galleries and museums: painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, film 
and video, installations, site-specific art, performance, and 
photography (if you are not sure whether your work fits with our call, 
please do not hesitate to reach out). With these works, we are 
interested in contributions that critique surveillance structures, 
counter-surveil the agents and systems of surveillance, and present them 
to audiences in ways that denormalize these structures to reveal the 
often invisible and unquestioned logics that govern them. In this way, 
we encourage contributions that position art as a creative methodology, 
a way to think about artistic and critical interventions that trouble, 
reveal, challenge, and resist surveillance structures and larger 
understandings of them.

Once assembled, the edited collection will be submitted for publication 
to a scholarly press, which will involve the peer-review process.

Submission guide and timelines:
Please send submissions and any questions to (art.surveillance /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(art.surveillance /at/ gmail.com)>.

All submissions should be sent by May 15, 2022, and include a 100-word 
bio per contributor. For artworks, please send a 250-word artist 
statement and up to 5 images. For written pieces, please send a 500-word 
abstract. All attachments should be in pdf form, except for images, 
which should be in jpg form. If the artwork is in video format, please 
send a link as part of your submission.

We will respond to submissions by June 15, 2022. For accepted pieces, 
full versions will be due December 01, 2022. Format and structure of 
artwork contributions will depend on the specifics of the medium and 
reproduction. Full versions of written pieces will be 5000-7000 words, 
including notes and references.

/Note: Authors will not be expected to pay to be published./

References
Browne, Simone. 2012. “Race and Surveillance.” Routledge Handbook of 
Surveillance Studies, eds. Kirstie Ball, Kevin Haggerty, and David Lyon, 
Routledge.
Browne, Simone. 2016. Dark Matters, Duke University Press.
Dubrosky, Rachel E. and Shoshana Amielle Magnet, eds. 2015. Feminist 
Surveillance Studies, 2015.
Kafer, Gary and Daniel Grinberg, eds. 2019. “Queer Surveillance,” 
special themed issue of Surveillance & Society 17, 5.
Khan, Sheila, Nazir Ahmed Can, and Helen Machado, eds. 2022. Racism and 
Racial Surveillance, Routledge.
Maynard, Robyn. 2017. Policing Black Lives, Fernwood Publishing.
Monahan, Torin. 2017. “Regulating belonging: surveillance, inequality, 
and the cultural production of abjection.” Journal of Cultural Economy 
10, 2: 191-206.
Saltes, Natasha. 2013. “‘Abnormal’ Bodies on the Borders of Inclusion: 
Biopolitics and the Paradox of Disability Surveillance.” Surveillance & 
Society 11, 1/2: 55-73.

link for this info:
https://akimbo.ca/listings/call-for-contributions-surveillance-art-edited-collection/ 



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