[ecrea] Call for articles & projects: Cabinet (Membrana magazine)

Reminder: Call for articles & projects: Cabinet (Membrana magazine)

Collecting photographic images has for long stirred both interest and 
imagination of photographers, artists, photographic theorists, just as 
it did those of information loving intelligence officers, flea market 
loving amateurs and free market loving entrepreneurs. Contemporary 
proliferation of image production and sharing seems to have only 
intensified the practices of collecting, appropriating and curating of 
found, already existing images.

The resulting amassments of images – either in forms of personal albums, 
institutionalised collections, server farms of social networks or 
archives of state institutions – are also amassments of narratives, of 
projections about societies and individuals, of attempts to limit the 
mere potentiality and contingency of meaning. In particular it was the 
archive – as a concept, a distinctive repressive social apparatus, and 
as a pool of (in)accessible images – that has for long been a focal 
point of theoretical and discursive contestations, creative artistic 
practices and critical appropriations.

Membrana #3 wants to reinvigorate these discussions from the perspective 
of ubiquitous photography and re-politicisation of social life in 
post-democratic societies through the metaphor of cabinet. For us, the 
notion of the cabinet has multiple meanings and can be seen as a 
bureaucratic image storage and retrieval system, an image display 
surface, a desktop icon or an Wunderkammer-ish collection of wonders and 
curiosities and can be approached literally or metaphorically.

We invite textual and visual contributions that explore the notion of 
cabinet/archive from (but not limited to) the following perspectives:

- contingency of image collections and potentiality of meaning

- collecting/exhibiting/archiving in the age of ubiquitous digital 
photography

- collecting photographs, vernacular collections and archives

- apparatus, control, power

- visibility, invisibility, searchability

- archive and (non)accessibility of past (corporate acquisitions, 
private collections, secret services, newspapers and agencies)

- stock photography as/and archive

Format of contributions

- Essays, theoretical papers, overview articles, interviews (approx. 
14.000 characters with spaces), visuals encouraged.

- Short essays, columns (approx. 6.000 characters with spaces), visuals 
encouraged.

- Photographic projects and artwork: proposals for non-commissioned work 
or samples of work can be sent to (editors /at/ membrana.si).

Proposals and deadlines

Please contact the editors at (editors /at/ membrana.si). Proposals and 
deadlines the deadline for 150-word abstracts is 31 May 2017. The 
deadline for finished contributions from accepted proposals is 15 
September 2017. Please send proposals or contact the editors at 
(editors /at/ membrana.si).

About Membrana

Membrana is a contemporary photography magazine dedicated to promoting a 
profound and theoretically grounded understanding of photography. 
Positioning itself in the space between scholarly magazines and popular 
publications, it offers an open forum for critical reflection on the 
medium, presenting both analytical texts and quality visuals. The 
magazine evolved out of Slovene magazine Fotografija (published since 
1997) and is published bi-annually in the summer and winter in the 
English language by the Slovene non-profit institute Membrana.

The theme of Membrana #2 (spring 2017) is Grimace, featuring interviews 
with Robert Hariman, Robbie Cooper, a conversation between Anne Noble 
and Geoffrey Batchen and essays by Asko Lehmuskallio, Paula Horta, Devon 
Schiller, Monika Schwärzler, Ana Peraica and John Hillman. You can 
preview or order Membrana #2 at: http://www.membrana.si/en/book/membrana-2/

The theme of Membrana #1 (winter 2016) is Camouflage and the issue 
features interviews with John Tagg and photographer Mark Curran as well 
as articles by Andrea Mubi Brighenti, Lisa Andergassen, Jan Babnik and 
Martin Bayer.

You can preview or order Membrana #1 at: 
http://www.membrana.si/en/book/membrana-1/

Subscription:

One year subscription (2 issues): 22€

Two year subscription (4 issues): 40€

http://www.membrana.si/en/product/subscription-membrana-magazine/

Contact:

http://www.membrana.si/en

(editors /at/ membrana.si); (info /at/ membrana.si)

Membrana, Maurerjeva 8, SI-1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia

---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please
use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at
http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------