[ecrea] CFP - Participatory Art & Digital Culture

Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies

*Call for papers for a special issue on: Participatory Art & Digital 
Culture*

Guest editor: Kris Rutten
Editorial consultant: Leora Farber

*Theme*

In this special issue of Critical Arts we aim to explore participatory 
art practices that specifically engage with technology and digital 
media. There has been a growing body of art that focuses on social 
practices, networks and processes as constituting the artwork itself. 
This implies that the events that facilitate social interaction and 
cultural encounter are variously seen as the actual art practice 
(Siegenthaler 2013). However, because contemporary media culture is 
characterized by participation, interaction, immersion and 
collaboration, art practices are challenged to move beyond a “mere” 
adoption of new technologies. There is a need to explore how 
technologies are also changing our experience of place, conceptions of 
intimacy, co-presence and interaction, and to generate new 
understandings of technological mediation as a feature of social 
relations (Beaulieu, 2010; Hjorth and Sharp 2014).

We invite papers from researchers, theorists and artists to engage 
critically with how technology, media and networks open up new avenues 
to develop practices that examine place and locality, community and 
communication, interaction and intimacy, proximity and distance, 
creation and co-creation. Papers can also focus more broadly on the 
impact of digital technologies on art today, for example by exploring 
the creative and participatory practices that are made possible by 
artists working with technology or by collaborations between artists, 
scientists and technological experts, focusing for example on robotics, 
virtual/ augmented reality, immersive media or game technology (Gardiner 
and Gere 2010, Gronlund 2016). Next to full research papers we also 
invite contributions that can serve as vignettes - short statements and 
reflections by artists about their practice.

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*Submission guidelines*

- Deadline for abstracts: Please send your abstracts of 300 words by 
April 15th 2017 to (Kris.Rutten /at/ UGent.be) <mailto:(Kris.Rutten /at/ UGent.be)>.
- Notification of selected abstracts by: May 15th 2017.
- Deadline for article submission: based on the selection of the 
abstracts full papers will need to be submitted by: August 15th 2017.
- Information and instructions for authors: 
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/RCRC

All completed manuscripts MUST be uploaded onto the online manuscript 
portal Scholar One. Go to Critical Arts on the Taylor and Francis site. 
There is an option on the top left pane of the screen that says 
‘submit’, select this then click ‘submit online’ and follow the prompts.

Further inquiries about the special issue: (Kris.Rutten /at/ UGent.be) 
<mailto:(Kris.Rutten /at/ UGent.be)>
Alternatively, contact the Critical Arts editorial office at 
(criticalarts /at/ ukzn.ac.za) <mailto:(criticalarts /at/ ukzn.ac.za)> or the 
editor-in-chief, Keyan Tomaselli at (keyant /at/ uj.ac.za) <mailto:(keyant /at/ uj.ac.za)>

Critical Arts prides itself in publishing original, readable, and 
theoretically cutting edge articles. For more information on the history 
and the orientation of the journal, as well as guidelines for authors, 
and legal and editorial procedures, please visit: 
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/rcrcauth.asp Critical Arts is 
now published six times annually and is indexed in the International 
Bibliography of Social Sciences (IBSS) and the ISI Social Science Index 
and Arts & Humanities Citation Index and other indexes.

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*References*

- Beaulieu, A. 2010. From co-location to co-presence: Shifts in the use 
of ethnography for the study of knowledge. Social Studies of Science 
40(3): 453-470.
- Gardiner, H. and Gere, C. 2010. Art Practice in a Digital Culture. 
London: Routledge.
- Gronlund, D. 2016. Contemporary Art and Digital Culture. London: 
Taylor and Francis.
- Hjorth, L. and Sharp, K. 2014. The art of ethnography: the aesthetics 
or ethics of participation? Visual Studies 29(2): 128-135.
- Siegenthaler, F. 2013. Towards an ethnographic turn in contemporary 
art scholarship. Critical Arts. South-North Cultural and Media Studies, 
27(6): 737-752.

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