[ecrea] cfp: Imaging and Space in the Post-Digitality - Between Visibility and Nonvisibility

Arts & Cultural Studies Review, peer-reviewed, open access, 
interdisciplinary journal dedicated to cultural studies research in all 
its diversity, is seeking papers on:

Imaging and Space in the Post-Digitality – Between Visibility and 
Nonvisibility

  The advent of ubiquitous computing with its architecture based on 
fluid configuration of mobile media, internet of things and sensor-based 
networks coincided with the major technological, social and cultural 
changes. The discourse of “smart technologies” invaded the public 
debate, with the figure of “smart city” (and, more general, “smart 
environments” and “smart objects”) becoming one of the most powerful 
cultural phantasies of the first decade of XXI century. “Becoming 
environmental of computation”[1] 
<https://culturalstudiesreview.eu/current-call-for-papers/#_ftn1>, to 
borrow the insightful phrase coined by Jennifer Gabrys, contributed to 
the undergoing . The excitement for the newness of all-things digital 
started evaporating and fading out, which inspired both the fresh  wave 
of the popcultural nostalgia and the renewed penchant for the older 
platforms, software and devices. On the other hand,  the plethora of the 
sensor-based technologies often employed in the environmental research 
(especially in monitoring the scale and pace of the climate change), 
have been symptomatic of yet another transformation: the ubiquity of 
computing has reached beyond the urban setting, integrating with 
agriculture, wilderness and nature protection. It has also increased the 
awareness of dataveillance inherent in the multifarious processes of 
fusing the digital data with physical space as well as with human, 
animal and vegetal bodies. Such processes provide the robust ground for 
yet another reading of the media becoming “atmospheric, collective and 
micro-temporal”[2] 
<https://culturalstudiesreview.eu/current-call-for-papers/#_ftn2>.
  Is the centrality of image production maintained under the 
circumstances of the nascent post-digital condition? What is the role of 
the digital image in spatial media environments and ambient informatics? 
To what extent the known and familiar conceptualization of the visuality 
and visibility have been affected by the shift towards the image as “the 
continuous actualization of networked data” or “networked terminal”[3] 
<https://culturalstudiesreview.eu/current-call-for-papers/#_ftn3>, now 
occurring also in the physical space and/or mediated with human bodies 
and living organisms? Is the dichotomy of visible/non-visible, well 
researched and oft-referred to in the field of visual studies being 
maintained, reconfigured or delegitimized? How are the relationships 
between embodiment and image being shaped under circumstances of booming 
biometric technologies? How the relationship between media, imagery and 
urban space – symptomatic for Western modernity – is being reconfigured?
  The editors of the Arts & Cultural Studies Review’s special issue 
entitled “Space and Image – Visible/Non-Visbile” are inviting the 
contributions exploring the following areas:
  – the role of digital imagery production in the discourse of the 
“smart city” and “smart technologies”;

– imagining and the dataveillance;

– the post-digital condition and production of space;

– the digital imagery and new materialism;

– biometrics, embodiment and the digital imagery

– human and non-human agencies in the atmospheric media

– networked digital imagery in the data-based and automated farming 
practices, nature protection and wilderness;

– spatial data visualization as a media genre;

– digital imagery, space and data mining;

  Articles should be in range of 4000 – 6000 words (including 
references). See author guidelines:
  Please send the 500-word abstracts (including basic references) to 
the editors: (przeglad.kulturoznawczy /at/ uj.edu.pl) 
<mailto:(przeglad.kulturoznawczy /at/ uj.edu.pl)> by 4th November 2018.

Notes of acceptance will be sent by 8th November 2018.

  Articles due: 10th December 2018.
  More information on the journal: https://culturalstudiesreview.eu/about/

Author guidelines: https://culturalstudiesreview.eu/information-for-authors/

[1] 
<https://culturalstudiesreview.eu/current-call-for-papers/#_ftnref1> Jennifer 
Gabrys, /Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technologies and the 
Making of a Computational Planet/, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota 
Press, loc. 324 (wersja Kindle)

[2] 
<https://culturalstudiesreview.eu/current-call-for-papers/#_ftnref2> Mark 
B. N. Hansen, /Ubiquitous Sensation: Toward an Atmospheric, Collective, 
and Microtemporal Model of Media/ in: /Throughout. Art and Culture 
Emerging with Ubiquitous Computing/, ed. U. Ekman, Cambridge and London, 
MIT Press, 2013

[3] 
<https://culturalstudiesreview.eu/current-call-for-papers/#_ftnref3> Remy 
Marie, Ingrid Hoelzl, /Softimage. Towards a New Theory of the Digital 
Image, Bristol – Chicago, Intellect 2015, loc. 146 (wersja Kindle)/


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