[Commlist] MIRAJ 10:1/2 CfP: Artists’ Moving Image, Ecology and Future Practices

*/The Moving Image and Art Review Journal/ (MIRAJ) Issue 10:1/2
/Artists’ Moving Image, Ecology and Future Practices/*

*Call for Papers | * Extended Deadline*: 1 September 2021*

In his text ‘The Three Ecologies’, Guattari proposes three 
interconnected ecologies: the environment, social relations and 
human subjectivity, arguing that the ecological crisis that 
threatens our planet and ourselves is the direct result of the 
boundless expansion of global capitalism. This notion of Ecology 
encompasses the environment, the social, the psychological and political 
and asks us to rethink and redefine new concepts in response to the 
challenges we now face as moving image artists, researchers and academics.

Issue 10:1/2 aims to imagine and examine how practices in artists’ film 
and video can be transformed by a dedicated attention to notions of 
the Ecological in its many expanded forms. We invite scholars, artists, 
writers, film-makers and curators to explore what our role can be in 
engaging with new ways of thinking and making in response to the climate 
emergency.

This issue of MIRAJ will therefore address key areas of 
critical concern, from the culpability of the moving image industry’s 
extractive and management practices, to the rich potential of 
the artistic and film-making community to shape, challenge and disrupt 
dominant disciplinary knowledge and habitual practices and its role in 
the practical organisation of other futures.

This issue also aims to look beyond western-centred responses to 
environmental and ecological challenges as our global ecology consists 
of impact at local level to people working in broad

We invite scholarly articles and essays that:

  * examine how dominant disciplinary knowledge and habituated practices
    of the moving image can be challenged and reimagined;
  * explore the value of transdisciplinary and epistemological
    frameworks to offer new perspectives and models of practice;
  * rethink the role of medium and moving image materiality;
  * assess the transformative role of artists, film-makers and creative
    practitioners to both reimagine and address current climate challenges;
  * consider how we look beyond western-centred responses to
    environmental and ecological challenges with new and developing
    networks in the Caribbean, North America, Europe and the global south;
  * explore how artists, curators and film-makers might develop new
    standards and processes within a sustainable practice;
  * examine how we can learn from past and present practices in
    experimental film and video art;
  * find new models of interdisciplinary and collective responses to
    imagine other worlds.

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/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 
(2500-3000 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/journal-editors-and-contributors#style-guide 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-editors-and-contributors#style-guide>)

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)>


Masthead:
Editors: Michael Mazière, Lucy Reynolds
Centre for Research in Education, Arts and Media (CREAM), University of 
Westminster

Reviews Editor: Maria Walsh, University of the Arts, London

Assistant Editors: Lauren Houlton, Matthias Kispert, Sarah Niazi

Associate Editors:
Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths, University of London; Eu Jin Chua, Unitec, New 
Zealand; Jonathan Walley, Denison University, USA, Rachel Moore, 
Goldsmiths College

The International Advisory Board includes:
Ian Christie; Stuart Comer; Maeve Connolly; David Curtis; T.J. Demos; 
Thomas Elsaesser; Catherine Elwes, Catherine Fowler; Amrit Gangar; David 
E. James; Laura Mulvey; Mark Nash; Michele Pierson; Pratap Rughani, 
Catherine Russell, Colin Perry, Federico Windhausen

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