[Commlist] cfp: Expanded Visualities: Photography and Emerging Technologies

The editors of Philosophy of Photography invite contributions to a 
special issue:

Expanded Visualities: Photography and Emerging Technologies

Guest Editors: Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Kleanthis Neocleous and 
Andrew Fisher

Emerging technologies have had a significant impact on photographic 
representations, as well as on the production, distribution and 
reception of photographic images. Technologies such as 360-degree 
photography have expanded the photographic frame and have provided the 
stage for VR and AR applications. Drones and satellite images have 
contributed to new visualizations of experience and new modes of 
understanding space. Machine-made images produced using generative AI - 
such as synthetic images, GANs, and Deep Fakes - alongside other modes 
of computer vision, have changed and complicated our  visual milieu. As 
a result of these developments, issues of ethics, agency and power have 
become more urgent than ever.

The International Conference of Photography and Theory that took place 
in Nicosia Cyprus in November 2022 (ICPT2022) was titled “Expanded 
Visualities: Photography and Emerging Technologies”. The International 
Association of Photography and Theory, which organizes this bi-annual 
conference, is working with Philosophy of Photography to produce a 
special issue of the journal that takes as its starting point the 
questions asked by the conference. The conference addressed issues 
arising from the ways in which emerging technologies, such as 360 
photography, artificial intelligence, machine-made images, augmented 
reality, satellites and drones, have transformed photographic practices 
and have expanded contemporary visualities. If such technologies 
“expand” or “limit” the photographic frame, what are the 
socio-political, aesthetic, and ethical implications of their uses in 
relation to photographic images and the visual world they help to shape?

We are particularly looking for contributions that address the following 
topics from critical and/or theoretical viewpoints, but this list is not 
exhaustive. We also welcome contributions in the form of photoworks.

* Immersive photographic environments (360-degree photography, VR/AR/MR)
* The effect of emerging technologies on the photographic image
* Emergent technologies both as a factor in, and as tool for envisioning 
environmental crisis
* Big data and photography
* Drone photography/ Satellite images and representations of 
landscape/geography
* Redefining vernacular photography
* Forms of protest enabled by emerging technologies
* Critical problems associated with the notion of emergence
* Camera-less photography
* (Art) historical takes on new photographic visualities
* The social and political agency of the photographer/artist
* Photographic art practices that use emerging technologies
* The future of documentary photography
* Authenticity, sales, and Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs)
* The biases and politics of algorithms
* The ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine-made images
* Power structures in new visualities
* Deep fakes and their creation, distribution and reception
* The public reception of machine made images
* The capitalization of emerging technologies
* Relationships between truth, authenticity and representation
* Democracy, participation and social engagement
* Non-normative and non-binary imaginaries and emerging technologies

We are looking for contributions in the form of:
- Articles (between 4000-5000 words) focusing on the themes of the 
special issue
- Photoworks of up to 10 pages in length.
- We are also interested in receiving contributions (between 2000-3000 
words) to the journal’s Encyclopaedia section, which offers a space to 
unpack and to interrogate a specific technology, idea or process related 
to the special issue.

Deadline for submissions: May 1st 2023
The special issue will appear in the Spring of 2024

Submissions can be made through the journal’s submissions portal:
https://www.intellectbooks.com/submit/philosophy-of-photography

Please mark the title page of your submission clearly as being for: 
Expanded Visualities

Details of the journal’s house style and other submission requirements 
can be downloaded
here: https://www.intellectbooks.com/philosophy-of-photography

No payment on the part of authors will be required. If you have any 
questions about this call for contributions, would like to discuss a 
possible submission or to make a proposal, please contact the guest editors.

Special issue Editors:
Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Cyprus University of Technology/ CYENS 
Centre of Excellence, Cyprus
(theopisti.stylianou /at/ cut.ac.cy)

Kleanthis Neocleous, CYENS Centre of Excellence, Cyprus
(k.neokleous /at/ cyens.org.cy)

Andrew Fisher, FAMU, Czech Republic
(andrewthomas.fisher /at/ famu.cz)



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