The latest round of call for submissions for themed issues of the international, peer-reviewed journal Public Art Dialogue, includes the following:
Digital Art
Submissions Deadline: September 15, 2014
Guest Editors: John Craig Freeman and Mimi Sheller
In the 50th anniversary issue of Artforum, which focused on new media art, critic Claire Bishop asked: “Whatever happened to digital art? While many artists use digital technology, how many really confront the question of what it means to think, see, and filter affect through the digital? How many thematize this, or reflect deeply on how we experience, and are altered by, the digitization of our existence?” These comments sparked debate across the digital art world because so many artists, curators and critics believe that exactly these kinds of questions are being explored by artists who use digital technology in a multitude of diverse, unstable, surprising and challenging ways. Digital art is not simply in a “new media niche” concerned only with technology. In their published response to Bishop, Lauren Cornell and Brian Droitcour wrote: “Digital art is no longer confined to ‘cyberspace.’ Concerns about networked technologies have been absorbed by artists who draw on their knowledge of painting, sculpture, performance, and installation, as well as an interest in computers and code.” In this issue we seek to highlight the full gamut of digital art with regard to its manifestations in public art, to interrogate what its real contributions are, and to extend the language and the contexts in which we understand it.
Submissions can include traditional scholarly articles, opinion pieces, ‘conversational dialogues’, and artists projects. Further information and submission guidelines are available here.
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