Wednesday 22 September 2010

We Have Never Had It So Good

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

An exhibition by guest curator Noƫmi Lakmaier at The Pigeon Wing, November 2010.

We Have Never Had It So Good, takes Harold Macmillan’s (UK Prime Minister 1957 – 1963) often misquoted citation ‘most of our people have never had it so good’ as its starting point, and re-contextualises it within the contemporary economic and political framework of the credit crunch and global economic downturn.

During his inaugural address to the conservative party in 1957, Macmillan painted a rosy picture of the economy. A boom in production had lead to an increase in wages and investment. Yet he warned that inflation was the country’s biggest problem of the era.

The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture

Call For Papers:

Intellect is delighted to announce the next journal in our popular culture series, The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture.

This new peer-reviewed journal is the official journal of the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (Popcaanz). The journal is devoted to the scholarly understanding of everyday cultures and is concerned with the study of the social practices and the cultural meanings that are produced and are circulated through the processes and practices of everyday life. As a product of consumption, an intellectual object of inquiry, and as an integral component of the dynamic forces that shape societies.

Binary - next edition of Stimulus Respond

With the new issue, Master, now online at www.stimulusrespond.com, we are now soliciting contributions for the next edition of Stimulus Respond, called Binary. Contributions might be literally or abstractly related to Binary, and we encourage, as always, creative and experimental approaches to the theme. In congruence with Stimulus Respond's undisciplined approach, we welcome submissions from new and established contributors from within, between, and beyond such fields as cultural studies, anthropology, literary criticism, fashion, creative writing, politics, visual cultures, architecture, theatre, film and screen studies, sociology, media and communications and philosophy.

Tuesday 21 September 2010

Book 2.0

Call For Papers: Book 2.0 (http://bit.ly/Bookjournal)

Aims & Scope
Book 2.0 (http://bit.ly/Bookjournal) is a new, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal which aims to publish articles and reviews on developments in book creation and design, including the latest advances in technology and software affecting illustration, design and book production.

It will also explore innovations in distribution, marketing and sales, and book consumption, and in the research, analysis and conservation of book-related professional practices. Book 2.0 aims to provide a forum for promoting and sharing the most original and progressive practice in the teaching of writing, illustration, book design, book production and publishing across all educational sectors.

Home Made Festival Commissions

Chisenhale Dance Space is seeking to commission three independent dance, movement or live artists (who feel dance, movement or the body holds a key place in their practice) to work with local community groups this autumn. Each community group and artist, through a series of collaborative workshops, will create a piece of work to be shown at the Home Made Festival at Chisenhale Dance Space on the 27th and 28th of November 2010.

Home Made is our, yearly dance festival, funded by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The festival seeks to use dance as a tool to celebrate the diverse heritage, vibrant communities and rich history of our home borough as well as to showcase the dance work that occurs at the space on a daily basis.

Visual Inquiry: Learning & Teaching Art

The mission of Visual Inquiry: Learning & Teaching Art is to provide a forum for engaging the complex, rich and multifaceted process of learning and teaching art. Published three times a year and peer reviewed, the print-based journal will launch its first publication in 2011. The journal highlights the process of creating art, teaching as an art form, engaging art submissions, scholarship in teaching artistry, and the rich traditions of art making and teaching. The call for papers is open to anyone concerned with issues related to learning and teaching art.

The journal seeks a serious yet experimental approach to publication that values the myriad of visual art processes in contemporary culture. Readable to the outsider yet encouraging and challenging to the experienced artist-teacher, the journal will fill a niche in art and art education with a breadth and enthusiasm missing in contemporary art and art education journals.

Visual Reasoning with Diagrams

Special issue of the journal Logica Universalis
We invite submissions to the journal Logica Universalis for a special issue on Visual reasoning with diagrams. The deadline for submission is 15 December 2010*.