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<div>Hello All,<br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm co-editing an upcoming issue of <i><a href="https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/median/information/authors" target="_blank">Media-N</a></i>, the peer-reviewed journal of the College Art Association's New Media Caucus, on the topic of digital art, media, and climate. <b>The deadline for abstracts is July 31. </b>
I've included a list of suggestions for book reviews below the CFP, too. Please share widely.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Corinna<br></div><div>
<p><span style="font-weight:400"><strong><em>Media-N: Journal of the New Media Caucus </em></strong><em>invites submissions for a special themed issue:</em></span></p>
<h3> <img src="https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/public/site/images/gosse_johanna/unnamed.jpg" alt="A cartoon dog in a small hat sits calmly in a wooden chair at a dining table while flames and smoke consume the room." class="gmail-CToWUd gmail-a6T" tabindex="0" width="327" height="183"></h3></div><div><p>Image: KC Green. Alt text: A cartoon dog in a small hat sits calmly
in a wooden chair at a dining table while flames and smoke consume the
room.</p>
<h3><strong><em>As the World Burns: On Media and Climate</em></strong></h3>
<h3><span style="font-weight:400">Guest Editors: Corinna Kirsch, PhD (Pratt Institute) and Rebecca Uliasz (Duke University)</span></h3>
<h3><strong>Deadline for abstracts: Monday, July 31, 2023</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">For this special issue of </span><a href="https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/journals/median/information/authors" target="_blank"><em><span style="font-weight:400">Media-N</span></em></a><span style="font-weight:400">, the editors invite </span><span style="font-weight:400">abstracts on</span><span style="font-weight:400"> topics related to the history, theory, and aesthetics of digital media and climate. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">We hope to</span><span style="font-weight:400"> shed light on th</span><span style="font-weight:400">e
long history of digital art and media’s participation in planetary
processes connected to climate change, including the challenges posed by
new media art’s ongoing culpability and participation in its
advancement, and the overarching effects of these actions on social,
perceptual, and cognitive registers, both globally and individually.
Through this form of eco-criticism, we approach two acute developments
faced today, each bearing enormous and unevenly distributed threats to a
globalized world: climate change and the proliferation of data-driven
technology across nearly every social sphe</span><span style="font-weight:400">re. We also seek </span><span style="font-weight:400">alternatives
to climate discourse’s hyper-focus on present-day structures by
appealing to deep histories and non-western approaches to the ambiguous
interconnection of media and “nature.” In so doing, we see that the
relationship between media and climate is not a new situation by any
means, nor is it a universal one: the Anthropocene began prior to this
century, with geological shifts recorded at the beginning of the
Industrial Revolution and, even further back, to the European
colonization of the Americas. As Andreas Malm has put it, “We can never
be in the heat of the moment, only in the heat of this ongoing past.” </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Questions informing the special issue
include: In what ways are new media scholars, activists, and artists
engaging with the Earth-altering processes of technology? How have
practitioners, scholars, and activists working with digital media
illuminated the way agency, subjectivity, and environment is defined and
operationalized in diverse geo- and socio-political contexts? What
alternatives might be sought through appealing to indigenous and other
forms of climate knowledge, cultivated by communities that have long
found themselves subjected to colonially-induced climate change? As a
method of promoting cross-disciplinary conversation among the new media
community, we are seeking project reports, exhibition and event reviews,
interviews, and manifestos in addition to formal research papers.</span><span style="font-weight:400"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight:400">Topics of potential interest to the editors include, but are not limited to:</span></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Questions related to weather, climate, and digital infrastructures</span></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Weather
and meteorology in media and systems-based practices, e.g., climate
control in museums, solar powered art, and media projects with natural
radio</span></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Relation between media aesthetics and environmental “injustices,” e.g., eco-fascism and climate-change denialism </span></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Elemental, thermal, atmospheric, infrastructural and other forms of media that aren’t exclusively digital</span></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Non-western and indigenous histories and theories of art, digital media, and the environment</span></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Environmental media and digital or financial capitalism, e.g., blockchain, algorithmic forecasting, and predictive simulations</span></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Climate fiction, futurities, and imaginaries, including multi-species assemblages</span></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Environmental media and digital colonialism and neocolonialism </span></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Labor, subjectivity, and psychic dimensions of environmental media</span></li></ul>
<p><strong>To submit an abstract for consideration, </strong><span style="font-weight:400">please send </span><strong>200-300 word abstracts</strong><span style="font-weight:400"> and a condensed (under 5 pg.) </span><strong>CV</strong><span style="font-weight:400"> to the following individuals by </span><strong>Monday, July 31, 2023</strong><span style="font-weight:400">:</span></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Guest Editor, Corinna Kirsch: </span><strong><a href="mailto:corinna.kirsch@gmail.com" target="_blank">corinna.kirsch@gmail.com</a></strong></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Guest Editor, Rebecca Uliasz: </span><strong><a href="mailto:rebecca.uliasz@gmail.com" target="_blank">rebecca.uliasz@gmail.com</a></strong></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Interim Executive Editor, Chelsea Thompto: <strong><a href="mailto:chelsea.l.thompto@gmail.com" target="_blank">chelsea.l.thompto@gmail.com</a> </strong></span></li><li style="font-weight:400"><span style="font-weight:400">Executive Editor, Johanna Gosse: </span><strong><a href="mailto:johannagosse@gmail.com" target="_blank">johannagosse@gmail.com</a> </strong><strong><br></strong></li></ul>
<p><strong>Final Submission Length Guidelines:</strong></p>
<ul><li style="font-weight:400"><strong>Articles: 6,000-8,000 word range</strong></li><li style="font-weight:400"><strong>Artist's projects: 4,000-6,000 word range</strong></li><li style="font-weight:400"><strong>Interviews and Reviews: 1,000-3,000 word range</strong></li></ul>
</div><div><div><br></div><div>Book reviews of possible interest: <font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div>
<ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" id="m_7938352202028254813gmail-docs-internal-guid-f2984b5a-7fff-9c77-a622-48043b56c86a"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt" role="presentation"><font size="2"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Boaz Levin, et al., </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mining Photography: The Ecological Footprint of Image Production</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt" role="presentation"><font size="2"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Stephen J. Pyne, </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt" role="presentation"><font size="2"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sabine Himmelsbach, et al.,</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Coding Care Towards a Technology for Nature</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt" role="presentation"><font size="2"><span style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jennifer Gabrys, </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Citizens of Worlds: Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, 2022</span></span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt" role="presentation"><font size="2"><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262543651/discard-studies/"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Max Liboiron and Josh Lepawsky, </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Discard Studies: Wasting, Systems, and Power</span></a></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt" role="presentation"><font size="2"><a href="https://www.dukeupress.edu/media-hot-and-cold"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nicole Starosielski, </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Media Hot and Cold</span></a></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt" role="presentation"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A “Cloud” round-up? Possible texts include: Yuriko Furuhata, </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Climatic Media: Transpacific Experiments in Atmospheric Control</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">; Alix Johnson, </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Where Cloud Is Ground: Placing Data and Making Place in Iceland</span></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:10pt" role="presentation"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A “Plastics” round-up? Possible texts include: Heather Davis, </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Plastic Matter</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">; Amanda Boetzkes, </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Plastic Capitalism: Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste</span></font></p></li></ul></div></div>
</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif" color="#666666">Corinna Kirsch, PhD </font><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif" color="#666666">Lecturer, Art History and Criticism<br>Stony Brook University, State University of New York</font></div><div><font style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:arial,sans-serif" color="#666666">Phone: +1 (936) 697-1902<br>Pronouns: She, they</font></div><div><a href="https://arthist.net/archive/38999" target="_blank">Current: "As the World Burns," <i>Media-N</i> (abstracts due July 31)</a></div><div><br>****************************************************************************************************************<br>This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited.<br>*****************************************************************************************************************<br><br><br><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div>