Dear SIGCIS members, I’d like to highlight this call for papers that may be of interest to you: *Special Issue on Feminist Archaeologies of Desktop Media* The 21st century has witnessed a boom in media formats that creatively inhabit the seemingly familiar space of the computer (or smartphone) desktop. Simulated clicks, swipes, and multitasking across windows and apps on the screen have become central to emerging artistic forms variously referred to as “desktop cinema,” “desktop documentary,” and “screenlife.” These formats not only play with screen-based aesthetics but also mediate lived experiences of labor, surveillance, communication, and self-fashioning—often through identity-based and affectively charged engagements with the interface. Yet, despite the emergence of several scholarly publications on the topic (e.g., Kiss 2021; Anger and Lee 2023; De Rosa 2024) and the use of desktop formats in videographic criticism and practice-based research (e.g., Lee 2014; Galibert-Laîné 2019; Bird 2023; Zecchi 2023; Lacurie 2024), there is a need for collective reflection on the desktop itself: as a representational space, a material interface, and a historically conditioned technology embedded in overlapping histories of gender, race, affect, and domestic labor. To address this gap, the special issue brings *media archaeology and feminist media history into direct dialogue*. Media archaeology offers critical tools for tracing how desktop media engage with and shape the evolution of the graphical user interface (GUI), and how they resonate with earlier technological practices—from desktop publishing to early computer video editing systems (e.g., Ernst 2021; Gaboury 2021; Distelmeyer 2022; Hanáková 2024). At the same time, recent interventions by feminist media historians provide strategies for denaturalizing the desktop through feminist, queer, and anti-racist perspectives on labor, domesticity, and authorship (e.g., Nooney 2023; Moretti 2023; Hilu 2024; Nakamura 2025). Together, these frameworks showcase a generative methodological tandem to interrogate how desktop media inherit, extend, or critique earlier promises of democratization, user-centered design, and interactivity. Crucially, they allow us to ask: What kinds of subjectivity have these formats invited, enabled, marginalized, or repressed? We invite scholars, artists, archivists, and curators *to submit works that seek out diverse histories of desktop media practices*—practices too often seen as exclusively contemporary. Building on the momentum sparked by the 2023 collection of videographic essays published in Feminist Media Histories, this special issue aims to create space for both written and practice-based archaeologies of desktop media formats. You can read the CFP here. <https://online.ucpress.edu/DocumentLibrary/Feminist_Archaeologies_of_Desktop_Media_CFP.pdf> Potential areas of contribution include, but are not limited to: - Desktop Documentary - Desktop Horror - Desktop and Video Platforms - Desktop and Computer History - Desktop and Useful Media - Desktop and Preservation - Desktop and Domesticity - Desktop and Liveness - Desktop and Labor - Desktop and Hardware - Desktop and Pedagogy - Global Desktop - Desktop and AI *Proposals should be roughly 500 words (including 3–5 references),* include a short bio, *and be submitted no later than October 28, 2025 *to Jiří Anger (j.anger@qmul.ac.uk) and Veronika Hanáková ( veronika.hanakovaxp@gmail.com). *Please state clearly whether you plan to submit an article or a video essay. *Contributors will be notified by November 28, 2025; essays will be due to editors by June 28, 2026 and then will be sent out for anonymous peer review. All the best, Veronika Hanáková and Jiří Anger -- Veronika Hanáková *. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁ ⟡ ݁ . ⊹ ₊ ݁.**. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁ ⟡ ݁ . ⊹ ₊ ݁.* DVD Enthusiast Gimmicky Media Artifact Finder *. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁ ⟡ ݁ . ⊹ ₊ ݁.**. ݁₊ ⊹ . ݁ ⟡ ݁ . ⊹ ₊ ݁.* *Screenworks: the peer-reviewed online publication of practice research in screen media* <https://www.screenworks.org.uk/archive> Associate Editor