Author Archives: chips
ImageOut Call For Art: We Are Family
Call for submissions of any media for the 2017 ImageOut exhibition
The 2015 US Supreme Court ruling that declared same-sex marriage legal provided same-gender loving individual’s access to one of the two dominant forms of kinship making (the other route being biological reproduction). However,this development does not signal LGBTQ people finally being able to access “family,” as LGBTQ people have had to and continue to create alternative models of family that exist outside of marriage and reproduction. With this in mind, ImageOut seeks submissions of art that explores:
• How contemporary LGBTQ people are accessing and navigating marriage
• Family building and child-rearing
• The cultural, social, and legal barriers to marriage and child-rearing that remain
• Historical and contemporary kinship practices that do not reflect dominant conceptions of family (e.g. the nuclear family)
In addition, ImageOut recognizes that abuse, neglect, estrangement, and expulsion cause many LGBTQ people discomfort around the concept of “family.” And so we invite work that does not just treat “family” as an inherent good, but as a concept that needs to be troubled, interrogated, and dismantled.
Exhibition: Visual Studies Workshop Gallery September 1 – October 21, 2017
Submission deadline: July 15, 2017
Click for the full submission guidelines.
Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation Grant and Jobs Announcement
Visual Studies Workshop is thrilled to announce the receipt of a grant from the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation to support the online cataloging of The Nathan Lyons Research Center’s photographic print collection, and the MFA program alumni collection. This project will increase the accessibility of VSW collections and promote the work of many under recognized artists.
The material in The Nathan Lyons Research Center has significant research value, and thanks to the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation, VSW will now be able to make these resources more widely accessible to the next generation of artists, critics and curators. Visual Studies Workshop will be hiring two part-time cataloging positions for this project. To apply for one of the positions of Cataloger:
(5/10/17 Please note that the positions have been filled)
Email a cover letter, resume and the contact information for two professional references to Jessica Johnston, Curator of Collections at jessicajohnston@vsw.org by April 17, 2017. Please use the subject heading “Cataloging Positions” in the email with your application materials. The two positions are six-month terms, 10-12 hour a week, with the possibility of extensions. The positions will begin in May 2017.
Catalogers will create and populate records in VSW’s online collections management system, eHive. The catalogers will also create box lists, photograph the objects, and prepare or amend biographies of the artists’ for publication on Wikipedia.
Desired Qualifications
• Experience handling photographic objects
• Experience cataloging photographs
• Excellent writing and research skills
• Knowledge of the history of photography
• Experience with copy stand photographic work
• Ability to lift 40lbs
Visual Studies Workshop is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Decisions to hire and promote are made without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, sexuality, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other legally protected status under federal, state, or local law. It is VSW’s stated goal to reach a broad and diverse candidate pool in hiring for positions as well as addressing audiences through its creative and educational programming.
Afterimage Call For Submissions: Media Literacy in a “Post-Factual” Age
Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism invites submissions from all fields for a special issue on Media Literacy in a “Post-Factual” Age to be published January 8, 2018
Articles and artist’s projects addressing the theme of “media literacy in a ‘post-factual’ age” are welcome, and submissions that consider the intersections of art, activist, journalistic, and media literacy practices are particularly encouraged. There will be a print and an online edition of this special issue, so multimedia projects are welcome.
These contributions might include, but are in no way limited to, articles and projects addressing:
• Artistic interventions into mass media and spectacular culture
• Activist media practices
• Photojournalism and the production of alternative knowledges
• Current theoretical and practical approaches to teaching media literacy and media studies
• Media flows, borders, and walls: from neoliberal “openness” to populist enclosures
• Critiques of journalistic, scientific, and political objectivity
• Popular skepticism and challenges to the authority of mass media
• The emergence of “fake news” (particularly submissions that go beyond widely circulated definitions to critically consider issues surrounding the production of knowledge within globally networked culture)
• The networked production of truth: social media, news automation, algorithms, “filter bubbles,” “echo chambers,” robots, and bots
• Leakers and hackers: activist approaches to scrutiny, transparency, and accountability in a “post-factual” era
• Political satire as news critique
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Titles and abstracts for papers and artist’s projects are invited by May 1, 2017 and should be submitted to Afterimage editor Karen vanMeenen at afterimageeditor [at] yahoo [dot] com. Authors and artists are encouraged to discuss proposals with the editor prior to submitting materials. Deadline to submit finalized projects is June 1, 2017.
For additional information regarding Afterimage submission guidelines, click here.
Note: No writer’s stipends are available for this issue. Contributors will receive copies and a complimentary subscription. All other submission details apply.