MDPI Books is currently running an edition entitled "From Self-Portrait to Selfie: Contemporary Art and Self-Representation in the Social Media Age".
Defined as a self-image made with a hand-held mobile device and shared
via social media platforms, the selfie has facilitated self-imaging becoming a
ubiquitous part of globally networked contemporary life. Beyond this selfies
have facilitated a diversity of image making practices and enabled otherwise
representationally marginalized constituencies to insert self-representations
into visual culture. In the Western European and North American art-historical
context, self-portraiture has been somewhat rigidly albeit obliquely defined,
and selfies have facilitated a shift regarding who literally holds the power to
self-image. Like self-portraits, not all selfies are inherently aesthetically
or conceptually rigorous or avant-guard. But, –as this project aims to do
address via a variety of interdisciplinary approaches– selfies have irreversibly
impacted visual culture, contemporary art, and portraiture in particular.
Selfies propose new modes of self-imaging, forward emerging aesthetics and
challenge established methods, they prove that as scholars and image-makers it
is necessary to adapt and innovate in order to contend with the most current
form of self-representation to date. The essays gathered herein will reveal
that in our current moment it is necessary and advantageous to consider the
merits and interventions of selfies and self-portraiture in an expanded field
of self-representations. We invite authors to take interdisciplinary global
perspectives, to investigate various sub-genres, aesthetic practices, and
lineages in which selfies intervene to enrich the discourse on self-representation
in the expanded field today.
Ace Lehner,
University of California - Santa Cruz (USA)
Editor
The submission deadline is 31.10.2019. You may send your manuscript now
or up until the deadline. Submitted papers should not be under consideration
for publication elsewhere. Their acceptance will be subject to our regular peer
review processes. To check suitability, we encourage authors to send a short
abstract or tentative title in advance to the Editorial Office
(booksubmission@mdpi.com).
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by readers) increases publicity and promotes more frequent citations, as
indicated by several studies. Open access is supported by the authors and their
institutes. No Article Processing Charges (APC) apply for well-prepared
manuscripts.
For further details on the submission process, please see the
instructions for authors at our website.
wagner@mdpi.com
Laura Wagner
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