*CFP* "ARTISTS' MOVING IMAGE, ECOLOGY AND FUTURE PRACTICES", ISSUE 10 (1/2), MIRAJ: THE MOVING IMAGE AND ART REVIEW JOURNAL

Issue 10:1/2 aims to imagine and examine how practices in artists’ film and video can be transformed by a dedicated attention to notions of the Ecological in its many expanded forms. We invite scholars, artists, writers, film-makers and curators to explore what our role can be in engaging with new ways of thinking and making in response to the climate emergency.

This issue of MIRAJ will therefore address key areas of critical concern, from the culpability of the moving image industry’s extractive and management practices, to the rich potential of the artistic and film making community to shape, challenge and disrupt dominant disciplinary knowledge and habitual practices and its role in the practical organisation of other futures.

 

We invite scholarly articles and essays that:

• Examine how dominant disciplinary knowledge and habituated practices of the moving image can be challenged and reimagined;
• explore the value of transdisciplinary and epistemological frameworks to offer new perspectives and models of practice;
• rethink the role of medium and moving image materiality;
• assess the transformative role of artists, film-makers and creative practitioners to both reimagine and address current climate challenges;
• consider how we look beyond western-centred responses to environmental and ecological challenges with new and developing networks in the Caribbean, North America, Europe and the global south;
• explore how artists, curators and film-makers might develop new standards and processes within a sustainable practice;
• examine how we can learn from past and present practices in experimental film and video art;
• find new models of interdisciplinary and collective responses to imagine other worlds.

We publish the following types of writing: scholarly articles (5000–8000 words); opinion pieces, feature articles and interviews (3000-4000 words); review essays of books, individual works, exhibitions and events (2500-3000 words). Scholarly articles will be blind peer-reviewed and feature articles and review essays can be peer-reviewed on request. All writings should propose a central idea or thesis argued through a discussion of the work under review.

Extended Deadline: 1 September 2021

Please submit completed manuscripts only. Send all contributions and proposals by e-mail in DOC or RTF format to the Editorial Assistant: miraj@cream.ac.uk