[Air-l] CFP: Octopus: Journal Visual Cutlure, History, and Theory

[david silver]

this looks really cool.  david

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Call for Papers: Synesthesia
Octopus (V1, N1) Spring/Summer 2004

The word synesthesia means "joined sensation." Synesthesia describes both a
psychological condition and perceptual experience, conceptualized as a
unity, confusion, or profusion of the senses. Synesthetes may visualize
tactility, feel colors, taste sounds, or hear smells as if these sensory
articulations existed outside of the body of the beholder.

Synesthesia suggests a potent metaphor and method for examining and
informing practices of visual studies, and for responding to critiques of
this emerging field as overly fixated on the visual at the expense of other
embodied experiences. The inaugural issue of Octopus invites 2,500-3,000
word manuscripts from all disciplines that engage with synesthesia from a
wide-range of perspectives. Possible lines of inquiry include but are not
limited to:

1) synesthesia as historically-situated perceptual experience,
interdisciplinary methodological tactic, or theoretical engine;
2) phenomenology, the body, subjectivity, will;
3) gender, race, ethnicity
4) cyborg, posthuman;
5) art, music, film/video, new media;
6) philosophy, theosophy, hermeneutics;
7) literature, linguistics;
8) mysticism, ritual, religious experience, fantasy;
9) memory, mnemonics, hypermnesis;
10) geographies, navigation, directionality;
11) psychoanalysis, medicine, science

Deadline for Submissions: January 15, 2004.

Octopus is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal published by the
graduate students of the Program in Visual Studies at the University of
California, Irvine. The journal is devoted to emerging scholarship that
engages with visuality, culture, history, and theory from a range of
contexts, disciplines, and methodologies. In addition to submissions on
synesthesia, Octopus welcomes longer-form scholarship (6,000-7,000 words) as
well as book reviews and art and film criticism (800-1,000 words) addressing
questions regarding the politics of vision, the historicity of visual
practices, and the cultures and theories of vision and visuality on an
on-going basis.

Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be accompanied by an
abstract of no more than 150 words, six keywords, and a short biographic
entry about the author(s).

All submissions must include the title of the contribution, the name(s) of
the author(s), and the postal address, e-mail address, and phone number for
the author who will serve as the primary contact with the editors on
revisions.

All submissions should follow MLA standards. Book reviews and art/film
criticism should be 800-1,000 words in length. Please include title of
book(s), retail price, and ISBN at the beginning of the review. Art/show
reviews should include the gallery, curator, and dates. For film and
video/media reviews, include the director, production company (if
applicable), and year of production. Authors are responsible for obtaining
permission to publish all illustrations and must include captions for each
image. Please submit 100% size, printable quality illustrations in at least
350 dpi in an eps, jpeg, gif, or tiff file. Originals or slides of
illustrations are also acceptable.

Manuscripts and reviews submitted to Octopus should not be under
consideration at any other journal.

All submissions and inquiries should be sent electronically as Microsoft
Word.doc attachments to: submissions at octopusjournal.org

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James L. Cahill
jcahill at uci.edu
PhD Student, Program in Visual Studies
UC Irvine