[Air-L] FW: [MCJ] CFP: M/C Journal 'curate' Issue (article deadline: 19 June 2015)
Axel Bruns
a.bruns at qut.edu.au
Sun Apr 19 16:44:29 PDT 2015
G'day !
This may be of interest to some of you working on issues related to content curation:
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 20 Apr. 2015
M/C - Media and Culture
http://www.media-culture.org.au/
is calling for contributors to the 'curate' issue of
M/C Journal
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/
M/C Journal is inviting new contributors. Founded in 1998, M/C is a crossover journal between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed journal. Our Website at http://journal.media-culture.org.au/ provides open access to all past issues.
To find out how and in what format to contribute your work, visit http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/about/submissions.
Call for Papers: 'curate'
Edited by Bethaney Turner and Cathy Hope
The word 'curate' traditionally refers to a guardian, someone tasked with taking care. For some the etymology of the term may appear an endless fall from grace: from the arcane to the profane, from vocation to action, and from elite to the street. The term begins its journey as a human figure with a window to the divine - the religious curate responsible for the care of souls - then descends to assume a more earthly form manifest in our modern understanding of a curator, as one charged with the collection, archiving and exhibition of cultural artefacts. More recently, as Farquarson notes, the noun 'curate' has morphed into the verb 'to curate', signifying "a shift in the conception of what curators do, from a person who works at some remove from the processes of artistic production, to one actively in the thick of it". This shift strengthens "the curatorial turn" (O'Neill) of the 1960s in which the curator is no longer autonomous from artefact and exhibition, but instead is deeply implicated in the exhibition production process. Thus to curate was, and is, no longer simply to care-take, but to mediate, to orchestrate and to re-present.
Digital culture has produced new tools with exponentially greater capability in cataloguing, accessing and representing artefacts. This capability has led to an explosion in big data, bringing with it a suite of social, economic and political implications. One such implication is that the act of curating no longer remains the sole domain of 'the expert'. Social media have created new ways for people to select and assemble information about themselves, their lives and the world around them for display and consumption within the public arena. The capacity to orchestrate 'the self' in this arena is further enabled by digital bookmarking sites such as Pinterest and Bundler, wherein information is gathered, sorted, filtered and shared. To curate, then, extends beyond the 'presentation and representation' of Bourdieu's 'cultural intermediary' to encompass the very performativity of the self and of daily life.
From formal exhibitions to informal personal displays and from big data to pins, we invite reflections on the cultural practice of curating today. Topics can include (but are not limited to) the following:
* Exhibitions and the role of curator
* Private/public issues in self-curatorial practices
* The orchestration of daily life
* The curatorial turn
* Curation as creativity
* The democratisation of curation
* Curation and representation
* Social media and the curating of self
* Curators and autonomy
* Big data and curation
* Curating and design
* Narrative and curation
* The current market value of 'curate'
* Relations between the artist and the curator/art and curation
* Curating - where to next?
Prospective contributors should email an abstract of 100-250 words and a brief biography to the issue editors. Abstracts should include the article title and should describe your research question, approach, and argument. Biographies should be about three sentences (maximum 75 words) and should include your institutional affiliation and research interests. Articles should be 3000 words (plus bibliography). All articles will be refereed and must adhere to MLA style (6th edition).
Please send any enquiries to curate at journal.media-culture.org.au. All articles must be submitted through the M/C Journal site.
Article deadline: 19 June 2015
Issue release date: 19 Aug. 2015
M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. Contributors are directed to past issues of M/C Journal for examples of style and content, and to the submissions page for comprehensive article submission guidelines. M/C Journal articles are blind peer-reviewed.
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Further M/C Journal issues scheduled for 2015:
'technique': article deadline 27 Feb. 2015, release date 29 Apr. 2015
'fat': article deadline 24 Apr. 2015, release date 24 June 2015
'curate': article deadline 19 June 2015, release date 19 Aug. 2015
'beginnings': article deadline 14 Aug. 2015, release date 14 Oct. 2015
're-imagine': article deadline 9 Oct. 2015, release date 9 Dec. 2015
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M/C - Media and Culture is located at <http://www.media-culture.org.au/>.
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M/C Journal is online at <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/>.
All past issues of M/C Journal on various topics are available there.
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Dr Axel Bruns
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General Editor editor at media-culture.org.au
M/C - Media and Culture http://www.media-culture.org.au/
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