Hey folks! Please check below the call for abstracts for an upcoming issue of the open access /Arts/ journal on /Performative Imaging/.
In case you are interested, please send your ideas to the guest editors by *Nov 30*. We are able to waive the processing fees for invited contributions that fit within the scope of the issue. Best! Menotti * * * **Performative Imaging: Post-Digital Medialities in Contemporary Moving Image Practices* * Deadline for abstracts (250 words): Nov 30, 2025 Deadline for full manuscripts: May 31, 2026 Full call at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/arts/special_issues/6T3L4ES1T0 The development of post-digital practices has accentuated the operational dimensions of moving images. In their banality, media objects such as graphic user interfaces and virtual environments invite us to look past screens and reflect on the uses of imaging beyond a means of representation. Images are increasingly becoming gestures to make, places to inhabit, and tools to manipulate. This shift signals a turn toward complex modalities of *performative imaging*, where images do not merely depict, but actively *do stuff*, enabling cultural vocabularies that intertwine different approaches to space, subjectivity, and experience. As such, images constitute major socio-connective and creative devices that reconfigure the participation of artists, audiences, and other technological actors in legacy artforms while giving rise to new ones. This Special Issue invites articles that explore instances of this phenomenon from various angles, covering the use and aesthetics of multimedia installations, online and offline performances, computer movies, programming languages, artificial agents, immersive worlds, videogames, and other interactive media from both artistic and curatorial angles. We particularly welcome contributions attentive to embodied, material, and decolonial perspectives, sensorial and epistemic diversification, data sovereignty, and marginalized subjects. We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 200 words summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the guest editors ( [email protected]) or to the *Arts* editorial office ([email protected]). Abstracts will be reviewed by the guest editors for the purposes of ensuring proper fit within the scope of the special issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer-review.
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