[Bilimsel Haber] ?let: CFP: Octopus: A Visual Studies Journal: Import/Export (4/15/07; journal issue)

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    Konu: CFP: Octopus: A Visual Studies Journal: Import/Export  
(4/15/07; journal issue)
    Kime: Sule Tarakcioglu <suletar at kulturad.org>


On behalf of

Visual Studies Graduate Students

University of California, Irvine


Call for Papers: Import/Export
Octopus (Volume 3) Fall 2007=20
www.octopusjournal.org
Deadline for Submissions: April 15, 2007

Octopus: A Visual Studies Journal invites submissions for its third
volume, Import/Export. We are interested in exploring how registers of
the visual and the aesthetic contribute to contemporary and historical
perspectives on globalization, economics, culture, and artistic practice
especially as they relate to questions of exchange, influence, traffic,
and regulation. Our efforts to make these issues more tangible also
compel us to investigate the stakes of cultural transmission and
problematize forms of cultural exchange.

Explorations of what occurs between these historical, geographical, and
conceptual spaces are also encouraged. Octopus encourages work that
questions the notion of =93import/export=94 or rephrases the question in
fruitful ways from a diverse range of approaches.

Located at the University of California, Irvine, part of our interest in
this topic is based on our own geographic specificity. Our position near
the two busiest ports in the country (Los Angeles and Long Beach) brings
our attention to the constant flow of goods and the interconnectedness
of commerce. Culturally, southern California and its environs are
situated in a complex matrix of influences from Mexico, the Pacific Rim,
Hollywood, and a multitude of global locations. Hardly unique, we share
this position with many other sites some real, some virtual throughout
the world: bodies, bits, borders, and commodities are constantly in flux.

What are the ramifications for import/export in the art world? It is
crucial that we rethink received modernist lineages of artistic
influence and recover the place of Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the
Caribbean world in the legacy of modernity and modernism. Moments of
cross-cultural artistic exchange or collaboration offer another mode for
thinking about artistic import and export. The continuing popularity of
strategies of appropriation and recuperation demonstrates the vitality
of the import/export question in visual practice.

We are also interested in how the thematic frame of import/export
resonates with contemporary debates about citizenship, immigration,
economics, and politics. Globally, our government has undertaken the
uncertain prospect of exporting a foreign system of government
"democracy" to another nation, while the IMF has also been accused of
capitalist self-promotion. By contrast, the importing of Asian and
European TV programs, comics, movies, sports, and fashions increasingly
challenge the cultural imperialism of the United States. While more
clandestine activities, such as drug running, illegal immigration, and
transnational corporation (TNC) laborers allude to more invisible forms
of import/export. It is important to destabilize the center/periphery
model and the power relations this implies.


Paper topics may include but are not limited to:

- Globalization, transnationalism, internationalism
- Pirates and Piracy: exchange/sharing of information
- Trade in historical perspective
- Transportation
- World bank, IMF
- Travel, tourism, souvenirs, and collecting
- Appropriation, rehabilitation, and recuperation
- Processes of selection and access
- Politics of space
- Pilgrimage, Ecotourism, destination shopping
- Rethinking the canon and modernism
- Data and new media
- Satellite television, Internet, viewer reception=20
- Nationalism, borders, and mestizo cultures
- Immigration debates
- Cultural export- and importation
- Center/periphery model and its limitations
- Imperialism and the colonial legacy of political importation
- Simulation, re-creation, re-enacting, anachronism
- Translation, reinterpretation
- Intellectual exchange: debates, =E9migr=E9s, =93schools of thought=94

Deadline for Submissions: April 15, 2007.

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

Electronic submissions should be sent as Microsoft Word .doc or Rich
Text Format attachments to octopusjournal at gmail.com. Please put the word
"submission" somewhere in the subject line.

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). Please provide a brief history of the
manuscript; whether it is part of a dissertation or thesis, book-length
project, conference presentation, etc. Because Octopus follows a policy
of blind peer-review, no material identifying the author(s) should
appear anywhere other than on the detachable title page. Manuscripts
should conform to CHICAGO formatting standards.

For book reviews and criticism [~750 words] 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.

Manuscripts and reviews submitted to Octopus should not be under
consideration at any other journal. Written permission to reproduce film
and video stills, artworks, photographs, song lyrics, or any other
copyright protected materials must be obtained by the authors from the
copyright-holders before submission.

Subscriptions/Advertising:
For subscription or advertising requests, please contact
octopusjournal at gmail.com

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 work by emerging scholars
engaged with visuality, culture, history, and theory from a range of
contexts, disciplines, and methodologies. In addition to submissions on
"Import/Export," Octopus welcomes scholarship and criticism 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.

www.octopusjournal.org
octopusjournal at gmail.com

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