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for a Special Issue of
Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscienc: The Processes of Imaging / The Imaging of Processes
We invite submissions to a special issue on The Processes of Imaging / The Imaging
of Processes in order to mobilize new-materialist interventions into the study of the
aesthetics and epistemic status of new imaging technologies across the visual cultures
of science, arts, media and everyday life.
of Processes in order to mobilize new-materialist interventions into the study of the
aesthetics and epistemic status of new imaging technologies across the visual cultures
of science, arts, media and everyday life.
New imaging technologies alter our access to a variety of phenomena. Subsequently, these technologies not only shape and change our experience, knowledge and conceptualization of these phenomena, but also impact social practices, discourses and power relations. Emerging imaging practices establish new connections between
different scientific, artistic, and societal fields, challenge traditional boundaries between these fields, and established divisions of labor.
Imagination, for one, is no
longer seen as confined to the domain of art, but refers instead to the role of thinking or conjecture at the heart of any process of imaging. At the same time, new imaging technologies confront taken for granted notions and theories of images and imaginations, of the visible and the knowable, and thus open up for fruitful illuminations of the roles, or agencies of technology and materiality.
In this situation a need for rethinking the processes of imaging / the imaging of processes arises. Focusing on the processes of imaging means to foreground the dynamics of imaging and imagination, and the ways in which these dynamics are embedded in established conceptual landscapes as well as assessing how they
contribute to changing such landscapes.
Examining the imaging of processes involves attending to the processual qualities and the emergent potentials of the objects of investigation such as plasticity, movement and the relational dynamics of the objects under study in visualization, ranging from the cosmos, to faces and brains, and from
tissues to cells and organelles.
What is needed is a critical and creative engagement with the complex and entangled ways of creating images, ranging from the conceptual
and theoretical situations that call for new imaging technologies, via the Constructions of these technologies, through registration and storage of phenomena, to dissemination, experience and interpretation, and finally to the effects, or functioning of these images in their environments.
The special issue seeks to address the various ways in which technologies and
materialities take part in the construction of images and thus in conceptualizing, knowledge production and justification of knowledge. To this end, the philosophical framework of new materialism provides a number of tools that open up innovative and creative ways to look at, think through and theorize the multiple relations
between dynamic and agential matter, concepts and representations.
This framework brings into awareness the processes, entities and images not as separate Components with intrinsic features and boundaries, coming together and connecting to each other,
but rather, as always already immersed in a variety of relationalities that together form phenomena (Barad 2007).
It is only through the ongoing dynamics of processes and changes within phenomena that the contours, specificities and characteristics of
entities, concepts, images and meanings materialize. Materialities of human and
nonhuman kind as well as scientific, artistic, philosophical, visual and discursive practices and technologies intra-act with each other, allowing thus for the emergence of subjects and objects. Such a material-discursive setup through which both entities
and meanings hypostatize can be seen as apparatus, as Barad (ibid.) indicates.
The investigations brought together in this special issue shall focus on the practices and processes of imaging, cultural, scientific and artistic imaginary and imagination, as
well as visual and discursive representations of matters vibrancy (Bennet 2010) and processuality.
The contributions should address pressing questions such as:
How can imaging be understood as an exchange between the material and the
non-material world?
How does imaging incorporate the various parts mentioned above?
How do new materialist approaches help us to rethink processes of imaging / the imaging of processes?
What does the understanding of processes of imaging / the imaging of
processes contribute to new materialist scholarship?
The special issue seeks to contribute to basic research on imaging technologies and develop further theories and practices from visual studies and media studies through
an engagement with objects of analysis from science and everyday life. The larger aim is to develop a more reflective stance vis-à-vis natural, medical and engineering approaches. Based on three key concepts imaging technologies, apparatus, and
dynamism , this special issue investigates the entanglement of imaging and imagination through interdisciplinary, in-depth studies of selected technological imaging practices in science, arts, media, and everyday life.
We invite contributions from scholars working in different domains such as Visual arts, film and photography studies, media studies, as well as science and technology
studies. Interdisciplinary research and co-authored papers are particularly welcome.
We welcome contributions that:
investigate the dynamics of imaging;
study the processual qualities and the emergent potentials of the objects of investigation;
address the various ways in which technologies and materialities take part in the construction of images and thus in practices of conceptualization,
production and justification of knowledge;
engage with the entanglement of imaging and imagination through
interdisciplinary, in-depth studies of selected technological imaging practices
in science, arts, media, and everyday life;
further develop the conceptual framework and methodologies of new
materialism;
link the new-materialist lens with the insights from different fields (e.g.
cinema studies, epigenetics) and theorists, whose ideas are not necessarily associated with new materialism;
rethink the dualistic view on science and art by scrutinizing the practices and discourses associated with the two fields and by critically relating them to the general socio-cultural history to which they both belong;
deepen the understanding of the epistemological, aesthetic, social and cultural roles played by imaging technologies, as processes and techniques, as well as images, artifacts and visual tools, across the visual cultures of science, arts,
media and everyday life.
We invite scholarly articles that creatively and critically, yet affirmatively investigate
and problematize how imaging practices in science, arts, theory and everyday life are intertwined with each other.
Please send an extended abstract (max. 1000 words) plus a short bio (max. 100
words) to bettina.papenburg@hhu.de by 31 May 2016. Selected authors will be
invited to discuss draft papers at the 7th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms in Warsaw, 21-23 September 2016 and will be asked to submit fully developed papers by 28 February 2017.
different scientific, artistic, and societal fields, challenge traditional boundaries between these fields, and established divisions of labor.
Imagination, for one, is no
longer seen as confined to the domain of art, but refers instead to the role of thinking or conjecture at the heart of any process of imaging. At the same time, new imaging technologies confront taken for granted notions and theories of images and imaginations, of the visible and the knowable, and thus open up for fruitful illuminations of the roles, or agencies of technology and materiality.
In this situation a need for rethinking the processes of imaging / the imaging of processes arises. Focusing on the processes of imaging means to foreground the dynamics of imaging and imagination, and the ways in which these dynamics are embedded in established conceptual landscapes as well as assessing how they
contribute to changing such landscapes.
Examining the imaging of processes involves attending to the processual qualities and the emergent potentials of the objects of investigation such as plasticity, movement and the relational dynamics of the objects under study in visualization, ranging from the cosmos, to faces and brains, and from
tissues to cells and organelles.
What is needed is a critical and creative engagement with the complex and entangled ways of creating images, ranging from the conceptual
and theoretical situations that call for new imaging technologies, via the Constructions of these technologies, through registration and storage of phenomena, to dissemination, experience and interpretation, and finally to the effects, or functioning of these images in their environments.
The special issue seeks to address the various ways in which technologies and
materialities take part in the construction of images and thus in conceptualizing, knowledge production and justification of knowledge. To this end, the philosophical framework of new materialism provides a number of tools that open up innovative and creative ways to look at, think through and theorize the multiple relations
between dynamic and agential matter, concepts and representations.
This framework brings into awareness the processes, entities and images not as separate Components with intrinsic features and boundaries, coming together and connecting to each other,
but rather, as always already immersed in a variety of relationalities that together form phenomena (Barad 2007).
It is only through the ongoing dynamics of processes and changes within phenomena that the contours, specificities and characteristics of
entities, concepts, images and meanings materialize. Materialities of human and
nonhuman kind as well as scientific, artistic, philosophical, visual and discursive practices and technologies intra-act with each other, allowing thus for the emergence of subjects and objects. Such a material-discursive setup through which both entities
and meanings hypostatize can be seen as apparatus, as Barad (ibid.) indicates.
The investigations brought together in this special issue shall focus on the practices and processes of imaging, cultural, scientific and artistic imaginary and imagination, as
well as visual and discursive representations of matters vibrancy (Bennet 2010) and processuality.
The contributions should address pressing questions such as:
How can imaging be understood as an exchange between the material and the
non-material world?
How does imaging incorporate the various parts mentioned above?
How do new materialist approaches help us to rethink processes of imaging / the imaging of processes?
What does the understanding of processes of imaging / the imaging of
processes contribute to new materialist scholarship?
The special issue seeks to contribute to basic research on imaging technologies and develop further theories and practices from visual studies and media studies through
an engagement with objects of analysis from science and everyday life. The larger aim is to develop a more reflective stance vis-à-vis natural, medical and engineering approaches. Based on three key concepts imaging technologies, apparatus, and
dynamism , this special issue investigates the entanglement of imaging and imagination through interdisciplinary, in-depth studies of selected technological imaging practices in science, arts, media, and everyday life.
We invite contributions from scholars working in different domains such as Visual arts, film and photography studies, media studies, as well as science and technology
studies. Interdisciplinary research and co-authored papers are particularly welcome.
We welcome contributions that:
investigate the dynamics of imaging;
study the processual qualities and the emergent potentials of the objects of investigation;
address the various ways in which technologies and materialities take part in the construction of images and thus in practices of conceptualization,
production and justification of knowledge;
engage with the entanglement of imaging and imagination through
interdisciplinary, in-depth studies of selected technological imaging practices
in science, arts, media, and everyday life;
further develop the conceptual framework and methodologies of new
materialism;
link the new-materialist lens with the insights from different fields (e.g.
cinema studies, epigenetics) and theorists, whose ideas are not necessarily associated with new materialism;
rethink the dualistic view on science and art by scrutinizing the practices and discourses associated with the two fields and by critically relating them to the general socio-cultural history to which they both belong;
deepen the understanding of the epistemological, aesthetic, social and cultural roles played by imaging technologies, as processes and techniques, as well as images, artifacts and visual tools, across the visual cultures of science, arts,
media and everyday life.
We invite scholarly articles that creatively and critically, yet affirmatively investigate
and problematize how imaging practices in science, arts, theory and everyday life are intertwined with each other.
Please send an extended abstract (max. 1000 words) plus a short bio (max. 100
words) to bettina.papenburg@hhu.de by 31 May 2016. Selected authors will be
invited to discuss draft papers at the 7th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms in Warsaw, 21-23 September 2016 and will be asked to submit fully developed papers by 28 February 2017.
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