[spectre] Photomediations Machine: launch + call for contributions

[Joanna Zylinska]

PHOTOMEDIATIONS MACHINE
http://www.photomediationsmachine.net

We are pleased to announce the launch of Photomediations Machine: a 
curated online space where the dynamic relations of mediation as 
performed in photography and other media can be encountered, experienced 
and engaged.

Photomediations Machine adopts a process-based approach to image making 
by tracing the technological, biological, cultural, social and political 
flows of mediation that produce photographic objects. Showcasing 
theoretical and practical work at the intersections of art and 
mainstream practices, Photomediations Machine is both an archive of 
mediations past and a site of production of media 
as-we-do-not-know-them-yet. Photomediations Machine is non-commercial, 
non-profit and fully open access.

Curated by Joanna Zylinska and Ting Ting Cheng, Photomediations Machine 
has an International Advisory Board which includes Katherine Behar, Lisa 
Cartwright, Alberto López Cuenca, Asbjørn Grønstad, Richard Grusin, 
Sarah Kember, Max Liljefors, Melissa Miles, Nicholas Mirzoeff, W.J.T. 
Mitchell, Luiza Nader, Nina Sellars, Jonathan Shaw, Katrina Sluis, 
Marquard Smith, Hito Steyerl and Bernadette Wegenstein. It is a sister 
project to the online open access journal Culture Machine 
(http://www.culturemachine.net), established in 1999.

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Photomediations Machine invites the following types of submissions:

• Visual projects that fit the photomediations theme (selection of 
images, links to video hosted elsewhere). We accept submissions from 
artists themselves as well as from theorists and curators. All visual 
projects need to be accompanied by a short description or a 
contextualisation piece.

• Short articles (up to 2000 words, including references) on any aspect 
of photomediations, accompanied by one or more images.

• Reviews (up to 1400 words, including references) of any relevant 
exhibitions, events or publications, accompanied by one or more images.

• Interviews with artists, theorists, activists and curators (up to 2000 
words) working at the interstices of photography and media, accompanied 
by one or more images.

• Announcements / news about current exhibitions, installations, events 
and publications that will be of interests to Photomediations Machine’s 
readers (100-500 words), accompanied by one or more images.

Please submit all text as a Word or rtf document and all images as 
low-res jpegs (1024×768 px; 72dpi). For written submissions, please use 
the Culture Machine style sheet. Authors need to clear copyright to all 
images used. Decisions about individual submissions will be made by 
Photomediations Machine’s curators in consultation with members of its 
International Advisory Board and external advisors.

Please send your submission to: mail at photomediationsmachine.net

Website: http://www.photomediationsmachine.net
Twitter: @Photomediations

-- 
Professor Joanna Zylinska
Department of Media and Communications
Goldsmiths, University of London
http://www.joannazylinska.net

Artistic Director of the Festival of New Media and Video Transitio_MX05 "Biomediations" in Mexico City in 2013

New book: Life after New Media: Mediation as a Vital Process
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/life-after-new-media-0