[spectre] CFP: Performative Imaging (Arts open access journal special issue)

[Gabriel Menotti]

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

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**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 (
gabriel.menotti at gmail.com) or to the *Arts* editorial office (arts at mdpi.com).
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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