<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><section class="entry-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody"><p class="">The
Institute of Network Cultures (INC) invites all designers, artists,
writers and web-surfers (if there are any left) to submit their visual
and written works created via or inspired by screenshots!</p><p class="">In the upcoming hybrid publication <em class="">PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot,</em> INC wants to collaboratively explore the omni-present, yet somehow often overlooked <a href="https://networkcultures.org/longform/2022/01/19/no-shot-like-screenshot-banal-sublime-and-dangerous/" class="">screenshot as a contemporary digital image and practice</a> that fuses the human and machinic boundaries of authorship and vision.</p><p class="">As screenshots multiply in our digital depositories, whether to serve
as a reminder, memory, pretty artefact or future blackmail material,
they seem to be neglected due to mundanity of our encounters with
screens and technological easiness with which a screenshot is captured.
As we move through our digital surroundings with very low-effort action
of scrolling, we occasionally stop by and freeze the moment with even
more low effort of screenshotting. We share them, we read our poetic
worldview into them, we gasp in disbelief just before we take them, we
forget them. The project <em class="">PrtScn</em> aims to capture (pun intended) the ways in which we contemplate and get creative with them.</p><p class="">With this publication, we invite perspectives on screenshots as
layered, sublime, uncanny, poetic, touching, stylized, authored (right
in the middle), untouched, retouched, touchable, untouchable, ready for
sharing, secret, beautiful, ugly, glitched, messy, clean, clear,
confusing, accidental, just perfect.</p><p class=""><em class="">PrtScn: The Lazy Art of Screenshot</em> will be edited by Dunja Nešović and Geert Lovink.</p><p class="">Contributions can take a visual or written form (1500 words max.). The deadline for submissions is <strong class="">4 February 2022</strong>. Send your contributions to <a href="mailto:info@networkcultures.org" class="">info@networkcultures.org</a>. For questions contact <a href="mailto:dunja@networkcultures.org" class="">dunja@networkcultures.org</a>.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div>
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