Monthly Archive for August, 2010

Journal of The Image – Become an Associate Editor

Published on August 31, 2010 in Journal and Newsletter. 0 Comments Tags: .

As part of the process of publishing The International Journal of the Image all submissions are sent for peer review, prior to publication. Assessment, comments and guidance by the referees are an essential part of the publication process and invaluable to the authors of the submitted papers.

In recognition of the important role of referees, the international advisory board acknowledges all referees who have refereed papers as an ‘Associate Editor’ in the volume of the journal they have contributed to.

If you would like to referee papers submitted to The International Journal of the Image, please email journals@ontheimage.com, with your professional details, areas of expertise and contact details. If we feel you are qualified and we require refereeing for papers within your expertise, we will contact you.

Submissions Open for The Image Journal

Published on August 31, 2010 in Journal and Newsletter. 0 Comments Tags: .

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We are now accepting submissions for The International Journal of the Image.

The International Journal of the Image interrogates the nature of the image and functions of image-making. This cross-disciplinary journal brings together researchers, theoreticians, practitioners and teachers from areas of interest including: architecture, art, cognitive science, communications, computer science, cultural studies, design, education, film studies, history, linguistics, management, marketing, media studies, museum studies, philosophy, photography, psychology, religious studies, semiotics, and more.

The International Journal of the Image is peer-reviewed, supported by rigorous processes of criterion-referenced article ranking and qualitative commentary, ensuring that only intellectual work of the greatest substance and highest significance is published.

Refereeing of submitted papers will commence shortly so start the submission process early by submitting your proposal.

Paper submission guidelines and timelines are available online.

Series: The Image

Published on August 31, 2010 in Book and Newsletter. 0 Comments Tags: .

We are now accepting book proposals for our new imprint The Image.

Common Ground is setting new standards of rigorous academic knowledge creation and scholarly publication.

Unlike other publishers, we’re not interested in the size of potential markets or competition from other books. We’re only interested in the intellectual quality of the work.

If your book is a brilliant contribution to a specialist area of knowledge that only serves a small intellectual community, we still want to publish it. If it is expansive and has a broad appeal, we want to publish it too, but only if it is of the highest intellectual quality.

Howard Besser announced as a plenary speaker–The Image Conference, LA

Published on August 30, 2010 in Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

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Howard Besser is Director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation masters degree program (MIAP) at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University in New York City. He’ll be presenting his plenary presentation, Image in an Age of Re-Contextualization, at The International Conference on the Image, 2-3 December 2010 at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In addition to teaching MIAP courses, he teaches a regular Cinema Studies course on “New Media, Installation Art, and the Future of Cinema” (http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/Classes/newmedia08/).  His current research projects involve preserving digital public television (http://www.ptvdigitalarchive.org/), preserving and providing digital access to dance performance (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/arts/dance/20bloo.html and http://www.merce.org/studioandclasses_mm.html), preserving difficult electronic works, issues around copyright and fair use, Do-It-Yourself media, and the changing nature of media with the advent of digital delivery systems. More on Howard Besser…

Also, more on the 2010 Image Conference Plenary Speakers…

Image Conference–Book Your Hotel Room Now

Published on August 30, 2010 in Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

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During the 2010 Image Conference, December 2-3 at UCLA, we’ve arranged a special conference accommodation rate for delegates. Stay, mingle and meet delegates at the Hotel Palomar Los Angeles-Westwood.

Some hotel amenities include:

  • Complimentary morning coffee and tea bar
  • Hosted evening wine hour in hotel’s living room
  • Amenities of home, including iron and ironing board, hairdryer, plush animal print bathrobes, lighted make-up and full-length mirrors
  • “Forgot It? We’ve Got It!” essential travel items

    More amenities and booking information available on The Image Conference Accommodation webpage.

    Subway, lifeblood.

    Published on August 28, 2010 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

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    From 24flinching.com…

    As a kid growing up in the eightees’ who naturally gravitated towards GrandMaster Flash, The RockSteady Crew and writing graffiti, I always had an affinity for the New York City subway during the late 70′ and early 80’s. It represented the blood-filled arteries of a city pumping with organic, authentic, city-brewed culture. It was covered with tags and pieces while filled with people of every size, shape, age and color. It was reckless and untamed and most importantly, it was New York City.

    I collected some photographs from Bruce Davidson, John F. Conn, Jamel Shabazz and Martha Cooper detailing life on and in the New York City subway in the 1980’s. Enjoy. More…

    To Have Done with the Contemporary Cinema

    Published on August 27, 2010 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

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    From Chris Fujiwara at n+1…

    I used to mind being called a journalist. It seemed demeaning and beside the point of what I wanted to do and believed I was really doing, sometimes, which was criticism. Now I’m way up in my ivory tower (a flimsy one, which you access by a ladder that you have to remember to pull up after you) and am rarely asked for my opinion on anything that happened more recently than forty years ago, and I wish I were a journalist again. Journalists have lots of advantages. They get free stuff and invitations. Many people respect them even though they despise them. But the most important perk of all is that the journalist is free from a worry that haunts the rest of us: whether or not we are contemporary.

    No one can challenge the journalist’s claim to be contemporary. Journalists work in the very factory of the contemporary, at its “heart machine” (a term from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, a film that tried to beat the contemporary by anticipating it). They make the contemporary contemporary. That their labor has market value is their clear justification. Paid to write about what just happened or is about to happen, journalists are embedded—there, I’ve used a word with very contemporary overtones and it’s only the second paragraph—inside capitalism, deep inside. More…

    Les Rencontres d’Arles : The International Photography Festival

    Published on August 15, 2010 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

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    The International Photography Festival known as “Les Rencontres d’Arles” was created by Lucien Clergue , Jean-Maurice Rouquette and Michel Tournier in 1968. More than forty years later this festival is definitively, the most important event around photography in the whole world.

    Usually organized around more than 50 events installed in various exceptional patrimonial places of Arles, Les Rencontres d’Arles (in English the Meetings of Arles) , each summer in July, intend to contribute to transmit the world photographic inheritance and also want to be the crucible of contemporary creation by the discovery of young talented photographers.

    Thanks to a demanding programming directed by talented François Hebel and a challenging public, the Rencontres d’Arles explore the current stakes of photography and attest capacity of this medium and importance of the figure of the photographer, witness of the world which surrounds it. More…