The following is a call for submissions for the first issue of the on-line journal, Portfolio: an ejournal for emerging research in visual culture. The journal would be open to PGRs and recently graduated PGRs and open to all forms of media to take full advantage of the possibilities of a web-based format. All submissions will be subjected to double blind peer review, with additional oversight provided by a steering committee of senior academics and practitioners.
Practicing Visual Culture: make it, use it, save it. January,
2010 Designed objects, as pivotal indicators of cultural values, are both created and transformed through the process of production. Design as a practice of process allows us to reassess objects and their role in culture. It enables us to consider the variety of ways in which theirmeanings are assigned and re-assigned, the cultural values embedded within them. This inaugural issue of Portfolio: an e-journal for emerging research in visual culture is soliciting submissions that focus on the various stages andmeanings found in the practice of creation and use. In our study of the visual, how do we re-interpret genres, movements, periods and how can we assess what an object’s value historically and currently? What are the economic and environmental concerns which come into play? Debates on authorship, materiality, reproduction and representation and the meaning assigned to both the object and our understanding of the process are welcomed.
Deadline: July 15, 2010
Send to: portfolioejournal@googlemail.com
Submission guidelines:
Article length: 3000-5000 words
Book/exhibition/conference reviews: 500-1000 words
Author bio: 3 sentences
Abstract: 150 words
Keywords: Maximum of 6
Format: typed, double spaced, A4/letter sized, additional copy on disk
Acknowledgement: for permission, quotation, copyright, etc submitted with final draft
Legal stuff:
- The submission must not be considered for publication elsewhere,excluding
thesis/dissertation- Publishers have worldwide and on-line copyright of the published submission
- It is the author’s responsibility to obtain worldwide and online
permission for images/quote from copyright issues and provide written
documentation of permission- There is no payment for translation, redrawing, drawing or mounting services
provided
Spelling and Punctuation: both US and British English spelling and punctuation are acceptable as long as the style remains consistent throughout.
Style:
Title page: author details, abstract, acknowledgements, keywords, reader correspondence address
Main Article: no author identification, properly formatted, ‘Main Article’ in
headerFont: size 12, Times New Roman Ref system & examples: we use the Harvard Referencing System. http://www.tvu.ac.uk/lrs/guides/harvard.html
Keywords: up to 6 keywords must be listed
Manuscript
ReferencesSent to: portfolioejournal@googlemail.com
Margins: 1”/2.54 cm margins all around, numbered pages
Artwork/illustrations: include text for captions, title, copyright, numbered
Quotations: large quotations inset, short textual quotes with single quotemarks, permission for those over 400 words, or 10 percent of submission
Language: English, foreign text translated into English
References: are to be cited in the body of the text in parentheses. As follows:(Smith, 2000: 52). Only cite books/articles quoted from or primary reference listed alphabetically and chronologically for each author
Footnotes: not accepted, see above referencing
Endnotes: consecutively numbered
Images: color photography preferred, high resolution xxx files, 300 pi for photos, artwork 600 dpi or higher 1200 b&w drawings
Filmography: used for film and video, use one key production reference (production company, major distributor or releasing studio—authors may choose one key reference). separate heading under references
Film: Robin Hood. 2010. Dir. Ridley Scott. Universal Studios
TV: Outnumbered (2007 – present) BBC One
Websites: Websites should include both the full address and the date of downloading or printing. Please use the date on which you referred to it.
Tables: Separate, at end, captioned and numbered.
Criteria for evaluation: To ensure anonymity and transparency throughout the process all submissions are double blind peer reviewed. Any questions will be submitted to appropriate Advisory Board members. Editor will acknowledge receipt of manuscript.