Future Issues
Call for papers for volume 36
Activism and Audiovisual Archive
Date of publication
January 2027
Deadline for Submission of Proposals
2026, 16 of October
Coordinators
Javier Moral Martín (Polytechnic University of Valencia)
Jordi Revert Gomis (University of Valencia)
Silvana Santucci (CONICET, Argentina)
Abstract
The digitalization of the modes of production, circulation, and preservation of images has profoundly transformed the relationship between audiovisual archives, artistic practices, and political action. The proliferation of recording devices, the expansion of digital repositories, and the circulation of synthetic images have turned the archive into a central element of symbolic dispute and meaning-making in a society whose need for preservation runs parallel to the increase and dissolution of physical documents.
Drawing on the contributions of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida in the 20th century, we understand the archive not as a neutral repository of the past, but as a device shaped by relations of power: who preserves, what is made publicly available, and which narratives remain excluded are fundamental questions in the configuration of collective memories that define a social context.
This issue invites reflection on audiovisual practices that critically intervene in contemporary archives, exploring their connections with activism, political resistance, subaltern memories, anarchivism and the production of identities. We welcome interdisciplinary contributions that examine the archive as a space of conflict, creation, and historical reinterpretation within emerging digital ecosystems.
Some of the lines of research proposed for this issue are the following:
- The archive as a political device. The audiovisual archive as a space of power, production of narratives, counter-narratives, and ideological dispute.
- Community archives and collaborative practices. Participatory models of archive creation and management emerging from collectives and social movements; anarchivism.
- Memory, justice, and human rights. The use of archives in processes of historical memory, reparation, and denunciation.
- Aesthetics of activist archives. Formal and discursive strategies of audiovisual activism; artistic practices based on the reappropriation, montage, and resignification of archives.
- Digital technologies and new archival ecologies. The impact of platforms, algorithms, and artificial intelligence on the configuration of archives and their ideological trajectories.
Call for papers for volume 35
Contestatory Visualities and Narratives
Date of publication
July 2026
Deadline for Submission of Proposals
2026, 28 of February
Coordinators
Aurora Alcaide Ramírez (University of Murcia)
Pedro Ortuño Mengual (University of Murcia)
Virginia Villaplana Ruiz (University of Murcia)
Abstract
This volume aims to analyse —from the current artistic landscape and from a broad, transdisciplinary perspective— the dynamics, processes and poetics of art as a form of contestation, a term that is open to multiple interpretations, with a complex and multifaceted definition encompassing different fields of study and theoretical approaches.
Contestatory Visualities and Narratives, as a fundamental axis for the development of the notions of art, citizenship and democracy in global society, can be considered from an applied level of research, for the consolidation of artistic, educational and communicative project initiatives that apply innovation in a context of social justice that refers to the ethical challenges faced by art. The main objective of the monograph is to promote an analysis of contestatory visualities and narratives in the ecosystem of learning and dialogue within the framework of research and the social transfer of knowledge.
Some of the lines of research proposed for this issue are the following:
- Eco-social art and ecosophies.
- Otherness and decolonial artistic practices. Art, borders and foreignness.
- Urban art, nature and activism.
- Creativity, dystopian counter-narratives and utopias.
- Experimental cinema and rebellious video art.
- Memory, archives and queer feminisms.
- Technology, dissent and artificial intelligence.
- Other poetics of protest.
