This fall will mark the launch of GLIMPSE, an interdisciplinary journal of visual perception that has been brewing in the back of my mind for almost 8 years. With the help of friends and a slew of enthusiastic volunteers and interns, GLIMPSE examines the functions and processes of vision and its implications for being, knowing, and constructing our world/s. Each theme-focused journal issue features articles and essays, artists’ visual essays, interviews, and reviews from the physical sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Beginning last January, GLIMPSE’s team convened to slog through such foundational issues as coming up with a name for the journal, a logo and layout design, a web site, a secret wink, a patron saint (St. Lucy), selecting themes for the first 6 issues, and beginning to invite people to contribute articles, essays, reviews, visual essays, etc.
GLIMPSE has a new group of tireless interns for the summer that will be researching potential contributors and stalking them until they agree to contribute their work and ideas to our enterprise. Since I’d prefer not to stalk, harass, and extort people for content, I’d like to enlist your help in:
1) Submitting relevant works for an upcoming issue, OR
2) Encouraging others to submit their work
3) Subscribing to the journal
4) Getting the word out about GLIMPSE to your friends and colleagues
5) Suggesting relevant potential advertisers for our first issues
More details about the journal and our call for submissions are below.
Thanks for your time and ideas. Have a great summer, and watch the virtual newsstand for our first issue this fall!
Megan
Megan Hurst
editor@glimpsejournal.com
GLIMPSE: the art + science of seeing
http://www.glimpsejournal.com
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
GLIMPSE: the art + science of seeing
An interdisciplinary journal of visual perception
Upcoming deadline: June 20, 2008
GLIMPSE editors seek submissions for upcoming issues. Our intent is to bring current research and scholarship of “the visual” to a public forum consisting of academic and non-academic audiences alike. Since we strive to spark inquiry and dialogue across disciplines, it is important that our articles avoid jargon and be accessible to readers from diverse backgrounds. Stylistically, GLIMPSE is more like a magazine than an academic journal– however, in depth of content, we value conceptual precision and scholarly rigor.
SUBMISSIONS http://www.glimpsejournal.com/contribute.html
Themes for upcoming GLIMPSE issues:
Is the visual political? (Fall 2008) – Deadline June 20, 2008
China Vision (Winter 2009) – Deadline July 11, 2008
Cosmos (Spring 2009) – Deadline September 26, 2008
Revolutions in Visual Representation
Vision and Language
Iconoclasm
Visions
Vision and Ethics
Imagination
SUBMISSIONS http://www.glimpsejournal.com/contribute.html
GLIMPSE takes a uniquely lightweight and open approach to publishing. Our audience definition, review process, handling of copyright, contributor compensation, production and publication formats, and overall business model are low-overhead, technology-enabled, and pragmatically idealistic. You can read about how GLIMPSE is different from most publications at http://www.glimpsejournal.com/about.html
SUBMISSIONS http://www.glimpsejournal.com/contribute.html
GLIMPSE also has opportunities for issue- and theme-specific guest editors and graphic designers, for editorial, database and programming, design, and library science interns for summer and fall 2008. Visit http://www.glimpsejournal.com/contribute.html#staff for more information.
SUBMISSIONS http://www.glimpsejournal.com/contribute.html
UPCOMING GLIMPSE THEMES http://www.glimpsejournal.com/issues.html
ABOUT GLIMPSE http://www.glimpsejournal.com/about.html
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