About the Series

Edited by Charlotte Frost, Arts Future Book is an academic book series aiming to publish texts on art and visual culture in both print and digital formats. The series seeks to foster new scholarship in the arts, and publish unique works that rethink contemporary visual culture and establish new systems for considering art. It will highlight aspects of the impact of digital technologies on contemporary culture and indicate the ways in which technology informs our knowledge of the arts. The series will exploit recent technological advances in publishing to better disseminate such bodies of arts knowledge and develop wider readership and new reader experiences. Its premise is the notion that ideas are formed in dialogue with the media that represent them and that authors can actively forge the future of disciplines by recreating their core media. Therefore, this series sets out to chart new territory in disciplines dealing with the criticism, theorization and historicization of the arts. Each book published within the series will respect established academic standards, while redefining what an academic text might be and how it might be used.

Partners and Associates

The Arts Future Book series is part of a wider research project (of the same name) investigating the future of academic publishing in the arts (and also led by Charlotte Frost). The project brings together experts in the creative and technological development of publishing to discover what the literally and theoretically book-bound art critical disciplines might absorb from online information networks and emergent publishing systems. Current project partners are:
• Jussi Parikka, Reader in Media and Design, Winchester School of Art (University of Southampton), http://jussiparikka.net
• HUMlab, Umeå University, Sweden, a dedicated laboratory for research into the digital humanities.
• if:book a think and do tank exploring the future of the book in the digital age.
• Open Mute/Progressive Publishing Service an organization supporting cultural practice in the information age, building knowledge architectures and new publishing tools for cross-platform content.
• PhD2Published an organization offering academic book publishing advice to early career academics while investigating technical developments in systems for distributing academic research.
• Proboscis/Bookleteer/Story Cubes an organization developing online tools and offline models that challenge the physical format of the book.
• Gylphi an academic arts and humanities publisher focusing on the twentieth century and beyond.

Editorial Team

Series Editor

Charlotte Frost

Editorial Board

Gavin Butt, Goldsmiths, University of London
Ruth Catlow, Writtle School of Design, Writtle College, Essex
Mike Corris, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Mary Flanagan, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
Kelli Fuery, Brandman University, Irvine
Charlie Gere, Lancaster University
Giles Lane, Goldsmiths, University of London
Patrick Lichty, Columbia College, Chicago
Chris Meade, if:book, London and New York
Gunalan Nadarajan, Maryland Institute College of Art
Jussi Parikka, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton
Christiane Paul, The New School, New York
Jessica Pressman, Yale, New Haven
Edward Shanken, University of Amsterdam
Alexis Weedon, University of Bedfordshire

Call for Submissions

We invite proposals for monographs, single author studies and essay collections (including anthologies based upon conference proceedings) on arts and visual culture. Our objective is to publish texts that will redefine academic arts and humanities publishing through their content and format, as well as reach wider academic audiences and foster new knowledge experiences. This being the case, we welcome proposals on recent developments in art and visual culture that clearly benefit from not being confined to print alone. We favour the exploration of art’s relationship with technology as well as works that pioneer new theories or critical systems. Text length and final formats (in addition to the printed book) will vary according to the type of publication, with the average being 60,000–80,000 words.

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