Media-Space is an international journal for artists and academics in the field of new media art. It features both scholarly research articles on the cultural, philosophical, political and aesthetic implications and effects of new media art, and illustrated articles written by artists about their own work. All submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed.
Artists are invited to submit articles dealing with their current work or a body of work that has been carried out over an extended period. These texts may be written with a co-author. Articles should discuss objectives, approaches, concepts, materials and techniques in adequate detail to provide meaningful information to artists and researchers. Articles can be between up to 7000 words in length (including endnotes) and may include web-inks, illustrations, images, or video. The format and presentation of artworks will be negotiated with the editor.
Authors are invited to submit illustrated texts on subjects of interest to artists, such as new developments in the physical and biological sciences, engineering, mathematics, computer science, art theory, history, philosophy and art education. Critical and analytical writings about contemporary art are encouraged and should treat issues and tendencies beyond the work of a single artist. Discussions bearing on the relationships between disciplines are of special interest to the journal.
Authors are invited to submit written texts up to 7000 words on subjects of interest to artists and researchers in the field of new media art, such as new developments in bio-art or digital art, interdisciplinary issues or critical appraisals of either emerging artwork or new media theory. Critical and analytical writings about contemporary art/artists should consider issues and tendencies beyond the work of a single artwork or artist.
Media-Space accepts both solicited and unsolicited texts for review. Manuscripts and manuscript proposals should be emailed directly to Ingrid Richardson at i.richardson@murdoch.edu.au. If you would like a particular member of the Editorial Board to look at your manuscript, please note this when you submit your manuscript, but do not submit your manuscript to them directly. If you are submitting your manuscript for a special issue, please also note this when you submit your manuscript. Manuscripts for initial review may be submitted with embedded low-res images. Manuscripts must be under the 7,000 word count limit (including references and figure captions).
The review process involves double-blind peer review of all submitted articles, including those solicited by the editors. Generally each manuscript is reviewed by one member of the Media-Space editorial board, and two experts in the field. A request by an editor for a manuscript is not a guarantee that it will be published. Most manuscripts require revision by the author before final acceptance.
Authors are notified of acceptance, rejection or the need for revision within three months. Texts are judged on the basis of relevance to the aims and scope of the journal, originality, rigor of thought and quality of writing. Texts should be accessible to the interested lay reader. Abbreviations and special terms, especially highly technical terms, should be defined in the text or in a glossary at the end of the text. Acronyms should be spelled out on the first appearance.
All manuscripts submitted to the Media-Space Journal should be original and not be under consideration for another publication.
Authors license publication in the Media-Space Journal in print and electronic form.
All submissions should be accompanied by the following information on a separate page at the beginning of the text:
Name(s), Institutional affiliation(s), email and surface mail addresses and fax number(s) of the person(s) submitting;
Title of the text and the issue for which it is submitted.
An abstract of around 100 words.
All original submissions should be accompanied by a short biography (40-60 words) about the contributor(s), to appear after the last paragraph of the article.
All submissions should conform to the Chicago Referencing Style http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html. Please use in-text citations, followed by a References list in alphabetical order at the end of the article (indicated by [T] and [R] respectively in the Chicago Manual).
Endnotes may be used for side comments (i.e. not for referencing/citations) and indicated in the text as [1], [2] etc, with a corresponding list preceding the References at the end of the article.
The Media-Space Journal encourages submissions that extend research into critical and investigative networked theories, knowledges and practices.