Antennae
"Art and Science -Interface and Experiment"

Deadline coming soon: June 1st

The past twenty years have seen a spike of the interest in art and science collaborations. Partly because of the resonance of the posthuman cyborg in the ontological turn; partly because of the rise of BioArt; perhaps because of the prominence that multidisciplinarity has acquired in academia; and surely in light of our fraught relationship with our environment and climate change, the intersections of art and science have recently become more complexly defined by new ethics, politics, aesthetics, and poetics.
Far from celebrating “art and science” as an unproblematic field of inquiry, the two issues of Antennae resulting from this CFP will focus on the challenges, compatibilities and productivities posed by multidisciplinarity, accessibility, epistemology, methodologies, empiricism, and speculative philosophy.
This project is co-edited in collaboration with American artist and philosopher Jonathon Keats whose bold experiments raise serious questions and put into practice his conviction that the world needs more "curious amateurs," willing to explore publicly whatever intrigues them, in defiance of a culture that increasingly forecloses on wonder and silos knowledge into narrowly defined areas of expertise.
The first issue will be dedicated to the notion of “Interface” and the second to “Experiment”. As both themes are open to interpretation, we invite artists, scholars and other creative thinkers to position their contribution within the concerns of current discourses and practices.

Topics considered include but are not restricted to:

Data, Information, and Post-truth
Sublime and Meta-sublime
Objects, Hyperobjects, and Meta-Objects
Curating Art and Science
Representation, spectacle, and politics
Challenges of Multidisciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinarity
Dialectic boundaries in Art and Science
Gender and Race in Art and Science
Politics of BioArt
Cyborg poetics
Posthumanist visions and realities
Anthropogenic interfaces
Interspecies communication and anthropocentrism
Art and Science in the Anthropocene
Legitimacy and Qualifications in Art and Science
Artistic Research and Scientific Research
Hypotheses and Experimentation in Science and Art
Artistic Processes and Scientific Method
Empiricism, Evidence and Falsification in Science and Art
Autodidacticism in Art and Science
Truth and Beauty
Audience, Accessibility, and Popularization
Intuition, Knowledge, and Dogma
Quantum Uncertainty
Relativistic Spacetime
Complexity and Nuance
Value and Funding
Studio and Laboratory
Public Art and Big Science
Peer Review
Sci-Fi and Art
STEM versus STEAM
Ptolemaic/Copernican Science and Art

Academic essays = length 6000-10000 words
Artists’ portfolio = 5/6 images along with 1000 words max statement/commentary
Interviews = maximum length 8000 words
Fiction = maximum length 8000 words
Roundtable discussions = 5000 words

Deadlines:
Abstracts: 1st of June 2018 (Please submit a 350 words abstract along with a CV)
Selection process is finalized and feedback sent by: 15th of July
Submissions of final pieces: 1st of November 2018
Please email any questions to: Giovanni Aloi: Editor in Chief of 'Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture' antennaeprojectgmail.com (www.antennae.org.uk)