<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div><div>Dear KineJapan subscribers,<br><br>While not directly related to Japanese cinema, this CFP for my graduate program's journal (<i>InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture</i>) should be relevant for those working in postcolonialism and diaspora studies engaging with visual media. Attached as a PDF and pasted below. Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions.</div><div><br><br>Best regards,<br>Joel Neville Anderson</div></div><br></div>Managing Editor<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><i>InVisible Culture</i><br>503A Morey Hall<br>University of Rochester<br>Rochester, NY 14627<br><br><br>Website: <a href="http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu" target="_blank">http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/cfp-invisible-culture-issue-22-opacity</a></div></div><div dir="ltr">Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/invisibleculturejournal">https://www.facebook.com/invisibleculturejournal</a></div><div dir="ltr">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/IVCjournal">https://twitter.com/IVCjournal</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2d41f59d-ef99-320a-2966-0197ecbef0b1"><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 19px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Opacity” - Issue 22</span></div><br><span style="font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For its twenty-second issue, </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> invites scholarly articles and creative works that address the multiple meanings of </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">opacity</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div><br><span style="font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the spring of 2013, former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden began releasing documents pertaining to the wide-ranging data collection methods of the National Security Agency. Alternately hailed as hero and traitor, Snowden’s actions have fueled intense public debate regarding issues of privacy and transparency. For Issue 22, we would like contributors to consider the tension between transparency and opacity and reflect on the cultural and political contexts that gave rise to their connotations of openness and secrecy. What does it mean to claim either as a right? The late writer, poet, and critic Édouard Glissant (1928-2011) developed a model of opacity as a means of creating ethical relationships, writing in </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Poetics of Relation</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, “Transparency no longer seems like the bottom of the mirror in which Western humanity reflected the world in its own image. There is opacity now at the bottom of the mirror, a whole alluvium deposited by populations.” How could opacity be used as a tool of resistance? What stakes are involved in the revelation or obscuring of artworks’ racial, cultural, or gendered origins? How might we imagine opacity to be useful or limiting to the work of visual culture?</span></div><br><span style="font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We also seek to address optical properties of opacity more broadly as a conceptual tool for approaching medium specificity, innovations in color theory, and other subjects. Does our understanding of opacity shift in regard to digital technologies as it may between cultural spheres and political territories? How might visual culture be invested in the theoretical and physical properties of opacity and transparency?</span></div><br><span style="font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We welcome papers and artworks that further the various understandings of </span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">opacity</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Possible topics of exploration include, but are not limited to:</span></div><br><span style="font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Aesthetic and political dimensions of transparency and opacity</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Identity politics, “the right to opacity”</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Privacy and visibility, surveillance</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The “transparent society” and digital panopticism</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scientific and medical visualization, the body, big data</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Opacity of architectural traditions</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Liminal spaces, borders, zones of conflict</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Transparency and globalization, geopolitics</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Emerging, established, and decaying democracies</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Politics of clothing, fabric, screens, interstitial space and material</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Camera obscura/lucida, properties of darkness and light, color, pigmentation</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Transparency and opacity in the plastic arts (painting, film, sculpture)</span></div></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Penetration and resistance</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></div></li></ul><br><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please send completed papers (with references following the guidelines from the Chicago Manual of Style) of between 4,000 and 10,000 words to ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com by May 1, 2014. Inquiries should be sent to the same address.</span></p><br><span style="font-family: Calibri; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Creative/Artistic Works</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break">In addition to written materials,</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> InVisible Culture</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is accepting work in other media (video, photography, drawing, code) that reflect upon the theme as it is outlined above. For questions or more details concerning acceptable formats, go to</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com.</span></p><br><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reviews</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">InVisible Culture</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is also currently seeking submissions for book, exhibition, and film reviews (600-1,000 words). To submit a review proposal, go to</span><span style="font-size: 16px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">http://ivc.lib.rochester.edu/contribute</span></a><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> or contact ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com.</span></p><br><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:6pt;text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blog</span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br class="kix-line-break">The journal also invites submissions to its blog feature, which will accommodate more immediate responses to the topic of the current issue. For further details, please contact us at ivc[dot]rochester[at]gmail[dot]com with the subject heading “blog submission.”</span></p><br><span style="font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">* </span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Calibri; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture</span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (IVC) is a student run interdisciplinary journal published online twice a year in an open access format. Through peer reviewed articles, creative works, and reviews of books, films, and exhibitions, our issues explore changing themes in visual culture. Fostering a global and current dialog across fields, IVC investigates the power and limits of vision.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><span style="font-size: 13px; font-family: Calibri; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr"></div></body></html>