Call for contribution

Scholars of art history and visual culture are invited to send abstracts for consideration for the edited volume, Transformative Light: Light Technologies in Art, Architecture and Design. The volume will investigate the generative role of light in modern and contemporary visual culture, architecture and design. Abstracts for chapters are sought which examine the media, tools, and technologies that manipulate, harness or fundamentally depend upon light in order to function, including image-making (especially photography and film), lighting and glass design, energy production and electricity, and light therapy. Focusing on international case studies of light technologies and media, the volume will reveal light as a fascinating, discordant and ephemeral phenomenon that is an essential component in the making of images, objects and spaces. Just as it can define space and reveal form, so it can destroy and obscure. Essays already planned for the volume are discussing diverse topics such as sanatoria and window glass design, visualisations of electromagnetic energies, the illuminations of world fairs, and lighting design in contemporary architecture.

Editors Dr Melissa Miles (Monash), Dr John Stanislav Sadar (Monash), and Dr Tania Woloshyn (Warwick) seek abstracts of 150-200 words by 1 December 2014 for consideration. If accepted, final essays of 6,000-8,000 words in length, illustrated, and previously unpublished or not under review elsewhere will be due in June 2015.

Please send abstracts, and any queries, to T.Woloshynwarwick.ac.uk.