Journal of Social Theory in Art Education CALL FOR PAPERS • JSTAE Volume 26 This year's theme is Out of Site, Out of Sight, Out of Cite Co-editors: jan jagodzinski (jan.jagodzinski@ualberta.ca) Bill Wightman (wightmwh@jmu.edu) Wanda Knight (wbk10@psu.edu) Our theme this year works with a homology that has been dear to jan throughout his writings. It is a trope that speaks very well to Lacan's three psychic registers, but authors need not follow this particular track. jan, though, will play with the possibilities, tagging Lacan along when possible. Site refers normally to a coordinated space, a ground, something local. But we know that the local and the global (the so called "glocal") provide us with fractal geometries where spaces have become imploded into moments of time. A flat earth overlayed with the global sphere requires new imaginings. So what is out of site in art education? Lisa Parks, for example, tackles the satellite image in her Cultures in Orbit. Is there anyone out there who might search out imagery in which many art educators would say lies "outside" our accepted sphere, like imagery from current science, from marketing, from chemistry, from mathematics? Site can also be the psychic place of the Lacanian Real. This is a site that has no coordinates. For Lacan, the Real is beyond both the Imaginary and the Symbolic psychic registers. Site, therefore, can be thought of in terms of time—as Deleuze's pure time (aion)—and the disappearance of materiality (i.e., dematerialization) as Virilio, since 1983, has told us in his Aesthetics of Disappearance. Hence, are there art educators who are willing to write about the digitalized time images of computer art and offer their in(sites) on what is out of site? "Out of site," therefore, might play with both the present and absent dialectic. "Out of sight," in Lacanian terms, is much easier since art educators can find themselves on some familiar ground. Sight as vision offers art educators a wide landscape of possibilities. We invite essays that explore visual regimes that have become established in our public schools or art departments. "Out of sight" might interrogate current ideals, territories, and debates concerning visual cultural education, since this was a distant horizon first discussed in JSTAE in 1980 and is now looming closer in mainstream art education. "Out of sight" might provide us with concerns over our televised, cinematic images that come at us through popular culture. For Lacan, sight was always a form of misrecognition, a form of "ignorance" as brilliantly explored by Magritte. We are all framed by images. So, we invite essays that question representation to de-frame it. Lastly cite refers to the word, to text. For Lacan, this was the symbolic order, the level of discourse, the signifier which always tries to ground representation. "Out of cite" might be an exploration between image and text. Enough is already out there to make this a fruitful area of discussion for art educators. Even the journal Art and Text was created for this question. What are the ways to theorize, practice and approach these two disparate systems without collapsing one into the other? How can we work the gap between them? Furthermore, what voices are not cited in art education literature? Even the history of JSTAE not being listed with NAEA publications is an area of exploration for the theme, "out of cite." Potential authors, hopefully will see this theme—out of site/sight/cite—as a rich homology to be explored in ways that will help the journal's mandate to continue to come to terms with the changed imaged-world around us—now the world of screen images. Take chances with this theme. Attempt to open up questions that are needed for us to come to terms with today's decentered image. It seems that “art institutions” in all their generic forms can no longer hold images hostage, so to speak. They are to be found everywhere. We look forward to you contributions. Photo by James Sanders III October 15, 2005 is the deadline for submission of articles, images, and reviews of books, video/films, performance/action pieces, and exhibitions for spring 2006 publication of volume 26. Images as visual research may be submitted. Membership is not a precondition to submit manuscripts. Please prepare images, which accompany a text, in digital (300 dpi .tif) form. Original manuscripts should be prepared according to the APA (5th edition) style. Please place your name on a separate paper to help facilitate anonymous review. Please send four paper copies to: jan jagodzinski, editor for volume 26 (2006) 341 Education South Department of Secondary Education University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada T6G 2G5 jan.jagodzinski@ualberta.ca The Journal of Social Theory in Art Education (JSTAE) is a publication of the Caucus on Social Theory & Art Education (CSTAE), a National Art Education Association Issues Group. Its editorial policy is in compliance with the CSTAE's constitutional mandate: to promote the use of theoretical concepts from the social sciences—which include, but are not limited to, anthropology, sociology, and political science—to study visual culture and the teaching of art; to inform art educators about theory and practice in the social sciences, thus acting as a liaison between social scientists and art educators; to encourage research into the social context of visual culture and teaching art; and to develop socially relevant programs for use in the teaching of art. Journal Process and Timetable: The journal is distributed to members at the NAEA annual conference and mailed each June to current CSTAE members who did not attend NAEA. CSTAE members are encouraged to offer your services as JSTAE reviewers. To do so, contact Bill Wightman (wightmwh@jmu.edu) with your publication citations and a statement of areas of expertise. CSTAE members discuss a theme for each year's journal at the CSTAE Annual Business meeting at the NAEA conference. The deadline for submissions to the JSTAE is October 15 for the next year's journal. Editors serve two year terms. jan jagodzinski, however, is serving a third term (2003-2004 & 2004-2005 & 2005-2006). He is joined by Bill Wightman and Wanda Knight who were appointed by the Executive Board as editors of volume 26. Bill and Wanda will continue to serve as co-editors for volume 27 (2006-2007), and Wanda Knight will subsume full editorship for volume 28 (2007-2008). 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