TRANSLADOS Journal actively seeks essays on contemporary visual art and culture (reviews of art exhibitions, events and cultural publications) as well art projects made for (or adaptable to) web/publishing environments. We look for intellectually rigorous art and cultural productions which can use critical, humourous, personal or theoretical strategies to respond to contemporary subjects and experiences. We welcome materials that are aware of discussions on key sociocultural debates, that are aligned with our conceptual directives and themes or that can give new light to past assumed topics. The main objective is to expand acess to artistic information and contribute critically to diverse cultural discussions.
We normally solicits the majority of submissions, but we also considers unsolicited material for publication. Prior to submission of any content, please send us an abstract of the proposal: up to 250 words for essays and 120 words for reviews. In addition and if possible, contributors must include links to examples of previous writing as examples of completed writing and/or productionon in art or cultural subject matter.
Submissions, abstracts and sample writings should be sent by email as MS WORD or RTF attachments to info@translados.org. Please include in the email’s subject area the word [SUBMISSION] . We sugest that the final lenght for reviews should be preferably around 1500 to 2000 words and essays around 3000 to 6000 words. Please include a up to 100 word abstract and a biographical note with no more than five sentences with the submissions. Contributions should be formatted following the latest edition of the Oxford Manual of Style.
Guidelines and Resources
Below you can find some guidelines and details related to submission of material.
. Contributors can accept the proposed point of view of each TRANSLADOS Journal issue or react with new interpretations related to the proposed themes and concepts.
. Additional cases might be suggested by contributors, following the conceptual approach defined in the “open call” for each issue. The proposals might be accepted, depending on their evaluation by the editorial board.
. Proposed contributions will be evaluated on the basis of a previous abstract (120 to 250 words), and detailed information about the proposed submission’s content (total length and number of notes and images or illustrations).
. Contributions can be written in Portughese, English, Italian, or Spanish-Castellano. As far as possible we try to present texts in at least two of these languages.
. All texts (including footnotes, image credits, etc.) should be submitted digitally in .rtf format and edited according to the Oxford Manual of Style.
. All illustrations and drawings should be submitted digitally (.gif, .jpg or .png formats). Please include a numbered list of all illustrations and provide the following information for each: illustration source, name of photographer or artist, name of copyright holder, or “no copyright” and caption, if needed.
. Transladosdoes not buy intellectual property rights for the material appearing in the magazine. We suggest, always when possible, that external contributors publish their work under Creative Commons licenses (as our web platform already adopt them).
. Contributors whose work is selected for publication in TRANSLADOS Journal will be informed and will then start collaborating with Translados’ editorial group in order to complete the preparation of the submitted work.
A provisional list of topics for future issues
What send to TRANSLADOS? Please take a look bellow to see our field of interests.
Appropriation; Meditation and Translation; Curatorial turn in Artistic production (new practices and methodologies); Relations beetween Media, Culture and Politics; Art as Production of Knowledge; Critical and Educational projects; Art, Architecture and Design (art’s functionalities and new productivisms); Relations between Cultural industry, Art and entertainment; Art in relation to other Eco-systems; Art related to data visualization and diagrammatic systems; Art Economy and (alternative) production systems; Exhibitions as actions in the public sphere; Collaborative strategies and the Participatory; Art Engagements; Art workers as social critics and public intellectuals; Independence, Dependency and Autonomy, New Institutional Critique and Critical Practices; Post-Colonialism and Under-Represented Historical Narratives; Methodologies of Critical Research.