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Forwarded from Diatrope (see below) *CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS* *Images, Technology, and History: A Feature in History and Technology* Scholars are giving increased attention to images as historical evidence. A new feature in *History and Technology* seeks to analyze images relating to technology, with two aims: To more fully integrate our understanding of technology into broader historical accounts and as a means to reflect on historical method. At a basic level, images may record a technology's presence in history, depicting where, when, and how it was deployed, as well as the different social, artistic, and cultural contexts in which it was produced and encountered. In addition, images themselves are technological products that may act as catalysts, changing the paradigms through which we see and apprehend the world. Careful analyses of images, too, can highlight fundamental problems of historical explanation. In their specificity, images address the production of knowledge and culture, as situated in a particular moment in time and space. In their use of conventional codes of representation they speak to larger and enfolding social, cultural, and political structures. Images, in concentrated fashion, push us to understand the interplay between the empirical and interpretation. The editors of *History and Technology* invite submissions of short essays (approx. 2000 words) that address the visual history of technology. Essays should focus on 1-3 visual representations, and might approach the images from a variety of different theoretical positions. Possibilities include: the formal or iconographic content of the representations; the social and cultural implications of how different technologies are represented or who used them; the audience and reception of different representations of technologies; the history of different media and their technological antecedents; or the ways in which technology changed the sensory experience of the world. Essays are preferred that discuss the historiographic issues raised through the analysis of images. Please send submissions or queries to Elizabeth Kessler, Image Editor ([log in to unmask] ) or Martin Collins, Editor ([log in to unmask]). For more information about *History and Technology, *please see the journal website (http://taylorandfrancis.co.uk/journals/titles/07341512.asp <https://webmail.ursinus.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=3Dhttp://taylorandfrancis.co.uk/journals/titles/07341512.asp >). ________________________________________________________________ This message was from the Diatrope Art & Science discussion. For information, archives, or to subscribe, please see http://webexhibits.org/about/diatrope.html ==== Paul Brown - based in Germany Jan - Feb 2009 mailto:[log in to unmask] == http://www.paul-brown.com UK Mobile +44 (0)794 104 8228 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 Skype paul-g-brown ==== Artist in Residence, compArt Project - Bremen University ====