Scene (Journal)

ISSN 20443714 , ONLINE ISSN 20443722

Scene is a peer-reviewed journal dedicated to a critical examination of space and scenic production. Scene welcomes new critical frameworks for the scholarship of creating a scene and invites contributions which explore all aspects of design contexts for live and recorded performance – particularly those which pay attention to the shaping of artistic vision, aesthetic sophistication, critical thinking and craft.

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Category: Live Art, Performing Arts


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Co-Editors

Christine White
De Montfort University, UK
christine.white@dmu.ac.uk

Alison Oddey
University of Derby, UK
alison.oddey@btinternet.com

Gregory Sporton
University of Westminster, UK
g.sporton@westminster.ac.uk

Notes for Contributors Download


Aims & Scope

Scene is dedicated to a critical examination of space and scenic production. This double-blind peer-reviewed journal provides an opportunity for dynamic debate, reflection, and criticism. With a strong interdisciplinary focus, Scene welcomes articles, interviews, visual essays, and reports from conferences and festivals. The journal incorporates investigations into the development of new technologies and modes of operating, distribution of content and profiles of design for film, television, theatre and events, as well as new platforms such as gaming and virtual environment design. Scene aims to examine new critical frameworks for the scholarship of creating a scene.

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All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications.
 
Journal contributors will receive a free PDF copy of their final work upon publication. Print copies of the journal may also be purchased by contributors at half price.

Peer Review Policy

All articles undergo initial editorial screening either by the journal's Editorial Team and/or incumbent Guest Editors. Articles then undergo a rigorous anonymous peer review by two referees, following the guidance in Intellect's 'Peer review instructions'. Based on this feedback, the Editors will communicate a decision and revision suggestions to authors. To appeal an editorial decision, please contact the main Editor who will consider your case.

Ethical Guidelines

The journal follows the principles set out by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Read our Ethical Guidelines for more on the journal's standards.

Co-Editors

Christine White
De Montfort University, UK
christine.white@dmu.ac.uk

Alison Oddey
University of Derby, UK
alison.oddey@btinternet.com

Gregory Sporton
University of Westminster, UK
g.sporton@westminster.ac.uk

Co-Editors

Christine White
De Montfort University, UK
christine.white@dmu.ac.uk

Alison Oddey
University of Derby, UK
alison.oddey@btinternet.com

Gregory Sporton
University of Westminster, UK
g.sporton@westminster.ac.uk

Co-Editors

Christine White
De Montfort University, UK
christine.white@dmu.ac.uk

Alison Oddey
University of Derby, UK
alison.oddey@btinternet.com

Gregory Sporton
University of Westminster, UK
g.sporton@westminster.ac.uk

Call for Papers: The Art of Making Download

Deadline for Abstracts: 17 April 2023



General Call for Papers

Submissions are welcome from scholars and practitioners.

Contributors are encouraged to approach design for entertainment from any discipline and to turn their attention to practices from all countries and in all languages. Possible themes for inclusion include, but are not limited to, the following:

Cinema; television; commercials; theatre; opera; musical; interior design; lighting design; costume design; theme parks; scenography; architecture; visual special effects; visual arts; virtual sets; multivision; location sets; games design and virtual environments; and modes of spectating.

All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications.

Journal contributors will receive a free PDF copy of their final work upon publication. Print copies of the journal may also be purchased by contributors at half price. 

 

Special Issue Call for Papers

The Art of Making: Methods that Work for Art-Making as Research Enquiry 

The status of art-making as research enquiry remains ambiguous and ephemeral. In the past two decades it has made great strides in its identification within the academy, with phrases like ‘practice-based’ or ‘practice-led’ research, or ‘artistic research’ being acknowledged as legitimate pursuits, if slippery to identify. This is because such work produces new knowledge within a specialist subject domain and in its application to topics explored through it. This contributes to interdisciplinary activity, enabling the inexpressible to become evidence when combined with more established branches of enquiry. Moreover, the methods entailed in practice-based research remain opaque and elusive often because they get less attention than outputs and outcomes that eclipse close consideration of the methods themselves.

Artistic research or practice-research models are methods that work. Like methods in other disciplines, they can be reproducible or adaptable, but the absence of standardized processes is unsurprisingly concomitant with the assumed uniqueness of the outputs. This is sometimes thought of as a weakness when it is more likely a feature, the exploration of a form through innovation in the act of creation, where methodological principle trumps theoretical concept.

Access to research resources and funding opportunities for art methodologies is by no means universal. Eliding such work into wider fields through classifying it with adjacent disciplines reduces its impact in the academy, in public research funding and on the wider public it seeks to engage. It is time to seek acknowledgement of the practices it embraces as a unique approach to research in its own right.

We are inviting submissions that rise to our particular paradox: to justify the untextual through text and develop an archive of methodological processes that are otherwise ephemeral and intangible.

This double issue invites accounts of how practice-led, practice-based or artistic research manifests; the taxonomies that emerge in the process; the legal and structural opportunities it presents; the cultural politics of art-making as research inquiry; or methods and processes that address issues of legitimacy, commonality and impact. How does practice-based research open the door to new forms of enquiry and systems of knowledge? What are the barriers to achieving legitimacy of the practice given its centrality to enquiry?

Article abstracts of 400–600 words, with a title and short bio, should be sent to G.Sporton@westminster.ac.uk and natalie.alvarez@torontomu.ca by 17 April 2023. Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to a symposium in London in September 2023 to share their ideas and engage with others to develop concepts as part of our Transatlantic Collaboration series.

Co-Editors

Christine White
De Montfort University, UK
christine.white@dmu.ac.uk

Alison Oddey
University of Derby, UK
alison.oddey@btinternet.com

Gregory Sporton
University of Westminster, UK
g.sporton@westminster.ac.uk

International Advisory Board

Piers Britton
University of Redlands

Jeff Burke
University of California Los Angeles

John Clark
Artist - character, concept artist and art director, painter

Lee Danskin
Escape Studios

Lizbeth Goodman
University College Dublin

Pamela Howard
Central St Martins

Imre Jele
Bossa Studios

Sofia Pantouvaki
Aalto University, Finland

Natalie Rewa
Queens University, Canada

Fausto Viana
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Grahame Weinbren
School of Visual Arts, New York

Co-Editors

Christine White
De Montfort University, UK
christine.white@dmu.ac.uk

Alison Oddey
University of Derby, UK
alison.oddey@btinternet.com

Gregory Sporton
University of Westminster, UK
g.sporton@westminster.ac.uk

 
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European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH)
 
International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)
 
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Co-Editors

Christine White
De Montfort University, UK
christine.white@dmu.ac.uk

Alison Oddey
University of Derby, UK
alison.oddey@btinternet.com

Gregory Sporton
University of Westminster, UK
g.sporton@westminster.ac.uk

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