Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism

28/05/2025

Afterimage's new special issue, "Aesthetics of Perplexity," is interested in examining perplexity as an aesthetic category, in which the experience of confusion or bewilderment can be harnessed as an artistic tactic.

26/09/2023

It's ! Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism first invited submissions for peer review in 2019, after the University of California Press began publishing the journal. We are proud of the peer reviewed content we have published since then, and to celebrate , we invite you to read the latest peer reviewed articles in our just-published September issue (50.3) for free online for a limited time. https://online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/issue/50/3

24/09/2022

Read the September 2022 issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism online now.

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02/04/2022

For , we're pleased to offer free access to both our current issue—including new peer-reviewed articles—and our inaugural issue from 1972, which is now available online for the first time as we begin to digitize our archive.

For , we're pleased to offer free online content from Film Quarterly, Feminist Media Histories, Representations, Afterimage, and more. In Film Quarterly's new March issue, Diana Flores Ruíz considers the works of filmmaker Sky Hopinka, a Ho-Chunk Nation national and descendent of t

04/03/2022

Read the current issue of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism + other University of California Press art and media studies journals for free online during the CAA Advancing Art & Design conference.

This week as we convene virtually for the College Art Association's 2022 conference, we invite you to read the current issues of UC Press's art journals for free online. Click on the journal covers below to access the free issues.

30/05/2021

Have you read our March 2021 issue yet? We've removed the paywall from the issue allowing you to sample peer-reviewed articles, reports, essays, and reviews.

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25/09/2020

We're proud to announce the publication of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism's first peer-reviewed articles in the new, September 2020 issue—articles by Annie Dell'Aria, Rodrigo Lopes de Barros, and Brianne Cohen.

23/09/2020

A conversation about the future of with the editors of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism's dossier, "Visual Culture and the Climate Crisis," Lucas Hilderbrand & James Nisbet.

Afterimage's recent relaunch with the University of California Press integrates the journal's legacy of contemporary arts and media criticism with an expanded commitment to scholarly essays. As part of this mission, the editorial team wanted to approach the journal as a unique venue for academics to

23/09/2020

During , we'd like to remind you that we are currently accepting original research papers for review. Afterimage's first peer-reviewed articles will publish in the forthcoming September 2020 issue. See our : https://online.ucpress.edu/afterimage/pages/call_for_papers

21/09/2020

We welcome games scholar Bo Ruberg to Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism.

Bo Ruberg has recently joined colleagues in film and media studies and art history as an associate editor of Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. Fellow associate editor, Lucas Hilderbrand, did a Q&A to welcome Bo to the team and to introduce them to readers and potentia

20/08/2020

22/06/2020

Join us for the launch of the special Afterimage dossier, “Co-creation in Documentary: Toward Multiscalar Granular Interventions Beyond Extraction.” Leading figures in documentary practice and theory will present in a salon that focuses on co-creation practices, documentary, the pandemic, and protest. This free webinar is cosponsored by Afterimage and the Park Center for Independent Media.

Cosponsored by the Park Center for Independent Media and Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24 4-5:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time SPEAKERS: Karen Van Meenen, Editor, Afterimage Reece Auguiste, Associate Professor, University of Colorado Helen De Michiel, medi...