MIRAJ: Moving Image Review & Art Journal (Journal)

ISSN 20456298 , ONLINE ISSN 20456301

Moving Image Review & Art Journal is the first international peer-reviewed scholarly publication devoted to artists' film and video, and their contexts. It offers a forum for debates surrounding all forms of artists' moving image and media artworks: films, video installations, expanded cinema, video performance, experimental documentaries, animations and other screen-based works made by artists.

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Editors

Michael Mazière
Independent Scholar
michael.maziere@mac.com

Lucy Reynolds
Centre for Research in Education, Art and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster, UK
L.Reynolds02@westminster.ac.uk

Scholarly Editor

Rachel Garfield
School of Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art, UK
rachel.garfield@rca.ac.uk

Editorial Assistants

Sarah Niazi
CREAM Ph.D. Programme, University of Westminster, UK

Matthias Kispert
CREAM Ph.D. Programme, University of Westminster, UK

Lauren Houlton
CREAM Ph.D. Programme, University of Westminster, UK

Associate Editor

Sean Cubitt
University of Melbourne, Australia
scubitt@unimelb.edu.au

Eu Jin Chua
Auckland University of Technology

Jonathan Walley
Denison University, USA

Reviews Editor

Clare Carolin
King's College, London
clare.carolin@kcl.ac.uk

Notes for Contributors Download

Formal Guidelines



Aims & Scope

Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ) is the first international peer-reviewed scholarly publication devoted to artists' film and video, and its contexts. It offers a forum for debates surrounding all forms of artists' moving image and media artworks: films, video installations, expanded cinema, video performance, experimental documentaries, animations and other screen-based works made by artists. MIRAJ aims to consolidate artists' moving image as a distinct area of study that bridges a number of disciplines, not limited to, but including art, film and media.

Submissions

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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.

Editors

Michael Mazière
Independent Scholar
michael.maziere@mac.com

Lucy Reynolds
Centre for Research in Education, Art and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster, UK
L.Reynolds02@westminster.ac.uk

Scholarly Editor

Rachel Garfield
School of Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art, UK
rachel.garfield@rca.ac.uk

Editorial Assistants

Sarah Niazi
CREAM Ph.D. Programme, University of Westminster, UK

Matthias Kispert
CREAM Ph.D. Programme, University of Westminster, UK

Lauren Houlton
CREAM Ph.D. Programme, University of Westminster, UK

Associate Editor

Sean Cubitt
University of Melbourne, Australia
scubitt@unimelb.edu.au

Eu Jin Chua
Auckland University of Technology

Jonathan Walley
Denison University, USA

Reviews Editor

Clare Carolin
King's College, London
clare.carolin@kcl.ac.uk

Editors

Michael Mazière
Independent Scholar
michael.maziere@mac.com

Lucy Reynolds
Centre for Research in Education, Art and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster, UK
L.Reynolds02@westminster.ac.uk

Scholarly Editor

Rachel Garfield
School of Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art, UK
rachel.garfield@rca.ac.uk

Editorial Assistants

Sarah Niazi
CREAM Ph.D. Programme, University of Westminster, UK

Matthias Kispert
CREAM Ph.D. Programme, University of Westminster, UK

Lauren Houlton
CREAM Ph.D. Programme, University of Westminster, UK

Associate Editor

Sean Cubitt
University of Melbourne, Australia
scubitt@unimelb.edu.au

Eu Jin Chua
Auckland University of Technology

Jonathan Walley
Denison University, USA

Reviews Editor

Clare Carolin
King's College, London
clare.carolin@kcl.ac.uk

Editors

Michael Mazière
Independent Scholar
michael.maziere@mac.com

Lucy Reynolds
Centre for Research in Education, Art and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster, UK
L.Reynolds02@westminster.ac.uk

Scholarly Editor

Rachel Garfield
School of Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art, UK
rachel.garfield@rca.ac.uk

Editorial Assistants

Sarah Niazi
CREAM Ph.D. Programme, University of Westminster, UK

Matthias Kispert
CREAM Ph.D. Programme, University of Westminster, UK

Lauren Houlton
CREAM Ph.D. Programme, University of Westminster, UK

Associate Editor

Sean Cubitt
University of Melbourne, Australia
scubitt@unimelb.edu.au

Eu Jin Chua
Auckland University of Technology

Jonathan Walley
Denison University, USA

Reviews Editor

Clare Carolin
King's College, London
clare.carolin@kcl.ac.uk


General Call for Papers

The journal is not presently open to general call submissions. Please see the Special Issue call segment below.

Send all articles and proposals by e-mail in DOC or RTF format to the editorial assistants: miraj@cream.ac.uk

The editors seek pieces that offer theories of the present moment in the field of artist’s moving image but also writings that propose historical re-readings. 

We welcome articles that: 

  • re-view canonical works and texts, or identify ruptures in the standard histories of artists’ film and video;
  • discuss the development of media arts, including the history of imaging technologies, as a strand within the history of art;
  • address issues of the ontology and medium-specificity of film, video and new media, or the entanglement of the moving image in a ‘post-medium condition’;
  • attempt to account for the rise of projected and screen-based images in contemporary art, and the social, technological or political-economic effects of this proliferation;
  • investigate interconnections between moving images and still images, the role of sound, the televisual and the interaction of the moving image with other elements including technology, human presence and the installation environment;
  • analyse para-cinematic or extra-cinematic works to discover what these tell us about cinematic properties such as temporal progression or spectatorial immersion or mimetic representation;
  • explore issues of subjectivity and spectatorship;
  • investigate the spread of moving images beyond the classical spaces of the cinema and galleries, across multiple institutions, sites and delivery platforms;
  • consider the diverse uses of the moving image in art: from political activism to pure sensory and aesthetic pleasure, from reportage to documentary testimony, from performativity to social networking;
  • suggest new methods of theorizing and writing the moving image.

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

We welcome work that intersects with other academic disciplines and artistic practices. We encourage writing that is lucid without compromising intellectual rigour.

Scholarly articles will be blind peer-reviewed and feature articles and review essays can be peer-reviewed on request. All writings should propose a central idea or thesis argued through a discussion of the work under review.

Referencing should be in Harvard style and all text should adhere to the Intellect Style Guide.

Special Issue Call for Papers

Special Issue: ‘Spectral Cinema and Contested Landscapes – Brazil’

23-25 April 2025

University of São Paulo

What constitutes the potency of a ghost? What delineates its nature? Ghosts, or more broadly spectres encompassing monstrous, mythical, or religious entities, are often conceived as embodiments of divine, spiritual, or otherworldly forces, resonating with echoes of a traumatic past underscored by its political ramifications. Consequently, spectres, along with spectral cinemas, emerge as enigmatic entities transcending temporal confines, cultural paradigms and worldviews, offering poignant responses to the hegemonic dictates of the present. They articulate dissent against the market-driven acceleration and the wanton devastation of the environment, advocating instead for the recognition and sustenance of alternative existential, ancestral, affective, local and global narratives. The ‘Spectral Cinema and Contested Landscapes’ symposium invites contributions to the debate surrounding spectres manifest within corporeal forms, which are invariably shaped by multifaceted markers of identity such as gender, race and sexuality. In this vein, we are particularly intrigued by the intersecting trajectories evident in the genesis and cinematic representations of films, engaging in dialogue with indigenous, black, feminist and queer cinemas. 

‘Spectral Cinema and Contested Landscapes - São Paulo 2025’ is the second iteration of the international symposium held at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK in 2022, and the subsequent special issue of the Moving Image Arts and Review Journal (MIRAJ) in 2023. It encompasses an academic symposium and a series of public-facing events in São Paulo, including, among others, film screenings and artistic performances.

Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Roz Mortimer (UK)

We warmly welcome artists, practitioners, theorists and early-stage researchers to present their work. In this context we are considering cinema in its broadest sense and works presented and discussed will include any permutations of film, video art, television, installation, audio works, AR, VR and games.

Potential areas of inquiry are:

  • Spectres as manifestations of forgotten, repressed or buried trauma
  • The politics of dead bodies in unjust, unresolved and political deaths
  • Ghosts as active participants with agency and intention
  • Spectrality and spectatorship
  • Spectral ecologies
  • Spectral futurism
  • Fabulation, fantasy and the supernatural
  • Phenomenological interpretations of place
  • Temporal and spatial disjunctions of the uncanny
  • Exorcisms and healing by haunting
  • Haunted landscapes
  • Spectral manifestations – seeking visibility
  • Ghosts, spirits and the more-than-human in religious and folk belief
  • Animate and inanimate bodies
  • Bringing the phantom into being – haunting as radical activism

Please submit a 200-300 word abstract + a 100 word bio + contact information (all on the same document) with links to practice-based work if appropriate, to the email address cinemaespectral@gmail.com by 8 November 2024.

Selected papers will be announced by 10 December 2024.

Organising committee: Roz Mortimer, Cecília Mello, Renato Trevizano.

Scientific committee: Roz Mortimer, Cecília Mello, Renato Trevizano, Erly Vieira Jr, Guilherme Lima de Assis, Esther Hamburger, Cristian Borges and Gilberto Sobrinho.

This event is organized by the Graduate Program in Audiovisual Means and Processes, with the support of the Department of Film, Radio and Television and of LAICA - Laboratório de Investigação e Crítica Audiovisual, School of Communication and Arts, University of São Paulo.

Editors

Michael Mazière
Independent Scholar
michael.maziere@mac.com

Lucy Reynolds
Centre for Research in Education, Art and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster, UK
L.Reynolds02@westminster.ac.uk

Scholarly Editor

Rachel Garfield
School of Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art, UK
rachel.garfield@rca.ac.uk

Editorial Assistants

Sarah Niazi
CREAM Ph.D. Programme, University of Westminster, UK

Matthias Kispert
CREAM Ph.D. Programme, University of Westminster, UK

Lauren Houlton
CREAM Ph.D. Programme, University of Westminster, UK

Associate Editor

Sean Cubitt
University of Melbourne, Australia
scubitt@unimelb.edu.au

Eu Jin Chua
Auckland University of Technology

Jonathan Walley
Denison University, USA

Reviews Editor

Clare Carolin
King's College, London
clare.carolin@kcl.ac.uk

International Advisory Board

Ian Christie
Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Stuart Comer
Museum of Modern Art, USA

Maeve Connolly
Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland

David Curtis
Independent Scholar, UK

T.J. Demos
University of California, USA

Catherine Elwes
Independent Scholar

Catherine Fowler
University of Otago, New Zealand

Amrit Gangar
National Museum of Indian Cinema, India

David E. James
University of Southern California, USA

Laura Mulvey
Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

Mark Nash
Film Scholar and Curator, UK

Colin Perry
Arts University Bournemouth, UK

Michele Pierson
King’s College, London, UK

Pratap Rughani
London College of Communications, UAL, UK

Catherine Russell
Concordia University, Canada

Federico Windhausen
Film Scholar and Curator

Editors

Michael Mazière
Independent Scholar
michael.maziere@mac.com

Lucy Reynolds
Centre for Research in Education, Art and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster, UK
L.Reynolds02@westminster.ac.uk

Scholarly Editor

Rachel Garfield
School of Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art, UK
rachel.garfield@rca.ac.uk

Editorial Assistants

Sarah Niazi
CREAM Ph.D. Programme, University of Westminster, UK

Matthias Kispert
CREAM Ph.D. Programme, University of Westminster, UK

Lauren Houlton
CREAM Ph.D. Programme, University of Westminster, UK

Associate Editor

Sean Cubitt
University of Melbourne, Australia
scubitt@unimelb.edu.au

Eu Jin Chua
Auckland University of Technology

Jonathan Walley
Denison University, USA

Reviews Editor

Clare Carolin
King's College, London
clare.carolin@kcl.ac.uk

 
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Contents

  • Volume (12): Issue (1)
  • Cover date: 2023


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  • Volume (12): Issue (2)
  • Cover date: 2023


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  • Volume (11): Issue (1)
  • Cover date: 2022


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  • Volume (11): Issue (2)
  • Cover date: 2022


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  • Volume (10): Issue (1-2)
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  • Volume (9): Issue (1)
  • Cover date: 2020


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  • Volume (9): Issue (2)
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  • Volume (7): Issue (1)
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  • Volume (7): Issue (2)
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  • Volume (3): Issue (1)
  • Cover date: 2014


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  • Volume (3): Issue (2)
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  • Volume (2): Issue (1)
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  • Volume (2): Issue (2)
  • Cover date: 2013


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  • Volume (1): Issue (1)
  • Cover date: 2012


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  • Volume (1): Issue (2)
  • Cover date: 2012


Editors

Michael Mazière
Independent Scholar
michael.maziere@mac.com

Lucy Reynolds
Centre for Research in Education, Art and Media (CREAM), University of Westminster, UK
L.Reynolds02@westminster.ac.uk

Scholarly Editor

Rachel Garfield
School of Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art, UK
rachel.garfield@rca.ac.uk

Editorial Assistants

Sarah Niazi
CREAM Ph.D. Programme, University of Westminster, UK

Matthias Kispert
CREAM Ph.D. Programme, University of Westminster, UK

Lauren Houlton
CREAM Ph.D. Programme, University of Westminster, UK

Associate Editor

Sean Cubitt
University of Melbourne, Australia
scubitt@unimelb.edu.au

Eu Jin Chua
Auckland University of Technology

Jonathan Walley
Denison University, USA

Reviews Editor

Clare Carolin
King's College, London
clare.carolin@kcl.ac.uk

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