Guest editors sought for first issues of ELSE art journal

  • Type: job
  • Location: virtual, none, none, internet
  • Deadline: Dec 15 2013 at 8:10AM
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ELSE invites applications for the shared position of guest editor for the first and possibly second issue. Candidates can be artists, art historians, art critics, art educators, curators, or other art professionals. Institutional affiliation is not required.

ELSE Journal will be published online annually and is peer reviewed.

Editors work independently or collaboratively with other editors, peer reviewers and the ELSE Board of Advisors. Editors will provide accepted material to peer reviewers, and determine appropriate length and character of reviews and work with artists and authors to prepare manuscripts for publication. Editors are expected to be current on related art topics, journals and recent exhibitions and performances in contemporary art, criticism, theory, and visual culture particularly with regard to the Journal's subjects of interest including: Memory, Forgetting, Trauma and the Archive; Creative Fiction and Experimental Non-fiction; Language/Image; Art and Social Technologies; International Diaspora and Post-Colonialism; Cultural Engagement Through Food; Role of Art in Peace, Meditation, Performance Activism; Liminality, Space/Place, Temporary Architecture; Foreignness, Otherness and the Uncanny

According to its title, ELSE will look and read like nothing else. Editors will foster a platform for earnest, inclusive inquiry and explorations: http://www.elsejournal.org

Editors will receive a modest honorarium but may not publish their own work in the journal during the term of service.

Pleae apply by December 15 here: http://www.transart.org/else-editor-application/