Published by the University of California Press (and partly funded by the New York State Council on the Arts), Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism is a quarterly magazine founded in 1972. It features unique, high-quality coverage of digital media, film, games, photography, television, video, and visual arts. It addresses current scholarship, issues, and debates within art history, media studies, visual and cultural studies, and related fields. Editor Karen van Meenen seeks to be diverse and inclusive, with a particular focus on art and environment, art history, book arts, contemporary art, digital and new media, gender studies, media archaeology, politics, queer cultures and media, race and ethnicity, religion and visual culture, television, and video games. All content is available free online and you can view the current issue at https://writ.rs/aimag
Afterimage requires: essays, 1,500-3,000 words, about virtually any subject in the domain of media, arts and cultural criticism, and interviews with artists, writers, filmmakers and other creatives, either one-on-one or roundtable interviews/discussions; reviews and event reports, 800-1,500 words; other artistic writings and translations, though enquire first to discuss your idea. The magazine also publishes more formal peer reviewed research articles, 6,00010,000 words.