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Umática is a publication focused on the study and critical analysis of the image, artistic creation, and audiovisual production, proposing a transversal approach from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Umática is a refereed scientific journal whose mission is to publish, disseminate and promote texts and essays on theory, art, aesthetics, and contemporary visual culture aimed at researchers in the field of image, sound, arts, and visual culture,

The editorial profile focuses on the processes of creation, analysis, and distribution of contemporary creation through media and other hybrid languages made possible by technology. In this sense, at the discretion of the editorial team and review process, it proposes three types of submissions for publication: Research articles, Visual Essay, and Artistic Creation Projects

Funded by: Department of Art and Architecture, University of  Málaga

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Call for Papers #10: Visual forms and narratives of protest in the Spanish-speaking world (20th-21st centuries)

2026-01-28

Call for Papers #10: Visual forms and narratives of protest in the Spanish-speaking world (20th-21st centuries)

 

Marcela P

Imagen: Marcela Peńa Rojas { Isonauta } (2024) “Somos supervivientes, no delincuentes (5to Estallido Social). Octubre 2024”

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Editors:

Sabrina GRILLO (Université Paris-Est Créteil)
sabrina.grillo@u-pec.fr

Virginie N’DAH SEKOU (Université Paris-Est Créteil)

virginie.ndah-sekou@u-pec.fr

Deadline: 15/03/2027

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Protest movements, as a reaction to political, economic, social or environmental injustices, are a constant feature of the contemporary history of the Spanish-speaking world. From the labour struggles of the early 20th century to recent social uprisings such as the 15-M movement in Spain, the student movement in Chile and feminist protests in Spain, Mexico and Argentina, the diversity of causes and actors has generated a visual archive that is as dense as it is diverse in its forms and uses. Protest movements generally arise as a reaction to injustices: political, economic, social, cultural or environmental. This repertoire of images, symbols and staging documents discontent while actively constructing narratives, forging collective identities and (re)constructing public space. How can these multiple dimensions be articulated in order to understand their scope and effectiveness? Do the visual forms and narratives of protest reflect this transversality? New technologies have expanded the repertoires of action, as well as their modes of dissemination, and have consequently multiplied the visual and narrative forms of protest. How do photographic, film and digital images interact with the narratives and discourses of protest? (Continue reading...)

Keywords: social movements, visual culture, activism, photography, performance, muralism, cinema, documentary, cyberactivism, historical memory, Latin America, Spain

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Current Issue

No. 8 (2025): The arts at the intersection. Hybridisations and intermedial proposals in contemporary art
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In recent decades, and particularly significantly in the context of digital culture, contemporary artistic practices have intensified the processes of crossing, shifting and overflowing the disciplinary boundaries that traditionally structured them. This edition of Umática positions itself within the domain of intersection, addressing propositions that can only be comprehended through a formal, medial and material hybridisation. These propositions no longer function as marginal variations of a discipline, but as practices constituted from the in-between, the crossing and the instability of languages.

The texts gathered here explore concepts such as medium, work, authorship, materiality, perception and aesthetic experience, challenging the established categorical frameworks that have historically been used to conceptualise the arts. A pivotal theme within the volume pertains to the re-evaluation of the modes of perception and attention that emerge in these hybrid practices. These practices, therefore, emerge as pivotal spaces for the destabilisation of sensory and epistemic hierarchies, as well as for the exploration of alternative modes of relating to the visible, the audible, and the legible, and the facilitation of these processes.

The present monograph proposes to address hybridisation not only as a formal category, but also as a field of theoretical, aesthetic and political friction from which to rethink contemporary arts. The collection of contributions does not offer closed taxonomies; rather, it forms an open space for reflection. This space invites the reader to approach current creation from the perspective of complexity, the intersection of knowledge, and the constant questioning of disciplinary boundaries.

Editors:

  • Marina Hervás (Universidad de Granada, España)
  • Rosa Benéitez Andrés (Universidad de Salamanca, España)

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Cover image: Carolina Cerezo Dávila, Ventrílocuo, para acordeón y flauta, 2022, Fragment  from score ©Carolina Cerezo Dávila –courtesy of the author–

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Published: 2025-12-05

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